Even if she were in critical condition but still alive, if she makes it, she's probably going to have long term brain damage that will keep her from working at McDonalds much less working in the House(No, now is not the time for jokes about brain damaged people in Congress).
This is purely political terrorism egged on by a political party that doesn't seem to have a human heart, in particular, Sarah Palin.
When people say, "There's no difference in the parties." no, there is. And this is it. The Weather Underground put down their weapons in the 70's and 80's. Yet the Birchers still go on. God bless America. God damn America.
How many times has a similar story been posted, and NOT been true?
Seriously?
How about instead, "Apple patents cloud booting technology?"
Google, Microsoft, Sony, et al, are also in the same situation. Stop saying they're going to do this. They probably aren't if history's to be believed.
Sure, they're right that sequels need to be done right. however, I don't think it's possible to quantify how to make a good sequel other than, "Don't make a game that sucks."
For instance, some games, namely music games, largely, don't need innovation. We want more songs(Guitar Hero/Rock band could stand to use music that isn't rock though; I know "Rock" is in the name of RB, but, jesus the guitar and drums were used for more than just top 40's). Period. New mechanics are nice, beatmaniaIIDX's charge notes from Sirius are fun, but absolutely not necessary. Sure RB3's Keytar is nice, but, it wasn't necessary to make it a good sequel.
Other than selling hardware, I don't even know if there's any money to be made in enterprise datacenter iron. It looks expensive, but the costs to fulfill SLA support contracts must be hell.
Still though, I wouldn't say no to Xserves running newer Xeons running Lion Server.
but it seems the first hack for Wii was "Twilight hack",
Wrong. First hack for Wii was a modchip that connected to the optical drive's electronics. Not all hacks a console will face are software based.
XBOX360 has some similarities with XBOX
No, the Xbox360 has very little similarity with the original Xbox. The CPU architecture is COMPLETELY different, and the first hacks for the console were similarly motivated by piracy(also, attacks based on attacking the optical drive's electronics).
As for PS3.. well, even the group discussed in the announcement say they started seriously hacking only once they lost access to OtherOS. There was this one guy who managed to get some limited access to the hypervisor through OtherOS, but even he said he did it just for the heck of it, not to play pirates. PSJailbreak came a lot later, and even then it seems to have been an accidental discovery simply made possible by them gaining access to the development console and studying it.
PSJailbreak was the first viable attack on the PS3's infrastructure, and it shipped with an HDLoader for games. You're dead wrong. Piracy drives console hacking, it has since the original PlayStation and Saturn(actually probably before that; the first "homebrew" enablers for consoles would probably be the floppy disk based console copying devices; which were largely used for copying console games).
how well did it work? I'm thinking now it's less of a hardware issue and more of a driver issue, or maybe Windows 7 doesn't like multitouch as well as OSX does.
Every goddamned laptop vendor who ships godawful synaptics touchpads.
Yes, synaptics makes good touchpads, they also make shitty ones. Like the one on my T410, which supposedly has multitouch but never wants to recognize multitouch gestures.
A signer screwup that leaks their private key is not epic fail? This is probably the first time in embedded system security that someone has fucked up public key crypto this badly.
I'm not saying it's incredibly bad, I'm saying that as far as attack vectors go, historically, it's far from epic fail. With out access from the inside thanks to the PSJailbreak tool, would this exploit even have been found?
The 360 has better revocation, better encryption, secure memory, a simpler and more effective security design, and a better implementation.
From a theoretical standpoint, sure. I'll go with that.
The whole thing could be defeated though, by compromising the optical drive's electronics. Practically, that's a much larger fail.
I saw the whole video. I agree that it's fail, but I find this comment simply fucking baffling.
Didn't you guys release the Twilight Princess Wii hack? The one with the buffer overflow in the damn horse's name?
The PS3 gets a lot of shit right. It doesn't trust the optical drive(bye bye firmware mods ala 360/Wii), it properly implements the NX bit in userspace(bye bye buffer save game/TIFF overflow exploits ala PSP, Xbox and Wii) and while the fact that they're not randomizing the encryption is incredibly bad, it's not epic fail. For epic fail, we go to the Xbox 360 which has a damn JTAG pinout exposed to the world on the fucking motherboard(runner up: Xbox pogo pins).
I'd guess that Sony saw modchipping to be a bigger threat than softmods, as has been the case in the past.
Also, why didn't you guys list sjeep's Independence Exploit for PS2 that came out in 2002 or so? It didn't directly enable piracy(although when HDloader got dumped into ELF format it sure did).
Actually the PSJailbreak JIG exploit was pretty... intense.
