Is the amount of productivity increase you get for investing in a second $130 display for me worth worth it. I don't have hard numbers but I can't image its not the case. There are periods of boom and bust around here when it comes to work load. Right now its bust but next week after some other major projects on other teams complete it will be boom again. The schedules desired won't leave me much slacktime to spend on Slashdot.
Being able to have documentation on one display be it technical docs on api's or requirements documentation and code on the other does let me work faster. Its way faster to turn my head at look the move windows around. Its nice to be able to mentally step thur code I have just written with requirements in view.
Our legislative, and executive bodies have no right to fact check anyones speech! Its a clear violation of the first and tenth amendments, and possibly the fourth depending on what happens as a result of being cited.
There is already a process for fact checking the Internet. Which ever person or organization the facts are relevant to can respond with their own information. If the information is wrong and damages their reputation in some way they can sue for libel. That is why we have courts people!
If an agency gets hold of these powers it will be exactly like the FCC it will get packed with corporate lobbyists who spend most of the their time making arbitrary and capricious decisions about things they clearly don't understand and the rest of their time engineering give aways to the corporations they plan to work at as soon as their term is up.
You know what though. We have a huge investment in customary system tooling and you know what the metric system sucks every bit as hard, in the modern world. People who need to do lots of conversions between our customary units learn how and they learn good rules of thumb and math tricks to do so, its no big deal. Nobody does arithmetic by pen and paper any more; its either simple enough to do in your head or its reach for a calculator or computer; many people carry a phone all the time with these features anyway.
A base 10 system has just about as many problems for a computer as our customary units have. So there is no real value in converting. If anything we should create a base 2, system switch to that and then make everyone else follow.
I am not saying Unified Communications Manager is the be all and end all of enterprise phone systems but don't make up facts. I even agree with you that Asterisk and other solutions are superior.
Still a properly deployed Communications Manager solution is NOT centralized you should either have an independent installation at each site trunking (for very large orgs) or you should have a member of the cluster at remote sites, for very small remote sites you should be running a router with CMFallback configured. So survivability really should not be a problem
No it might miss the security/usability trade off mark for but its actually not that badly implemented. Take Visual Studio and try to write a program that can circumvent UAC. Really try it, you will FAIL. It was specifically engineered to be difficult for malware that is not already running highly privileged to disable, or to "click yes" on the users behalf. Its very effective at that. What you want is for them to open up a whole bunch of new surface area to attack which would lessen the value of UAC as a security measure. If you want to run and interactive session as a privileged user and still be secure I don't care what OS you are using UAC is going be the price tag.
Sudo for instance is not nearly as strong as UAC in many regards, especially if you have the timeout configured. Its also not nearly so hostile an environment as the windows eco system tends to be.
See I think your wrong I think it comes right back to "Yes, it CAN be done safely...in theory."
Government is unlikely to do any better running something like this than a company with a "profit motive". Lets face it the Russians tried that and look what happened, a government which if anything had less pressure on it than ours would to deliver cut corners, took safety risks and ended up causing a disaster.
Now lets think about how this will play out in modern American Governance shall we. Be it the state or national level the government is broke and has a public that wants more services and at the same time to pay less in taxes. It has politicians who need to get re-elected that are ultimately the decision makers.
Now you have a layer of administrative people many of whom are dedicated public servants that want to do a good job but can't really run a strategy for any amount of time because they will soon find their budget to be determined not by need but political whim. Sometimes they will have the resources for popper maintenance and other times they will have to defer things until it to late. Look at all the public school buildings that have reached such poor condition its cheaper to tear down and rebuild now. The actual workers might start out dedicated too, but again may on any given day be lauded as heroes that keep the lights on or vilified as over paid slackers according to political expediency. Their actual pay will also frequently determined by political events like payroll freezes and such as well. Most likely they will become disgruntled, and quality will fall.
So maybe humans just are not good at long term commitments like a nuke plant, no matter what social structure you wrap around it.
