> *sniff* Everybody else gets to be out having fun while I'm stuck here in > editorial office purgatory. I want to go home.
Well, if it makes you feel any better I'm likely to be here at work well past 8pm tonight.
> Hackers, crackers and virusmonkeys must be loving this.
Indeed. The first virus has already been released that takes advantage of it.
Anti Sony programmers rant (http://www.pigdog.org/auto/software_jihad/link/2581.html).
> Someone's going to get their arse sued right off.
Unlikely. It'll be burried in the EULA that no-one ever reads.
Another one today on BoingBoing concerns a spyware company who is suing an spyware removal company because their EULA says that no anti-spyware company can install their software to backwards engineer it.
> And then I hear that the PS3 is not going to be entirely backwards > compatible with the PS1/PS2.
Slashdot has some stuff about the Nintendo Revolution (http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/10/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm).
> you will have to buy a whole mess of new games instead of just being able > to play your old ones.
Or indeed copy. I give the copy protection less than a week.
> XBox360 is releasing in time for Christmas
With contracts between Microsoft and all major retailers *forcing* them to go out of stock to show it selling out.
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Date: 2005-11-11 07:09 pm (UTC)Well, if it makes you feel any better I'm likely to be here at work well past 8pm tonight.
> Hackers, crackers and virusmonkeys must be loving this.
Indeed. The first virus has already been released that takes advantage of it.
Anti Sony programmers rant (http://www.pigdog.org/auto/software_jihad/link/2581.html).
> Someone's going to get their arse sued right off.
Unlikely. It'll be burried in the EULA that no-one ever reads.
Another one today on BoingBoing concerns a spyware company who is suing an spyware removal company because their EULA says that no anti-spyware company can install their software to backwards engineer it.
> And then I hear that the PS3 is not going to be entirely backwards
> compatible with the PS1/PS2.
Slashdot has some stuff about the Nintendo Revolution (http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/10/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm).
> you will have to buy a whole mess of new games instead of just being able > to play your old ones.
Or indeed copy. I give the copy protection less than a week.
> XBox360 is releasing in time for Christmas
With contracts between Microsoft and all major retailers *forcing* them to go out of stock to show it selling out.
> Am I a geek yet?
Long before I met you. *smile*