I mean in principle it's just a standard buffer overflow exploit, but the method that the buffer overflow's triggered wasn't like any other console exploit I've -ever- seen.
why the PS3 lasted this far is because OtherOS kept all the competent people happy enough not to try to break into the system
Really? people haven't been trying to get to accelerated video in linux on the ps3? Or access to the GameOS FS just to tinker with it? Or piracy(Piracy was a big BIG motivator on Xbox, 360, PS2 and Wii; also Dreamcast but, the DC's security was even bigger epic fail than Sony's).
So I think that's complete bollocks.
The PS3 only went down because the first few lines of defense were pretty good... But not much else. In game save exploits like the famous GTA:LCS PSP, the Mechassault Xbox or the Twilight Princess Wii attacks weren't possible because the PS3(and 360 IIRC), unlike a Wintel system, actually properly implement the NX bit(According to Mathieulh at least, it also explains why TIFF exploits weren't being examined as well). So, bye bye that attack vector. The PS3 didn't rely on making sure that the optical drive was secure, so bye bye with that exploit(this was popular on the 360 and Wii). The PS3 also didn't expose the CPU to debug pins like the Xbox(with Pogo pins) or the Xbox 360(thanks to it's handy dandy JTAG connector).
It wasn't until we saw the big weakness with the PSJailbreak did we see the other major flaws.
Yes, I've gone to bat for Sony for locking down the PS3, but I don't think that it's wrong to fight back.
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Reports are that she got shot in the head.
Even if she were in critical condition but still alive, if she makes it, she's probably going to have long term brain damage that will keep her from working at McDonalds much less working in the House(No, now is not the time for jokes about brain damaged people in Congress).
This is purely political terrorism egged on by a political party that doesn't seem to have a human heart, in particular, Sarah Palin.
When people say, "There's no difference in the parties." no, there is. And this is it. The Weather Underground put down their weapons in the 70's and 80's. Yet the Birchers still go on. God bless America. God damn America.
When I was a kid, that was the funniest thing ever.
Then I went home, turned on my SNES, punched the difficulty in SF2 up to max and then cried a lot.
wasn't it Lalla Ward who once said the scariest monster on Doctor Who was Tom Baker?
How many times has a similar story been posted, and NOT been true?
Seriously?
How about instead, "Apple patents cloud booting technology?"
Google, Microsoft, Sony, et al, are also in the same situation. Stop saying they're going to do this. They probably aren't if history's to be believed.
Sure, they're right that sequels need to be done right. however, I don't think it's possible to quantify how to make a good sequel other than, "Don't make a game that sucks."
For instance, some games, namely music games, largely, don't need innovation. We want more songs(Guitar Hero/Rock band could stand to use music that isn't rock though; I know "Rock" is in the name of RB, but, jesus the guitar and drums were used for more than just top 40's). Period. New mechanics are nice, beatmaniaIIDX's charge notes from Sirius are fun, but absolutely not necessary. Sure RB3's Keytar is nice, but, it wasn't necessary to make it a good sequel.
Other than selling hardware, I don't even know if there's any money to be made in enterprise datacenter iron. It looks expensive, but the costs to fulfill SLA support contracts must be hell.
Still though, I wouldn't say no to Xserves running newer Xeons running Lion Server.
I don't.
I used to juggle an iPod Nano(and before that, some sort of Sansa player), a cell phone and a DS.
The only thing i have to say is...
"Specialization is for insects." -- Heinlein.
but it seems the first hack for Wii was "Twilight hack",
Wrong. First hack for Wii was a modchip that connected to the optical drive's electronics. Not all hacks a console will face are software based.
XBOX360 has some similarities with XBOX
No, the Xbox360 has very little similarity with the original Xbox. The CPU architecture is COMPLETELY different, and the first hacks for the console were similarly motivated by piracy(also, attacks based on attacking the optical drive's electronics).
As for PS3.. well, even the group discussed in the announcement say they started seriously hacking only once they lost access to OtherOS. There was this one guy who managed to get some limited access to the hypervisor through OtherOS, but even he said he did it just for the heck of it, not to play pirates. PSJailbreak came a lot later, and even then it seems to have been an accidental discovery simply made possible by them gaining access to the development console and studying it.
PSJailbreak was the first viable attack on the PS3's infrastructure, and it shipped with an HDLoader for games. You're dead wrong. Piracy drives console hacking, it has since the original PlayStation and Saturn(actually probably before that; the first "homebrew" enablers for consoles would probably be the floppy disk based console copying devices; which were largely used for copying console games).
how well did it work? I'm thinking now it's less of a hardware issue and more of a driver issue, or maybe Windows 7 doesn't like multitouch as well as OSX does.
