My first thought was, "Cool! Higher resolution is dropping in price again." My second thought was, "Crap, now my users will be trying to email each other 3 megabyte and larger photos on a regular basis." I'm wishing there was some way new digital cameras could come with an education of what filesize means and how it relates to emailing and otherwise sharing with others. A large number of non-technical users have no idea of the concept. I've run across people wanting to email software CDs and copy DVD movies (inhouse, not MPAA) onto WAN-wide file shares.
Is there some kind of well-rounded, adequately-functioning, happy-with-life mediocre model that we all should be striving towards
I sure wish I could find a well-rounded, adequately-functioning, happy-with-life mediocre model. That's MUCH better than the women I've met recently. But I don't want EVERYONE to strive towards her. Just me.
Someone didn't bother reading my carefully prepared memo on commonly-used passwords. Now, then, as I so meticulously pointed out, the four most-used passwords are: love, sex, secret, and... god. So, would your holiness care to change her password?
Oh, wait, the article was by Eugene Spafford? I thought you said Belford. Nevermind.
Off topic: my captcha for submitting this message is "crotch"? oookaaaaaay.
But if they can fake the URL too, how in the world is anyone supposed to know which sites are authentic?
Simple. If it comes to you in an email or in any way other than you typing the URL in the address bar, it's fake. Granted, DNS poisoning can still take advantage, but that's not the browser's fault. At least this is the way I treat any email requesting me to log on somewhere. I saw an email one of our users received that looked like a phishing email in that it asked them to click a link to login and view their bank account. They said their bank always sent this type of email. I looked at the source of the email and it was going to the correct URL. It wasn't faked. If you ask me, that bank is just asking to have their customers get ripped off.
As soon as I read the article, I did a Google search for prostate cancer and hispanic. I found this page which states:
Hispanic-American and Native-American men have lower rates of prostate cancer than do white men. Worldwide, the lowest rates of prostate cancer are in Asian countries; the highest rates of prostate cancer are in Northern European countries.
Low Email storage limits are another reason why IT's reputation continues to worsen. If an internet company can offer 2GB+ of email storage to millions of users for FREE, then why can my large company offer more than 100MB of email storage to five thousand professional staff?
Because that's how the Internet Company makes it's money. They make money by giving mass amounts of storage to people who will use their service and view ads based on the content of the email. In other companies, email is a cost center. It costs more money to give that much storage. If we were to provide 2GB of storage for each of our users, we would have to have well over 3TB space on the email server. That costs money and the company doesn't want to spend it.
On the email system I manage (Exchange 2000) for 1600 users, we have a limit of 75MB per mailbox. Rediculously small, yes, but when you only have 200GB total, including larger mailboxes for marketing, VP level and higher and service accounts that send and receive a huge quantity of large messages and management doesn't want to spend money, that's what you get. We set Outlook to automatically empty Deleted Items except for those that want to store messages in their deleted items (Wha--???????? - [I shrug] whatever you say...) and have their "recover from deleted items" purge themselves after 2 months. The good news is we are about to upgrade our email system to about 1TB storage. We will likely edge the mailbox sizes up, but won't tell anyone. If we did, they'd start expecting unlimited storage again. Besides, we continue to grow. We've nearly doubled in size in the six years I've been there. Yes, it gets expensive when you need to provide some rediculous number of 9's worth of uptime. Having an email server cluster that is replicated to a duplicate cluster at the DR site gets quite expensive. Want massive uptime for the same price? Pay for it in storage.
Oh, and a 10MB per message limit. Once they get a few of those and fill their mailbox, they delete the hundreds of tiny messages before finally calling me. I explain the difference between byte, kilobytes and megabytes and explain that this one email takes up the space of 10,000 of these smaller ones. Yes, they need training. I've already put it in the company newsletter. You know those things don't apply to them.
