PS3 Jailbreaks Galore Released 167
YokimaSun writes "Following up on yesterday's story about the PS3 being hacked by one of its own official controllers, there's now a guide in English that details how to mod a Sixaxxis controller. But thanks to the very latest releases, if you don't like soldering you can now use an iPod, a Pandora console or even a Dingoo console. Finally, Jaicrab has released a USB firmware loader which will come in handy once the first custom firmware for the PS3 is released. Maybe then we will get region-free Blu-ray, PS1 and PS2 games."
Yeah, not quite. (Score:5, Informative)
Following up on yesterday's story about the PS3 being hacked by one of its own official controllers, there's now a guide in English that details how to mod a Sixaxxis controller.
If by "official controllers" you mean "a microcontroller mounted inside the shell of an official controller", sure. Or you could save yourself the work and just keep the microcontroller outside by itself.
(And the exploit is still blocked by new firmwares, so it's still not terribly exciting.)
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Instead of a bunch of exploits and cracks and whatever, I'd currently settle for having the full functionality of my PS3 slim restored, so I can use sound over HDMI again, something I can no longer do since 3.42.
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As I said, I don't care about the cracks, I just want my sound back.
Re:Yeah, not quite. (Score:5, Informative)
File a lawsuit because part of the HDMI standard requires the capability to output sound over HDMI.
You may not bear the HDMI logo without following the HDMI standard.
This is blatant false advertising
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It's optional to choose which revision of HDMI audio/video you want, but you must still include the full functionality or not bear the HDMI logo.
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Er, he's suggesting they revert a change they already made retroactively!
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I've updated to 3.50 before posting the comment you replied to. And no, it still doesn't work.
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I upgraded to 3.42 before taking the time to think about how much I've actually been using the PS3 for games this year. It's really just another media center for me at the moment.
Since realizing that I'd rather use it as a retro gaming station than have PSN functionality, I've been frustrated by my own haste to accept the update to 3.42.
Crud.
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He's not even wanting an exploit. He just wants his PS3 to work as it did when he bought it.
Sony did a bait and switch on it's customers.
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Ah, good point. And your right, it's just a matter of time before people find a way to make it do what they want.
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i would dispute that the tutorial could be considered English and not a semi random group of english words
could somebody please that has access to the original please do a proper translation??
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"(And the exploit is still blocked by new firmwares, so it's still not terribly exciting.)"
But it means they will have to update the firmware, perhaps they will actually include something interesting.
Here's the controller hack (Score:1, Funny)
Just punch this into the controller:
B A
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That is exactly what he typed. unfortunate arrow keys don't display all that well.
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^ ^ v v < > < > B A
Mine work, your keyboard must be broken!
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hmm... I can't seem to find the select or start button on my keyboard either, what the hell.
Lots of compatible devices.. (Score:5, Informative)
The summary makes it sound like the ps3 controller was first, but there have been lots of compatible devices, especially android phones, also listed here.
http://psfreedom.com/wiki/Device_compatibility_list [psfreedom.com]
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I can't believe it hasn't had a mention in this thread -
The PSFreedom hack started out with someone tinkering with their N900 - the full-fat linux phone.
The Android, iPhone, dingoo and other PSFreedom ports originate there.
Um.. (Score:5, Insightful)
If you're going to make a guide telling people where to solder chips onto a board, you should really, REALLY make the effort to have those pictures be in focus.
Re:Um.. (Score:5, Informative)
Best possible advice I can give to anyone soldering is not do it stoned and/or naked. I know that may sound strange and unbelievable, but when you get stoned you tend to try to do your favorite hobbies in new and exciting ways.
My particular mistake was being distracted by the awe and wonderment of solder turning into a liquid and not realizing that it had pooled on the table and then started a river of molten hot excitement over the edge, down my stomach, across my penis, and then a waterfall of exquisite, transcendental, and searing heat/pain/dear-fucking-god-thats-hot of solder across both my testicles.
I realize this PSA might be for a small demographic here on Slashdot, but trust me, it's an important one.
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Hmm, is there a "too informative" mod?
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and then a waterfall of exquisite, transcendental, and searing heat/pain/dear-fucking-god-thats-hot of solder across both my testicles.
Sort of like very hot grits?
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There really needs to be a +1 OMFG moderation option.
Other OS? (Score:2, Informative)
Haven't been following these developments too closely, but does anyone know if this jailbreak will eventually (or already does) allow installing a Linux distro on a jailbroken PS3?
