I can't remember the last actual worthwhile update Sony pushed through
I made myself depressed by checking. With a liberal definition of "useful", that'd be 2 years, 7 days and counting.
If you read just about any PS3 forum about firmware, you'll see people have wanted for YEARS simple things, like cross-game chat (ala XBox), PS2 emulation (or even PAY MONEY to buy them from the PSN store), auto-sync trophies to the PSN rather than having to do it manually. Simple, useful things. Sony even put up a blog asking "what do you want", and they've been told by (literally) tens of thousands of people. Nothing yet. Instead, we've had these "updates":
3.50 - Sept 21st, 2010 - BluRay gets 3D content (so only arguably useful)
3.42 - Sept 7th, 2010 - "security" patch
3.41 - July 27th, 2010 - Add intrusive, persistent advertisement bar.
3.40 - June 29th, 2010 - Minor HDMI color setting tweak, useless video editor, print photos
3.30 - April 23, 2010 - Add a useless feature that can only be used from a Sony laptop, and no laptops with that feature exist yet. 3D games added.
3.21 - April 1, 2010 - Replace OtherOS feature with a spiked club that has sex with your goldfish
3.15 - Dec 10, 2009 - Sorta kinda allow you to backup data to another PS3-- by Ethernet cable only. Sometimes.
3.10 - Nov 20, 2009 - Sorry excuse for a video store added to some regions, and you can be a dick on Facebook by spamming your friends with your trophies.
3.01 - Sept 15, 2009 - Improves some playback on some content. Details!
3.00 - Sept 1, 2009 - Needless redisgn of XBMC that makes it ugly, sparkly, and hides information. Huge, intrusive spam-banner added to screen. Sony engineers finally learn how to fastforward and rewind videos. Somewhere in here, lost ability to play music and browse internet at same time.
2.80 - June 24, 2009 - Unspecified 'improvements'
2.76 - May 14, 2009 - Unspecified 'improvements'
2.60 - Jan 21, 2009 - Added admittedly useful Photo Gallery software, and DivX 3.11 support. This update actually improved the PS3, and didn't remove any features.
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1.10 - Nov 17, 2006 - First firmware revision.
(sidenote: Holy shit, does the new Slashdot css actually remove the bullets from a LI entry? Why?)
Am I the only one who thinks that "route all your PS3 internet traffic through some random third party with unknown intentions" is a bad thing?
If there is a way to mook about with the outbound request, then just publish it. I'll integrate it into my own router, or DNS server, or anything else I chose to set up and control.
But routing a data stream that has a non-zero chance of having a credit card number in it (PSN purchases) through an untrusted third party? Nope.
If I'm a shop keeper and I refuse to put a pro-life or a pro-abortion poster in my window am I engaging in censorship?
No. But if your shop is a print shop, and you refuse to print flyers for an abortion clinic, then yes, you are censoring them. And if you then lobby the ink-and-paper distributors to not give ink and paper to any copy shop that WILL do work for that clinic, then you are. And if you refuse to do business with anyone who manages to actually get a copy of the flyer-- well, you see where I'm going.
Now the crux is if any of the above is illegal or immoral, or both or neither.
One of my friends is Torbjørn Pettersen. I don't even think he can spell it right half the time. (I'm also sure Slashdot will drop most of the characters in his name).
Sorry to hear that, I've been looking forward to seeing the movie for years. (Funny how I hate movie trailers, but a one-line sig got me drooling).
I'm not a movie tech by any means, but don't most movies end up re-recording almost all the dialog via ADR anyways?
I think they should take the "ice cream shop employee" approach. Give them as much filming and twittering as they want until they're sick of it.
The first scene they film should be the one they'd release as a trailer anyways. Address the audience with "I know you all want to film and share this, and we wouldn't want you to have to spend the whole show fumbling with a cell instead of watching. So how's this sound? Anyone here want to do a bit of recording? Alright, for this scene we've blocked it so you all can stand here, here, here or here. Who wants to? Hands up, alright, come on down. Don't worry, we'll save your seats for you. Everyone in place? Action."
Instead of forcing people to try to sneak a film, bring them right out into the open and let them get their fill. Make the scene one that's good for a trailer-- funny, no spoilers, etc. Then once that's over, everyone can go back to their seats and almost all of them will be happy to have a) been involved and b) gotten a chance to grab a memoir/exclusive vid/whatever.
Yes, some people will still film after that, but there'll be far fewer. You can easily ignore them, or politely ask them not to. Yes, people will still talk about the taping afterwards. But you won't ever stop that. People who shout spoilers will be listened to by people who want to hear them, and shunned by those who don't. It's self-regulating.
