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MrSpaM

Microsofts next XBOX (Xbox One)

By MrSpaM, in Entertainment Forum

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whoareyaaa

whoareyaaa

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It does? When was everything announced or is this just a guess?

 

if you read everything, the main specs what matters are out(RAM) and what it will be processing. .

 

The Xbox One will be running 3 systems on the RAM while, the PS4's RAM will be centered on pure game processing.

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MC Prussian

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Everyone is moaning about the Kinect stuff but that aside what does the PS4 actually have that the Xbox One doesn't? It sounds a bit like the Playstation 4 is getting an easy ride here just because Xbox have added a few things that people don't like.

As of right now, Microsoft have added a lot of things a lot of people (e.g. consumers) don't like, adding to a rather frightening scenario.

We're now looking at a console that controls the user more than the user does control the console.

 

 

The PS4 is listed at the same price, it's just a placeholder.

Which means it could even go UP in price on release.

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Haydos

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Jesus, It's a placeholder.

 

It even says right underneath it that you'll be charged the lowest price if it costs less than this. They have to list it as a high amount to make sure they don't undercharge people.

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Manwell Pablo

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If it is anywhere near £599 then the company will collapse.

 

The company wont collapse if they don't sell a single console. They're Microsoft, this is one product of hundreds they produce.

 

 

I do not doubt for a second the console will bomb completley though if it's true there is no way I'm paying £600 lol But as others have said doubt it will be that much.

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Foxhateram

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Spoke to a few friends and on an Xbox forum. The fan boys still refuse to admit that this console sounds pants and refuse to believe some of the negatives even though the man himself confirmed them. In all honesty, I'm not convinced by either console this time around, I'm just not that excited, I thought I would be.

Tbh I might just give up the gaming, these consoles aren't what I had hoped for and I don't have lonely or space for one of those big bulky gaming pcs. End of an era for me.

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Finnegan

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Big bulky gaming PCs? You don't have a clue, do you?

You can build a rig that's not a lot bigger than an Xbox, that uses the same TV as a monitor and is more powerful than any console for probably less than the next gen machines will be on launch.

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HEGGSY

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What's all this about FIFA 14 being £90???

Amazon listed it as £90 as well as the console itself at £599. Seems like they're trying to take advantage of the hype, or lack of, if those prices are anywhere near true.
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MC Prussian

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Three web pages from Microsoft, outlining their Xbox One policies:

 

How Game Licencing Works

A Modern, Connected Device

Xbox One Privacy

I find some of these policies more than just frightening.

Essentially, the "console" has all the abilities to act as one big surveillance tool, but Microsoft are so keen on telling the consumer everything's alright.

I find the exaggerated emphasis and the desperate attempts at suggesting that "You are in control" acting as one big smokescreen.

 

"The XBOX One won't record personal conversations." Sure it won't. It's only and highly likely a massive meddling with personal privacy.

Who needs secret services when consumers actually allow such an intrusion legally by buying an XBOX One?

 

And the restrictions on rentals, the lack of downward-compatibility as well as the need for constant internet connection make this machine a no-go.

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MC Prussian

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Also an interesting read in this context (brand-new article):

 

 

Secret program gives NSA, FBI backdoor access to Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft data  

Five-year-old program provides government with direct access to email, messages, browser history, more

By Dan Seifert on 

June 6, 2013 06:04 pm  Email @dcseifert369COMMENTS

DON'T MISS STORIES FOLLOW THE VERGE

  
 
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The US National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have been harvesting data such as audio, video, photographs, emails, and documents from the internal servers of nine major technology companies, according to a leaked 41-slide security presentation obtained by The Washington Post and The Guardian. According toThe Washington Post, the program's slides were provided by a "career intelligence officer" that had "firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities," and wished to expose the programs "gross intrusion on privacy."

The program, codenamed PRISM, is considered highly classified and has never been made public before. The list of companies involved are the who's who of Silicon Valley: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. Dropbox, though not yet an official part of the program, is said to be joining it soon. These companies have all willingly participated in the program, says the Post.

According to the leaked presentation, the program has been in action since 2007, and is considered the biggest contributor to the daily briefings given to the President, providing data in 1,477 articles last year alone. Allegedly, nearly one in seven intelligence reports from the NSA contains data from the PRISM program. The NSA has the ability to pull any sort of data it likes from these companies, but it claims that it does not try to collect it all. The PRISM program goes above and beyond the existing laws that state companies must comply with government requests for data, as it gives the NSA direct access to each company's servers — essentially letting the NSA do as it pleases. The program was initiated to overcome what the NSA saw as constraints within the existing FISA warrant program that did not allow the agency to make us of the "home-field advantage" provided by having most of the internet's biggest companies on US soil.

THE WHO'S WHO OF SILICON VALLEY ARE INVOLVED IN THE NSA'S PRISM PROGRAM

Microsoft was the first company to bow to the government's wishes and join the PRISM program in 2007, while Apple held out for five years before agreeing. Though Google and Facebook are a part of PRISM, Twitter has not yet joined. Apparently, the only members of Congress that knew about PRISM's existence were bound by oath not to speak of it publicly. In a statement provided to both The Washington Post and The Guardian, Google denied that the government had any sort of backdoor access to its systems:

"Google cares deeply about the security of our users' data. We disclose user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such requests carefully. From time to time, people allege that we have created a government 'backdoor' into our systems, but Google does not have a 'backdoor' for the government to access private user data."

 

 

The training documents for the program reveal that the NSA collects a large amount of data on the American public through the PRISM program. For example, if a specific target is investigated using PRISM, that target's complete inbox and outbox is swept, in addition to anyone that is connected to it. This high-level of access was initially given to the NSA by President Bush and was later renewed in 2012 by President Obama.

This report follows the news from earlier this week of the NSA's involvement in collecting call data and records from Verizon in another massive surveillance partnership.

Update: The Director of National Intelligence issued a statement today, aiming to clear up "inaccuracies" in reporting on the PRISM program. The DNI argues that only people outside of the United States have been targeted, and that the program “does not allow†the targeting of citizens or others within US borders. “This program was recently reauthorized by Congress after extensive hearings and debate,†said the official, adding that, “information collected under this program is among the most important and valuable intelligence information we collect, and is used to protect our nation from a wide variety of threats.â€

The word “target†takes on special significance given what has been reported by former NSA codebreaker William Binney and others. The Stellar Wind program, for which Binney claims to have contributed much of the base code, is said to compile massive amounts of internet traffic, which can then be queried at a later time. According to USSID 18, a top-secret NSA manual of definitions and legal directives, an “intercept†only occurs when the database is queried — when someone actually reads the text on a screen.

Update 2: The Washington Post has backtracked slightly on its original story. Attempting to explain the disparity between its findings and the statements given by the companies involved, it says:

 

"It is possible that the conflict between the PRISM slides and the company spokesmen is the result of imprecision on the part of the NSA author. In another classified report obtained by The Post, the arrangement is described as allowing "collection managers [to send] content tasking instructions directly to equipment installed at company-controlled locations," rather than directly to company servers."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-data-apple-google-facebook-microsoft-others-prism

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