Evening Reading: Faylure Averted

by Chris Faylor, Nov 18, 2009 6:00pm PST

I was rather worried today wouldn't bring anything on par with yesterday's Mass: We Pray trailer, but it seems my concerns were misplaced. Good show, Pringles Asia.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to hunt down some form of sustenance before hunkering down for tonight's Left 4 Dead 2 session. But first, a look at today's top stories:

By the way, CNN wants you to know that Barack Obama can indeed answer questions. Meanwhile, it seems that computers can now think like cats.

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So, this article (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/banned-xboxes-flood-ebay) about all the xbox 360s that were banned recently and subsequently popping up for sale on ebay got me thinking.

Is this a nice cheap way for me to get a second xbox for the bedroom? I take it the xbox will function as normal and my live profile won't be flagged in anyway as long as I keep it offline? I won't even have it connected to the network so no risk there. Or am I overlooking something?

Nov 19, 2009 4:50am PST

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So, this article (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/banned-xboxes-flood-ebay) about all the xbox 360... : nodebug
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- Oh, I didn't think that they would still be modded. Mods if this is against the rules, please nuke. : nodebug
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  One downside is that you couldn't use it to stream Netflix since you have to be online to use that. I th... : ThomW
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    Also, you have to sign in to xbox live to stream certain video types. It's pretty lame. : MagicWishMonkey
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      Oh really? That blows. : ThomW
      
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      It's only certain video types, I don't know which ones. It pisses me off because they won't install t... : MagicWishMonkey
      
      Oh right I didn't know that, will look into it, thanks. : nodebug
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    We don't have netflix in the UK so that's a non-issue : marmite
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      We need little flags next to peoples' names. ;) : ThomW
      
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      I wish there was a shacker who kicked ass at greasemonkey... : MagicWishMonkey
      
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      Writing the Greasemonkey is trivial. Creating and managing the list of names/countries is the part that w... : ThomW
      
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      yea that would suck, you could always check the profile page or something but that would be a lot of work... : MagicWishMonkey
      
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      People just put whatever they feel like in their profiles -- it'd work for like 1% of people. haha : ThomW
      
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      Can you do it based on IP ranges? : scottythejock
      
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      Heck no. I can't javascript my way to knowing your IP address. : ThomW
      
      The server can read the address, have javascript ping a server page. Easy peasy! : MagicWishMonkey
      
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      We could ridicule everyone until it caught on. That always works.
      
      Nov 19, 2009 5:55am PST
      
      We could ridicule everyone until it caught on. That always works. : jasoncrowley
  - I absolutely agree. We don't have an HD set in the bedroom yet but have been planning on it so the blu-ra... : nodebug
- other big thing to keep in mind is you can't copy games to the Hard Drive on the banned systems from what... : goatboy

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