It will be interesting to see what sony does with this if it is true. I mean, it is not like they care about burning bridges. I could totally see them suing Amazon, if only to give them a PR black eye.
Your post was not totally clear. Is the intent to give Amazon a PR Black Eye, or to freshen up the Sony PR Black Eye? I think Amazon would actually end up with a PR win if they handled it right.
Sales of three sets of games are a very piss-poor measurement in this case, due to other elements in play.
Yes, but better than the alternatives. Name any other measure where a game is totally cross platform, and the demographics are tracked. I would say iD, but they are all tracked as Windows sales. Also, name your price is the best whay to find out what people are willing to pay. It does show that for the same product, Linux users are willing to pay three times as much as Windows users, and twice as much as Mac users. Damn freetards willing to pay so much...
The said they were not planning on anything else. And they said they would not do another rootkit after the CD-Rom fiasco. Forgive me if I trust them not at all.
Then the subpoenas of people who visited a web site, or watched a video, which was still yet another division.
Which 1) weren't turned over to Sony itself and 2) only used to argue jurisdiction. It's disingenuous to use the action out of context to imply nefarious intent.
Sony's done enough on its own to make certain segments of the population upset, and with good reason. There's no need to make stuff up.
No making stuff up involved. Sony did ask for it, and the court limited it. But Sony did ask... And it was only used to argue jurisdiction because they didn't get the data. If the would have received all of the data, they might or might not have used it. I am guessing they would based on past performance, but it is still a guess. You are ascribing limitations set by the court as altruism, which ain't the case.
I give it another 20 years. It'll happen for "security" reasons, under guise of protecting us from spams and malwares, to protect Sony from break ins, to protect content providers. Whether it'll do that does not matter; it will be the excuse for needing permission to use our own machines.
Not to me. I will be running Silly Sea-monster. It is funny, that the majors are making Linux look more viable all the time. That with the fact that Linux is improving as well, can only help. Already, every Humble Inde Bundle, 25% or the revenue is Linux. Not bad for a niche OS with less than 1% market share... Or could that be wrong?
CD root kit. Microvault thumb drive root kit right after. Subpoenas on people who looked at a website or a video. I guess to you that is just courtship...
Sounds right. Until you think again. There was a second rootkit with the microvault thumb drive and they were another division as well. (Why do people keep forgetting this one?) Then the subpoenas of people who visited a web site, or watched a video, which was still yet another division. Sony sees the customer as the enemy. I do not want to do business with my enemy.
I have to agree. If so, it is the first time Anonymous has been called "very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated" about anything. That alone should raise flags.
Sony did mend their ways. After the rootkit fiasco for sure, but after most of the other bonehead moves as well. They apologized and promised to do better and all that, like they all do.
And then promptly released another rootkit on the Microvault thumb drives. They did not mend anything. They still think of the customer as the enemy. I will not do business with people like that.
The irony is that the bias in this article is exactly why people don't trust the media anymore. Another term for "clicking until you find one whose "facts" accord with your beliefs" is gathering and evaluating data.
Just give us a high-level explanation of what is happening and a reasonable estimate of how long it will take to fix, please, and stop jerking us around.
This is Sony. You may be waiting a while on that bit.
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Me too... I hate the trend of making new UIs more candy and less functional. I was hoping someone would buck the trend.
So you are saying that this is a gnome 4 preview?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuOvqeABHvQ
Not downloading does not solve the problems of intrusive laws, required record keeping, and misdirected lawsuits.
Wish I had points... It is true that it is about our only export. And it is falling fast.
It will be interesting to see what sony does with this if it is true. I mean, it is not like they care about burning bridges. I could totally see them suing Amazon, if only to give them a PR black eye.
Your post was not totally clear. Is the intent to give Amazon a PR Black Eye, or to freshen up the Sony PR Black Eye? I think Amazon would actually end up with a PR win if they handled it right.