Removing the OtherOS option really pissed off a lot of people (including a friend of mine who wanted to try his hand at some Cell development) and while I admit the machine didn't quite seem powerful enough to run full-on X/* comfortably (and forget compiz/etc) it still had its uses for many of us tinkerers (yes yes, small crowd).
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There are two options for linux on a Jailbroken PS3 -
1. Re-enable OtherOS. Some progress seems to have been made in this direction, one guy managed to get linux to install to an existing OtherOS partition by running the OtherOS installer, which can be made to work on cracked machine. However there doesn't seem to be a way of activating it. Work is currently going on to crack PS3s running fw version 3.15, so that a firmware dump of those can be analysed to see what the differences are and find out if there's
Sony entertaining even non-PS3 owners (Score:5, Funny)
<leans back in easy chair and sips drink>
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Sony has been thoughtful enough to entertain me lately with all these stories of them cutting off various appendages in order to spite their face.
Only Sony...like no other.
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You made the right choice. Getting rid of Sony is the right thing to do. Meanwhile, watching Sony waste time, money while losing customers is entertaining. So sit back and watch how it all unfolds. And if at some point you decide you want to get another PS3? Well, I am sure once Sony makes their machines completely useless you will be able to pick one up off the side of the road somewhere.
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Agreed, they're not going to lose a significant amount of customers IMO.
I imagine most people buy a PS3 to play the games on PS3. They don't care about things like Other OS or running emulators. So long as it can play the games they purchase they don't care.
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You spot a PS3 off the side of the road. Cars are whooshing by.
What would you do?
> get ps3
You bend down to pick it up, ignoring the cars whooshing by. One whooshes too close, knocking the PS3 out of your hands and into the middle of the road.
What do you do?
> get ps3
Still ignoring the whooshing cars, you move to the PS3. A car whooshes into you.
You are dead.
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The likely scenario: he bought it new, (when he was counted as a customer) and the buyer would still have bought a used ps3 elsewhere. This does nothing to do the right thing and "show Sony."
They don't give much of a damn once the initial sale has been counted.
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They also lose money on consoles, so he actually ensured Sony gets more money from game sales and didn't lose the money on someone buying a new console!
Way to show 'em.
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Re:It almost makes me sad to have sold my ps3. (Score:4, Informative)
watching Sony waste time, money while losing customers is entertaining
This is fantasy.
The reality is sales of 39.1 million units.
50 million PlayStation Network accounts.
14 million PlaystationHome social networking accounts. PlayStation Network [wikipedia.org]
The PlayStation MOVE starter sets and MOVE controllers rank #4, #7, #12, and #36 in video game sales at Amazon.com.
"Civilization V" ranks #2 and "Halo: Reach" #1. If you understand the strengths of the PC platform, you can still make your mark in the top ten. Bestsellers In Video Games [amazon.com] (Updated hourly)
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I'd say the only real mistake Sony made there was not continuing to make an OtherOS PS3 and simply sell it at $700 as a "research tool" and been done with it.
The cluster was built from purchases of the PS3 in wholesale lots.
2,000+ units for a single USAF project.
Sony had a brief swing at commercializing PS3 tech in its own HPC product. Sony Unveils Cell-Based Image Processing Appliance [hpcwire.com]
It will be chill day in Hell before Sony allows another mass market consumer product to cannabalize its sales in other - m
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I sold my PS3 just before my 1-year warranty ran out, after it had been replaced twice - 1 hardware failure, and one firmware bricking. I just didn't trust it anymore, and with future firmware bricking going to cost me a motza I got out while I still could.
Since I got it with my TV and only ever used it as a media centre, I used the money I got to fund most of my first HTPC build.
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You should have bought a reliable Xbox 360.
Overblown (Score:5, Insightful)
The PS2 was thoroughly broken via crafted PS1 memory save, yet the PS2 and games live quite a healthy life, only diminished by new technology, not via piracy.
Sony's best move would have been to give more freedom in developing and sideloading apps front and center in the XMB. As many have said, given homebrew access to everything, the only remaining interested party for jailbreaking would be pirates, which seem to largely piggyback on the homebrew devs to do all the hard work. Discless play option for all games delivered via disc would be nice too (main reason I did the PS2 was to load all my games from HD. I legitimately own maybe 60 PS2 discs and I hate managing physical media.
