Will the GOG version be updated to offer the ability to modify the character's genitalia? I feel like no game is complete without this feature now.

No less important than getting that perfect rose in Zork.

The headline lies. Hackers can authenticate the firmware, bravo, but they still can't create a signature for it.

That said, the PS3's fatal flaw was not using a random seed, so eventually the private key was figured out by brute force.

If any of their products were packaged with pre-loaded games, it wasn't by them.

Team Xecutor was willing to skirt some gray areas in the past - for example, hacked BIOSes for the original Xbox were derived from the original BIOSes, and homebrew software was built using Microsoft's XDK, outside of developers' agreements and such. They never sold games. They tried to be scrupulous to avoid the direct ire of companies like Microsoft. Their real problem was that Nintendo doesn't make the same distinctions - Nintendo is almost pathologically averse to anybody exploiting their systems. They aren't even friendly to indie developers (I can easily port the PC games I write to Xbox and Playstation, but for Nintendo, I need to do a dog and pony show just to get an SDK and dev box)

As I said, they certainly created tools and supported users' ability to copy games into other media - but you could easily argue this was in service to providing backup support where the game companies provided none.

As far as piracy itself goes, well, there was a time I did such a thing, but I also owned more games than the average non-pirating console owner. Today, I don't pirate, but I still refuse to consider it a horrible crime. In my mind, this continues to be a matter of big companies meting out disproportional justice - more out of spite than their bottom dollar. I would even say that the effort to bring "piracy groups" to justice costs far more than the actual losses incurred.

They did not release pirated games - they marketed devices that let you gain control of your consoles.

Piracy was certainly the main reason people did this, of course, but that's a side effect. Describing Team Xecutor as a "piracy group" is a dishonest, blatant lie.

I feel bad for those guys, they did a lot for console modding, including the homebrew scene, from those early days on the original Xbox.

Yes, I am the same guy who was a moderator at xbox-scene and created MXM.

So Slashdot's position is that CS education is "kool-aid"?

With an attitude like that, it's no wonder kids are turned off by computer science. The term "Kool-aid" is a derogatory term meant to describe cult-like fervor for some ideology or religion. I don't think the point of pushing CS education is intended to induce anything like that, so in that respect, there is no "failure" here.

Not every child needs to be taught programming, but kids should get some basic knowledge in computers as users... like a home economics class (or maybe as part of one) to teach them responsible usage of computers in terms of social media, recognizing scams and disinformation, protection from malicious threats. Embed some common sense when they are young, give them a healthy dose of skepticism about what their aunt Mary is sending them on Facebook or cousin Al is forwarding them in their e-mail.

Once they get that basic knowledge, if they are interested in computer science, offer it - and offer it with quality curriculum that scales up as they progress.

I recall, when this pandemic was first described as a coronavirus, scientists spelled out the expectations:

1) No lasting immunity, either because our bodies would not maintain antibodies, or because of mutations. In this respect, it was compared to rhinoviruses.
2) While considerable research had been done, nobody had successfully created a vaccine for coronaviruses
3) Anecdotal stories emerged early on supporting re-infection. The whistle-blower doctor in China supposedly fought off two bouts of infection, before succumbing to it on the third.
4) There are reasons why we do not keep producing antibodies that prevent infection through ACE2 receptors. this receptor has a purpose, and inhibiting its use for long periods of time is probably inadvisable.
5) We are starting to see signs that once it initially infects our bodies through the ACE2 receptors, it starts exploiting other ways to invade our cells and replicate.

The best case scenario is that we will likely have a vaccine, and require a booster, until COVID-19 is pretty much gone, and break it out when there are flareups. There will be no lasting immunity to this disease.

It's like they took the worst things about OOP and wrapped them up in a straight jacket because some developers refuse to understand mutability or write decent code to take that into account.

There is nothing inherently wrong with OOP, nor is there anything wrong with a functional approach to writing code, and the best languages and frameworks support a developer's ability to use all of it, where appropriate.

I hate F# with a passion. I wrote applications just fine with it, though far more slowly than I did the same sort of applications in C#. During that "era" I also saw a lot of buggy code written by F# zealots who gleefully joined the cult and renounced OOP. I'd rather get back to real work and write usable applications in a reasonable time frame.