Perhaps, but using nuclear weapons against squatters, trolls and spammers has some appeal to me, no matter who does it.
Sales of three sets of games are a very piss-poor measurement in this case, due to other elements in play.
Yes, but better than the alternatives. Name any other measure where a game is totally cross platform, and the demographics are tracked. I would say iD, but they are all tracked as Windows sales. Also, name your price is the best whay to find out what people are willing to pay. It does show that for the same product, Linux users are willing to pay three times as much as Windows users, and twice as much as Mac users. Damn freetards willing to pay so much...
The said they were not planning on anything else. And they said they would not do another rootkit after the CD-Rom fiasco. Forgive me if I trust them not at all.
Then the subpoenas of people who visited a web site, or watched a video, which was still yet another division.
Which 1) weren't turned over to Sony itself and 2) only used to argue jurisdiction. It's disingenuous to use the action out of context to imply nefarious intent.
Sony's done enough on its own to make certain segments of the population upset, and with good reason. There's no need to make stuff up.
No making stuff up involved. Sony did ask for it, and the court limited it. But Sony did ask... And it was only used to argue jurisdiction because they didn't get the data. If the would have received all of the data, they might or might not have used it. I am guessing they would based on past performance, but it is still a guess. You are ascribing limitations set by the court as altruism, which ain't the case.
I give it another 20 years. It'll happen for "security" reasons, under guise of protecting us from spams and malwares, to protect Sony from break ins, to protect content providers. Whether it'll do that does not matter; it will be the excuse for needing permission to use our own machines.
Not to me. I will be running Silly Sea-monster. It is funny, that the majors are making Linux look more viable all the time. That with the fact that Linux is improving as well, can only help. Already, every Humble Inde Bundle, 25% or the revenue is Linux. Not bad for a niche OS with less than 1% market share... Or could that be wrong?
If GeoHot had not of done his shit the OtherOS would still be there.
Yes. No one else would ever have done it. GeoHot has the magic programming fingers! please...
CD root kit. Microvault thumb drive root kit right after. Subpoenas on people who looked at a website or a video. I guess to you that is just courtship...
Sounds right. Until you think again. There was a second rootkit with the microvault thumb drive and they were another division as well. (Why do people keep forgetting this one?) Then the subpoenas of people who visited a web site, or watched a video, which was still yet another division. Sony sees the customer as the enemy. I do not want to do business with my enemy.
Actually, I figured it could go either way. The best jokes can. :)
I have to agree. If so, it is the first time Anonymous has been called "very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated" about anything. That alone should raise flags.
Of course... That was why I was not surprised to see another rootkit from them later. Remember the Microvault drives?
Sony did mend their ways. After the rootkit fiasco for sure, but after most of the other bonehead moves as well. They apologized and promised to do better and all that, like they all do.
And then promptly released another rootkit on the Microvault thumb drives. They did not mend anything. They still think of the customer as the enemy. I will not do business with people like that.
Why does everyone forget the second one right after? http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/09/04/sony_admits_to_microvault_rootkit_problem/1 I consider that one worse, as you know it was intentional.
Actually, two rootkits, and a subpoena for reading a blog or looking at a video. And this is not touching on the RIAA and MPAA stuff they promote.
Did you forget the rootkit on the secure thumb drives right after? If you make the same "mistake" over and over, it ain't a mistake.
No, because it was not taught or used for a long time. However, now it is coming back into use and it will improve over time.
The irony is that the bias in this article is exactly why people don't trust the media anymore. Another term for "clicking until you find one whose "facts" accord with your beliefs" is gathering and evaluating data.
All of those folks who decided to boycott Sony over any one of the rootkit fiascoes should be feeling a bit superior right now.
They are just pissed that somebody stole a lot of personal data, and took over a bunch of computer systems, and it wasn't them.
Just give us a high-level explanation of what is happening and a reasonable estimate of how long it will take to fix, please, and stop jerking us around.
This is Sony. You may be waiting a while on that bit.