I agree. Too few people are on Sony's side here. Most have jumped onto the Sony hate bandwagon infested with arrogance and ignorance. All I've heard is people bitching about how Sony is slow to inform people, but then when they keep people in the loop, people bitch about how Sony told them what they knew, and revised it when they learned more about the incident.
IP != person in logic. An IP refers to an access point. It very well may be a personal access point, but since most private wireless networks can be broken into easily by any competent person with google, it stands to reason that assuming that IP = person is a logical fallacy. A "snapshot" of your IP address only proves that your access point was used to download copyrighted material. If there were a connection that you are, in fact, the only person to use this access point, then the conclusion may be made that one is guilty.
However, it is possible and even common for other computers to be used as proxies through the use of malware without the owner knowing. It's innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. To jump through the constructive syllogism and reach the tasty conclusion you must establish that the suspect was the only one using it. Which is up to the accuser to prove, not the defendant.
The name hasn't been changed. You're just looking at the wrong sources. And duh, of course it is something like the sun doing the warming, because y'know, there is no way climatologists would have factored that into their data, there's no way they're/that/ intelligent. I mean, someone has to stand up to these experts and tell them their wrong about the things they study with our silly ignorant speculations.
And something tells me you should read up on your computer forensics. Not knowing the extent of the damage immediately is common in most computer forensics investigation. At the end of the day you're simply pointing your finger at Sony without evidence or legitimate reason. Skepticism is good, criticism without reason or evidence is foolish.
This is the biggest piece of propaganda crap I have seen from the US government in a long time. They're telling us that century-old energy should still be used because of some shitty evidence and the reasoning of a drunk toddler. Talk about depressing. Basically, they're simply advertising their anti-science stance.
You want to know why Skynet took over the world and tried to blow it up? You would too if you saw how bloody stupid the US government is.
Hasn't he learned not the feed the trolls? I figure if you ignore their existence long enough they'll get bored and go away. And by ignore their existence I mean flat out ignore that they're suing you.
Take a look at StarCraft 2. It's beautiful with a wide range a support-- and even functions well on low-end systems with integrated graphics on low settings. Needless to say, it isn't that they can't make it function better, but merely that they're unwilling to spend money/time on polishing their game. It's a shame too, Blizzard has the defining edge in gaming with enough money rolling in to develop portal technology for shower curtains, you'd think someone would be taking notes.
Redshifting, the primary support behind the expanding universe theory, has only been known/studied for the past hundred years or so. At best, that gives us some hundred years of data. On a cosmological level, this is near insignificant. Based on the calculations of Einstein's field theory, we know that the acceleration outward has a positive second derivative, meaning that the acceleration is increasing (and not decreasing as previously thought). Why is not known (and so the expanding universe is an observation, rather than a theory).
The most curious part of this is that the expanding universe theory heavily relies on the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric (mentioned above). And that all mention of this in academia yields that this positive second derivative merely suggests that the Universe is expanding. However, if we look in all basic knowledge about what the Universe is doing, it says nearly unequivocally or is largely implied with certainty that the Universe is expanding and everything is going to suffer from entropy.
NASA (http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_expansion.html) even doesn't claim this, and mentions the possibility of the Universe collapsing in on itself. To say that "current theory" supports the expanding universe theory is wrong-- it's largely tied up in controversy.
Yeah, well I guess where going to see about how effective a statement in a EULA which isn't signed, that the business is fully aware most people don't read and don't understand, can be updated after the fact, puts all responsibility of negligence onto their customers is going to work out for them. Hopefully this goes to the supreme court.
I can't help but notice Sony hasn't put that into their press releases.
"I didn't know" is not an acceptable response to getting past the EULA. It's true, the majority of the populace don't read EULAs, they merely pressed, "I agree". This is not an excuse, as it is explicitly mentioned that by doing such is saying that you do understand and agree to the terms presented.