Except that once again this IS NOT CAPITALISM. In CAPITALISM the capitalist is supposed to assume the risk to his capital if (s)he is to get any reward. the nuclear power industry does not work like that though. Instead they get to build plants either with strait subsidies or government loan grantees. Now you say well without those things nobody would ever be able to build a plant because they would never be able to sell the bonds to raise the capital to do it without those grantees. Why? because there is alot to go wrong the plant may never come on line if its not done right, if it does go online and anything ever goes wrong the organization will be sued and the investors will be left with nothing of value. Nobody is willing to take on such risks without government.
Well guess what I have new for you that is capitalism SCREAMING "DON'T BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS!" Lets face it the "intelligentsia" in this country actively participates in distorting the market place and undermining capitalist ideals and then cries "see capitalism does not work" when things go wrong. Stop lying! What does not work is this bullshit corporate-wellfareism.
Modernity is irrelevant when the contracts go to the lowest bidder, who also cut costs in the name of profit.
You don't think Modernity might have something to do with it along the lines of personal responsibility, amount of shame felt, sense of societal responsibility, etc etc. I think modernity might have a great deal to do with it.
Nothing on him? He was a conspirator to murder of almost 3000 people. Conspiracy to Commit Murder is a crime. Now he was outside of New York when he did the conspiring but the murders still took place in the United States. I don't know that New York has jurisdiction but a Federal Court certainly would. IANAL but this seems pretty clear.
I think on problem is that Conspiracy to Murder is not a real sexy crime to charge someone with how has been elevated to the same level of infamy of many of histories greatest villains enjoy.
Here in the Unitied States anyway we have laws that limit the personal information you can collect on children under 13 online. Facebook is all about collecting personal information, so this could be a big problem. I am not sure everyone understands what the law says on this issue either, for a while weather.com was asking if you were under 13 before they let you enter your zip code, which they obviously used to determine what forecast to show (and possibly target ads). They were not even asking for a first name along side that code.
She had a narrative that did not require any magic and fit the evidence which was available at the time. Your personal attack calling her crazy does not change that. It was reasonable to think it possible Obama was not born in Hawaii, likely no but possible. That is all I was saying, I think with the long firm birth certificate now published its pretty much impossible he was born anywhere but Hawaii.
So a full third of Facebook's viewers are 13 or under. That is actually kind of a shocking statistic. I am sure glad I am not one of those new investors they recently took on. This is going to by a buy high sell low event for most of them is my guess. Facebook is following the pattern of MySpace and is about out of steam is my guess.
I have to agree love him, like him, dislike him, hate him, whatever president Bush display far less capriciousness on these types of issues. Sure he did some inconsistent things from time to time too, (bailouts) but you know what to expect for the most part on a day to day basis.
Obama seems to oscillate wildly between progressive socialist and neoconservative with no determinable (atleast to me) rhyme nor reason.
I am sorry but what you describe is a pretty basic example of expression. Its down right fundamental to the concept of free speech that someone be able to create an others interested in looking at it such a cartoon. If you actually think it would appropriate for our government to censor that we might as well not have a first amendment.
I would also be apportionment for Muslims to voice their displeasure as long as they do it in way that is not harmful to the person or property of others. As a Christian I don't look to fondly on "Piss Christ" personally, suspending the sacred symbol of my faith in urine does not evoke good feelings in me but I recognize the artist has a right to express himself, even if I won't be buying a print.
Either they killed him like they say or they have solid intelligence that he is in fact dead. It would be to politically disastrous for them to *wrong* on this one. I am not even certain the consequences to Obama would be limited to those that are political if you get my meaning. Its unthinkable that he would lie about this. I say that as a Ron Paul Republican, that generally assumes Obama is lying as a starting position whenever he opens his mouth.
