Yeah, and I know exactly what type of experiment. I noticed all the referal links to Amazon... to purchase the latest iPod or Myst game or whatever. You're hedging your bets... you're paying for your bandwidth and hoping that people will more than make up for it by purchasing things at Amazon through your links. Good luck with that business model; I really appreciate that you offer mirrors, but I really have no use for anything on Amazon at the moment.
I don't know whether to be elated or scared. It's kind of common knowledge that Heinlein's earlier works are better than this later works... but if this is his first work, it might not be all that good. There might be a reason it wasn't published up until now... there might be a reason Heinlein hid it away for all these years. I'll definitely buy it and read it, but I'm keeping my expectations low.
I'm a freshman at University of Maryland, College Park, and overall I think their policy is very straightforward and simple. They haven't bother shutting off sections of the network or anything like that - they don't need to. When you bring in your computer from home, you have to register it (I think it's done on a MAC address basis). One of the requirements of registration is that you have to apply all of the patches for the recent Blaster, SoBig, etc. viruses. Granted, this isn't going to do much in the event of another virus outbreak, but for now, I think they handled it very intelligently.
In typical slashdot fashion, we must protest this gross error in security the only way we know how - BOYCOTT!! If millions of geeks suddenly stop voting, the elected officials are going to HAVE to listen to us... right?!
Am I the only one who absolutely refuses to watch these trailers? I mistakenly saw the trailer for Reloaded, and the whole Burly Brawl was completely spoiled when they showed a cloud of Agent Smiths getting tossed off in a "mushroom cloud." If you hadn't seen that, you'd really be worried when the Smiths completely enveloped Neo, because you wouldn't know how he was going to get out of it. But the preview spoiled it, and so that fight (possibly the best in the movie) was entirely spoiled for me because I knew the outcome - if hundreds of Agent Smiths couldn't even hold Neo down, how could he possibly lose?!
I hate how movie companies are putting more and more give-aways in their trailers just to get more people to come see it. It speaks volumes about how they only care about the bottom line, and how little they care about the integrity of the movie as art. I've heard from my friends about American Wedding (which I didn't want to see) - it was a waste of money because they already saw all the best parts on the ads!
And that is why I refuse to watch Revolutions trailers. As the movie's release date draws nearly it's going to get harder for me, as I'll have to turn away from the TV and cover my ears whenever the ads come up. But it'll be worth it, because I absolutely hate spoilers.
Being a slashdotter means never having to say you're sorry when you ostracize a seemingly archaic, yet dependable, technology that shows its worth when all else fails.
This would also be the responsible thing to do since using only Windows systems is practically an endorcement of them, considering there are reasonable and affordable alternatives. IMHO, this is akin to have "Pepsi: the official softdrink of Wake University" which they may be considering anyway. 10 Years from now, Microsoft may not be the 97% gorilla it is now, and it is irresponsible for a college to only support this one company.
The high school that I just graduated from was sponsored by Pepsi. As in, "Montgomery Blair High School, brought to you by Perpsi." No Coca-Cola products were sold anywhere on-campus. The school principal signed a 10-year, $600,000 contract with Pepsi. And you know what? Maybe it was worth it. There are severe budget shortfalls affecting all of us now, and the school really needed that extra money for textbooks and such.
I've downloaded hundreds, no, scratch that, thousands, no, scratch that... tens of thousands of books. Why? Because it's sort of a conservation thing. I don't want there to be a remote possibility that any of these works ever get lost. So I have backups burnt onto CD. So far I haven't even read but three digital books - Origin of Species, The Invisible Man, and Brave New World. The first is out of copyright (And The Invisible Man might also be, dunno), but I own physical copies of the other two books anyway. I can't stand to read these books on the computer screen, so I convert them to Palm format and read them on my Visor.
Do I feel like I'm doing anything illegal? No! I download all the latest and greatest books - Harry Potter, etc. But I read them on paperback, because I really just don't like reading in a digital format. But I have them in a digital format anyway, for reference, or, in hundreds of years, if all other copies of the books are left... and someone digs up my CD's. I know that sounds ridiculous, because the data on CD's degrades in decades... but can you please let a man dream?!
My annoyance is a lack of any good way to deal with bandwidth throttling. I run a webserver on my Linux computer, but I also have several other computers on the LAN that I play games with, surf the web, etc. I have ADSL, so if someone is downloading anything of reasonable size from my webserver it sucks all the uplink bandwidth, which raises the latency on everything else. And of course this means my web browsing and games playing turns to shit. Bandwidth throttling already exists in most Windows download/upload apps, so why can't they add it to Apache?