I read "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" quite some time ago. Some of the theories are quite interesting. Others are "out there". This was not the first book written on the subject, just the first popular one. It caused quite a stir when it first came out. I read "The DaVinci Code" a couple of years ago. It wasn't a BAD book, but it certainly wasn't worth all the hype. Brown is, in my opinion, a highly mediocre writer. The only thing that made the book popular is the theory he used as the mystery of the book. For that, he owes much to "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" and the authors. Using anagrams of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" authors' names as a character in the book was, I'm confident, his way of honoring those writers. Brown also used a number of other books to further the theories in his book. Does he owe them anything besides a thank you? I'd be hard pressed to think so. So long as you provide references for your theories, you should be safe. I'm a bit split on this since I'm not a lawyer, but I have to side with Brown, except for using the authors' names.
I'd like to contribute to the project but it doesn't have a Boinc client? Other than the original project page, all I could find is this and it doesn't say anything about Boinc. Too bad. You'd think they'd try to take advantage of the large install base rather than require people to install an additional client.
RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING YOUR ASSISTANCE IN EXTREME CONFIDENCE
I am certain this message comes as a suprise to you since you do not know me. I have obtained your name from French Resistance fighters as one that can be trusted with my confidence.
Two months ago, my father was kidnapped and murdered by the Nazi SS. I have need to transfer the sum of US$25,000,000 (twenty-five million) from an account in Credit Lyonnais in France to an account outside of German territory, of which your payment shall be 30% if you agree to our proposal...
I work with a Brit and she hates Monty Python. She thinks they are the most unfunny "comedy" troupe around. Of course, she also says I have an accent. That said, I'll be watching. By the way, I now have can of Spamalot and a few bottles of Monty Python's Holy Ail. I'm all set for a night of taunting.
I actually knew a hispanic guy who worked at one of my previous employers whose name was Jesus (p. HEY-zeus). Not a big deal but his last name was Pagan (p. pah-GON). Pronounced, HEY-zeus pah-GON wasn't a big deal either. Seeing the look on someone's face when reading the name "Jesus Pagan" could be kind of funny tough.
He was systems engineer, too. Hey Jesus! You around here?
If you'd read the article, you'd see that the officers involved had overstepped their bounds, they arrested no one and they've been reassigned. The departments involved said they would improve their training so rights are not violated. Sorry to burst your bubble.
These articles are just so wrong on so many levels. First the accuracy. "Adware also known as spyware"? Now I know there are similarities but you can't say they are one in the same. Many other small inaccuracies. Then you have the victims who admit they would rather buy a new computer than fix the one they have. Come on! It's just your OS! Reload it! And they don't want to be bothered with learning how to secure their computer. Then the sysadmin who is notified that he has 10,000 machines on his network infected and he doesn't know what to do about it. And finally are the people involved in the underbelly of the botnet/spyware scene. The guy lets cigarette ashes drop onto his laptop and has to "gently kick away" a dog with matted fur. What a loser. I don't care how much money he makes. I'd much rather make my own modest income which is enough to live in a nice little house. Then the way the people involved treat each other. I swear this article was about all the different ways they screw each other. Then 180 Solutions. These are the ones to actually collect the money from the advertisers. At least they could be honest in what they do. Wait, no they couldn't. If they were honest, they'd be out of business. It was an entertaining and fascinating read. But all I can do is shake my head. Wow.
Saying there is no excuse for the violence just means you don't sympathize with their viewpoint.
When their viewpoint is that a cartoon is an excuse for arson and murder and other violent acts, then you're right. I don't sypathize with their viewpoint.
People insult Christianity and Judaism constantly. If Christians and Jews say that people shouldn't say such things and create such art, they are blasted as being hateful and intolerant of others viewpoints. When Muslims use art as an excuse for arson and murder, we are told we should be more understanding. That, my friends, is beyond a double standard. If we had the same viewpoint, it really would be a war of Islam vs the West. It isn't, but from what I'm seeing it may be leading to that.