Its like the birth certificate thing, Orly Tates had a some plausible explanations for all the evidence available prior to his producing a long form certificate. I think it was entirely reasonable to doubt his citizen ship, I say doubt not conclude he was not a citizen, prior to his producing that document. I don't think there is much cause for doubt now, after all he had gotten away with not producing the long form until now. There was no reason to think it was going to be any real political trouble for him. He had everything to lose and little to gain ponying up at this point except that he was mostly tired of hearing it. The birthers are not going to suddenly become Obama voters. If on the other hand someone can show the long form is a fake it will cost him big.
Back to the Bin Laden issue, I think getting rid of the body the way he did was smart, it solves all kinds of problems with it becoming a shrine or turning any place its brought to into a target. I do understand that some people especially those personally effected deserve to see the photos. Its also true that this guy has been the bogey man for an entire generation of children, and it might help some of them to see justice was done. So I do think the photos should not be censored.
With that said I also feel that all of this was a dirty distasteful business. Basic justice demanded we kill him and I am glad it (appears tin foil haters) was done. It was a violent mess that while necessary is not something I wish to be reminded of everyday and I don't think its good for anyone else to be either. This is the sort of thing its best just to say "I am glad the matter is settled and we can put it behind us." So show people the pictures so they can all understand its over now and lets try to find other things to talk about.
I know ex-Navy guys who used to flick cigarette butts into open containers of jet fuel. Most of the time fuel will not combust under the wrong conditions. If you know what the right conditions are most fuels even pure H2 are pretty safe to keep around. The thing is look how often filling stations go up, how many natgas related home explosions happen each year; shit goes wrong astonishingly often. Keep in mind too that you are putting this in the hands of people who are likely to be negligent, careless, and ignorant; possibly all three at once. Safety is a real concern.
Really? Amazon is not profiting from the Kindle business or does not expect to be profitable in future? That is probably why they keep expanding it This story is stupid, and these people are just crying because THEY not ANYONE can't compete.
There are only legal ramifications if there is some controlling legal authority with :
a interest in doing something about whatever happened in the first place
the resources and process in place to create some sort of finding others will see as legitimate
a workable amount of leverage to use against the party you find against.
Who is going punish the United States for violating Somali territory or acting against Somali citizens the rest of the world regards as pirates? The UN? nope first they probably can't we have veto power on the security council, and second they consequences of setting themselves at odds with the US with sanctions or anything else are probably fewer than we could retaliate with by simply not paying our dues and not making our military resources available to enforce their policy. There is no reason to think the nascent Somali government would even respond and they can't do anything anyway, what restrict trade? The various African bodies if anything want to see the pirates go away.
I am not saying we should just solve the piracy problem militarily. I am just saying fear of reprisal is not a reasons not to do it. There are plenty of ethical arguments for not getting evolved, though.
Honestly I don't understand you use case. If you are really working with data volumes that large than IO is almost certainly your problem. You would be better of sharing a terminal server(on whatever OS you like) or each having your own VM that you remote into in some way. That way that machine can be attached to a SAN with fiber channel or iscsi on bonded Ethernet with more channels than is practical to run to your desk. Also that SAN can have a metric shit tonne of cache, and loads of spindles.
There is no sane reason for pushing data volumes that large to edge, its always going to under perform.
He said "school" and "central data base" couple that with a server running with two bonded nics, and 25 users, there is one logical conclusion: its a shared MS Access file, and its gotten pretty big.
Those things can easily if not compacted hit 2 gigs or so. 25 users all trying to hit it via cif/smb sounds like loads of bandwidth to me.
Maybe they just don't want to admit that they got a sizeable blow from these hacktivits. Maybe for them blaming criminals is better.
I just don't see it. In the eyes of the law the hacktivists would be vandals, it might not be as serious a crime as larceny but its still a crime. I don't know about the Japanese public but the American public if anything takes a dimer view of vandalism than theft. So strictly from a PR point of view I don't see how "Crackers broke in a stole from us" is really all that different from "Crackers broke in a trashed our stuff".