Well, once... nevermind that we still have hundreds who have been incarcerated for over a year now as "material witnesses" or what have you whose rights to habeas corpus are clearly being denied. But what do I know? Maybe in the eyes of Bush, it's worth it to jail hundreds of potentially innocent people to catch that one person with ties to the Taliban?
Will I still be able to buy Red Hat on CD from the company? Downloading big ISOs is annoying, and I don't want to buy from some 3rd party vendor that just ships some burnt CDs. I still want an actual product... nice CDs, manuals, et al. Is Red Hat doing away with this too, or just the distribution of it in stores - will I still be able to buy it directly from then? If not, how in the world is Linux supposed to compete with Microsoft if you can't even BUY IT?! (I know I know, it's available to download for free, but that's just not the same.)
Wow, I've heard of ghetto engineering... but the fins just flat fell off a second into the flight?! C'mon, I expect much better of NASA. Hell, even I can manage to launch a rocket whose fins will stay fully attached until the parachute burns through and the entire assemblage smacks into the ground, sending fin particles everywhere. But that's MANY seconds after launch, not only a few.
The president never really read e-mail anyway. It was just a lot of paid interns who went through it. But because the e-mail address is made public on a very popular site, I'm sure they got a lot of spam and such. In these times of economic concerns, do we really need to be paying people to go through George Bush's e-mail?
I agree with "representing the people" and such, but going through George Bush is just a bit too unfair. He has to look over 300 million people... you can't expect him to read messages from everyone either. Instead, if you want to make a difference in government, start with your local representatives and senators. They are there to specifically represent the people in your district/state. You can get a message to the president much more easily through them than if you try directly via e-mail. This is how representative democracy works.
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When you get right down to it, space is not the problem. It is getting there, or getting back that is the problem (especially atmospheres). Once you get out into the void, things seem to work pretty well (at least until you leave space and try to enter another atmosphere, such as Mars)
Getting through the atmosphere is indeed dangerous. But I think you underestimate how harsh an environment space really is. It's full of micrometeorites that will tear through your craft if you're travelling fast, and the radiation is killer, because you aren't shielded by the atmosphere. Solar flares could easily put you out of commission too - that's why satellites include technology originally developed during the Cold War to shield against EMP from nuclear blasts. And the temperature gradient is killer too - hundreds of degrees on the side of the craft facing the Sun, and near absolute zero on the other side. If you don't have good heat dissipation systems you're fried (quite literally).
Again, this is not near as harsh on NASA's equipment as our own atmosphere is. Once the stuff gets into space safe and clear, it seems to run pretty well precisely because space is pretty safe when it comes to danger to the craft.
99% of the things in the Earth's atmosphere do a lot better in the atmosphere than in space. I don't think you appreciate what amount of engineering goes into even the simplest of satellites that are put into space. And once you put things up there, maintenances is, for the most part, out of the question. You better make sure you get it right, because you can't just send out a maintenance team to fix things up every year like you could with something installed on the ground.
Let me sum up with a final comment: I'm glad the parent was only modded up interesting, not informative, because it's quite wrong.
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I never cease to be amazed by all that NASA is capable. Time and time again they have had (understandable) glitches occur, because space is the most hostile environment. And time and time again they manage to come up with innovative solutions they can use to fix problems when the equipment is millions (or even billions) of miles away and cannot be touched. Voyager II was still transmitting data recently, and it's out of the solar system! How many other systems built three decades ago are still functioning? And do they have to contend with the harshest environment known to man?
I commend NASA on their ingenuity and problem-solving skills. Microsoft, for instance, has so many bugs often times they'll just give up on problems where they even have physical access to the device and just tell you to "reinstall the OS"! NASA works under many more constraints and yet consistently manage to get the job done right. There's no other organization (governmental or otherwise) that I place as much trust in as NASA. They're working for all humankind and won't let anything get in their way.
Rogue: oh no! a 'C' is chasing my @! majick missle! majick missle! arghhll...
Nitpick from someone knowledgeable:
A 'C' can either be a plains, forest, or mountain centaur. However, a 'c' can be a cockatrice, chickatrice, or pyrolisk, which are much more feared because of the danger of their insta-kill petrification attacks. Also, in later versions of Nethack, there is a patch option to change your character display symbol from a generic "@" into a race-specific symbol (if you're playing a human, 'h', a gnome, 'G', and so on). This character is distinguished from enemies by giving it a different colored background, much like with pets.