And all the non-tech people see this in the news and think it's a big deal. They keep calling asking if we are being hit by it. Gee, I don't know. It's been out since January 17 and our definitions have been updated about 15 times since then. You haven't been opening email attachments from people you don't know claiming to be sending you porn, have you? No? Then I think we're safe.
Come on people. Listen to those who know about what you are reporting. I had the same *&%$ happen a few weeks ago with the WMF flaw. Someone who thought they knew about security sent an email to everyone in the company telling them about a flaw that our systems were protected against anyway. This was after he sent a draft of the email to me to review to make sure he had the facts straight. I advised him to not send it at all. He sent it anyway. All this is just crying wolf. Some day there will be something we need people to be aware of and they will ignore us because of all the false alarms in the past.
I just think it is naive, dangerous and frankly irresponsible to dismiss this debate while we're still collecting scientific data.
I agree with your comment. The problem here is that the side that says global warming is real and is caused by mankind's actions state that it is a fact that mankind caused it. They don't need any more data. Anyone who says we're not sure that it is caused by mankind are tagged as flamebait or trolls. The sun is at the height of a twenty year cycle. Data has shown that Mars is also experiencing global warming. The Earth has undergone normal rises and falls in global temperatures throughout history. No, we shouldn't dismiss global warming as not real or as not caused by man. We also shouldn't say that we know for a fact that it IS caused by man. We don't know. My own opinion on this is that Yes, global warming is happening. I also believe that it is a natural phenomenon wherein man plays a very minor role. I believe that there is nothing mankind can do to stop it but I believe it will reverse itself on a relatively short (on a geologic scale) period of time. Those who can't adapt to the changing world will die off. Those who can will thrive. Evolution in action.
Two things to note. One is my use of "I believe". I could be wrong. It seems most people out there on both sides refuse to use "I believe". They act as if their side knows all the facts on the matter. They don't. Second, queue all those people saying "Data shows the temperature is increasing more rapidly than at any time in history." My only reply is just how accurate are your temperature readings in the past? I'd bet no where near as accurate as those currently in use. Can you PROVE that there wasn't a 200-year blip with a fast increase in temperatures over 40,000 (or millions of) years ago?
If this were windows media player (again - it phoned home when you played DVDs, and was resoundly condemded in many circles) there wouldn't be a person on slashdot without a torch or pitchfork.
I agree wholeheartedly. If you remember the Sony-BMG debacle (who doesn't?), one of the things people were up in arms about was that the software phoned home. People on/., among many others, rightly complained that it sent information back to Sony without the customer's permission. Sony said they didn't keep the information, but people rightly said that it didn't matter if they kept it or not. The problem was that it was sent without our permission. Yes, there were many other aspects to the Sony-BMG fiasco, but this was one of the issues. According to many comments on/., the fact that Apple is doing it seems to make it okay. It is NOT okay. This should have been clarified up front with the default to "don't transfer my information to Apple".
I don't disagree with the basic idea of what you are saying. The problem is that you are confusing "stem cells" with "embryonic stem cells". Not all stem cells are embryonic stem cells. The stem cell lines that so far have provided the best results have been stem cell lines extracted from adults and umbilical cords and not aborted or non-implanted embryos. Most people who object to embryonic stem cell research have no problem with adult or umbilical cord stem cell research. Just be sure that when you put forward your argument against embryonic stem cells, you specify embryonic stem cells. Unless, of course, you disagree with ALL stem cell research. In which case, good luck!
Right, and nerds who read Slashdot constitute maybe 0.01% of the U.S. population?? And those who really care are probably a fraction of that.
I emailed this original story translated into normal mundane American English to several friends and family members. I got a large number of responses how they felt about it, which was the same way I did. They won't be buying Sony either. Now, whenever there is news about Sony, they forward it to me so I can forward it to everyone else. Geeks are big on boycotting Sony but there are many non-geeks also on the bandwagon.
