And to get a digital movie to play also requires security clearances and internet passwords, it won't simply play on any projector, you need to get it authorized. So not changing the lens at the same time is a problem with incompetence or sloth.
No, it isn't the Sony DRM giving customers an inferior product, it is the theaters. Analog projection showed us they don't really see image quality as a big factor in their business success. You were lucky to get a projector with the film held steady in the gate, well lit and in focus, so is it a surprise theaters don't take their responsibilities any more seriously for digital?
As a person who is sensitive to flicker (a bit) and to jumpy film images, I have to say the rock-steady images of digital (and with quite even brightness usually too!) is not an inferior product. It's a greatly superior product. I don't know who is making the projectors I'm seeing though, could be Sony, could be anybody.
You know, the group of 4Channers who mete out vigilante justice as they see fit?
But I think gman003 was more talking about media. There are like 5 superhero movies coming out this year. Virtually all of them are vigilantes (although having seen Thor, the current #1 movie, it's not actually a vigilante movie).
You can get a 20' container with a 2MW Diesel generator in it. They aren't even very expensive (less than $1M). There were certainly some in the area, if they should have been commandeered for the task. These can be lifted by large helicopters I expect (can't find figures on this to be sure, a 6MW generator is 2x too heavy for a Chinook to carry, perhaps a 1 or 1MW generator is light enough. The US military certainly has several of these, they were several hours away but remember the batteries lasted for 8-24 hours. A ship may have been able to steam there from Okinawa in time and pulled up alongside with a long cable, but this seems less than 100% likely to me. Perhaps any old steam ship has enough power capacity to run the pumps if you can just get the power ashore.
They should have called several to the site IMMEDIATELY, arriving before the batteries died. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
As to do I want to send my staff up on the roof of the buildings to drill some holes? YES. Because I do understand what is at stake here. Are they at risk? Surely. But the stakes are very high, I would have had them up drilling holes in the building before I even vented the vessel. It's much easier to work BEFORE the site is radioactive, so I would have had them drilling holes already. They could do the job carefully and slowly with the right safety equipment instead of trying to rush around due to radiation exposure windows.
As to getting permission. They likely didn't have permission. But that's just not enough excuse. If you know what MUST be done, permission is a mere formality. I'd rather lose my job because I didn't have permission than let a disaster occur. It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to get difficult permissions. People do get upset about venting small amounts of radioactivity. But they get more upset over 50 year 40km-diameter exclusion zones.
Again, my point is they were faced with an extraordinary problem with extraordinary consequences and they failed to take extraordinary enough steps. Perhaps they were more concentrated in minimizing the damage to the plant instead of preventing a meltdown and large-scale release of radioactivity.
You can open a hole in the roof, as they did with buildings 5 and 6 later.
If they don't have the tools onsite to open a hole in those buildings at the top where the hydrogen would collect, then that was again poor planning and preparation.
The stakes are extraordinarily high, the response can be so.
And when you are looking at such a dire situation and the roads are trashed YOU CAN CALL A HELICOPTER if you need to. At the outside, they could have called the US military to fly a chopper in with tools they needed, even demolition charges and people to rig them.
They didn't concentrate enough on preventing disaster, they didn't seem to consider drastic enough measures given the stakes.
This kind of business model has existed in only slightly different forms for quite a while. In the 70s, there were large coupon books that were heavily advertised and contained one coupon from each of many businesses.
They gave huge discounts, but you only got one coupon for the company per book. The book was sold for a fee that wasn't so small that you could afford to buy the book and throw away all the coupons but the one you wanted. But if you used many of the coupons you would come out ahead.
Anyway, this was the same thing. It brought profits for the coupon sellers and mostly introduced customers for the businesses who had coupons in there.
These stuck around for a long time, and Groupon is just a newer version. So I don't think this will go away, but I don't see why companies are falling over each other to get into this business space.
TEPCO failed at not having prepared for the scenario when the plant suffers complete blackout, including all backups being flooded. That's all.
