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PS3 Hacked? 296

Posted by Soulskill from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.
Several readers have sent word that George Hotz (a.k.a. geohot), the hacker best known for unlocking Apple's iPhone, says he has now hacked the PlayStation 3. From his blog post: "I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I've also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip. 3 years, 2 months, 11 days...that's a pretty secure system. ... As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet. The theory isn't really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can't post dumps. I'm hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone's KBAG."
Sci-Fi

50 Years of the Twilight Zone 104

Posted by Soulskill from the celebrate-if-you-will dept.
pickens writes "Fifty years ago on October 2, American television viewers first heard the words: 'You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.' Like the time-space warps that anchored so many of the show's plots, Rod Serling's veiled commentary remains as soul-baring today as it did a half-century ago, and the show's popularity endures in multiple facets of American pop culture, appearing nearly uninterrupted through television, syndication and DVD releases and under license to air in 30 countries. 'The whole idea of "The Twilight Zone" jumped off the television screen and became a catchphrase, a buzzword for something much beyond the TV show itself,' says Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University. 'When you say Twilight Zone, it's its own genre.' The original show ran just five seasons, 1959 to 1964, with 156 episodes filmed; Serling wrote 92 of them, and other contributors included Richard Matheson and Ray Bradbury. Anniversary observances were held at Ithaca College in New York, where Serling taught from 1967 until his death in 1975, and which keeps Serling's archives; and also at Antioch College in Ohio, where Serling was a student."

Comment Ballmer can kiss my white hiney (Score 1) 1147

by bmwloco (#27281959) Attached to: Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo
I use a iMac Dual Intel Core. Windows XP, Windows 7 and Ubuntu run just fine on it. Happily, it doesn't crash and burn as much as the average Microsoft aberration. Steve Jobs was dead right when he stated that Microsoft makes mediocre software for mediocre users. Bleat on fat man. I can hear the fat lady getting warming up her voice.

Comment Oh, the joy of RAM drives (Score 1) 305

by bmwloco (#26559925) Attached to: RAM Disk Puts New Spin On the SSD
When I was a poor, poor college student (not much different now, actually) I had a RAM drive in the 386 I cobbled up. Even a 10meg hard drive was prohibitively expensive, but I had memory. So, I set up a 3.5" floppy to create a ram drive on boot up, copy Procomm plus and text.exe into the RAM drive. Then I could log into GEnie and copy data. Typing "exit" saved my data and allowed me to power down. Oh, the job of batch files...

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