Check out this story on Wired about Sony's latest guerilla marketing ploy. Sony has hired graffitti artists to paint buildings in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami with graffitti showing people playing with the PSP. NOt everyone is happy with this. I know if they painted MY building (assuming I had one), I'd be suing them.
This particular bug gets installed even if you decline the EULA. Sony and Sunncomm, what a wonderful combination. Remember, this is the same company that tried suing someone for putting on their web site "Hold the shift key down while inserting a copy protected CD to prevent the DRM software from being installed."
Just shaking my head at their idiocy and getting ready to watch the fireworks, assuming anything actually happens because of this mess.
Our intern was messing around with old hard drives and decided to take off the cover of one, plug it in and let it run. It worked fine, so I touched my finger to it. It still ran, so I licked my finger and touched it. Oops. Blue Screen. I didn't think the heads were close enough to the disk to get a good read so I put some pressure behind it. Let me tell you, the noise that makes isn't nearly so annoying to the person doing it as it is to everyone else in the room. The hard drive platter now looks quite similar to an LP record's grooves. Cool. Okay, I didn't put a window on the drive. So what? This was more fun.
Don't be surprised in Sony divests itself of BMG music at some point in the future, to keep from losing customers for its home electronics business
I used to be pretty loyal to Sony. They were a provider of decent quality home electronics for me. I didn't need top of the line, but I didn't want crap either. Sony was a decent product at a decent price. I own a Sony Trinitron 32" television, a Sony DVD player and a Sony 19" CRT. Given that they were purchased a while back before price drops in recent years, that's $1500 worth of stuff I bought from them. Never again. Ever. I'm through with them and I'm telling everyone I know. I have a distribution list in my email program that I send out Sony updates to. No one I know that actually listens to my advice will purchase from them again either. Some will follow my advice, some may not, but at least they know. Regardless, given a choice, Sony won't be getting any more money from me.
I had heard it a while back but don't know for sure who originated it. A quick Google search found this page that talks about it:
Well, Napoleon said something about not attributing to malice that which is adequately explained by incomptence, and Clarke said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. So far as I know, I am the first one to put them together and call it the Napoleon-Clarke law.
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My first thought was, "Cool! Higher resolution is dropping in price again." My second thought was, "Crap, now my users will be trying to email each other 3 megabyte and larger photos on a regular basis." I'm wishing there was some way new digital cameras could come with an education of what filesize means and how it relates to emailing and otherwise sharing with others. A large number of non-technical users have no idea of the concept. I've run across people wanting to email software CDs and copy DVD movies (inhouse, not MPAA) onto WAN-wide file shares.
I sure wish I could find a well-rounded, adequately-functioning, happy-with-life mediocre model. That's MUCH better than the women I've met recently. But I don't want EVERYONE to strive towards her. Just me.
Never fear, I is here. My name is The Plague.
Someone didn't bother reading my carefully prepared memo on commonly-used passwords. Now, then, as I so meticulously pointed out, the four most-used passwords are: love, sex, secret, and... god. So, would your holiness care to change her password?
Oh, wait, the article was by Eugene Spafford? I thought you said Belford. Nevermind.
Off topic: my captcha for submitting this message is "crotch"? oookaaaaaay.
Simple. If it comes to you in an email or in any way other than you typing the URL in the address bar, it's fake. Granted, DNS poisoning can still take advantage, but that's not the browser's fault. At least this is the way I treat any email requesting me to log on somewhere. I saw an email one of our users received that looked like a phishing email in that it asked them to click a link to login and view their bank account. They said their bank always sent this type of email. I looked at the source of the email and it was going to the correct URL. It wasn't faked. If you ask me, that bank is just asking to have their customers get ripped off.
As soon as I read the article, I did a Google search for prostate cancer and hispanic. I found this page which states:
Hispanic-American and Native-American men have lower rates of prostate cancer than do white men. Worldwide, the lowest rates of prostate cancer are in Asian countries; the highest rates of prostate cancer are in Northern European countries.
Seems to support the theory!
