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News Round-up: HP and Compaq Laptops May Brick, Comcast and DirecTV Have a Catfight, I Weep For My Home Town and More
Posted by Benny Goldman at 7:59 AM on December 22, 2007
• A security researcher published code that is capable of bricking most HP and Compaq laptops. That doesn't sound too good. [Slashdot]
• Microsoft continues to rename everything in sight, this time folding IPTV, HD DVD, and Media Center into one group called Connected TV. [News.com]
• Comcast settled a lawsuit with DirecTV about the latter's hissy fit over an ad campaign last spring. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but from the sound of it, Comcast came out on top. However, when anything involves these two companies, does anyone really come out on top? [Ars Technica]
• THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS LOSE!!!...At a chance to show their last game to Time Warner Cable customers after TWC would not agree to binding arbitration with the NFL. Gotcha! [Consumerist]
• Finally, stepping out of the gadget world for a second, here's something that happened in my home city of Detroit. A bus driver transporting special needs students was arrested for soliciting an undercover cop for prostitution at 7 in the morning! It's funny because it's tragic! [Detroit News]
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OMG!!! Ponies!!!
Posted 5:32 PM 21/12/07
Re: The Pats losing
The 1972 Dolphins will be in attendance to guard their perfect season. And, if necessary, each alum in attendance will be armed with an EMP emitter to sabotage Belichick's video-cameras.
OMG!!! Ponies!!!
m4ximusprim3
Posted 6:01 PM 21/12/07
Re: 1st story-
Summary of first 200 slashdot comments: Not bricking, just messing up windows boot sectors. A nice shiny restore cd will fix everything right up.
Bricking != corrupting software.
m4ximusprim3
packetsniffer
Posted 9:17 PM 21/12/07
"• A security researcher published code that is capable of bricking most HP and Compaq laptops."
Did you guys bother to read the original article?
"It would 'let an attacker corrupt Windows' kernel files, making the laptop unbootable, or with a little more effort, allow hacks that would result in a PC hijack or malware infection.'"
That's hardly bricking.
When, oh when, will Giz stop misusing the term?
packetsniffer
crewsm
Posted 3:27 AM 22/12/07
Dumbledore here I come.....
crewsm
skulldriveshaft
Posted 3:23 AM 22/12/07
flamebaiter :]
skulldriveshaft
Wwhat
Posted 11:07 AM 23/12/07
Yeah pretty sad for cops to try to entrap people in the holiday season by pretending to be prostitutes, at 7 in the morning, GET A LIFE cops, geez.
A guy driving around retarded people deserve some relaxation rather than being harassed by more retarded cops.
Wwhat