He could have alleviated suspicion from his actions if he'd just had some red-headed gentlemen in the empty building, copying out the Encyclopædia Britannica all day long.
Of course, the penalty for copyright infringement on the Encyclopedia would be orders of magnitude worse than simply stealing, so perhaps that isn't such a great cover anymore.
If I were Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft, I would now be urgently investigating the possibility of incorporating a similar "walled garden" OtherOS equivalent into my next generation hardware.
I don't think that will be a viable strategy any more. Sony has destroyed the trust such a move would have bought. Now when someone sees "OtherOS" on a console, they won't think "this is what I want, I don't have to hack", they'll think "It's only a matter of time before they take that away for no reason. I better hack faster."
So this is exactly like the LHC, right? How can clouds be so irresponsible to create ANTIMATTER that will destroy the entire planet, just because they can! I saw what happened when Neo let a single drop of antimatter fall out of the Millennium Falcon to destroy the elves' homeworld. Why won't Obama do something about this "lightning"? He's in the pocket of the lightning rod industry!
If the program hasn't been maintained or updated in 10 years, wouldn't it be classified as Abandonware (much as old PC games get classified by those who want to share them?)
One click? Sure, if you mean one click to follow the posted link, then three more clicks to navigate towards the download, a few more to skip adds, then at least five more to answer questions like "Do you want the premium service? [NO], I don't want to wait, sign me up. [YES] I want it..... [extremely tiny font] just download my fucking file already [/extremely tiny font]
I have to wonder about that. The only malicious js I've seen in the wild has been a delivery vector, not an infection vector.
What usually happens is the attacker will find some other exploit on a website-- sql injection, vulnerable user forms, etc-- and insert their js code into the page. The code will then try to trick or force the user into going to a drive-by site, or dowloading an infected file.
I saw it once on a Friday night on tribute.ca, a movie listing website. When I tried to look up show times, I got the full-DIV, animated "scanning your desktop omg you're infected download this and send us money" js. (Running firefox, so nothing automatically installed like it would with IE). I did think it was kinda sad that a major website like that could get owned so hard on their busiest night. Sadder was since it was after business hours, it didn't get fixed all weekend.
Best Buy proclaims: "Slashdot user SenseiLeNoir expertly advises that paying twice as much for cables provides a richer, more reliable experience. So be sure to stop by our Monster Cable division!"
Wait, what ? There's a battle against a whole horde of Balrogs, hidden somewhere in there ? Well Tolkien's done a fine job of hiding it, then...
Yup, so well hidden that only the Scouts of W'Ikipyd-hei can find them:
There is a host of them stated to number a thousand in Quenta Silmarillion while at the storming of Gondolin, Balrogs in the hundreds ride on the backs of the Dragons
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I made myself depressed by checking. With a liberal definition of "useful", that'd be 2 years, 7 days and counting.
If you read just about any PS3 forum about firmware, you'll see people have wanted for YEARS simple things, like cross-game chat (ala XBox), PS2 emulation (or even PAY MONEY to buy them from the PSN store), auto-sync trophies to the PSN rather than having to do it manually. Simple, useful things. Sony even put up a blog asking "what do you want", and they've been told by (literally) tens of thousands of people. Nothing yet. Instead, we've had these "updates":
(sidenote: Holy shit, does the new Slashdot css actually remove the bullets from a LI entry? Why?)
Am I the only one who thinks that "route all your PS3 internet traffic through some random third party with unknown intentions" is a bad thing?
If there is a way to mook about with the outbound request, then just publish it. I'll integrate it into my own router, or DNS server, or anything else I chose to set up and control.
But routing a data stream that has a non-zero chance of having a credit card number in it (PSN purchases) through an untrusted third party? Nope.
No. But if your shop is a print shop, and you refuse to print flyers for an abortion clinic, then yes, you are censoring them. And if you then lobby the ink-and-paper distributors to not give ink and paper to any copy shop that WILL do work for that clinic, then you are. And if you refuse to do business with anyone who manages to actually get a copy of the flyer-- well, you see where I'm going.
Now the crux is if any of the above is illegal or immoral, or both or neither.
Nope. Thank you fucking slashdot css. To add to my list of evergrowing fixes, add to your stylesheet .quote
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Yes, folks, that's right. They fucked up the <i> tag. Have a good night.
One of my friends is Torbjørn Pettersen. I don't even think he can spell it right half the time. (I'm also sure Slashdot will drop most of the characters in his name).
