Seriously, I was about to write that I doubt highly that CEOs and corrupt government officials are the ones coding the firewalls and preventing SQL injections.
It's not lulzsec's fault, even if they are incompetent, misinformed and illiterate fools.
And yet, they keep breaking into the private and customer information for banks, global corporations, governments, etc. etc.!
I'm awfully grateful for lulzsec revealing to the world that all it takes is a group of incompetent, misinformed and illiterate fools to cause billions of dollars worth of damage, destroy the credibility and security of world governments and established institutions and reveal the private information for millions of individuals.
I can't wait to see what competent, informed and literate fools with government backing can do to countries and companies when they decide that destroying a country's economy is more effective then paying billions of dollars to blow shit up.
Take away the precious welfare entitlement programs, some people will die of hunger, die from lack of medical care or lose their homes. Take away the American Military's budget, the imperialism will end and some people will live because there won't be hellfire missiles landing on their house instead of a terrorist enclave.
2001-2008, the debt ceiling was lifted 14 times. 3 years into the first term of Barack Obama, they want to lift it once while finding ways to reduce the spending deficit.
I call bullshit on false equivalency.
I'm interested in getting in on this. I have to change my damn credit card now and my company is charging me $5. That's as much as a PSone game which I purchased and now is a liability.
That's right because you can blame them for being under an external attack. One that Microsoft is COMPLETELY immune from. If this however, turns out to be an attempt to revamp security as a method to prevent console modding, I will be the first one with the torch and pitchfork.
Fair enough, dumb was the wrong word. Sorry.
Woefully willing to shell out cash for features which Sony can't reproduce because Microsoft doesn't want to give up its cash cow, is better verbage.
All of which amount to 50 dollars of value before they allow you to buy anything. I hope you enjoy it. I'm enjoying my PS3 exclusive games which work sans PSN just fine.
That's absolutely batshit retarded.
PSN is a robust user network which has had extremely low problems in the past and has the entire finances of SCEA behind it. The only thing Xbox LIVE gives you over PSN is cross game voice chat and users dumb enough to pay 50 a year for the service.
That's like saying that VISA didn't have enough finances behind it to avoid ANONYMOUS's attacks.
"I killed those people because God told me to"
"I killed those people because Duke Nukem told me to"
I submit that the cause of the above statements which is responsible for more deaths is more evil.
And then Geohot exploited it to open up the PS3. And then one of the first announced use of the CFW was copying games onto the hard drive. Really, it looks like Sony's only mistake was offering the Other OS feature so the/. community could whine about it being taken away when it was exploited to pirate games.
Do I like that they took away the Other OS feature? Not really. Now that they can remote ban CFW maybe they'll give us back the Other OS feature and I can play online using a dual boot like I had before Other OS was taken away.
... of right and left is getting pretty absurd. There's more than one right and left. They're just general guidelines that show a position between communism and fascism, progressiveness and conservatism and atheism versus religiosity. All those are mutually exclusive of each other. You can be be progressive or conservative and still be fascist.
North Korea is a great example of that. It's a "communist" state that's completely conservative and there are no Gods in North Korea save Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-Il. Of course you can completely rip that statement apart, but that's why the idea of polar opposites is a guideline and all this arguing I see on slashdot is completely ridiculous.
I'm intrigued by the post on slashdot, but the attached link is pretty sparse on details, so I came in here to read up on what other people had to say and I was amazed by the amount of eye-spitting and bullshit I had to sift through before I said enough.
...this is going to be used primarily for ticketing speeding cars on I-95 and for busting cars that go into the express lane between the 40th st and Miami Gardens Dr entrances.
The EPA said contaminated material from the Molycorp site includes about 328 million tons of acid-generating waste rock, more than 100 million tons of tailings and acid-rock drainage at the mine and seepage at the tailings facility.
Anyone want to place bets on whether or not the US government will press environmental regulations on Molycorp this time, now that national security interests are involved?
This smacks of isolationism and ignorance as to how economics work.
My guns and butter are more valuable being sold to Japan than in America, then sell to Japan. I get more money out of it, Uncle Sam gets more taxes out of it, my American employees get paid for creating the product, and I don't have to worry about Japan suddenly stockpiling MY products in order to stifle trade. It's literally the biggest amount of Win/Win that can occur.