How will we webcast it for gambling purposes then? I got big bucks on the racist
yes, but owning an iOS device also means I can bait APK.
or you can buy an iOS device.
racist or sexist isn't on that list? it clearly deserves a check mark for racist.
WebOS is a great design concept waiting for a sane and reasonable manufacturer.
I can only hope the post-Carly, post-Hurd HP is that place.
I am the biggest mac fanboy you will ever find.
But their reasoning was solid. The Mini is too damn expensive for it's specs. Either give us a Core i3/i5, or price back at 499.
Every goddamned laptop vendor who ships godawful synaptics touchpads.
Yes, synaptics makes good touchpads, they also make shitty ones. Like the one on my T410, which supposedly has multitouch but never wants to recognize multitouch gestures.
A signer screwup that leaks their private key is not epic fail? This is probably the first time in embedded system security that someone has fucked up public key crypto this badly.
I'm not saying it's incredibly bad, I'm saying that as far as attack vectors go, historically, it's far from epic fail. With out access from the inside thanks to the PSJailbreak tool, would this exploit even have been found?
The 360 has better revocation, better encryption, secure memory, a simpler and more effective security design, and a better implementation.
From a theoretical standpoint, sure. I'll go with that.
The whole thing could be defeated though, by compromising the optical drive's electronics. Practically, that's a much larger fail.
The people who want pirates are most often not the same people who have the skills, knowledge and hankering to do hacking
So why were the first exploits on any major console piracy related?
I maintain that due to the game dumper tool, the PSJailbreak was nothing BUT a piracy tool. No NES emulator? No toolchain? Give me a goddamn break.
The PS3 security system really is horrible
I saw the whole video. I agree that it's fail, but I find this comment simply fucking baffling.
Didn't you guys release the Twilight Princess Wii hack? The one with the buffer overflow in the damn horse's name?
The PS3 gets a lot of shit right. It doesn't trust the optical drive(bye bye firmware mods ala 360/Wii), it properly implements the NX bit in userspace(bye bye buffer save game/TIFF overflow exploits ala PSP, Xbox and Wii) and while the fact that they're not randomizing the encryption is incredibly bad, it's not epic fail. For epic fail, we go to the Xbox 360 which has a damn JTAG pinout exposed to the world on the fucking motherboard(runner up: Xbox pogo pins).
I'd guess that Sony saw modchipping to be a bigger threat than softmods, as has been the case in the past.
Also, why didn't you guys list sjeep's Independence Exploit for PS2 that came out in 2002 or so? It didn't directly enable piracy(although when HDloader got dumped into ELF format it sure did).
Actually the PSJailbreak JIG exploit was pretty... intense.
I mean in principle it's just a standard buffer overflow exploit, but the method that the buffer overflow's triggered wasn't like any other console exploit I've -ever- seen.
why the PS3 lasted this far is because OtherOS kept all the competent people happy enough not to try to break into the system
Really? people haven't been trying to get to accelerated video in linux on the ps3? Or access to the GameOS FS just to tinker with it? Or piracy(Piracy was a big BIG motivator on Xbox, 360, PS2 and Wii; also Dreamcast but, the DC's security was even bigger epic fail than Sony's).
So I think that's complete bollocks.
The PS3 only went down because the first few lines of defense were pretty good... But not much else. In game save exploits like the famous GTA:LCS PSP, the Mechassault Xbox or the Twilight Princess Wii attacks weren't possible because the PS3(and 360 IIRC), unlike a Wintel system, actually properly implement the NX bit(According to Mathieulh at least, it also explains why TIFF exploits weren't being examined as well). So, bye bye that attack vector. The PS3 didn't rely on making sure that the optical drive was secure, so bye bye with that exploit(this was popular on the 360 and Wii). The PS3 also didn't expose the CPU to debug pins like the Xbox(with Pogo pins) or the Xbox 360(thanks to it's handy dandy JTAG connector).
It wasn't until we saw the big weakness with the PSJailbreak did we see the other major flaws.
Yes, I've gone to bat for Sony for locking down the PS3, but I don't think that it's wrong to fight back.
I normally give content producers some benefit of the doubt.
However, now they just look like Mr. Burns trying to take candy from a baby.
I hear you.
I'm only on board with scientists are "baffled" or experts are "shocked."
despite major safety concerns with the vehicle.
if everyone's driving around in GWizes, Yarises, and Smart ForTwos, what safety problem?
The fallacy of market research.
Need I remind people that market research also said that New Coke and Crystal Pepsi were going to be huge?