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"Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3

Posted by timothy on from the security-huh dept.

Hann1bal writes "The next system software update for the PlayStation 3 system will be released on April 1, 2010 (JST), and will disable the 'Install Other OS' feature that was available on the PS3 systems prior to the current slimmer models, launched in September 2009. This feature enabled users to install an operating system, but due to security concerns, Sony Computer Entertainment will remove the functionality through the 3.21 system software update." Updated 3:49 GMT by timothy: An anonymous reader writes "This comes as something of a surprise. Particularly because only a month ago Sony Computer Entertainment management seemed committed to the continued support of the Other OS option on the PS3."

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  1. Re:False Advertising? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you ever seen Sony do a good PR move?

  2. Sony's unique business model by straponego · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most tech products improve during their life cycle. Not Sony's. Emulation, Linux... every iteration removes one more feature. By the end of the year, they hope to have removed sound from the PS3, and a year from now the PS3 Omega will do nothing at all.

    1. Re:Sony's unique business model by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Eventually, someone will use a PS3 to break a window and commit robbery, and Sony will just start selling the idea of a PS3, until ideas become dangerous.

  3. Re:what are the security concerns? by Trepidity · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, that makes sense--- so it's Sony's security they're worried about, rather than, as the press release implies, the security of Playstation owners.

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  4. Re:Sorry kids by Khyber · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It doesn't run linux anymore."

    Want to bet? I PAID FOR FUCKING OTHEROS - You take it from me and I WILL SUE YOUR ASS FOR THEFT OF SERVICES.

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  5. Re:Sorry kids by Khyber · · Score: 5, Funny

    My felony record says I'd straighten your ass out for thinking you'd even stand a chance of being a RLTG versus the ITG you're currently portraying, and you'd only bend over and take it. Especially with a name like ClownPenis! What, you gotta inflate your junk first?

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  6. Re:Sorry kids by ClownPenis · · Score: 5, Funny

    My felony record says I'd straighten your ass out for thinking you'd even stand a chance of being a RLTG versus the ITG you're currently portraying, and you'd only bend over and take it. Especially with a name like ClownPenis! What, you gotta inflate your junk first?

    Dear felon, Unless you are also rwven, WTF are you doing even responding to me? I clearly "QUOTED" the comment I was replying to. That comment didn't belong to you. You are attacking my junk unprovoked.

  7. Re:Sorry kids by AnEducatedNegro · · Score: 5, Funny

    you know what i hate the most when i'm driving? when i use my turn signal to indicate i'm merging and the fucker in the next lane speeds up and doesn't let me in. you know what else i hate the most when i'm driving? fuckers who try to merge into my lane in front of me, so i speed up to block them. fuckers.

    aEN

  8. Re:Bummer ... (1st by wisdom_brewing · · Score: 5, Funny

    1st of april release? Doesnt that seem a bit... Foolish?

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  9. Re:Sorry kids by cthellis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gotta love it when Anonymous Cowards bitch about Anonymous Cowards being cowardly, anonymously.