And also, it's "magic missile", not "majick missle". And it wouldn't be "arghhll", it'd be "You die. Do you want your possessions identified?" Other than that, nice attempt at a humorous post.
I beg to differ, Ignorant Aardvark. A possible outcome is: "Blecch! Rotten food! The world spins and goes dark." After which you could be killed by the kitten.
This is perhaps the most geekiest argument ever, but let's delve a bit deeper into this. I quote from the Nethack 3.4.1 source code eat.c line 1184...:
Eating a rotten corpse can indeed cause 1d10 turns of "helplessness".
And now from line 1277 of the same source file:
if (!tp && mnum != PM_LIZARD && mnum != PM_LICHEN && //Call rotted food function
(The comment is my own to avoid the lameness filter).
Rotted corpses can have negative effects such as blindness and helplessness except for when the corpse is of the lizard or lichen variety. I mistakenly thought that jelly fit into one of these categories; indeed, it does not. Eating jelly can lead to death by kitten during helplessness. I was wrong.
Therefore, NetHack players either do their deed and get away with it, or they're the people we hear about on the news who get killed by kittens after eating bad jelly.
Nitpick: eating a rotten jelly corpse could cause death by food poisoning, NOT a "killed by XXX while helpless" death. You're thinking of getting killed by a kitten after hitting a floating eyeball.
Do videogames cause violence? No, I don't think so. The capacity for violence must already exist within a person; I don't think a videogame is capable of creating that in you. But it is possible for videogames to bring out the violence in someone. A person with a capacity for violence might play a computer game such as Counter-Strike and go out on a CS-inspired killing spree. Did CS cause the violence? No. But without CS, perhaps they'd just go out on a baseball bat killing spree if they only happen to play sports games.
It's much like guns. Are guns in themselves evil? No, they are tools. But when put into the hands of an evil person, the give the evil person a much increased capacity to harm others. Videogames are the same way: a person who learns S.W.A.T. strategies in a videogame can put that to use in his killing spree, allowing him to evade death longer and inflict more casualties.
I'm not arguing that we should prohibit videogames because they give the inspiration to make sick, twisted killers even more efficient. It's very much a freedom of speech issue to me. But people that deny that videogames are associated with violence in any way are just wrong - we must understand the link, so that we can lessen its power.
On a personal note, I do enjoy playing violent videogames. But I also enjoy playing non-violent games, such as SimCity 4. It's not the violence for violence's sake that I enjoy: I don't enjoy Soldier of Fortune 2 because, frankly, I don't think it's a fun game. Now that I think about it, all the "violent" games I've liked in the past were in their own rights good games. The violence could've been removed (assuming it left the fun elements intact) and I'd still enjoy the game. Perhaps it is someone who plays a game solely for the pleasure of the violence, not for the gameplay, who is responsible for acts such as those outlined in this article.
I'm thinking of buying an XBOX for the sole purpose of running Linux on it - it's definitely the cheapest computer available at that price level. That said, the linked article was full of nothing but self-righteousness and really didn't have any content relevant to the exploit they discovered.
Can someone please explain, in English, how I were to go about using this exploit to install Linux on the XBOX I'm thinking of buying? Is a mod chip required? Is NightFire 007 (or whatever) required? Do I need to burn some sort of a bootable CD? Thanks in advance for the (helpful) explanation.
what will really blow your mind is when you realize that gasoline is cheaper than bottled water...
Good thing I don't buy bottled water, otherwise I'd consume "drinking gasoline" and pour "combustible bottled water" in my car in an attempt to save money.
Ink costs more than champagne? What?! That's not the natural order of things. To correct this problem, the French must immediately start drinking printer ink and printing with champagne. That should kill a few problems with one stone (sorry for the mixed metaphor). To clear up the resulting confusion we will call printer ink "Freedom Champagne" and champagne, "printer ink 2: full-speed".
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It's just an experiment.
... to purchase the latest iPod or Myst game or whatever. You're hedging your bets ... you're paying for your bandwidth and hoping that people will more than make up for it by purchasing things at Amazon through your links. Good luck with that business model; I really appreciate that you offer mirrors, but I really have no use for anything on Amazon at the moment.
