1 month later... sony decided to remove otherOS feature...
so i waited for some expert (e.g. geohot) to add otherOS back into latest version of ps3 gameOS...
It is directly because of Geohot exploiting the PS3 using the OtherOS that it was removed. So you should actually be blaming HIM, not worshipping the twat.
It is because of Hotz exploiting the "Other OS" option to run a hack that Sony removed it. So essentially, Hotz's subsequent hacks were to re-enable something that he was responsible for getting removed
So instead of lauding Hotz as some kind of underdog hero, all those who want the ability to run Linux on their PS3 should actually be blaming him for its removal./P
I knew something must be up by the number of cheaters appearing on MW2. You could see them in Killcam scrolling through menus of cheats to use. That and the Black Ops fiasco is just another reason to sell up and get a 360.
The elected officials who are about to be embarrassed are in for one hell of a shitstorm from those who elected them. I bet they're going to be pissed to find out that the reason so much of the world hates US is because of the fucked up way they've been supposedly "representing the American people".
This may be a good thing for the people of the USA. Hopefully they'll remember what The Constitution and Bill of Rights is about, start letting the govt know who is boss and what they've done "in the name of the American people" is not acceptable and hopefully getting rid of the arseholes who are responsible for turning world opinion against what was once universally regarded as a great nation.
And hopefully our government in Britain will get to realise they've been fucked over for the last decade and start growing some fucking balls in regards to the so called "special relationship".
What the story failed to mention is that ACS:Law lawyers are already due to be brought to a tribuneral by the Law Society to explain their conduct. It could lead to them being disbarred. This only serves to fan the flames of the raging fire against them.
Yes it is illegal in the US but he didn't commit the crime from the US. He committed it in the UK. The UK has similar laws which could be used. The difference is that if a trial happened in the UK, he'd get acquitted because the US would not want it divulged how easy it was to hack into their networks.
Is it possible for a UK resident to get the BBC in any form without any license fee, tax, etc.? --A curious guy across the Atlantic
Yes. Once you reach 75 you don't need to pay. Also if you don't watch live content (i.e you use iPlayer), you don't need to pay. Nobody has ever paid for listening to the radio stations. Basically the licence is to pay for reception of live TV.
WRITE (do not email, they ignore it, write on paper and post it) to your MP now, and tell them in no uncertain terms, "unless you throw this Bill out, neither you personally, nor your party, will ever get my vote again."
Its a complete and utter waste of time. Labour already know they're going to lose the next election which is why they're introducing all kinds of fucked up things because they've nothing to lose.
This is going too far. Check through my posts and you've seen many many times I've been in favour of penalising people who pirate. I've lambasted TPB et al and the people who use them and been modded down many many times. BUT. As a UK citizen who will be paying this, if they're going to extort money out of me for something I've never done, then fuck em, I'm going to get my money back and in that case, that means jumping on the P2P bandwagon. After all, I'm now going to be paying for what I download. I reckon 3-4 MP3s a month is about fair compensation going on the average legal download service track price.
Not a netbook at all then but rather an overpriced, underpowered sub notebook. If you're going to get something that size, might as well go for a Lenovo Thinkpad x200s which at least will last longer than the warranty and IME, have a longer battery life whilst still giving you a Core 2 Duo CPU. Still, I'm sure the unwashed masses will buy them by the bucketload.
After the thick end of a decade and a half of pretty much constant upgrades combined with 100+MB drivers and patches being up to 2.5GB (Battlefield 2 1.50) and still getting loads of problems just trying to run some games, I gave up on PC gaming. And thats even before you get to the hackers, aimbotters, those using modified drivers so they can "see" through walls and those who think its fun to exploit bugs that kick everyone on a server or punt them to desktop.
All in all, PC gaming is becoming one epic fail and will degenerate into nothing more than a raft of MMORPGs.
to keep it simple for those who don't get global warming, most people don't understand that icecaps melting/receeding like they have been lately is not at all a normal part of our weather patterns.
Really? One of the biggest fudgings of the data was the removal of an inconvenient half millennium period that was up to 10 degrees warmer than the mean average. What do you think the glaciers did then?
Cause some people don't want to leave there system on all the time. Like in order to reduce power consumption. So we don't have to dump a giant ice cube in the ocean every few years. I guess we could just increase the orbit of the Earth by exactly 1 week.
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I guess you must use a piss poor version of Linux. The rest of us, including those using decent Linux distros, just use Sleep and Hibernate. My Windows Vista box resumes in the time it takes to re-read a 2GB hibernation file and as I use hibernation, its "off".
I assume that you do actually turn your computer off at the wall? If not, then it is not truly off but in standby, hypocrite.
300MB for what is in effect a web browser with a few drivers and a bootloader? Jesus H Christ. Windows XP ISO image isn't that much bigger and its a fully fledged operating system with a shedload of drivers AND a web browser and not just a thin client terminal OS.
Surely Microsoft could then pursue every named person in this class action for the value of the library of pirated software they have? Those who have been blacklisted would do well to STFU and not stick their heads above the parapet.
