Welcome to Slashdot, where you're lucky if commenters read the summary, let alone the article, before posting. Honestly, sometimes I'm amazed I can tell they read the headline.

Masochist much?

Are you trying to make a point?

Sometimes the law is wrong. Obeying a law that is wrong... is wrong.

They eat them live?

I'll take that moderation, as the comment was stupidly incorrect. I'll also take the interesting discussion it seems to have sparked.

I'm not sure how this is a troll, but okay, whatever. Not like I don't have karma to burn. :)

Likely. I also forgot there was a surplus of PPC chips (making them really cheap) around the time the 360 came out.

Huh... not sure why I thought it was, thanks for the correction.

Both are x86 hardware. Effectively, they're custom-built PCs running a custom OS. Port the old OS and write graphics and audio drivers for the new hardware on the new OS and you're good to go.

Indeed, had they stated this at release time I'd have bought one at release time. Instead, I made plans to eventually purchase a PS4 and pre-ordered several collectors edition games (a few of which I've already gotten) for my eventual PS4, so now I'm committed to that purchase. The plan is to put the PS4 downstairs and let my wife move the PS3 to her office; were I getting an XBox One, she could have moved both current consoles to her office. So now, since Microsoft had to be dicks about this, we all lose; they lose sales, I lost the ability to play all of my games on one system, and my wife loses one of the consoles that could have ended up in her office.

Sorry for the late reply, Slashdot stopped notifying me about this thread.

I spent just as long looking for examples of Android malware as I did looking for examples of iOS malware. I admitted, early on, that neither was exhaustive. If you want exhaustive, I'll give it to you, but you won't like the results. Shoot me an email so I can get the entirety of my research and findings to you in a month or two when I'm done. Meanwhile, realize that you're the one with the blind spot; if you don't like my research, do your own and prove mine wrong, don't just point fingers and say "your methodology is flawed", sure it's flawed, I admitted as much at the start, but you still fail to disprove my findings.

As for your insinuation that I feel I can do no wrong... Really? Review my post history, I admit I'm wrong on here whenever someone actually shows me that I am, which happens, roughly, 5 or 6 times a year. If that number seems a bit low it's because I generally don't open my mouth unless I'm fairly certain I know what the hell I'm talking about. You should try it sometime.

Yes, when we were setting up base camps on their soil while attacking/invading them during WWII. A base camp and a permanent base are two completely different things and any permanent bases we have on their soil today were built with their permission and blessing.

This is what happens when marketing leads engineering: too much sizzle.