That sounds like a great plan. Put the system back online without knowing how it was cracked. That way everyone can get their new CC number stolen too! Customers will love that....
I agree with your assessment it makes no sense at all form them say the account information was stolen unless they either know it was or can't be sure it was not. If they knew the data was not leaked they would not be writing checks for identity theft protection.
I don't understand the big mystery here. I suspect the issue is there is something very fundamentally broken about how the PSN does authentication and or authorization, and they can't figure out a way to fix it without breaking all the existing software out there. They can't go live again until they fix the hole because if anything more people know the details of the hack, and they would 0w3d again. They can't fix it unless the fix can be made at least opaque enough that a few library updates to the consoles takes care of things without having to touch application layer code, which allot of is found on ready only blue-ray disks.
I work in IT security at my company. If an end user acted the they way you are acting I'd report it and you'd probably be pretty severely reprimanded for your attitude and if you failed to change it afterward you'd be fired. Yes IT does need to *make it work* if its actually *work*, the fact that'd you would *like* to use your iWhatever may or may not be work. If you have a good reason come talk to us, most security departments would try to find a solution.
Expecting IT (Security especially) to just get out of the way or have a no request is to unreasonable attitude is just wrong, and I think you will find your UPPER management realizes that. Maybe you are not at a public company that might change things a bit too, but trust me someone will care when they have to put in the notes to the financial statement that something happened.
Management would be very unhappy if they were forced to report that, our trade secrets relating to the manufacturing we do may have been leaked, that our competitors know our cost structure, that we lost customer data, etc etc. The last on is embarrassing and might cost some current business, the first two could seriously harm the competitiveness of the company going forward. IT Security IS IMPORTANT we are not just your BITCH. We play a role just like every other department. We need you to be able to do what you do so we have job, you need us to make sure you are able to keep doing what you do, so you have job. That is why its called a (corp)oration, we are supposed to be cooperating.
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Is the amount of productivity increase you get for investing in a second $130 display for me worth worth it. I don't have hard numbers but I can't image its not the case. There are periods of boom and bust around here when it comes to work load. Right now its bust but next week after some other major projects on other teams complete it will be boom again. The schedules desired won't leave me much slacktime to spend on Slashdot.
Being able to have documentation on one display be it technical docs on api's or requirements documentation and code on the other does let me work faster. Its way faster to turn my head at look the move windows around. Its nice to be able to mentally step thur code I have just written with requirements in view.
Our legislative, and executive bodies have no right to fact check anyones speech! Its a clear violation of the first and tenth amendments, and possibly the fourth depending on what happens as a result of being cited.
There is already a process for fact checking the Internet. Which ever person or organization the facts are relevant to can respond with their own information. If the information is wrong and damages their reputation in some way they can sue for libel. That is why we have courts people!
If an agency gets hold of these powers it will be exactly like the FCC it will get packed with corporate lobbyists who spend most of the their time making arbitrary and capricious decisions about things they clearly don't understand and the rest of their time engineering give aways to the corporations they plan to work at as soon as their term is up.
You know what though. We have a huge investment in customary system tooling and you know what the metric system sucks every bit as hard, in the modern world. People who need to do lots of conversions between our customary units learn how and they learn good rules of thumb and math tricks to do so, its no big deal. Nobody does arithmetic by pen and paper any more; its either simple enough to do in your head or its reach for a calculator or computer; many people carry a phone all the time with these features anyway.
A base 10 system has just about as many problems for a computer as our customary units have. So there is no real value in converting. If anything we should create a base 2, system switch to that and then make everyone else follow.
I am not saying Unified Communications Manager is the be all and end all of enterprise phone systems but don't make up facts. I even agree with you that Asterisk and other solutions are superior.