Low Email storage limits are another reason why IT's reputation continues to worsen. If an internet company can offer 2GB+ of email storage to millions of users for FREE, then why can my large company offer more than 100MB of email storage to five thousand professional staff?
Because that's how the Internet Company makes it's money. They make money by giving mass amounts of storage to people who will use their service and view ads based on the content of the email. In other companies, email is a cost center. It costs more money to give that much storage. If we were to provide 2GB of storage for each of our users, we would have to have well over 3TB space on the email server. That costs money and the company doesn't want to spend it.
On the email system I manage (Exchange 2000) for 1600 users, we have a limit of 75MB per mailbox. Rediculously small, yes, but when you only have 200GB total, including larger mailboxes for marketing, VP level and higher and service accounts that send and receive a huge quantity of large messages and management doesn't want to spend money, that's what you get. We set Outlook to automatically empty Deleted Items except for those that want to store messages in their deleted items (Wha--???????? - [I shrug] whatever you say...) and have their "recover from deleted items" purge themselves after 2 months. The good news is we are about to upgrade our email system to about 1TB storage. We will likely edge the mailbox sizes up, but won't tell anyone. If we did, they'd start expecting unlimited storage again. Besides, we continue to grow. We've nearly doubled in size in the six years I've been there. Yes, it gets expensive when you need to provide some rediculous number of 9's worth of uptime. Having an email server cluster that is replicated to a duplicate cluster at the DR site gets quite expensive. Want massive uptime for the same price? Pay for it in storage.
Oh, and a 10MB per message limit. Once they get a few of those and fill their mailbox, they delete the hundreds of tiny messages before finally calling me. I explain the difference between byte, kilobytes and megabytes and explain that this one email takes up the space of 10,000 of these smaller ones. Yes, they need training. I've already put it in the company newsletter. You know those things don't apply to them.
Yes, it's been a long day. I'll shut up now.
I read "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" quite some time ago. Some of the theories are quite interesting. Others are "out there". This was not the first book written on the subject, just the first popular one. It caused quite a stir when it first came out. I read "The DaVinci Code" a couple of years ago. It wasn't a BAD book, but it certainly wasn't worth all the hype. Brown is, in my opinion, a highly mediocre writer. The only thing that made the book popular is the theory he used as the mystery of the book. For that, he owes much to "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" and the authors. Using anagrams of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" authors' names as a character in the book was, I'm confident, his way of honoring those writers. Brown also used a number of other books to further the theories in his book. Does he owe them anything besides a thank you? I'd be hard pressed to think so. So long as you provide references for your theories, you should be safe. I'm a bit split on this since I'm not a lawyer, but I have to side with Brown, except for using the authors' names.
I'd like to contribute to the project but it doesn't have a Boinc client? Other than the original project page, all I could find is this and it doesn't say anything about Boinc. Too bad. You'd think they'd try to take advantage of the large install base rather than require people to install an additional client.
Dear Sir,
RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING YOUR ASSISTANCE IN EXTREME CONFIDENCE
I am certain this message comes as a suprise to you since you do not know me. I have obtained your name from French Resistance fighters as one that can be trusted with my confidence.
Two months ago, my father was kidnapped and murdered by the Nazi SS. I have need to transfer the sum of US$25,000,000 (twenty-five million) from an account in Credit Lyonnais in France to an account outside of German territory, of which your payment shall be 30% if you agree to our proposal...
I work with a Brit and she hates Monty Python. She thinks they are the most unfunny "comedy" troupe around. Of course, she also says I have an accent. That said, I'll be watching. By the way, I now have can of Spamalot and a few bottles of Monty Python's Holy Ail. I'm all set for a night of taunting.
I actually knew a hispanic guy who worked at one of my previous employers whose name was Jesus (p. HEY-zeus). Not a big deal but his last name was Pagan (p. pah-GON). Pronounced, HEY-zeus pah-GON wasn't a big deal either. Seeing the look on someone's face when reading the name "Jesus Pagan" could be kind of funny tough.