That is not all.
They had 8 to 24 hours (I forget) to bring and connect additional power generators or charged batteries to the site before the existing batteries failed, but they didn't do it despite knowing what the stakes were.
They failed to vent the hydrogen from the reactor buildings. They thought to vent the vessels to the buildings but didn't vent the hydrogen from the buildings. This lead to significant avoidable additional damage from explosions and probably raised the amount of radiation released to the environment.
They said they found a file called "Anonymous" with "We Are Legion" inside. They didn't draw conclusions. At question 7 when asked if they know of the individual(s) responsible for the break-in, they say "no".
Please stop misreporting this just to troll your readers.
Sony gave factual answers, when the allegedly well-informed tech press can't even read it without stating information that wasn't in the release, what chance is there for accurate info to get out?
Sony never said no credit card numbers were compromised, they said that credit card numbers were in a separate encrypted database and probably were not accessed. But they can't be sure.
You don't understand how the politics break in the US.
In general, it is the old people who have the money who are complaining about taxes, government regulation and state how the free market will fix everything.
But it's the young people who watch a lot of video over the internet (specifically torrent a lot) and they aren't anti government-regulation in general. Mostly because they wouldn't mind voting some older people's money into their pockets, which is (to circle back) what the old people are worried about in the first place.
So you've created a false dichotomy. Those who are up in arms about caps likely would not complain if the government stepped in.
You cannot do mutual authentication if the server doesn't know your password. And if it only has a hash, it doesn't know your password.
Additionally, Sony didn't say they were storing passwords in a way that could be unencrypted. It may be that losing the hashes is considered a severe enough incident to report that your password was compromised. Many security experts would agree with this, as even with hashes a breach of them exposes common passwords can be easily found through brute forcing a short list of common passwords or rainbow tables as applicable. See the gawker incident for a case of this.
MPEG-LA is a mutually beneficial organization too.
They're both patent pools.
TI isn't really developing new chips, they are developing new software for their chips (DSPs) which is actually better because it means WebM acceleration will be available more quickly and on a wider range of devices than if you had to wait for new chips.
Calling MS and Apple patent trolls is to misuse the term. Patent trolls are companies that don't develop anything, they just make claims against other people's products. MS and Apple both create significant products of their own, that's their primary source of income, not license fees.
For the rest of us, saying an external factor triggered this doesn't automatically land at 4chan's feet. There are plenty of assholes in this world, 4chan didn't corner the market.
Sock-puppets? Are you kidding me? The customers who are angry are angry because they can't play games. Using sock-puppets to try to lay the blame isn't useful, it doesn't let customers play games.
Wow, what a powerful use of the jump to conclusions mat. You just did the equivalent of "think of the children".
If your roommate would rummage your computer to determine if you are gay, they'd rummage your other personal effects which they also have access to and find out anyway.
And if company I work for is the type to keep tabs on me, I wouldn't sync my iPhone with my work computer, even if I did have iTunes on it. And if I did sync to my computer there wouldn't I check the "encrypt iPhone backups" box?
This is sloppy software, but your scare tactics are sloppy too.
Sony has released absolutely no information blaming 4channers for this downtime or even for the downtime the 4channers took credit for.
You'd have to have a ridiculously high opinion of the 4chan vigilantes to think that Sony would take down their own network on a big release weekend just to smear them, especially when Sony isn't even bothering to make press releases smearing them.
How about this? We cannot put it past the 4channers to DDoS Sony again and just deny they are doing it because they don't like Sony but don't like taking heat for the customer inconvenience either.
I would suggest it is as mentioned elsewhere, that Sony has been throughly hacked by someone (perhaps the 4channers) and that their systems are so compromised they don't feel safe bringing them back online and risk further compromises or some compromised code in their system being activated remotely and triggering some kind of outgoing attack or action.
I don't really agree it can't be because they don't know how to bring it back up.
