October 24, 2003

3 posts in one day

So, I've found many interesting things today. I passed my drivers test, which was easy, since they use the exact same questions on every test. I don't think i missed a single one this time, so now i'm officially an Indiana Citizen( if you call me a hoosier, I'll stab you).

I also transfered my car title/registration over to Indiana, and since i forgot to fill out and bring the Rose-Hulman license plate form, i got the boring standard plates. Now, before I actually held one of these, i assumed it was printed on metal like normal plates. It looked like it was printed and not raised from seeing it on other cars, but boy was i surprised when i got my plate! Its actually a shiny metal backing with a sticker over it! If i was so inclined, I could peel off my license plate and have only a shiny metal plate.

Next, Infinium Labs, who are developing a new type of gaming console called the Phantom had a public presentation with Q&A session. Penny-Arcade has an article about it. Here's the part that got me interested:

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Next topic was protection-- keeping the user out of the Phantom's hardware and software. He very quickly listed off lots of technologies and encryptions, nothing on the software end was out of the ordinary but some of the more interesting hardware ones were "Case Intrusion Detection" and "Epoxy Encapsulation of Critical ROMs."

This makes me want to buy one just to open the thing up, and publish what's inside of the thing. With some luck, I bet a dremel will let me circumvent the "Case Intrusion Detection."

Posted by Cynan at October 24, 2003 03:19 PM
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