DON'T TURN ON YOUR PS3 - Page 4

MasterOfMagic · 03-01-2010, 10:17 AM

You can't buy a Ps3 anywhere either! Someone must have hacked the warehouses too D:

Meister · 03-01-2010, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Satan's Onion

The hackers have gotten into our literature! I just picked up a copy of P.G. Wodehouse's How Right You Are, Jeeves that had been laying on my bed the last time I read this thread, and all the words in it had been changed to leetspeak and pictures of boobs!

And my copy of Dante's Inferno has mysteriously turned into a mythology-themed throwaway action thriller!

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Originally Posted by BitVyper

At one point I was told that a hacker could cause your Dreamcast to spin the disk so fast that it would overheat and slag the system.

That reminds me of old stories about a computer virus that would take over the internal controls of your monitor and use the electron beam to first melt your screen and then, pretty sure I've seriously read one description that mentioned this, shoot you to death.

I guess that one's gotten kinda obsolete with the advent of flatscreens. But still. Deadly computer monitor lasers!

Melfice · 03-01-2010, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Satan's Onion

The hackers have gotten into our literature! I just picked up a copy of P.G. Wodehouse's How Right You Are, Jeeves that had been laying on my bed the last time I read this thread, and all the words in it had been changed to leetspeak and pictures of boobs!

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and pictures of boobs!

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boobs!

Aside from the straight female and gay male populace, I fail to see how this is a bad thing.

Though the leetspeak they can keep.

Meister · 03-01-2010, 10:34 AM

To be fair Wooster is a bit of a boob.

krogothwolf · 03-01-2010, 10:46 AM

I heard the reason the 4th arm of the Olympic joint didn't get raised up is because hackers got to it first!

I blame Meister for all this.

bluestarultor · 03-01-2010, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Melfice

Aside from the straight female and gay male populace, I fail to see how this is a bad thing.

Though the leetspeak they can keep.

What if the leet-speak is actually to form the ASCII art of the boobs?

Meister · 03-01-2010, 11:10 AM

Disregarding all the obviously unrealistic stuff and getting serious for a second it does actually seem to be a good idea to keep the console turned off for the time being because if this is a bug in the actual PS3 system obviously it's going to affect every console, online connection or no.

DigitalFoundry article on Eurogamer

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No-one knows why, but it appears that a calendar bug within older PlayStation3s has wreaked havoc with the PS3's DRM and authentication systems with a far-reaching impact on the system.
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The bug causes the date on the system to be reset to 1st January 2000, and reseting the clock manually makes no difference.

Other gamers have reported that the same error kicks in even on offline systems, meaning that titles that synchronise trophies when first booted fail to start. Even test PS3 units used by press and developers are said to be affected. The impact of the bug is so far-reaching that all the paid-for PSN content residing on your PS3 hard drive suddenly loses its activation privileges, meaning that in addition to some retail Blu-ray games that sync trophies on launch, bought-and-paid-for PSN titles are no longer playable in anything other than their trial versions - if they have one.
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The company has confirmed that Slim units are unaffected.

I guess if you own a PS3 and ever gloated at 360 owners for buying a system that breaks all the time now's probably a good time to lay low for a while.

e: also if you are the guy who programmed the internal calendar

Azisien · 03-01-2010, 11:11 AM

Well, this might explain why PSN was down when I was watching movies. No observed ill effects either.

krogothwolf · 03-01-2010, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Meister

Disregarding all the obviously unrealistic stuff and getting serious for a second it does actually seem to be a good idea to keep the console turned off for the time being because if this is a bug in the actual PS3 system obviously it's going to affect every console, online connection or no.

DigitalFoundry article on Eurogamer

I guess if you own a PS3 and ever gloated at 360 owners for buying a system that breaks all the time now's probably a good time to lay low for a while.

Well, at least they apparently fixed the issue on the slim...or it could mean that eventually we'll run into this issue with the Slim itself at some point. That's a fairly big bug though that it's even screwing it up in offline mode.

Meister · 03-01-2010, 11:22 AM

One scenario is that they put in a new calendar system when they made the slim for whatever reason. Another rather more cynical scenario is that they put in a new calendar system when they made the slim because someone figured out "holy shit guys the old calendar has a bug that might fuck up every Playstation in the world, here take this new one and put it in the slim but for god's sake keep shtum about the old one, maybe nothing's gonna happen like with the Y2K thing."

e: mind you, not even I believe a company that knows about something like this would do absolutely nothing rather than, say, at least discreetly fix it via firmware update. I certainly don't want to see that little conspiracy theory on Kotaku prefaced by "a video game forum moderator suggested..."

03-01-2010, 10:46 AM	#35
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03-01-2010, 10:17 AM	#31
MasterOfMagic ahahah Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,456	You can't buy a Ps3 anywhere either! Someone must have hacked the warehouses too D:

03-01-2010, 10:34 AM	#34
Meister Pure joy Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 10,689	To be fair Wooster is a bit of a boob.

03-01-2010, 11:11 AM	#38
Azisien wat Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,177	Well, this might explain why PSN was down when I was watching movies. No observed ill effects either.

03-01-2010, 11:22 AM	#40
Meister Pure joy Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 10,689	One scenario is that they put in a new calendar system when they made the slim for whatever reason. Another rather more cynical scenario is that they put in a new calendar system when they made the slim because someone figured out "holy shit guys the old calendar has a bug that might fuck up every Playstation in the world, here take this new one and put it in the slim but for god's sake keep shtum about the old one, maybe nothing's gonna happen like with the Y2K thing." e: mind you, not even I believe a company that knows about something like this would do absolutely nothing rather than, say, at least discreetly fix it via firmware update. I certainly don't want to see that little conspiracy theory on Kotaku prefaced by "a video game forum moderator suggested..."