If they feel all their systems are compromised, then they want to keep it down until it is completely deloused, otherwise they could risk an intruder turning every PS3 into a member of a botnet!
So they may be starting over from scratch or just having trouble finding a safe point to return to. This does show a level of incompetence (incomplete mastery of their own systems), but I don't really agree it has to be the full level of incompetence you mention of just not knowing how to bring their own systems back up.
Let me give an example. The whole world ships stuff in containers now.
These containers are all 20 feet, 40 feet or 46 feet long (the US defined the sizes, so they are in feet).
Do you know how much cost all the countries incur shipping stuff in these "odd size" containers?
None. It's just not an issue.
It's the same in reverse. Every American should know both systems and use what's appropriate for each case. There's just not a huge advantage to changing systems, which is probably why so many things haven't changed.
I can look up ipv6.netflix.com, but trying to connect to http://ipv6.netflix.com/ from work (which has native IPv6 access) tells me too many redirects.
Either way, this only shows the problem. If I go to www.netflix.com and it only returns an IPv4 address, of course I'm going to use IPv4 to access it. In order for netflix to have any appreciable amount of IPv6 traffic, www.netflix.com would have to resolve to an IPv6 address (and presumably an IPv4 one also). Otherwise, am I expected to memorize for which sites I'm supposed to go to ipv6.*.com instead of www.*.com?
And also, most of netflix traffic is generated by their video servers, not accessing their main web page. That would have to use IPv6 too. And I just checked by playing a movie, it doesn't.
If I play it on a console I don't get malware on my PC.
Consoles have DRM to shut out unlicensed developers.
Yes, but it doesn't mess up my PC.
A lot of indie developers are too small to qualify for a license. So do you just choose to shun games from developers without a console license? Or if not, how do you play these games?
I don't play those games.
I try not to buy games on Steam because the more games you buy on Steam, the more you stand to lose if Valve decides to cut your account off.
How is Xbox Live Arcade any different?
I don't (as a rule) buy games on Xbox Live Arcade. I have bought a few games costing about $5, and no full price games. I have less than $60 at risk on XBLA. Also, if MS kills your Xbox Live account, you still can play the games you already own on the console you bought them on. If that console dies, would be as screwed as with Steam though.
Hey, at least if I buy a game on XBLA I can play it when I want. I have a friend who hasn't been able to play Portal 2 because Valve's servers are overloaded. This is because XBLA doesn't check with the internet before letting you play a game. If it was put on your console, you can play it, MS can't disable it remotely.
Not when I look it up. It returns no AAAA records. And I have IPv6 access.
Companies tend to use IPv6 DNS whitelisting, meaning if they don't think you really have IPv6 connectivity, then they don't return their IPv6 addresses in queries and so you end up using IPv4. Google does this for sure.
This makes it tough to measure how many people have/are using IPv6. If companies just switch their DNS whitelisting off (as they are expected to do on IPv6 day), then we'll see how much IPv6 traffic there really is.
And the article states:
'It’s ironic considering Netflix is one of the few major companies with an IPv6-accessible website.'
What does it matter if netflix has an IPv6 accessible website? Most of their traffic is through their VoD service, not their website.
It doesn't say "at risk", it says "likely". And the reasons are for climate reasons, although not all due to rising sea levels.
This correlates with the story slashdot printed which is that 50M refugees were predicted due to climate reasons.
And the real numbers were much much lower.
The climate change issue has been so poorly represented on both sides. One side says nothing is happening at all. While the other makes overly dire predictions and draws unprovable conclusions (Katrina is due to global warming) in order to try to scare people into action.
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And to get a digital movie to play also requires security clearances and internet passwords, it won't simply play on any projector, you need to get it authorized. So not changing the lens at the same time is a problem with incompetence or sloth.
