In a bathroom you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. On a workstation that the company is paying for and paying for you to be working on you don't have that same expectation of privacy.
I think their long term strategy is to remove the HD to try to squash some of the modding that is going on. Right now you can add a larger hard drive and mod your xbox to save the games to the HD and add an ftp server. Once it's saved like that, illegal game swapping becomes childs play, especially combined with increaing prevailence of home high speed internet.
If there is no hard drive this potentially huge problem of game swapping over the internet becomes much harder. The PS/2 doesn't have this problem- no internal hard drive and the hardware is much more proprietary and harder to hack.
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In a bathroom you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. On a workstation that the company is paying for and paying for you to be working on you don't have that same expectation of privacy.
Thank you. You've restored my faith in slashdot. I can't believe I read this many posts as I did with NO mention of a Beowulf cluster.
I just think you are just being a little to anal to get it.
Try black electrical tape.
I think their long term strategy is to remove the HD to try to squash some of the modding that is going on. Right now you can add a larger hard drive and mod your xbox to save the games to the HD and add an ftp server. Once it's saved like that, illegal game swapping becomes childs play, especially combined with increaing prevailence of home high speed internet.
If there is no hard drive this potentially huge problem of game swapping over the internet becomes much harder. The PS/2 doesn't have this problem- no internal hard drive and the hardware is much more proprietary and harder to hack.