Yeah, and I know exactly what type of experiment. I noticed all the referal links to Amazon
I don't know whether to be elated or scared. It's kind of common knowledge that Heinlein's earlier works are better than this later works ... but if this is his first work, it might not be all that good. There might be a reason it wasn't published up until now ... there might be a reason Heinlein hid it away for all these years. I'll definitely buy it and read it, but I'm keeping my expectations low.
I'm a freshman at University of Maryland, College Park, and overall I think their policy is very straightforward and simple. They haven't bother shutting off sections of the network or anything like that - they don't need to. When you bring in your computer from home, you have to register it (I think it's done on a MAC address basis). One of the requirements of registration is that you have to apply all of the patches for the recent Blaster, SoBig, etc. viruses. Granted, this isn't going to do much in the event of another virus outbreak, but for now, I think they handled it very intelligently.
In typical slashdot fashion, we must protest this gross error in security the only way we know how - BOYCOTT!! If millions of geeks suddenly stop voting, the elected officials are going to HAVE to listen to us ... right?!
Am I the only one who absolutely refuses to watch these trailers? I mistakenly saw the trailer for Reloaded, and the whole Burly Brawl was completely spoiled when they showed a cloud of Agent Smiths getting tossed off in a "mushroom cloud." If you hadn't seen that, you'd really be worried when the Smiths completely enveloped Neo, because you wouldn't know how he was going to get out of it. But the preview spoiled it, and so that fight (possibly the best in the movie) was entirely spoiled for me because I knew the outcome - if hundreds of Agent Smiths couldn't even hold Neo down, how could he possibly lose?!
I hate how movie companies are putting more and more give-aways in their trailers just to get more people to come see it. It speaks volumes about how they only care about the bottom line, and how little they care about the integrity of the movie as art. I've heard from my friends about American Wedding (which I didn't want to see) - it was a waste of money because they already saw all the best parts on the ads!
And that is why I refuse to watch Revolutions trailers. As the movie's release date draws nearly it's going to get harder for me, as I'll have to turn away from the TV and cover my ears whenever the ads come up. But it'll be worth it, because I absolutely hate spoilers.
Being a slashdotter means never having to say you're sorry when you ostracize a seemingly archaic, yet dependable, technology that shows its worth when all else fails.
This would also be the responsible thing to do since using only Windows systems is practically an endorcement of them, considering there are reasonable and affordable alternatives. IMHO, this is akin to have "Pepsi: the official softdrink of Wake University" which they may be considering anyway. 10 Years from now, Microsoft may not be the 97% gorilla it is now, and it is irresponsible for a college to only support this one company.
The high school that I just graduated from was sponsored by Pepsi. As in, "Montgomery Blair High School, brought to you by Perpsi." No Coca-Cola products were sold anywhere on-campus. The school principal signed a 10-year, $600,000 contract with Pepsi. And you know what? Maybe it was worth it. There are severe budget shortfalls affecting all of us now, and the school really needed that extra money for textbooks and such.
I've downloaded hundreds, no, scratch that, thousands, no, scratch that ... tens of thousands of books. Why? Because it's sort of a conservation thing. I don't want there to be a remote possibility that any of these works ever get lost. So I have backups burnt onto CD. So far I haven't even read but three digital books - Origin of Species, The Invisible Man, and Brave New World. The first is out of copyright (And The Invisible Man might also be, dunno), but I own physical copies of the other two books anyway. I can't stand to read these books on the computer screen, so I convert them to Palm format and read them on my Visor.
... and someone digs up my CD's. I know that sounds ridiculous, because the data on CD's degrades in decades ... but can you please let a man dream?!
Do I feel like I'm doing anything illegal? No! I download all the latest and greatest books - Harry Potter, etc. But I read them on paperback, because I really just don't like reading in a digital format. But I have them in a digital format anyway, for reference, or, in hundreds of years, if all other copies of the books are left
My annoyance is a lack of any good way to deal with bandwidth throttling. I run a webserver on my Linux computer, but I also have several other computers on the LAN that I play games with, surf the web, etc. I have ADSL, so if someone is downloading anything of reasonable size from my webserver it sucks all the uplink bandwidth, which raises the latency on everything else. And of course this means my web browsing and games playing turns to shit. Bandwidth throttling already exists in most Windows download/upload apps, so why can't they add it to Apache?
See America? The Patriot Act does work!