He was systems engineer, too. Hey Jesus! You around here?
If you'd read the article, you'd see that the officers involved had overstepped their bounds, they arrested no one and they've been reassigned. The departments involved said they would improve their training so rights are not violated. Sorry to burst your bubble.
These articles are just so wrong on so many levels. First the accuracy. "Adware also known as spyware"? Now I know there are similarities but you can't say they are one in the same. Many other small inaccuracies. Then you have the victims who admit they would rather buy a new computer than fix the one they have. Come on! It's just your OS! Reload it! And they don't want to be bothered with learning how to secure their computer. Then the sysadmin who is notified that he has 10,000 machines on his network infected and he doesn't know what to do about it. And finally are the people involved in the underbelly of the botnet/spyware scene. The guy lets cigarette ashes drop onto his laptop and has to "gently kick away" a dog with matted fur. What a loser. I don't care how much money he makes. I'd much rather make my own modest income which is enough to live in a nice little house. Then the way the people involved treat each other. I swear this article was about all the different ways they screw each other. Then 180 Solutions. These are the ones to actually collect the money from the advertisers. At least they could be honest in what they do. Wait, no they couldn't. If they were honest, they'd be out of business. It was an entertaining and fascinating read. But all I can do is shake my head. Wow.
Saying there is no excuse for the violence just means you don't sympathize with their viewpoint.
When their viewpoint is that a cartoon is an excuse for arson and murder and other violent acts, then you're right. I don't sypathize with their viewpoint.
People insult Christianity and Judaism constantly. If Christians and Jews say that people shouldn't say such things and create such art, they are blasted as being hateful and intolerant of others viewpoints. When Muslims use art as an excuse for arson and murder, we are told we should be more understanding. That, my friends, is beyond a double standard. If we had the same viewpoint, it really would be a war of Islam vs the West. It isn't, but from what I'm seeing it may be leading to that.
So who was calling it "Kama Sutra" ?
That would be the news media. You know, the all-knowing virus experts.
And all the non-tech people see this in the news and think it's a big deal. They keep calling asking if we are being hit by it. Gee, I don't know. It's been out since January 17 and our definitions have been updated about 15 times since then. You haven't been opening email attachments from people you don't know claiming to be sending you porn, have you? No? Then I think we're safe.
Come on people. Listen to those who know about what you are reporting. I had the same *&%$ happen a few weeks ago with the WMF flaw. Someone who thought they knew about security sent an email to everyone in the company telling them about a flaw that our systems were protected against anyway. This was after he sent a draft of the email to me to review to make sure he had the facts straight. I advised him to not send it at all. He sent it anyway. All this is just crying wolf. Some day there will be something we need people to be aware of and they will ignore us because of all the false alarms in the past.
I just think it is naive, dangerous and frankly irresponsible to dismiss this debate while we're still collecting scientific data.
I agree with your comment. The problem here is that the side that says global warming is real and is caused by mankind's actions state that it is a fact that mankind caused it. They don't need any more data. Anyone who says we're not sure that it is caused by mankind are tagged as flamebait or trolls. The sun is at the height of a twenty year cycle. Data has shown that Mars is also experiencing global warming. The Earth has undergone normal rises and falls in global temperatures throughout history. No, we shouldn't dismiss global warming as not real or as not caused by man. We also shouldn't say that we know for a fact that it IS caused by man. We don't know. My own opinion on this is that Yes, global warming is happening. I also believe that it is a natural phenomenon wherein man plays a very minor role. I believe that there is nothing mankind can do to stop it but I believe it will reverse itself on a relatively short (on a geologic scale) period of time. Those who can't adapt to the changing world will die off. Those who can will thrive. Evolution in action.