Still a properly deployed Communications Manager solution is NOT centralized you should either have an independent installation at each site trunking (for very large orgs) or you should have a member of the cluster at remote sites, for very small remote sites you should be running a router with CMFallback configured. So survivability really should not be a problem
No it might miss the security/usability trade off mark for but its actually not that badly implemented. Take Visual Studio and try to write a program that can circumvent UAC. Really try it, you will FAIL. It was specifically engineered to be difficult for malware that is not already running highly privileged to disable, or to "click yes" on the users behalf. Its very effective at that. What you want is for them to open up a whole bunch of new surface area to attack which would lessen the value of UAC as a security measure. If you want to run and interactive session as a privileged user and still be secure I don't care what OS you are using UAC is going be the price tag.
Sudo for instance is not nearly as strong as UAC in many regards, especially if you have the timeout configured. Its also not nearly so hostile an environment as the windows eco system tends to be.
See I think your wrong I think it comes right back to "Yes, it CAN be done safely...in theory."
Government is unlikely to do any better running something like this than a company with a "profit motive". Lets face it the Russians tried that and look what happened, a government which if anything had less pressure on it than ours would to deliver cut corners, took safety risks and ended up causing a disaster.
Now lets think about how this will play out in modern American Governance shall we. Be it the state or national level the government is broke and has a public that wants more services and at the same time to pay less in taxes. It has politicians who need to get re-elected that are ultimately the decision makers.
Now you have a layer of administrative people many of whom are dedicated public servants that want to do a good job but can't really run a strategy for any amount of time because they will soon find their budget to be determined not by need but political whim. Sometimes they will have the resources for popper maintenance and other times they will have to defer things until it to late. Look at all the public school buildings that have reached such poor condition its cheaper to tear down and rebuild now. The actual workers might start out dedicated too, but again may on any given day be lauded as heroes that keep the lights on or vilified as over paid slackers according to political expediency. Their actual pay will also frequently determined by political events like payroll freezes and such as well. Most likely they will become disgruntled, and quality will fall.
So maybe humans just are not good at long term commitments like a nuke plant, no matter what social structure you wrap around it.
Except that once again this IS NOT CAPITALISM. In CAPITALISM the capitalist is supposed to assume the risk to his capital if (s)he is to get any reward. the nuclear power industry does not work like that though. Instead they get to build plants either with strait subsidies or government loan grantees. Now you say well without those things nobody would ever be able to build a plant because they would never be able to sell the bonds to raise the capital to do it without those grantees. Why? because there is alot to go wrong the plant may never come on line if its not done right, if it does go online and anything ever goes wrong the organization will be sued and the investors will be left with nothing of value. Nobody is willing to take on such risks without government.
Well guess what I have new for you that is capitalism SCREAMING "DON'T BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS!"
Lets face it the "intelligentsia" in this country actively participates in distorting the market place and undermining capitalist ideals and then cries "see capitalism does not work" when things go wrong. Stop lying! What does not work is this bullshit corporate-wellfareism.
Modernity is irrelevant when the contracts go to the lowest bidder, who also cut costs in the name of profit.
You don't think Modernity might have something to do with it along the lines of personal responsibility, amount of shame felt, sense of societal responsibility, etc etc. I think modernity might have a great deal to do with it.
Nothing on him? He was a conspirator to murder of almost 3000 people. Conspiracy to Commit Murder is a crime. Now he was outside of New York when he did the conspiring but the murders still took place in the United States. I don't know that New York has jurisdiction but a Federal Court certainly would. IANAL but this seems pretty clear.
I think on problem is that Conspiracy to Murder is not a real sexy crime to charge someone with how has been elevated to the same level of infamy of many of histories greatest villains enjoy.
Oh never mind I misread the first time the 20million number is just minors, not the total population. Still this could be a legal mess.
Here in the Unitied States anyway we have laws that limit the personal information you can collect on children under 13 online. Facebook is all about collecting personal information, so this could be a big problem. I am not sure everyone understands what the law says on this issue either, for a while weather.com was asking if you were under 13 before they let you enter your zip code, which they obviously used to determine what forecast to show (and possibly target ads). They were not even asking for a first name along side that code.