... nevermind that we still have hundreds who have been incarcerated for over a year now as "material witnesses" or what have you whose rights to habeas corpus are clearly being denied. But what do I know? Maybe in the eyes of Bush, it's worth it to jail hundreds of potentially innocent people to catch that one person with ties to the Taliban?
Well, once
Will I still be able to buy Red Hat on CD from the company? Downloading big ISOs is annoying, and I don't want to buy from some 3rd party vendor that just ships some burnt CDs. I still want an actual product ... nice CDs, manuals, et al. Is Red Hat doing away with this too, or just the distribution of it in stores - will I still be able to buy it directly from then? If not, how in the world is Linux supposed to compete with Microsoft if you can't even BUY IT?! (I know I know, it's available to download for free, but that's just not the same.)
Look ma, a competitor is fostering competition! This is exactly what's supposed to happen in a free market!
Wow, I've heard of ghetto engineering ... but the fins just flat fell off a second into the flight?! C'mon, I expect much better of NASA. Hell, even I can manage to launch a rocket whose fins will stay fully attached until the parachute burns through and the entire assemblage smacks into the ground, sending fin particles everywhere. But that's MANY seconds after launch, not only a few.
The president never really read e-mail anyway. It was just a lot of paid interns who went through it. But because the e-mail address is made public on a very popular site, I'm sure they got a lot of spam and such. In these times of economic concerns, do we really need to be paying people to go through George Bush's e-mail?
... you can't expect him to read messages from everyone either. Instead, if you want to make a difference in government, start with your local representatives and senators. They are there to specifically represent the people in your district/state. You can get a message to the president much more easily through them than if you try directly via e-mail. This is how representative democracy works.
I agree with "representing the people" and such, but going through George Bush is just a bit too unfair. He has to look over 300 million people
When you get right down to it, space is not the problem. It is getting there, or getting back that is the problem (especially atmospheres). Once you get out into the void, things seem to work pretty well (at least until you leave space and try to enter another atmosphere, such as Mars)
Getting through the atmosphere is indeed dangerous. But I think you underestimate how harsh an environment space really is. It's full of micrometeorites that will tear through your craft if you're travelling fast, and the radiation is killer, because you aren't shielded by the atmosphere. Solar flares could easily put you out of commission too - that's why satellites include technology originally developed during the Cold War to shield against EMP from nuclear blasts. And the temperature gradient is killer too - hundreds of degrees on the side of the craft facing the Sun, and near absolute zero on the other side. If you don't have good heat dissipation systems you're fried (quite literally).
Again, this is not near as harsh on NASA's equipment as our own atmosphere is. Once the stuff gets into space safe and clear, it seems to run pretty well precisely because space is pretty safe when it comes to danger to the craft.
99% of the things in the Earth's atmosphere do a lot better in the atmosphere than in space. I don't think you appreciate what amount of engineering goes into even the simplest of satellites that are put into space. And once you put things up there, maintenances is, for the most part, out of the question. You better make sure you get it right, because you can't just send out a maintenance team to fix things up every year like you could with something installed on the ground.
Let me sum up with a final comment: I'm glad the parent was only modded up interesting, not informative, because it's quite wrong.
I never cease to be amazed by all that NASA is capable. Time and time again they have had (understandable) glitches occur, because space is the most hostile environment. And time and time again they manage to come up with innovative solutions they can use to fix problems when the equipment is millions (or even billions) of miles away and cannot be touched. Voyager II was still transmitting data recently, and it's out of the solar system! How many other systems built three decades ago are still functioning? And do they have to contend with the harshest environment known to man?
I commend NASA on their ingenuity and problem-solving skills. Microsoft, for instance, has so many bugs often times they'll just give up on problems where they even have physical access to the device and just tell you to "reinstall the OS"! NASA works under many more constraints and yet consistently manage to get the job done right. There's no other organization (governmental or otherwise) that I place as much trust in as NASA. They're working for all humankind and won't let anything get in their way.
Rogue: oh no! a 'C' is chasing my @! majick missle! majick missle! arghhll...
Nitpick from someone knowledgeable:
A 'C' can either be a plains, forest, or mountain centaur. However, a 'c' can be a cockatrice, chickatrice, or pyrolisk, which are much more feared because of the danger of their insta-kill petrification attacks. Also, in later versions of Nethack, there is a patch option to change your character display symbol from a generic "@" into a race-specific symbol (if you're playing a human, 'h', a gnome, 'G', and so on). This character is distinguished from enemies by giving it a different colored background, much like with pets.