Two things to note. One is my use of "I believe". I could be wrong. It seems most people out there on both sides refuse to use "I believe". They act as if their side knows all the facts on the matter. They don't. Second, queue all those people saying "Data shows the temperature is increasing more rapidly than at any time in history." My only reply is just how accurate are your temperature readings in the past? I'd bet no where near as accurate as those currently in use. Can you PROVE that there wasn't a 200-year blip with a fast increase in temperatures over 40,000 (or millions of) years ago?
If this were windows media player (again - it phoned home when you played DVDs, and was resoundly condemded in many circles) there wouldn't be a person on slashdot without a torch or pitchfork.
I agree wholeheartedly. If you remember the Sony-BMG debacle (who doesn't?), one of the things people were up in arms about was that the software phoned home. People on /., among many others, rightly complained that it sent information back to Sony without the customer's permission. Sony said they didn't keep the information, but people rightly said that it didn't matter if they kept it or not. The problem was that it was sent without our permission. Yes, there were many other aspects to the Sony-BMG fiasco, but this was one of the issues. According to many comments on /., the fact that Apple is doing it seems to make it okay. It is NOT okay. This should have been clarified up front with the default to "don't transfer my information to Apple".
I don't disagree with the basic idea of what you are saying. The problem is that you are confusing "stem cells" with "embryonic stem cells". Not all stem cells are embryonic stem cells. The stem cell lines that so far have provided the best results have been stem cell lines extracted from adults and umbilical cords and not aborted or non-implanted embryos. Most people who object to embryonic stem cell research have no problem with adult or umbilical cord stem cell research. Just be sure that when you put forward your argument against embryonic stem cells, you specify embryonic stem cells. Unless, of course, you disagree with ALL stem cell research. In which case, good luck!
Right, and nerds who read Slashdot constitute maybe 0.01% of the U.S. population?? And those who really care are probably a fraction of that.
I emailed this original story translated into normal mundane American English to several friends and family members. I got a large number of responses how they felt about it, which was the same way I did. They won't be buying Sony either. Now, whenever there is news about Sony, they forward it to me so I can forward it to everyone else. Geeks are big on boycotting Sony but there are many non-geeks also on the bandwagon.
Check out this story on Wired about Sony's latest guerilla marketing ploy. Sony has hired graffitti artists to paint buildings in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami with graffitti showing people playing with the PSP. NOt everyone is happy with this. I know if they painted MY building (assuming I had one), I'd be suing them.
This particular bug gets installed even if you decline the EULA. Sony and Sunncomm, what a wonderful combination. Remember, this is the same company that tried suing someone for putting on their web site "Hold the shift key down while inserting a copy protected CD to prevent the DRM software from being installed."
Just shaking my head at their idiocy and getting ready to watch the fireworks, assuming anything actually happens because of this mess.
Our intern was messing around with old hard drives and decided to take off the cover of one, plug it in and let it run. It worked fine, so I touched my finger to it. It still ran, so I licked my finger and touched it. Oops. Blue Screen. I didn't think the heads were close enough to the disk to get a good read so I put some pressure behind it. Let me tell you, the noise that makes isn't nearly so annoying to the person doing it as it is to everyone else in the room. The hard drive platter now looks quite similar to an LP record's grooves. Cool. Okay, I didn't put a window on the drive. So what? This was more fun.
Don't be surprised in Sony divests itself of BMG music at some point in the future, to keep from losing customers for its home electronics business
I used to be pretty loyal to Sony. They were a provider of decent quality home electronics for me. I didn't need top of the line, but I didn't want crap either. Sony was a decent product at a decent price. I own a Sony Trinitron 32" television, a Sony DVD player and a Sony 19" CRT. Given that they were purchased a while back before price drops in recent years, that's $1500 worth of stuff I bought from them. Never again. Ever. I'm through with them and I'm telling everyone I know. I have a distribution list in my email program that I send out Sony updates to. No one I know that actually listens to my advice will purchase from them again either. Some will follow my advice, some may not, but at least they know. Regardless, given a choice, Sony won't be getting any more money from me.
Until there are devastating consequences for any company that dies this
Bit of a Freudian slip, gasmonso?