She had a narrative that did not require any magic and fit the evidence which was available at the time. Your personal attack calling her crazy does not change that. It was reasonable to think it possible Obama was not born in Hawaii, likely no but possible. That is all I was saying, I think with the long firm birth certificate now published its pretty much impossible he was born anywhere but Hawaii.
So a full third of Facebook's viewers are 13 or under. That is actually kind of a shocking statistic. I am sure glad I am not one of those new investors they recently took on. This is going to by a buy high sell low event for most of them is my guess. Facebook is following the pattern of MySpace and is about out of steam is my guess.
I have to agree love him, like him, dislike him, hate him, whatever president Bush display far less capriciousness on these types of issues. Sure he did some inconsistent things from time to time too, (bailouts) but you know what to expect for the most part on a day to day basis.
Obama seems to oscillate wildly between progressive socialist and neoconservative with no determinable (atleast to me) rhyme nor reason.
I am sorry but what you describe is a pretty basic example of expression. Its down right fundamental to the concept of free speech that someone be able to create an others interested in looking at it such a cartoon. If you actually think it would appropriate for our government to censor that we might as well not have a first amendment.
I would also be apportionment for Muslims to voice their displeasure as long as they do it in way that is not harmful to the person or property of others. As a Christian I don't look to fondly on "Piss Christ" personally, suspending the sacred symbol of my faith in urine does not evoke good feelings in me but I recognize the artist has a right to express himself, even if I won't be buying a print.
Either they killed him like they say or they have solid intelligence that he is in fact dead. It would be to politically disastrous for them to *wrong* on this one. I am not even certain the consequences to Obama would be limited to those that are political if you get my meaning. Its unthinkable that he would lie about this. I say that as a Ron Paul Republican, that generally assumes Obama is lying as a starting position whenever he opens his mouth.
Its like the birth certificate thing, Orly Tates had a some plausible explanations for all the evidence available prior to his producing a long form certificate. I think it was entirely reasonable to doubt his citizen ship, I say doubt not conclude he was not a citizen, prior to his producing that document. I don't think there is much cause for doubt now, after all he had gotten away with not producing the long form until now. There was no reason to think it was going to be any real political trouble for him. He had everything to lose and little to gain ponying up at this point except that he was mostly tired of hearing it. The birthers are not going to suddenly become Obama voters. If on the other hand someone can show the long form is a fake it will cost him big.
Back to the Bin Laden issue, I think getting rid of the body the way he did was smart, it solves all kinds of problems with it becoming a shrine or turning any place its brought to into a target. I do understand that some people especially those personally effected deserve to see the photos. Its also true that this guy has been the bogey man for an entire generation of children, and it might help some of them to see justice was done. So I do think the photos should not be censored.
With that said I also feel that all of this was a dirty distasteful business. Basic justice demanded we kill him and I am glad it (appears tin foil haters) was done. It was a violent mess that while necessary is not something I wish to be reminded of everyday and I don't think its good for anyone else to be either. This is the sort of thing its best just to say "I am glad the matter is settled and we can put it behind us." So show people the pictures so they can all understand its over now and lets try to find other things to talk about.
I know ex-Navy guys who used to flick cigarette butts into open containers of jet fuel. Most of the time fuel will not combust under the wrong conditions. If you know what the right conditions are most fuels even pure H2 are pretty safe to keep around. The thing is look how often filling stations go up, how many natgas related home explosions happen each year; shit goes wrong astonishingly often. Keep in mind too that you are putting this in the hands of people who are likely to be negligent, careless, and ignorant; possibly all three at once. Safety is a real concern.
Really? Amazon is not profiting from the Kindle business or does not expect to be profitable in future? That is probably why they keep expanding it This story is stupid, and these people are just crying because THEY not ANYONE can't compete.