Many of you seem to have missed the point that AV-Comparatives also mentioned, THAT IT WAS PREFERABLE TO LEAVE NON MALICIOUS TRACES BEHIND TO REDUCE THE CHANCE OF FURTHER INFECTION. Considering ALL the market leaders chose to leave registry entries and trace files in place, it suggests that leaving them in stops any chance of reinfection at all.
Certainly I'd rather have a non-descript file sat there which any malware looks at and decides not to reload than to rely purely on the AV solution to catch it. How many times are we told to use more than one AV solution for on demand scans just to be sure?
There's not supposed to be you dumb shit. See the asterisk next to the word "objective"? Did you actually scroll down and read what it said? Here's a clue:
"*Objectivity in this sentence has a one-off, government-approved change in definition. Its meaning here, and only here, is the exact opposite of what it usually means."
Congratulations on perpetuating the rumour that Yanks are stupid.
Assuming every single PC gamer likely to buy it has complained, I doubt that's 1/10th of 1% of the console sales so I hardly think Infinity Ward are likely to give a shit.
Compared to the console market, PC gaming is worth next to nothing. The levels of piracy in PC gaming doesn't make it worthwhile anymore, especially compared to console sales. So whilst once upon a time, consoles got the port of a PC game, now we get the port of the console one. And that means peer to peer hosting and no dedicated servers.
We have well and truly started to reap what we've sewn.
... and I have strong suspicions that this stunt was funded by Microsoft.
Its a bit inconvenient for you then that the BBC is a publicly funded body with no advertising. Renault found this out with Top Gear when they threatened to pull their advertising when their car got slated and got laughed at. "The unique way in which the BBC is funded" allows them to be able to say stuff about companies without worrying about advertising revenue streams.
Wait, so expensive items have an implicit warranty?
No, ALL items have an implicit warranty. Take for example a TV. Doesn't matter if it is a budget or a top brand - its expected to last 5 years or so.
The only problem with SOGA is that consumers tend not to know their rights so shops get away with illegally stating its not their responsibility after 28 days and to take it up with the manager. I recently even had a shop manager state 28 days as company policy and it was only when I took in a printout of the law that they realised they were wrong. You could tell from the look on her face that she'd realised she had been screwed herself quite recently.
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but this rubbish is all thanks to geohot.
Ignorance is a bliss, eh.
Sony pissed on too many toes when they suddenly removed OtherOS. Blaming geohot is simply wrong, blame Sony for being f*cktards in the first place.
You are aware that OtherOS was removed because Geohotz used it to implement his first hack and it was then used by piraters exploiting Geohotz work?
1 month later... sony decided to remove otherOS feature... so i waited for some expert (e.g. geohot) to add otherOS back into latest version of ps3 gameOS...
It is directly because of Geohot exploiting the PS3 using the OtherOS that it was removed. So you should actually be blaming HIM, not worshipping the twat.
So instead of lauding Hotz as some kind of underdog hero, all those who want the ability to run Linux on their PS3 should actually be blaming him for its removal./P
I knew something must be up by the number of cheaters appearing on MW2. You could see them in Killcam scrolling through menus of cheats to use. That and the Black Ops fiasco is just another reason to sell up and get a 360.
The elected officials who are about to be embarrassed are in for one hell of a shitstorm from those who elected them. I bet they're going to be pissed to find out that the reason so much of the world hates US is because of the fucked up way they've been supposedly "representing the American people".
This may be a good thing for the people of the USA. Hopefully they'll remember what The Constitution and Bill of Rights is about, start letting the govt know who is boss and what they've done "in the name of the American people" is not acceptable and hopefully getting rid of the arseholes who are responsible for turning world opinion against what was once universally regarded as a great nation.
And hopefully our government in Britain will get to realise they've been fucked over for the last decade and start growing some fucking balls in regards to the so called "special relationship".
What the story failed to mention is that ACS:Law lawyers are already due to be brought to a tribuneral by the Law Society to explain their conduct. It could lead to them being disbarred. This only serves to fan the flames of the raging fire against them.
>Not that surprising really as for decades the USA refused to extradite convicted terrorists that had fled to the USA from both the UK and France.
Also funny how those US citizens who openly funded the IRA were not held accountable as well.
Yes it is illegal in the US but he didn't commit the crime from the US. He committed it in the UK. The UK has similar laws which could be used. The difference is that if a trial happened in the UK, he'd get acquitted because the US would not want it divulged how easy it was to hack into their networks.
Is it possible for a UK resident to get the BBC in any form without any license fee, tax, etc.? --A curious guy across the Atlantic
Yes. Once you reach 75 you don't need to pay. Also if you don't watch live content (i.e you use iPlayer), you don't need to pay. Nobody has ever paid for listening to the radio stations. Basically the licence is to pay for reception of live TV.
WRITE (do not email, they ignore it, write on paper and post it) to your MP now, and tell them in no uncertain terms, "unless you throw this Bill out, neither you personally, nor your party, will ever get my vote again."
