They were banning people with *any* detectable modifications, period. Complete hearsay, I read about one guy who had replaced a fan & nothing else & got banned.
If that was all they had actually done, you'd be right. As it is they removed functionality from the Xbox that isn't related to Xbox Live & will probably be paying a lot of money to a certain law firm withing the next 2 years.
This will get fixed in Firefox shortly & then it will be even more secure. What's the problem?
Either way, I'm so hooked on the 20 or so extensions that I use, that I'd never go back to anything else. IE is the pits. Chrome's speed just isn't a that big of a deal. Opera is ok, but the users are worse than Mac snobs.
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So blowing the dust out of your Xbox voids it too. That's even dumber than what they are doing now.
As usual you are incorrect, AC.
The result *may be* a discontinuance of the behavior, but if you read above, it's not likely such will happen.
True. We are talking about Microsoft here.
What part about removing MS functionality not related to Xbox Live do you not understand?
Try reading the article sometime, it's informative.
They were banning people with *any* detectable modifications, period. Complete hearsay, I read about one guy who had replaced a fan & nothing else & got banned.
If that was all they had actually done, you'd be right. As it is they removed functionality from the Xbox that isn't related to Xbox Live & will probably be paying a lot of money to a certain law firm withing the next 2 years.
As other posters have pointed out, MS removed functionality not related to Xbox Live. They will probably lose this one.
And to remove a boatload of cash from the offending company so *they don't keep repeating the same behavior*
Urchin? (Yeah, it's kinda a stretch)
Maybe not the Peace Prize, but I can see him getting the Economic Prize for Linux's economic impact on the business world & Internet.
They did.
This will get fixed in Firefox shortly & then it will be even more secure. What's the problem?
Either way, I'm so hooked on the 20 or so extensions that I use, that I'd never go back to anything else. IE is the pits. Chrome's speed just isn't a that big of a deal. Opera is ok, but the users are worse than Mac snobs.
I could have responded with information as opposed to just berating a stupid coward.
Never, but the North Sea can get pretty damn nasty.
Stop posting AC & I could be bothered to respond to you.
60% of the population of the Netherlands live below sea level. Are they all stupid too?
The dev of that game lurks around /. too.
Star Wars: Battlefront 1 & 2 says you are wrong.
Obviously that isn't completely true or you wouldn't hear about things like Tiananmen Square or the purging of the Falun Gong.
If they are all dead then who needs to throw them out?
When compared to a machine that needs to be re-imaged bi-monthly because it's an insecure, flaky piece of crap, yes.
What part of "really & truly yearned to be free" don't you understand?