There are only legal ramifications if there is some controlling legal authority with :
a interest in doing something about whatever happened in the first place
the resources and process in place to create some sort of finding others will see as legitimate
a workable amount of leverage to use against the party you find against.
Who is going punish the United States for violating Somali territory or acting against Somali citizens the rest of the world regards as pirates? The UN? nope first they probably can't we have veto power on the security council, and second they consequences of setting themselves at odds with the US with sanctions or anything else are probably fewer than we could retaliate with by simply not paying our dues and not making our military resources available to enforce their policy. There is no reason to think the nascent Somali government would even respond and they can't do anything anyway, what restrict trade? The various African bodies if anything want to see the pirates go away.
I am not saying we should just solve the piracy problem militarily. I am just saying fear of reprisal is not a reasons not to do it. There are plenty of ethical arguments for not getting evolved, though.
Honestly I don't understand you use case. If you are really working with data volumes that large than IO is almost certainly your problem. You would be better of sharing a terminal server(on whatever OS you like) or each having your own VM that you remote into in some way. That way that machine can be attached to a SAN with fiber channel or iscsi on bonded Ethernet with more channels than is practical to run to your desk. Also that SAN can have a metric shit tonne of cache, and loads of spindles.
There is no sane reason for pushing data volumes that large to edge, its always going to under perform.
He said "school" and "central data base" couple that with a server running with two bonded nics, and 25 users, there is one logical conclusion: its a shared MS Access file, and its gotten pretty big.
Those things can easily if not compacted hit 2 gigs or so. 25 users all trying to hit it via cif/smb sounds like loads of bandwidth to me.
Maybe they just don't want to admit that they got a sizeable blow from these hacktivits.
Maybe for them blaming criminals is better.
I just don't see it. In the eyes of the law the hacktivists would be vandals, it might not be as serious a crime as larceny but its still a crime. I don't know about the Japanese public but the American public if anything takes a dimer view of vandalism than theft. So strictly from a PR point of view I don't see how "Crackers broke in a stole from us" is really all that different from "Crackers broke in a trashed our stuff".
That sounds like a great plan. Put the system back online without knowing how it was cracked. That way everyone can get their new CC number stolen too! Customers will love that....
I agree with your assessment it makes no sense at all form them say the account information was stolen unless they either know it was or can't be sure it was not. If they knew the data was not leaked they would not be writing checks for identity theft protection.
I don't understand the big mystery here. I suspect the issue is there is something very fundamentally broken about how the PSN does authentication and or authorization, and they can't figure out a way to fix it without breaking all the existing software out there. They can't go live again until they fix the hole because if anything more people know the details of the hack, and they would 0w3d again. They can't fix it unless the fix can be made at least opaque enough that a few library updates to the consoles takes care of things without having to touch application layer code, which allot of is found on ready only blue-ray disks.
I work in IT security at my company. If an end user acted the they way you are acting I'd report it and you'd probably be pretty severely reprimanded for your attitude and if you failed to change it afterward you'd be fired. Yes IT does need to *make it work* if its actually *work*, the fact that'd you would *like* to use your iWhatever may or may not be work. If you have a good reason come talk to us, most security departments would try to find a solution.
Expecting IT (Security especially) to just get out of the way or have a no request is to unreasonable attitude is just wrong, and I think you will find your UPPER management realizes that. Maybe you are not at a public company that might change things a bit too, but trust me someone will care when they have to put in the notes to the financial statement that something happened.
Management would be very unhappy if they were forced to report that, our trade secrets relating to the manufacturing we do may have been leaked, that our competitors know our cost structure, that we lost customer data, etc etc. The last on is embarrassing and might cost some current business, the first two could seriously harm the competitiveness of the company going forward. IT Security IS IMPORTANT we are not just your BITCH. We play a role just like every other department. We need you to be able to do what you do so we have job, you need us to make sure you are able to keep doing what you do, so you have job. That is why its called a (corp)oration, we are supposed to be cooperating.