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Re:Overblown (Score:4, Informative)
The USB exploit was discovered and used by a piracy company/manufacturer, but it is practically guaranteed that they built off of the then-early homebrew hacks for its development (the geohot glitching exploit and xorloser's xorhack toolkit, to name a couple), even though the final product was condensed down to a piracy device. These early homebrew hacks started off as a response to Sony pulling OtherOS from the Slim and ballooned after Sony illegitimately pulled OtherOS from all existing consoles.
The PS3 has doubtlessly been under attack from would-be piracy companies since its release. Given the timing involved, I think we can safely say that the PSJailbreak piracy device wouldn't have happened had Sony not pulled OtherOS and prompted homebrew hackers to start breaking into the system, paving the way for thorough analysis. Though admittedly in this case the PSJailbreak developers did more of the work than you'd normally expect (usually, homebrew is well on its way before piracy companies start using it).
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Or you could say that by removing that functionality they made the hacking take
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That makes no sense. After Sony pulled OtherOS, anyone who cared to continue hacking just didn't update and continued hacking on the older versions.
The OtherOS RAM glitching attack was impractical and had nothing to do with piracy, and yet Sony were stupid enough to not only c
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Taking a guess, you must be a game developer. While I'm sure it's nice in a business sense that Sony can tell developers and publishers that their console is invincible to hacking, nothing like that can last forever. Ultimately, everything is cracked; it's just a matter of how much time it takes. Personally I am pleased at the level of enthusiasm the techie community is displaying towards cracking the PS3 because it will, for better or worse, eventually lead to a more open system.
And for the record, if you
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It may lead to a more open PS3, but will result in the PS4 being considerably less open as an attempt to counter the hacking.
That said, piracy drives sales of consoles and many of those pirates will buy some legit games as well as various accessories which they wouldn't have bought otherwise.
When the Amiga was a big gaming platform a few years ago the reason most people had bought one was because they could copy games between their friends (as opposed to cartridge based console systems of the time where thi
Re:As someone whose income depends on the PS3... (Score:5, Insightful)
Sony already blew it by pulling OtherOS. If the PS4 is less open, then, as usual, chances are it will be attacked earlier and by more dedicated homebrew hackers, and it will lead to piracy earlier. The PS3 was the most open system this generation, and also the one that lasted the longest without piracy. This isn't a coincidence. Sony can either learn the lesson and open up the PS4, or not do so and end up like all the others [marcansoft.com] (somewhat outdated table).
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The PS3 was the most open system this generation, and also the one that lasted the longest without piracy.
The PS3 wasn't ever really open; the minute it became open (you could actually use all the hardware) they took away Linux. Running in a hypervisor doesn't count as open, you can't even trust the machine.
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To be fair, I do have more Atari 2600 games than any of the others, but those were all garage sale purchases
exactly (Score:2)
Re:As someone whose income depends on the PS3... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:As someone whose income depends on the PS3... (Score:4, Interesting)
> Read this please
Okay. I don't really have the inclination to read every single post and comment in that large thread, but I read the question and some of the highest-ranked answers. The top-rated answer, by Dana Holt, presents a good argument but there are problems with her post. On a pedantic level she compares copyright infringement to physical theft, which is sure to aggravate anyone in the piracy debate and should be avoided. If she has been debating it for years as she claims, she ought to know that speaking in such a way is just an inflammatory thing to do. Additionally, she says that she was able to produce raw data that connected a keygen with low sales, but I do not see any citations for her claims, or any of the actual data. Plus, how does she know that none of the keys she revoked were legitimate, or used by legitimate customers?
I'm just not sure what you wanted me to come away with from linking me to that. It just demonstrates that there is a wide variety of opinions in the piracy debate, and that none of them can be convincingly substantiated with evidence because of the nature of the problem.
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Re:As someone whose income depends on the PS3... (Score:4, Interesting)
> Why do you expect people to provide their work to you for free?
This is a bad question.
First of all, you can't make assumptions about my motives. Nowhere in any of my posts have I said that I pirate software. Don't make personal attacks in order to legitimize your own position.
Two, the wording of your question is biased towards copyright holders. I see questions like yours quite a bit, and I just now realized how slanted they are. Your question assumes that a copyright holder has to somehow go out of their way to provide their work for free, as you said, but in most cases of piracy the copyright holder has to do nothing at all except release the original work, which is what happens anyway. The phrasing of your question adds undeserved emotional weight to your position by implying that those evil pirates are forcing the poor artist to proactively do something which benefits only them and screws the artist. It's dishonest.