Its a complete and utter waste of time. Labour already know they're going to lose the next election which is why they're introducing all kinds of fucked up things because they've nothing to lose.
This is going too far. Check through my posts and you've seen many many times I've been in favour of penalising people who pirate. I've lambasted TPB et al and the people who use them and been modded down many many times. BUT. As a UK citizen who will be paying this, if they're going to extort money out of me for something I've never done, then fuck em, I'm going to get my money back and in that case, that means jumping on the P2P bandwagon. After all, I'm now going to be paying for what I download. I reckon 3-4 MP3s a month is about fair compensation going on the average legal download service track price.
Not a netbook at all then but rather an overpriced, underpowered sub notebook. If you're going to get something that size, might as well go for a Lenovo Thinkpad x200s which at least will last longer than the warranty and IME, have a longer battery life whilst still giving you a Core 2 Duo CPU. Still, I'm sure the unwashed masses will buy them by the bucketload.
After the thick end of a decade and a half of pretty much constant upgrades combined with 100+MB drivers and patches being up to 2.5GB (Battlefield 2 1.50) and still getting loads of problems just trying to run some games, I gave up on PC gaming. And thats even before you get to the hackers, aimbotters, those using modified drivers so they can "see" through walls and those who think its fun to exploit bugs that kick everyone on a server or punt them to desktop.
All in all, PC gaming is becoming one epic fail and will degenerate into nothing more than a raft of MMORPGs.
Yeah, this whole article stinks of Microsoft FUD.
Really? This is a Linux guru giving a talk at Linux Fest to a room full of proficient Linux users. Note the first 5 minutes trying to get a previously working multiple display going again.
to keep it simple for those who don't get global warming, most people don't understand that icecaps melting/receeding like they have been lately is not at all a normal part of our weather patterns.
Really? One of the biggest fudgings of the data was the removal of an inconvenient half millennium period that was up to 10 degrees warmer than the mean average. What do you think the glaciers did then?
Cause some people don't want to leave there system on all the time. Like in order to reduce power consumption. So we don't have to dump a giant ice cube in the ocean every few years. I guess we could just increase the orbit of the Earth by exactly 1 week.
Robot Party Week!
I guess you must use a piss poor version of Linux. The rest of us, including those using decent Linux distros, just use Sleep and Hibernate. My Windows Vista box resumes in the time it takes to re-read a 2GB hibernation file and as I use hibernation, its "off".
I assume that you do actually turn your computer off at the wall? If not, then it is not truly off but in standby, hypocrite.
300MB for what is in effect a web browser with a few drivers and a bootloader? Jesus H Christ. Windows XP ISO image isn't that much bigger and its a fully fledged operating system with a shedload of drivers AND a web browser and not just a thin client terminal OS.
Surely Microsoft could then pursue every named person in this class action for the value of the library of pirated software they have? Those who have been blacklisted would do well to STFU and not stick their heads above the parapet.
Certainly I'd rather have a non-descript file sat there which any malware looks at and decides not to reload than to rely purely on the AV solution to catch it. How many times are we told to use more than one AV solution for on demand scans just to be sure?
there's no "objectivity" in that article.
There's not supposed to be you dumb shit. See the asterisk next to the word "objective"? Did you actually scroll down and read what it said? Here's a clue:
"*Objectivity in this sentence has a one-off, government-approved change in definition. Its meaning here, and only here, is the exact opposite of what it usually means."
Congratulations on perpetuating the rumour that Yanks are stupid.
It's over eighty-nine thousand!!!
Assuming every single PC gamer likely to buy it has complained, I doubt that's 1/10th of 1% of the console sales so I hardly think Infinity Ward are likely to give a shit.
Compared to the console market, PC gaming is worth next to nothing. The levels of piracy in PC gaming doesn't make it worthwhile anymore, especially compared to console sales. So whilst once upon a time, consoles got the port of a PC game, now we get the port of the console one. And that means peer to peer hosting and no dedicated servers.
We have well and truly started to reap what we've sewn.
I still don't understand how IE could be made less secure. Surely, IE offers more options than just Javascript to install malware.
Because on Vista, IE8 runs sandboxed.
... and I have strong suspicions that this stunt was funded by Microsoft.
Its a bit inconvenient for you then that the BBC is a publicly funded body with no advertising. Renault found this out with Top Gear when they threatened to pull their advertising when their car got slated and got laughed at. "The unique way in which the BBC is funded" allows them to be able to say stuff about companies without worrying about advertising revenue streams.
Wait, so expensive items have an implicit warranty?
No, ALL items have an implicit warranty. Take for example a TV. Doesn't matter if it is a budget or a top brand - its expected to last 5 years or so.
The only problem with SOGA is that consumers tend not to know their rights so shops get away with illegally stating its not their responsibility after 28 days and to take it up with the manager. I recently even had a shop manager state 28 days as company policy and it was only when I took in a printout of the law that they realised they were wrong. You could tell from the look on her face that she'd realised she had been screwed herself quite recently.