And you thought the xbox360 was for gaming...

http://gamernode.com/news/5227-el-paso-police-lure-criminals-with-free-xbox-360/index.aspx

Haha..that is freaking awesome and yet funny.

Games are your best friend as long as you don' t start talking to them.

I thought the PS3 was for gaming, but it turns out that thing is only good for curing cancer.

Now the Xbox360 is ridding the streets of evil criminals and making our lives safer each and every second. But what good is that for gamers? Not much.

The last gen consoles couldn' t do any of those . This truly is the next gen , ps3 used for number crunching , 360 used to catch criminals and the wii used to get rid of obesity .NICE .

Wiles said the El Paso police tried traditional arrest methods, such as going to the person' s house to make an arrest, but they didn' t work.

lol, whut?

How the hell can the Police going to someone' s house and arresting them not work?

Maybe they never passed the arrest at home class at police academy

ol, whut?

How the hell can the Police going to someone' s house and arresting them not work?

Well you see when you close the door and lock it, they have to put down the doughnut to get it open. If they use this method then they have to do as little work as possible.

As a side note to everyone if it seems to good to be true............IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently the PS3 is also used to crack data encryption

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7118997.stm

At last a reason for me to buy one......NOT!!!!!

Wait a second wasnt this done in an episode of the Simpsons promising a free boat?

I take it he was running the PS3 through like Yellow Dog or something Linuxy? It didn' t mention the OS, or the hacking tool he was using.

I do find it interesting that the processor is supposedly so very powerful, and yet it' s still at a 256mb RAM bottleneck (to the best of my knowledge at least)