DRM: No You May Not Play Gears of War
Jan/090
Ah DRM, how you encourage piracy. As of 1/28/09, all legit copies of Gears of War stopped working. The only way to correct this problem was to roll back the system clock to a time before 1/28/09. That’s right, the game’s digital certificate expired. The game was coded to stop working within three years of its release.
Really, Microsoft, are you actually trying to make paying customers pirate your software? Because if you are, I suspect you’re doing a really good job.
Unrelenting Frustration: Alarm Clock Edition
Jan/090
Note to the world, never buy me this. It would be in seventeen pieces the first morning it went off. This, this bad thing, is a Mensa alarm clock which wakes you with a varying pattern of lights that you must replicate to turn it off (kinda like those Simon games, but pure evil). If you don’t repeat the sequence correctly, it gets louder. The cost for such a source of torment to you and yours? $41.
Why do people make things?
Getting Back at Your Enemies: Traffic Cam Edition
Dec/080
This is so clever I’m impressed, though I’d be pissed if it ever happened to me. A bunch of kids in Maryland are faking out traffic cameras so people they don’t like get tickets. Evil, yes. Inventive, definitely.
The Sentinel via Gizmodo
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About DRM
Dec/080
Including how to break it. Another article from Gizmodo today, more than worth a read. If only to learn to break the stuff on principle alone.
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