Still not in 84, so this is like 4 versions with Tab Groups but no collapse function, which is 80% of the reason for the Tab Group feature.

Wow, so much wrong with this....
1. Adobe isn't your only alternative to viewing PDFs. Chrome and Edge can read them just fine. There are lots of third party viewers, with great features
2. Loading time? I guess if you are viewing on a 4GB PC circa 2005 on a platter drive... it blinks up for me in a number of readers
3. Which UI? The one in Chrome? Edge? Third party readers? See #1
4. Too easy to create? What? Page layout is an art form... unless you are simply talking about scanning and making a PDF of images, which isn't really the point of PDF. It's a rather lazy way to compose a document. Still, it's the same for CBR/CBZ comic books.
5. Converting to other platforms isn't the point of PDF, but I'll bite... I have written apps to create CBR files out of PDFs. Some readers can OCR the text and extract that - but if you are using PDF to read dense text pages that don't require layouts, you are certainly using the wrong format.
6. This point makes no sense. PDFs from scans are the simplest form, and mostly used to send documentation to others without upsetting the formatting.
7. The whole point of PDF is for PAGE LAYOUT. It was created to PUBLISH ON PAPER. That doesn't make it any less useful in a pure digital environment (see below)
8. PDFs are not intended to be edited, but there are FORMS.... and those, if handled by the reader properly, work great. Many readers also let you put in text and graphics over top of the original page just fine, if you wanted to make notes or something. The whole point of the format is to preserve the integrity of the page design.
9. Large files are the fault of the creator, not the format. Again, I have written tools to reduce the size of images used as PDF pages into more reasonable chunks. Magazines distributed in PDF formats can have wildly differing sizes for the same issue, depending on the source of those PDFs. For print, images tend to be very large, to preserve the quality.
10. I have a lot of PDFs on my PC. Books, magazines... they save me the hassle of having stacks of books and magazines on my shelves, and even better, they are backed up and always AVAILABLE, even if the internet goes down, or, heaven forbid, somebody removes the original source of information I need to access.

PDFs would be more useful in digital tablets if those tablets adopted the same dimensions as the paper they are emulating... but that's not the fault of PDF creators.

I read a lot of books, in EPUB format. I prefer it over PDF for novels and dense publications, but for magazines like MaximumPC for example, PDF rocks. I have decades of publications in PDF format, as well as hundreds of technical books. They are searchable, and are presented int he same format as the original books. How this can be anything but a good thing, I don't know.

Tab groups are cool, but why are we three versions into this feature and the collapse capability is still missing? That's 80% of the functionality of the feature.

Why yes, I do have lots of tabs and windows open most of the time

That's not what is happening.

This issue has been going on for the past year, and there is an update to fix the problem.

The problem is that if you expose the system's "personal cloud" software to the internet through your router, there was some sort of exploit that allowed hackers to erase files and write files. They cannot read files. It isn't a "default login/password" issue. Hackers wipe out the drive, and leave a ransom note to scam people into giving them money to "recover" files that are simply gone.

If you update to the May 2020 firmware, or simply never enable the "Personal Cloud" feature - or never expose that feature to the internet, there is no issue with hackers.

People like to be clever and blame unique things for their problems. I doubt, given all the people using VR, that one guy having nondescript eye issues is somehow absolute proof VR is the cause.

I really dislike these clickbait articles making pronouncements based on a single anecdotal case, based on somebody's "gut feeling". That's not science, it's not anything reasonable. Just stop it.

Did hell freeze over?

COVID-19 raging in asymptomatic people will still register lower blood saturation levels, even while your temperature is fine.

He's upset that his posts are now challenged by fact checking links. This doesn't silence anybody, it just makes his lies harder to spread.

How do you know you are on the side of the baddies? The skulls in the insignia are one sign, but so is an incessant need to lie about everything. When fact-checking is your enemy, your followers should RUN AWAY. Sadly, the world will always have its share of useful idiots, no matter what the ideology, willing to support the lies in the face of facts, logic, and common sense. All you can do is combat them with the truth and force them back into the shadows.