China made mining in America not as profitable as importing it. Now that that is over, the mine is reopening. It's as simple as that.
That radioactive waste water snippet did raise my eyebrow though.
I kept reading about how this was Sony's plot to get everyone to upgrade to the new models in order to keep users from having access to the Other OS feature.
You guys need to chill the fuck out. It's a bug. Sony announced in advance that they were removing the Other OS feature from the firmware. They announce every time they release a firmware removing something. I'm not the Other OS removal wasn't a completely dick move (which it was), but they are always straight forward and have never made any (noticed) stealth changes to the firmware. Besides, I think they have enough Class Action Lawsuits on their plates to go and brick their own product for an unannounced, unreleased proprietary hard drive format.
(On topic, vuvuzelas are annoying as hell, and I hate having to cut out the commentary by turning off the audio)
I've noticed throughout the World Cup, joyfully, that the game isn't interrupted by a blaring car commercial or a shaving advertisement every 10 minutes.
In fact, if you're going to measure the popularity of American sporting events by viewers, the top two, baseball and football are also the most heavily inundated by commercials. (I think the statistic was that only 17 minutes out of every hour is spent watching football during a football game) In addition to that, Basketball and Hockey, which are both high-contact, high-movement sports in comparison, can only have commercials placed during the breaks in the periods, which are every 15 minutes and 20 minutes concurrently.
It makes me wonder, how much of sports fandom in America is about commercialism and how much of it is about physical competition.
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Seriously, I was about to write that I doubt highly that CEOs and corrupt government officials are the ones coding the firewalls and preventing SQL injections.
It's not lulzsec's fault, even if they are incompetent, misinformed and illiterate fools.
And yet, they keep breaking into the private and customer information for banks, global corporations, governments, etc. etc.!
I'm awfully grateful for lulzsec revealing to the world that all it takes is a group of incompetent, misinformed and illiterate fools to cause billions of dollars worth of damage, destroy the credibility and security of world governments and established institutions and reveal the private information for millions of individuals.
I can't wait to see what competent, informed and literate fools with government backing can do to countries and companies when they decide that destroying a country's economy is more effective then paying billions of dollars to blow shit up.
Take away the precious welfare entitlement programs, some people will die of hunger, die from lack of medical care or lose their homes. Take away the American Military's budget, the imperialism will end and some people will live because there won't be hellfire missiles landing on their house instead of a terrorist enclave. 2001-2008, the debt ceiling was lifted 14 times. 3 years into the first term of Barack Obama, they want to lift it once while finding ways to reduce the spending deficit. I call bullshit on false equivalency.
I'm interested in getting in on this. I have to change my damn credit card now and my company is charging me $5. That's as much as a PSone game which I purchased and now is a liability.
That's right because you can blame them for being under an external attack. One that Microsoft is COMPLETELY immune from. If this however, turns out to be an attempt to revamp security as a method to prevent console modding, I will be the first one with the torch and pitchfork.
Fair enough, dumb was the wrong word. Sorry. Woefully willing to shell out cash for features which Sony can't reproduce because Microsoft doesn't want to give up its cash cow, is better verbage.
Not the person who has been using PSN free of charge since 2008. Namely, me.
All of which amount to 50 dollars of value before they allow you to buy anything. I hope you enjoy it. I'm enjoying my PS3 exclusive games which work sans PSN just fine.
Naturally, everyone was pleased when Microsoft reimbursed their users for the downtime of their service which they paid for. Right?
You're right. I forgot all about that. Totally worth 50 dollars a year for the privilege for paying more for those games.
That's absolutely batshit retarded. PSN is a robust user network which has had extremely low problems in the past and has the entire finances of SCEA behind it. The only thing Xbox LIVE gives you over PSN is cross game voice chat and users dumb enough to pay 50 a year for the service. That's like saying that VISA didn't have enough finances behind it to avoid ANONYMOUS's attacks.
"I killed those people because God told me to" "I killed those people because Duke Nukem told me to" I submit that the cause of the above statements which is responsible for more deaths is more evil.
Why the hell was I modded troll? Just because you disagree with me doesn't mean I'm fucking trolling.
And then Geohot exploited it to open up the PS3. And then one of the first announced use of the CFW was copying games onto the hard drive. Really, it looks like Sony's only mistake was offering the Other OS feature so the /. community could whine about it being taken away when it was exploited to pirate games.
