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TI Against Calculator Hobbyists ... Again-> 0

Submitted by Deep Thought on Saturday July 17 2010, @07:48PM

Deep Thought writes "Texas Instruments, already infamous thanks to the signing key controversy last year, is trying a new trick to lock down its graphing calculators, this time directed toward its newest TI-Nspire line. The TI-Nspires were already the most controlled of TI's various calculator models, and no third-party development of any kind (except for its very limited form of TI-BASIC) was allowed until the release of the independent tool Ndless. Since its release, TI has been determined to prevent the large calculator programming community from using it. Its latest released operating system for the Nspire family (version 2.1) now prevents the calculators from downgrading to OS 1.1, needed to run Ndless. This is the TI's second major attack on Ndless, as the company has already demanded that websites posting the required OS 1.1 be removed from public download, obviously to prevent use of the tool. Once again, TI is preventing calculator hobbyists from running their own software on calculators they bought and paid for. Is TI going the way Apple did?"
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Comment: Re:It's not censorship (Score 1) 4

by slimey_limey on Thursday May 06 2010, @03:01AM (#32108920) Attached to: There's been a deleted post on slashdot

By the way, I don't know exactly who you are. But you're my friend, and Slashdot emails me every time you post something here. So, hi.

Comment: Re:It's not censorship (Score 1) 4

by slimey_limey on Thursday May 06 2010, @02:40AM (#32108832) Attached to: There's been a deleted post on slashdot

That's good, you had me worried.

TI-Nspire Hack Enables User Programming 88

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 28 2010, @12:59PM
from the done-and-done dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Texas Instruments' most recent, ARM-based series of graphing calculators, the TI-Nspire line, has long resisted users' efforts to run their own software. (Unlike other TI calculator models, which can be programmed either in BASIC, C, or assembly language, the Nspire only supports an extremely limited form of BASIC.) A bug in the Nspire's OS was recently discovered, however, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary machine code. Now the first version of a tool called Ndless has been released, enabling users, for the first time, to write and run their own C and assembly programs on the device. This opens up exciting new possibilities for these devices, which are extremely powerful compared to TI's other calculator offerings, but (thanks to the built-in software's limitations) have hitherto been largely ignored by the calculator programming community."

Comment: Re:DC = suits = Borg (Score 1) 139

by slimey_limey on Saturday June 06 2009, @04:06PM (#28236435) Attached to: Hacker Jeff Moss Sworn Into Homeland Security Advisory Council

Didn't you mean to say, "more surveillance for the same amount of money"?

Comment: Timing == Everything (Score 5, Insightful) 187

by slimey_limey on Friday February 13 2009, @06:37PM (#26851061) Attached to: 1,234,567,890 Seconds Since Unix Time Began

Isn't it a bit late to be posting the list of celebrations?

Comment: Re:slashdot v google slashdot wins (Score 1) 120

by slimey_limey on Monday January 12 2009, @04:13AM (#26414655) Attached to: ASCII Art Steganography

Omnomnomnomnom.

Coral doesn't have the static content for most of the pages, but I'm working on that.

Comment: Re:Me brain hurts (Score 1) 301

by slimey_limey on Sunday January 04 2009, @02:32AM (#26318107) Attached to: At local midnight on the last day of the 2008 ...

You broke it in the process, you wrote CD0 where the 0 is the number 0 and not the letter O. Look closer.

Not that close, creep.

Comment: Re:I didn't RTFA (Score 1) 523

by slimey_limey on Tuesday December 30 2008, @01:56AM (#26265821) Attached to: The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion

http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D235406,00.asp

There's your readable version. Seriously, why don't the editors or even the submitters do this?

Comment: Re:Rail industry can handle itself (Score 1) 897

by slimey_limey on Saturday December 27 2008, @07:06AM (#26240871) Attached to: Can the Auto Industry Retool Itself To Build Rails?

See, but Amtrak won't make a profit until they can run on time, and get to their destination in a reasonable amount of time. This requires high-speed tracks, and separate passenger/rail trackway.

Besides - public transit doesn't exist in order to make a profit. Government isn't about making money. It's about the boring stuff - sewers and roads and social services - that everyone needs but aren't any fun to do.