I also like how Sony is getting trashed by people without any such proof about how the breach occurred and the methods involved-- Hell, I'm pretty sure at this point Sony doesn't even know itself. Hackers getting into Sony's security does not prove that their security is weak. Sadly, what is happening here is "guilty until proven innocent" because people just plain don't like Sony. Hence, guilt by association.
"We exclude all liability for loss of data or unauthorised access to your data, Sony Online Network account or Sony Online Network wallet and for damage caused to your software or hardware as a result of using or accessing Sony Online Network."
Because clearly, it's Sony's fault-- and not the hackers' fault-- that the hackers broke into Sony's network. Sony's questionably ethical business practices do not warrant them the blame.
He's suing the wrong people, all Sony is going to do is throw their EULA in his face.
Yes, let's blow up a huge fucking bomb that releases toxic radiation in our only biosphere-- that'll show them we're intelligent.
Let's face it, any peaceful alien race probably has something like the prime directive in star trek and will go to extreme measures to hide their presence until we're developed enough to make contact. They've probably observed us enough to notice we're pretty much a warrior race or that we've got a majority that homophobic or discriminating against our own race on appearance and figured most of us would become xenophobic and they should stay the eff away. All we're doing by sending signals into space is putting a "WE ARE HERE!" sign to hostile alien races-- who frankly are the only who would seem to bother with us. Even then they may not bother us after observing what we do to our own kind. I mean hell, we blew up our moon to see if there was water in it.
If we want to get someone's attention, we can either star blowing up random stars just for fun or develop some incredible technology.
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I agree. Too few people are on Sony's side here. Most have jumped onto the Sony hate bandwagon infested with arrogance and ignorance. All I've heard is people bitching about how Sony is slow to inform people, but then when they keep people in the loop, people bitch about how Sony told them what they knew, and revised it when they learned more about the incident.
Quit being hypocrites.
Showing how great of pains the US government goes through to prevent us from learning that their military doesn't live up to their propaganda.
I'm sure this didn't have any corporate involvement at all. It was definitely to protect the rights of the people.
I thought we wanted to fix the problem.
IP != person in logic. An IP refers to an access point. It very well may be a personal access point, but since most private wireless networks can be broken into easily by any competent person with google, it stands to reason that assuming that IP = person is a logical fallacy. A "snapshot" of your IP address only proves that your access point was used to download copyrighted material. If there were a connection that you are, in fact, the only person to use this access point, then the conclusion may be made that one is guilty.
However, it is possible and even common for other computers to be used as proxies through the use of malware without the owner knowing. It's innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. To jump through the constructive syllogism and reach the tasty conclusion you must establish that the suspect was the only one using it. Which is up to the accuser to prove, not the defendant.
Since the court ruling of IP address != identity. I would certainly like to see said copyright group charged with extortion.
The name hasn't been changed. You're just looking at the wrong sources. And duh, of course it is something like the sun doing the warming, because y'know, there is no way climatologists would have factored that into their data, there's no way they're /that/ intelligent. I mean, someone has to stand up to these experts and tell them their wrong about the things they study with our silly ignorant speculations.
And any professional would tell you that this happens all of the time in computer forensics.
And something tells me you should read up on your computer forensics. Not knowing the extent of the damage immediately is common in most computer forensics investigation. At the end of the day you're simply pointing your finger at Sony without evidence or legitimate reason. Skepticism is good, criticism without reason or evidence is foolish.
This is the biggest piece of propaganda crap I have seen from the US government in a long time. They're telling us that century-old energy should still be used because of some shitty evidence and the reasoning of a drunk toddler. Talk about depressing. Basically, they're simply advertising their anti-science stance.
You want to know why Skynet took over the world and tried to blow it up? You would too if you saw how bloody stupid the US government is.
Hasn't he learned not the feed the trolls? I figure if you ignore their existence long enough they'll get bored and go away. And by ignore their existence I mean flat out ignore that they're suing you.
Don't worry, they'll recommend that you keep Skype open in the background... For added connectivity.
I'd rather put Skype in the hands of GLaDOS.
