It turns out that Microsoft not only has the power to ban you from Xbox Live permanently, but it can also turn your Xbox One console in to a useless brick, as the beta testers behind the Gears of War Remastered leak have found out.
This week, videos showing off the latest internal build of Microsoft's unannounced Gears of War remake were leaked on to the web. These videos originated from testers working for VMC, a third-party agency hired by Microsoft. Obviously neither company was particularly happy when the leaks hit the web. The leakers were quickly found and have been banned from VMC's beta testing program. Additionally, Microsoft has taken matters in to its own hands, removing access to their consoles entirely.
Microsoft also permanently disabled their Xbox LIVE accounts (as well as other suspected accounts present on their Xbox One kits) and temporarily blocked all of their Xbox One privileges – meaning that for a period of time which Microsoft decides on depending on the severity of the offense, their Xbox One is entirely unusable.
(Score: 0, Troll) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday May 16 2015, @09:35AM
Fortunately I have so far only told one person to do that.
You wouldn't know how to use the "time" command in sudo?
$ sudo time rm -rf /
for example.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @09:36AM
$ time sudo sleep 1
real 0m1.030s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s