A better question would have been "Why do you expect to have access to the work of others for free?" but my first point about personal attacks would still apply.
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> Of course, we watched gamecopyworld and friends for the first cracks to show up and literally the day the game got cracked, sales dropped like a rock.
You know, I've been following the piracy debate for a while, and I have seen this claim and others like it on the Internet many times. There are just two problems with them. One is that they're never backed up with any sort of data that inconclusively demonstrates that piracy killed sales; readers are forced to take the poster at his word. Two, they alway
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Tell you what: how about you look around and post a link here, rather than trying to lead everyone else on a wild goose chase? 'Cause otherwise nobody's going to believe you.
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Keep in mind that the only damage done by piracy is from those who would have bought it otherwise. In the case of a $5 indie game, you may say that more would be inclined to buy it because of its much more appealing price (leaving aside the issue of game quality), but the indie game wouldn't have anywhere near the market exposure that the $60 professional title would have. Piracy helps these small indie games by spreading mindshare of the game, and if the game in question is good, more people will know abou
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You can thank idiots like Geohot for that.
It's like this : You've saved your allowance for a few months, so you could buy a racing game that you've really wanted. You get home with it, but in that time, your Mom has read that a video game was used as the reason a kid in Norway wrecked his Dad's car, so she takes the game away from you. It kinda makes sense, at some really absurd level, but not really. Your finger-pointing at (uber-cool) GeoHot makes about as much sense.
SONY marketed the machine to us as being able to run Linux, they sold it as a
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"Collective"?
Not me.
I think these attempts are inevitable and ultimately will lead to manufacturers who leave products more open and those who lock them down with biometrics thighter than a you know what.
Peter Drucker (& other management experts) said "Eliminate everything that doesn't benefit the consumer".
It is up to the innovative producer of products to make a compelling case for their product and not just a hook with handcuffs, that the consumer will buy into long term.
I understand manufacturers an
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You might be interested in these numbers:
339170 Homebrew Channel installations ( http://hackmii.com/2010/08/the-scope-of-homebrew-channel/ [hackmii.com] ). Of 70mil Wiis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii [wikipedia.org] )
We are talking about about 0.5% of the consoles having been "homebrew enabled", this is pretty much a required step for running 'backups' on the Wii. (Not all homebrew installs are for piracy, but a lot are) Yes, piracy happens, but only in a small amount. And the Wii is ridiculously easy to hack.
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This pretty much hits the nail on the head, I am 2 of those installs... One I have chipped and the other I have just soft moded. (BTW chipping is better for piracy)
Yeah hacking the Wii is a cake walk, but just pirating a PC game is way beyond 90% of the human population... (heck just installing it on the right hardware and getting it to play right is a huge challenge to some people...) I guess my point is that as a very tech oriented person I see hacking the Wii as super easy, but to most people it looks li
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I hear that drinking pineapple juice helps with the taste.
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As someone who believes what you buy is YOURS, I find your disdain for freedom to be extremely distasteful.
It's been YEARS since I pirated anything, but I did miss the ability to run Linux and SDL applications on the PS3. Hooking up your laptop to the TV is NOT accomplishing the same thing!
Maybe you should be saying "Gee, I wish Sony did not deliberately lie about their advertised features and that they did not engage in collective punishment. "
It's a pity, because Sony DID do a good job at opening up the P
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"As someone who believes what you buy is YOURS, I find your disdain for freedom to be extremely distasteful."
If you believe that then doesn't it follow that something isn't yours until you buy it, yet you admit to pirating?
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You mean the machine that they sold *AS A COMPUTER*, not just a console, and then crippled the functionality of in an update?
Yes, it will lead to piracy. All platforms have piracy. Game sales have still been phenomenal for the last 15 years.
It will also lead to people getting the functionality *they paid for* back on devices they own.
And my income has depended on game sales as well, so take your holier-than-thou stance and stuff it.
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That's nice. Maybe you could ask sony to stop pissing in the face of their customers, and laughing manically that it's a wonderful warm rain.
That aside, sony reaps what it sows. And consumers will say "enough", and revolt.
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And I find your desire to control what I do with my electronics beyond merely distasteful.