Finally I can put an end to all of those naysayers of gravitation theory!
Take a look at StarCraft 2. It's beautiful with a wide range a support-- and even functions well on low-end systems with integrated graphics on low settings. Needless to say, it isn't that they can't make it function better, but merely that they're unwilling to spend money/time on polishing their game. It's a shame too, Blizzard has the defining edge in gaming with enough money rolling in to develop portal technology for shower curtains, you'd think someone would be taking notes.
Redshifting, the primary support behind the expanding universe theory, has only been known/studied for the past hundred years or so. At best, that gives us some hundred years of data. On a cosmological level, this is near insignificant. Based on the calculations of Einstein's field theory, we know that the acceleration outward has a positive second derivative, meaning that the acceleration is increasing (and not decreasing as previously thought). Why is not known (and so the expanding universe is an observation, rather than a theory).
The most curious part of this is that the expanding universe theory heavily relies on the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric (mentioned above). And that all mention of this in academia yields that this positive second derivative merely suggests that the Universe is expanding. However, if we look in all basic knowledge about what the Universe is doing, it says nearly unequivocally or is largely implied with certainty that the Universe is expanding and everything is going to suffer from entropy.
NASA (http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_expansion.html) even doesn't claim this, and mentions the possibility of the Universe collapsing in on itself. To say that "current theory" supports the expanding universe theory is wrong-- it's largely tied up in controversy.
Current theory relies on very limited information. http://xkcd.com/605/
Comrades! We just need to increase their chocolate rations.
GOoGLE just needed more test subjects. For science.
Yeah, well I guess where going to see about how effective a statement in a EULA which isn't signed, that the business is fully aware most people don't read and don't understand, can be updated after the fact, puts all responsibility of negligence onto their customers is going to work out for them. Hopefully this goes to the supreme court.
I can't help but notice Sony hasn't put that into their press releases.
"I didn't know" is not an acceptable response to getting past the EULA. It's true, the majority of the populace don't read EULAs, they merely pressed, "I agree". This is not an excuse, as it is explicitly mentioned that by doing such is saying that you do understand and agree to the terms presented.
I also like how Sony is getting trashed by people without any such proof about how the breach occurred and the methods involved-- Hell, I'm pretty sure at this point Sony doesn't even know itself. Hackers getting into Sony's security does not prove that their security is weak. Sadly, what is happening here is "guilty until proven innocent" because people just plain don't like Sony. Hence, guilt by association.
"We exclude all liability for loss of data or unauthorised access to your data, Sony Online Network account or Sony Online Network wallet and for damage caused to your software or hardware as a result of using or accessing Sony Online Network."
- PSN EULA
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They're not liable for unauthorized access.
Because clearly, it's Sony's fault-- and not the hackers' fault-- that the hackers broke into Sony's network. Sony's questionably ethical business practices do not warrant them the blame. He's suing the wrong people, all Sony is going to do is throw their EULA in his face.
It's a shame you aren't a farmer-- you're good at making straw men.
Well, they're not DARPA.
Yes, let's blow up a huge fucking bomb that releases toxic radiation in our only biosphere-- that'll show them we're intelligent. Let's face it, any peaceful alien race probably has something like the prime directive in star trek and will go to extreme measures to hide their presence until we're developed enough to make contact. They've probably observed us enough to notice we're pretty much a warrior race or that we've got a majority that homophobic or discriminating against our own race on appearance and figured most of us would become xenophobic and they should stay the eff away. All we're doing by sending signals into space is putting a "WE ARE HERE!" sign to hostile alien races-- who frankly are the only who would seem to bother with us. Even then they may not bother us after observing what we do to our own kind. I mean hell, we blew up our moon to see if there was water in it. If we want to get someone's attention, we can either star blowing up random stars just for fun or develop some incredible technology.
I'll just leave this here: http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q206/SilverCrusader/AppleSatire.png?t=1303770110 --- Gotta love my freedom of speech.