Do I like that they took away the Other OS feature? Not really. Now that they can remote ban CFW maybe they'll give us back the Other OS feature and I can play online using a dual boot like I had before Other OS was taken away.
... of right and left is getting pretty absurd. There's more than one right and left. They're just general guidelines that show a position between communism and fascism, progressiveness and conservatism and atheism versus religiosity. All those are mutually exclusive of each other. You can be be progressive or conservative and still be fascist. North Korea is a great example of that. It's a "communist" state that's completely conservative and there are no Gods in North Korea save Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-Il. Of course you can completely rip that statement apart, but that's why the idea of polar opposites is a guideline and all this arguing I see on slashdot is completely ridiculous. I'm intrigued by the post on slashdot, but the attached link is pretty sparse on details, so I came in here to read up on what other people had to say and I was amazed by the amount of eye-spitting and bullshit I had to sift through before I said enough.
...this is going to be used primarily for ticketing speeding cars on I-95 and for busting cars that go into the express lane between the 40th st and Miami Gardens Dr entrances.
Despite the story's GO AMERICA slant, a lot of material is going straight to Japan, where most of it is consumed in the first place. Like to Hitachi: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BK5PL20101221
Oh look. They also signed deals with Sumitomo and Mitsubishi: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/T101219002181.htm
They got huge piles of cash from Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, and Hitachi...which is why it's hilarious to hear the CEO of Molycorp waving American flags in various quotes. Oh, and Molycorp's stock has shot up since their IPO in July: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-28/molycorp-s-ipo-aims-at-chinese-grip-on-smart-bombs.html
Also, how interesting that the EPA announces cleanup plan of Molycorp site just a few days ago: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12460111
The EPA said contaminated material from the Molycorp site includes about 328 million tons of acid-generating waste rock, more than 100 million tons of tailings and acid-rock drainage at the mine and seepage at the tailings facility.
Anyone want to place bets on whether or not the US government will press environmental regulations on Molycorp this time, now that national security interests are involved?
This smacks of isolationism and ignorance as to how economics work. My guns and butter are more valuable being sold to Japan than in America, then sell to Japan. I get more money out of it, Uncle Sam gets more taxes out of it, my American employees get paid for creating the product, and I don't have to worry about Japan suddenly stockpiling MY products in order to stifle trade. It's literally the biggest amount of Win/Win that can occur. China made mining in America not as profitable as importing it. Now that that is over, the mine is reopening. It's as simple as that. That radioactive waste water snippet did raise my eyebrow though.
I for one, welcome our horny crocodile overlords.
Legos are most fun for adults when you are making 12 inch long yellow and red block cocks.
It's funny that you mention all that, cause all of that has nothing to do with the Sony PS3 firmware bugs, i.e. what this conversation is about.
The day that PSN bugged out on Feb 29.
I kept reading about how this was Sony's plot to get everyone to upgrade to the new models in order to keep users from having access to the Other OS feature.
You guys need to chill the fuck out. It's a bug. Sony announced in advance that they were removing the Other OS feature from the firmware. They announce every time they release a firmware removing something. I'm not the Other OS removal wasn't a completely dick move (which it was), but they are always straight forward and have never made any (noticed) stealth changes to the firmware. Besides, I think they have enough Class Action Lawsuits on their plates to go and brick their own product for an unannounced, unreleased proprietary hard drive format.
I think they were mistaking my schadenfreude for trolling. I loved the original Oddworld game.
For abandoning the PS2 in favor of the original X-Box. Exclusivity deals FTL.
(On topic, vuvuzelas are annoying as hell, and I hate having to cut out the commentary by turning off the audio)
I've noticed throughout the World Cup, joyfully, that the game isn't interrupted by a blaring car commercial or a shaving advertisement every 10 minutes.
In fact, if you're going to measure the popularity of American sporting events by viewers, the top two, baseball and football are also the most heavily inundated by commercials. (I think the statistic was that only 17 minutes out of every hour is spent watching football during a football game) In addition to that, Basketball and Hockey, which are both high-contact, high-movement sports in comparison, can only have commercials placed during the breaks in the periods, which are every 15 minutes and 20 minutes concurrently.
It makes me wonder, how much of sports fandom in America is about commercialism and how much of it is about physical competition.
Yes.