Someone please edit the title: it is "Swartz", not "Schwartz".
oops! good catch.
Thank you for the book. You are an inspiration to us at http://sascase.com/projects.html/
Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
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Re: Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
#32Is the book available somewhere in epub/mobi format? Seems like even if you pay for it you get only a PDF?
Re: Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
#33For those who don't know, Bunnie is an absolute rockstar in the hacking/reverse engineering space. His detailed research and clear explanations are an inspiration. If you'd like a quick idea of what you're getting into, read this: http://web.mit.edu/bunnie/www/proj/anatak/AIM-2002-008.pdf And thank you Bill Pollock! No Starch Press is a revelation in the tech publishing space. The books they choose to publish have al…
Learn you a Haskell and Land of Lisp will always remain amongst my favorite books!
Re: Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
#34First thank you for making your work available for free. Looks like very interesting to read. And second, you can't exepect anything else from a capitalist economy Justice system. (Almost?) all life aspects in a capitalist economy suffer from this "self-agrandishment" (also known since inmemorial times as "greed") illness. It's the basic concept of capitalism, so nothing new actually.
If political/economical views are reduced to its basic concepts, then communism is about sharing and socialism is about the state caring about its citizens. Capitalism isn't about greed either, but about individual freedom. But that might be a bit too reductionist (let Stalin spread the love). IMHO this is not about "capitalism". It's about "human greediness". Homo hominis lupus.
I think you mean "homini" (dative), not "hominis" (genitive).
Re: Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
#35Do you have a way to send donations?
Good call, I'd like to donate money also, I already bought the book. Thanks again Bunnie!!
Re: Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
#36I'm not a hacker, but took a peek out of curiosity and was "disappointed" to see that this is (apparently) about the first Xbox and not the 360.
Re: Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
#37I'm not a hacker, but took a peek out of curiosity and was "disappointed" to see that this is (apparently) about the first Xbox and not the 360.
Don't let that stop you - This book is far more about thinking about how to hack than it is about actually hacking the XBox. The lessons learned here apply far wider than Microsoft's game machine and console hacking in general.
I bought this in dead-tree form many years ago and it's one of the few tech books that's managed to survive the several "great purges" since then.
Re: Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
If political/economical views are reduced to its basic concepts, then communism is about sharing and socialism is about the state caring about its citizens. Capitalism isn't about greed either, but about individual freedom. But that might be a bit too reductionist (let Stalin spread the love). IMHO this is not about "capitalism". It's about "human greediness". Homo hominis lupus.
I think you mean "homini" (dative), not "hominis" (genitive). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_homini_lupus
Yep, I should probably refresh my Latin skills :)