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It's like next gen Police Quest. I am totally ok with that.

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Yikes, hopefully the cars control well then.

Basically the driving masks the loading from what I've read. Also if you're concerned about hitting things and losing some mission ranking you can tell your partner to drive for you and it's all good.

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Sony may be the least secure company ever. Apparently people on Playstation.com can reset your password if they know your email and date of birth. Guess what kind of info was taken in the original hack......

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Hahaha, I just saw this. Man Sony is truly the worst.

I don't see how the entire security division isn't just fired over this fiasco. Maybe there never was a security division to begin with...

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

In a way I'm amazed people have been so quick to trust Sony again. They still haven't solidly confirmed or denied the CC info yet PSN is back and everyone is just falling to their knees to suck Sony's dick.

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Anyone know if they deleted everyone's CC info, or is what's on your account when you log in now the card that was there before? I had nothing there, so hopefully my card was never there to begin with.

Your CC info is still there. I deleted mine. It's too late, but I guess it's not too late since people are just changing passwords and shit anyway.

My CC information was there. That's how I knew it was the old one that expired back in 09. I got rid of it anyways. I guess I can go back and change the email associated with the account as well. I changed all of my other information associated with the account to be bogus information. My real name was never associated with the account. I was always just Russell Casse.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

The second sentence is correct. They created the position after all this fiasco happened. The password reset is a very simple fix. Simply have an auto-generated temp password sent to the email account and require that to reset the password. But even that has issues to be honest. We are talking 4-5 years of account usage with people possibly not keeping their email address current. Then you have all the people who created accounts with fake emails to begin with. And finally, you have to deal with the possibility that the hackers may have already changed account information on some portion of the accounts out there.

None of those have easy fixes.

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I just got a few HDMI's in the mail so I logged on and deleted my credit card info, which was an expired card anyway.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

awww, dammit.

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So given the fact that I have been home sick over the last day or so (was originally prepping for a medical test, but I got sick, and thus had to cancel the test), I pulled apart my PS3 completely as it was one of the first or second designs for the 60GB model (has full backwards compatibility with PS2 and even most PS1 games). The reason for doing so was to re-apply thermal paste to the Cell processor and GPU and dust/clean it out. I might actually take it apart again just to check the coverage of the thermal paste (and possibly add a little more) and to figure out where I screwed up with placing the screws back in it (I have 2 screws in the wrong locations, with the shortest standard screw in a hole designed for the screw one size longer and vice a versa).

I was pretty glad I did since the thermal compound that was in there was almost completely dried out and was pretty much just causing an air gap between the heatsink/fan and the chips. I would recommend anyone else who has one of the original 60GB models to go do the same thing. It seems many of them are starting to get the YLOD due to the GPU overheating and causing the solder joints to fail. Once you get the case open and apart, applying the thermal paste isn't any different than how you do it for a computer heatsink/fan (this is just 2 large chips). Again, I want to re-open mine to get those 2 screws in the right locations and to double check the thermal paste application (I think I may have gone a little too thin, but that is how I normally do it on a CPU, except I think there is more of a gap on the PS3's heatsink connection which might require a little more paste that I normally use on a CPU). I will have to check online a little more to see how much paste I should have used before I use the PS3 more than I did (just turned it on long enough to verify I put it back together correctly and to reset the date/time since I had to remove the BIOS/clock battery to disassemble.

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Yeah, I need to redo the heatsink paste re-apply that I did. I tested it out with Red Dead and just loading up the fan kicked in from lowest to low, then medium, then high, then WHAT THE F* ARE YOU DOING TO ME, IT IS TOO HOT!!!! So I pulled the plug when it hit that last speed (all 5 seconds). So not long enough to cause damage, but long enough that I know it didn't have proper contact with the heatsink.

Might have been the MX-2 thermal paste I used. It was at least 3 years old, but still in the tube (had the correct consistency though). Anyway, I am not chancing my full fledged PS3 on spending a few bucks for new thermal paste and 20 minutes of work... I certainly don't want that crappy slim model which doesn't do even half the stuff that the 60GB model does (no media card slots, only 2 USB ports, not 4 on the front, no full PS2 backwards compatibility, no PS1 backwards compatibility).

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hmmmm i might have to do that too... i have the old 60G and whenever it's hot outside my fan goes full bore

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

Redid the thermal pasting today and popped on Red Dead again to test. Wow what a difference. I want to do another test tomorrow because I want to make sure the fan is actually working because it was so quiet! It never once even raised the speed above the idle (but I only played for 5 minutes). I even stuck my head right next to it, and the hard drive was louder than the fan. I could feel air at the back, so I know it was working....

So I wanted to pass this tidbit on to everyone else who is contemplating this. Get thermal paste which is non-conductive (very important!!!), and use a lot more than you think you should. Trust me on this, it isn't like a CPU heatsink as there can be a pretty significant gap between the heatsinks and the GPU and CPU. When I removed the heatsink and looked at my previous attempt, there was only a very small portion of the heatsinks which made contact with the thermal paste on the previous attempt (in which I used the more advanced method of using a very thin layer that you hand spread across the CPU/GPU surface, which is the preferred method for modern CPUs, assuming you know how to properly place the heatsink on top without creating air bubbles/pockets). The fact that there was so little paste on the heatsink when I removed it, shows that there is a pretty significant gap, so I went with the old school, put a huge glop in the middle and when you press the heatsink down, it will force the paste to spread out from the middle (with excess spilling over the sides, which is why you need non-conductive paste to do this). Again, it seems to have made a SIGNIFICANT difference so far, but I want to do a little more testing (get some real play time on it).

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The Slim's actually do have PS1 backwards compatibility for some reason.

I have an fat 80 thats real loud too, I'll have to sit down one weekend and give it a shot. I have a slim and a fat, when I was transferring my data over, I was going to do it with a psp memory stick duo. I was looking all over the slim for the card reader just assuming it was there haha.

How did you end up transferring your data in the end? When I was cleaning out my wire box I came across a 120 GB laptop hard drive a buddy gave me. Kind of want to pop it into my PS3.

I have an 8gb USB thumbdrive, I think I used that.

When I upgraded my hard drive to a 250gb, I connected a USB disk to the system and ran the backup utility with that disk as the destination. I then removed the original PS3 hard drive, popped in the new one, booted the PS3 which had me reformat/setup the disk, and then ran the restore feature.

Mine is working a heck of a lot better now. The fan stays pretty low now most of the time. I played Red Dead for an hour or so the other night and the fan almost never went higher than slow speed (just a few times when there was a lot of things going on in the game). I think everyone here who has one of the fat's should do it, as they are most likely on borrowed time with the original paste that was used. For reference, the paste I used when I re-did it a second time was Noctua NT-H1, http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=prod ... =13&lng=en

Basically it is pretty much designed for this exact application (doesn't need to be spread, non-conductive, long lasting, works very well). I had a tube still from one of my CPU heatsinks that I bought a while ago...

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