I have cracked my PS3. I have loaded a couple of games onto the hard drive, from discs that I own. I've played around with the ftp server and the firmware loader to see what happens when I change things. I'm interested in being able to run linux on there again, maybe even with graphics acceleration this time. I would really like to get mplayer going in under GameOS so that the PS3 could play a wider range of media.
If S
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"How much of an idiot do you someone who read that is"
You read it and judging by the standard of grammar in your response it's clear you're a total fucking retard.
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Welll.... then you are being selfish and amoral. Sincerely, you are putting your immediate needs above the rights, morality, and ethics of the environment you work in.
I can appreciate that you have a financial interest, but I find it extremely distasteful that your financial interest trumps my right to peaceably enjoy my property.
Keep in mind please that I never "pirated" my console. I paid for it hard earned currency in my own job I do each and every day. Your financial interests aside, I have an absolut
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... I find slashdot's collective hardon for the cracking of the machine somewhat distasteful.
I think I can speak for the majority of slashdotters when I say "Thanks for sharing, but we don't give a fuck."
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I think the best thing to come from a cracked console has to be XBMC..
The media playback abilities on the default xbox or ps2 was pretty limited, restricted to just dvd media... Newer generation consoles are better but still fairly limited in what formats they support, for non high def content it's still very hard to beat a first gen xbox running xbmc.
For the record, i do agree with you on the emulators... i was quite disappointed to see the first ps3 homebrew apps were basically emulators for old consoles.
Re:As someone whose income depends on the PS3... (Score:5, Insightful)
If you were going to write something for a console to be the first thing someone downloaded, do you want it to be an original game that would take a year or so to be fully playable, bug free, or would you rather do a quick port of a SNES emulator so people can -do- something with their newly cracked console?
I for one, think emulators are fantastic on consoles because just think about it, every game you've every played during your childhood you have on a single console. No more blinking red LED of the NES, no more swapping cartridges, no more scratched disks, lessened loading times, etc.
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There's quite a few nifty things put out in the PSP scene, probably in part because every PSP to date has been hacked for homebrew, but most of them don't support booting ISOs because they're mostly userland hacks and not kernel mode hacks.
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Flamebait? I see I may have to metamod tonight. I found your comment to be insightful, especially the part where you said "What I find distasteful is that you believe you have any fucking right to tell me how I can and cannot use the goddamn property I own". The petulance in your tone is called for, in my view.
The GP sounds like the ebook publishers Cory Doctorow rails against in the forward to Makers: [craphound.com]
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you keep posting link to that question, but it's quite... suboptimal, as some person already responded to your first posting of that link : http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1799844&cid=33704576 [slashdot.org]
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> By suboptimal you mean it shows a sales increase when steps are taken to reduce piracy which make it inconvenient for those who say that piracy harms no one. /claiming/ that sales dropped with the introduction of keygens and rose when she implemented antipiracy measures. It does not in any way represent evidence that piracy causes substantial harm overall. I already told you this, so please stop repeating falsehoods.
No, it doesn't. It has one poster
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It sounds so.. childish. I also hate that people think it's cool to adapt the name for other things.
Well, what's the average age of the people who actually care about jailbreaking?
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Dude, if your and your girlfriend's musical tastes are such that you each hate what the other one loves, you need a new girlfriend. I know if my girlfriend started playing Trace Atkins I'd be looking for a new one.
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Hmmm, good point. However, I like to feel the bass when I'm listening to Zombie or Thin Lizzie or especially Rammstein; headphones just don't cut it for me.
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Ah, well if you're in an apartment you're not going to feel the bass anyway. I always hated apartments, for that and other reasons.
Who knows, both your musical tastes may expand and you'll enjoy her country and she'll like your rock. I know I like a lot of stuff now I hated when I was young.
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Agreed. It's about as dumb as calling copyright infringement "theft." They might as well call it "jailrape."
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No, I don't, and I'm 58. My 23 year old daughter doesn't think so, either. I'm going to have to disabuse her of the notion that if she gets a MacBook Pro she'll have to jailbreak it to install Linux or Windows on it. Apple's "walled garden" for their iPads and iPhones and iPods seems to have hurt their image to the point that people think their computers are in the walled garden as well.
If they called it "walled garden breaking", now that might sound a little childish. I think "jailbreakig" is an apt term;
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Me too! It's called a computer! Amazing piece of technology, this.
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Disc-based games can and do have firmware updates on the disc itself. Don't