Thank you! Furthermore:
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Sorry to hear that, I've been looking forward to seeing the movie for years. (Funny how I hate movie trailers, but a one-line sig got me drooling).
I'm not a movie tech by any means, but don't most movies end up re-recording almost all the dialog via ADR anyways?
We think they're using some of our stealth tech. We tried to check, but couldn't find the plane. =(
I think they should take the "ice cream shop employee" approach. Give them as much filming and twittering as they want until they're sick of it.
The first scene they film should be the one they'd release as a trailer anyways. Address the audience with "I know you all want to film and share this, and we wouldn't want you to have to spend the whole show fumbling with a cell instead of watching. So how's this sound? Anyone here want to do a bit of recording? Alright, for this scene we've blocked it so you all can stand here, here, here or here. Who wants to? Hands up, alright, come on down. Don't worry, we'll save your seats for you. Everyone in place? Action."
Instead of forcing people to try to sneak a film, bring them right out into the open and let them get their fill. Make the scene one that's good for a trailer-- funny, no spoilers, etc. Then once that's over, everyone can go back to their seats and almost all of them will be happy to have a) been involved and b) gotten a chance to grab a memoir/exclusive vid/whatever.
Yes, some people will still film after that, but there'll be far fewer. You can easily ignore them, or politely ask them not to. Yes, people will still talk about the taping afterwards. But you won't ever stop that. People who shout spoilers will be listened to by people who want to hear them, and shunned by those who don't. It's self-regulating.
He could have alleviated suspicion from his actions if he'd just had some red-headed gentlemen in the empty building, copying out the Encyclopædia Britannica all day long.
Of course, the penalty for copyright infringement on the Encyclopedia would be orders of magnitude worse than simply stealing, so perhaps that isn't such a great cover anymore.
So what you're saying is Mars ain't the kind of place to raise a Rocket Man's kids?
I don't think that will be a viable strategy any more. Sony has destroyed the trust such a move would have bought. Now when someone sees "OtherOS" on a console, they won't think "this is what I want, I don't have to hack", they'll think "It's only a matter of time before they take that away for no reason. I better hack faster."
With your eyes. Your eyes.
If the AI is smart enough to pass a human-test to send a spam, then another AI will be smart enough to recognize spam and not deliver it.
So this is exactly like the LHC, right? How can clouds be so irresponsible to create ANTIMATTER that will destroy the entire planet, just because they can! I saw what happened when Neo let a single drop of antimatter fall out of the Millennium Falcon to destroy the elves' homeworld. Why won't Obama do something about this "lightning"? He's in the pocket of the lightning rod industry!
If the program hasn't been maintained or updated in 10 years, wouldn't it be classified as Abandonware (much as old PC games get classified by those who want to share them?)
I heard the same one where the worker was a librarian who was stealing books.
One click? Sure, if you mean one click to follow the posted link, then three more clicks to navigate towards the download, a few more to skip adds, then at least five more to answer questions like "Do you want the premium service? [NO], I don't want to wait, sign me up. [YES] I want it..... [extremely tiny font] just download my fucking file already [/extremely tiny font]
Calm and measured reactions to rumors?
I have to wonder about that. The only malicious js I've seen in the wild has been a delivery vector, not an infection vector.
What usually happens is the attacker will find some other exploit on a website-- sql injection, vulnerable user forms, etc-- and insert their js code into the page. The code will then try to trick or force the user into going to a drive-by site, or dowloading an infected file.
I saw it once on a Friday night on tribute.ca, a movie listing website. When I tried to look up show times, I got the full-DIV, animated "scanning your desktop omg you're infected download this and send us money" js. (Running firefox, so nothing automatically installed like it would with IE). I did think it was kinda sad that a major website like that could get owned so hard on their busiest night. Sadder was since it was after business hours, it didn't get fixed all weekend.
Professor Fink. He'll make you laugh, he'll make you think...
The first amendment doesn't give you the right to shout "Firesheep" in a crowded Starbucks.
That'd be "scan, beam, uncrop, frame left, zoom, pull out, stop, wait, track in, stop, enhance reflection, another reflection, zoom, pan-right, zoom on water droplet, zoom, enhance, stop, rotate 170, zoom 220, flip, zoom 260, rotate 90, track in, print a 4x6".
Best Buy proclaims: "Slashdot user SenseiLeNoir expertly advises that paying twice as much for cables provides a richer, more reliable experience. So be sure to stop by our Monster Cable division!"
Yup, so well hidden that only the Scouts of W'Ikipyd-hei can find them: