Topic: Another Example of Microsoft's Pig-Head Syndrome....

[NC GRAVE]

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/11/12/kinect.hack/index.html

this made me laugh when i read that microsoft denied that any hack occured, sure making a driver is possible but i bet that the hack really did happen cause for microsoft to put up this much of a front then something definitely happened that they want to keep quiet. i agree with what the hacker and the company that funded the contest to hack it, but its kinda weird, why would microsoft let off the company that was holding a hacking contest on their hardware and not suing them? either they're putting up a front saying that it doesnt matter cause they cant hack it. but i will beg to differ with microsofts claim of not being able to hack the kinect, the have been many hacks in the past of previous game systems and further more made into a conversion prgm that ran console games on a pc as long as the specs and prgm was up to speed on the consoles needs. as it stands the kinect is nothing but a rip off of the wii but the controllers are just taken out of the picture, the real sad thing is that they cant apply it to the many other games that already exist. but oh well....

[Rogue Hellrider]

i kinda dig what microsoft is saying,..

the device itself wasnt hacked, people have just made a driver to utilise the hardware for unsupported pc use

[refuse_orders]

i kinda dig what microsoft is saying,..

the device itself wasnt hacked, people have just made a driver to utilise the hardware for unsupported pc use

That is a hack lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(technology)

[Rogue Hellrider]

yeah well, just trying to interpret microsofts article on the kenetic, so its all about definitions, not that it matters.
So i read your wiki link,...

'This growing use of the term "hack" is to refer to a program that (sometimes illegally) modifies another program, often a computer game, giving the user access to features otherwise inaccessible to them'

or

'The term is additionally used by electronics hobbyists to refer to simple modifications to electronic hardware such as a graphing calculators, video game consoles, electronic musical keyboards or other device'

So, if as microsoft said, thier software and hardware have not been modified then i guess going by the wiki definition you supplied, then I am correct. To quote microsoft....

"Kinect for Xbox 360 has not been hacked -- in any way -- as the software and hardware that are part of Kinect for Xbox 360 have not been modified." the company said in a statement e-mailed to CNN.

"What has happened is someone has created drivers that allow other devices to interface with the Kinect for Xbox 360. The creation of these drivers, and the use of Kinect for Xbox 360 with other devices, is unsupported."

lol

[NC GRAVE]

HA! MICROSOFT EAT THE SHIT THAT YOU PUKE OUT! http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/11/24/kinect.microsoft.hacking/index.html?hpt=C2 FRIENDS, FAMILY AND GAMERS! I SPEAK WITH A SMALL VOICE BUT WHILE CARRYING A BIG STICK, I SAY THAT MICROSOFT HAS TO TRULY ADMIT DEFEAT TO THEIR "IMPERVIOUS" GAME CONSOLE, CAUSE THE BITCH GOT HACKED AND ITS PROOF IS VIRAL AND IS THROUGHOUT THE WEB, MICROSOFT, "EAT IT"

for the most part that was all mine but i had some help from some of the guys over here(alot of ps3 fans that really hate microsoft!) the first quote was mine but the second i had some help on, but anyway, the article and what i said, says it all, microsoft HAS to admit defeat and bow to the strength of consumer programers(fancy name for "hackers") and kiss their asses cause they got the shit hacked out of the kinect and can eat it cause theu aint gonna get away with it this time saying that they didnt! ah, i feel so much better now...

[Rogue Hellrider]

nice article,... i guess though nothing was modified on the kenetic, the fact that it had to be hacked to get the source code has me convinced.

I think i should contact wikipedia as they need to add something to thier definition of a hack