And also, it's "magic missile", not "majick missle". And it wouldn't be "arghhll", it'd be "You die. Do you want your possessions identified?" Other than that, nice attempt at a humorous post.
I beg to differ, Ignorant Aardvark. A possible outcome is: "Blecch! Rotten food! The world spins and goes dark." After which you could be killed by the kitten.
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pline_The("world spins and %s %s.", what, where);
//Call rotted food function
This is perhaps the most geekiest argument ever, but let's delve a bit deeper into this. I quote from the Nethack 3.4.1 source code eat.c line 1184...:
} else if(!rn2(3)) {
flags.soundok = 0;
nomul(-rnd(10));
nomovemsg = "You are conscious again.";
Eating a rotten corpse can indeed cause 1d10 turns of "helplessness".
And now from line 1277 of the same source file:
if (!tp && mnum != PM_LIZARD && mnum != PM_LICHEN &&
(The comment is my own to avoid the lameness filter).
Rotted corpses can have negative effects such as blindness and helplessness except for when the corpse is of the lizard or lichen variety. I mistakenly thought that jelly fit into one of these categories; indeed, it does not. Eating jelly can lead to death by kitten during helplessness. I was wrong.
Therefore, NetHack players either do their deed and get away with it, or they're the people we hear about on the news who get killed by kittens after eating bad jelly.
Nitpick: eating a rotten jelly corpse could cause death by food poisoning, NOT a "killed by XXX while helpless" death. You're thinking of getting killed by a kitten after hitting a floating eyeball.
I have gone on a a) wielding killing spree. Many cans were massacred that day.
(And yes, there is such a thing as a "blessed rustproof can opener + 7" in Nethack, and it can be used as a weapon)
Do videogames cause violence? No, I don't think so. The capacity for violence must already exist within a person; I don't think a videogame is capable of creating that in you. But it is possible for videogames to bring out the violence in someone. A person with a capacity for violence might play a computer game such as Counter-Strike and go out on a CS-inspired killing spree. Did CS cause the violence? No. But without CS, perhaps they'd just go out on a baseball bat killing spree if they only happen to play sports games.
It's much like guns. Are guns in themselves evil? No, they are tools. But when put into the hands of an evil person, the give the evil person a much increased capacity to harm others. Videogames are the same way: a person who learns S.W.A.T. strategies in a videogame can put that to use in his killing spree, allowing him to evade death longer and inflict more casualties.
I'm not arguing that we should prohibit videogames because they give the inspiration to make sick, twisted killers even more efficient. It's very much a freedom of speech issue to me. But people that deny that videogames are associated with violence in any way are just wrong - we must understand the link, so that we can lessen its power.
On a personal note, I do enjoy playing violent videogames. But I also enjoy playing non-violent games, such as SimCity 4. It's not the violence for violence's sake that I enjoy: I don't enjoy Soldier of Fortune 2 because, frankly, I don't think it's a fun game. Now that I think about it, all the "violent" games I've liked in the past were in their own rights good games. The violence could've been removed (assuming it left the fun elements intact) and I'd still enjoy the game. Perhaps it is someone who plays a game solely for the pleasure of the violence, not for the gameplay, who is responsible for acts such as those outlined in this article.
While they're at it, they can add the pictures I took of the TIA Admiral's House.
I'm thinking of buying an XBOX for the sole purpose of running Linux on it - it's definitely the cheapest computer available at that price level. That said, the linked article was full of nothing but self-righteousness and really didn't have any content relevant to the exploit they discovered.
Can someone please explain, in English, how I were to go about using this exploit to install Linux on the XBOX I'm thinking of buying? Is a mod chip required? Is NightFire 007 (or whatever) required? Do I need to burn some sort of a bootable CD? Thanks in advance for the (helpful) explanation.
what will really blow your mind is when you realize that gasoline is cheaper than bottled water...
Good thing I don't buy bottled water, otherwise I'd consume "drinking gasoline" and pour "combustible bottled water" in my car in an attempt to save money.
Ink costs more than champagne? What?! That's not the natural order of things. To correct this problem, the French must immediately start drinking printer ink and printing with champagne. That should kill a few problems with one stone (sorry for the mixed metaphor). To clear up the resulting confusion we will call printer ink "Freedom Champagne" and champagne, "printer ink 2: full-speed".