No, it isn't the Sony DRM giving customers an inferior product, it is the theaters. Analog projection showed us they don't really see image quality as a big factor in their business success. You were lucky to get a projector with the film held steady in the gate, well lit and in focus, so is it a surprise theaters don't take their responsibilities any more seriously for digital?
As a person who is sensitive to flicker (a bit) and to jumpy film images, I have to say the rock-steady images of digital (and with quite even brightness usually too!) is not an inferior product. It's a greatly superior product. I don't know who is making the projectors I'm seeing though, could be Sony, could be anybody.
And you're egging them on?
They aren't just doing this to Sony, they're doing this to the people who use the services too.
Take it from a person had a gawker account. When they were hacked, it caused a great inconvenience for me.
You're trolling really hard right now, how can you expect to not be modded down?
There's even a classification for it.
You know, the group of 4Channers who mete out vigilante justice as they see fit?
But I think gman003 was more talking about media. There are like 5 superhero movies coming out this year. Virtually all of them are vigilantes (although having seen Thor, the current #1 movie, it's not actually a vigilante movie).
Would you be screaming for heads to be cut off?
Your girlfriend was selected in an unfair lottery. It wouldn't be right to let all that stand.
How do you know the KCC was informed the results weren't accurate at the point they were telling people to send in their documents?
You can get a 20' container with a 2MW Diesel generator in it. They aren't even very expensive (less than $1M). There were certainly some in the area, if they should have been commandeered for the task. These can be lifted by large helicopters I expect (can't find figures on this to be sure, a 6MW generator is 2x too heavy for a Chinook to carry, perhaps a 1 or 1MW generator is light enough. The US military certainly has several of these, they were several hours away but remember the batteries lasted for 8-24 hours. A ship may have been able to steam there from Okinawa in time and pulled up alongside with a long cable, but this seems less than 100% likely to me. Perhaps any old steam ship has enough power capacity to run the pumps if you can just get the power ashore.
They should have called several to the site IMMEDIATELY, arriving before the batteries died. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
As to do I want to send my staff up on the roof of the buildings to drill some holes? YES. Because I do understand what is at stake here. Are they at risk? Surely. But the stakes are very high, I would have had them up drilling holes in the building before I even vented the vessel. It's much easier to work BEFORE the site is radioactive, so I would have had them drilling holes already. They could do the job carefully and slowly with the right safety equipment instead of trying to rush around due to radiation exposure windows.
As to getting permission. They likely didn't have permission. But that's just not enough excuse. If you know what MUST be done, permission is a mere formality. I'd rather lose my job because I didn't have permission than let a disaster occur. It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to get difficult permissions. People do get upset about venting small amounts of radioactivity. But they get more upset over 50 year 40km-diameter exclusion zones.
Again, my point is they were faced with an extraordinary problem with extraordinary consequences and they failed to take extraordinary enough steps. Perhaps they were more concentrated in minimizing the damage to the plant instead of preventing a meltdown and large-scale release of radioactivity.
You can open a hole in the roof, as they did with buildings 5 and 6 later.
If they don't have the tools onsite to open a hole in those buildings at the top where the hydrogen would collect, then that was again poor planning and preparation.
The stakes are extraordinarily high, the response can be so.
And when you are looking at such a dire situation and the roads are trashed YOU CAN CALL A HELICOPTER if you need to. At the outside, they could have called the US military to fly a chopper in with tools they needed, even demolition charges and people to rig them.
They didn't concentrate enough on preventing disaster, they didn't seem to consider drastic enough measures given the stakes.
I just don't think it'll get very large.
This kind of business model has existed in only slightly different forms for quite a while. In the 70s, there were large coupon books that were heavily advertised and contained one coupon from each of many businesses.
They gave huge discounts, but you only got one coupon for the company per book. The book was sold for a fee that wasn't so small that you could afford to buy the book and throw away all the coupons but the one you wanted. But if you used many of the coupons you would come out ahead.
Anyway, this was the same thing. It brought profits for the coupon sellers and mostly introduced customers for the businesses who had coupons in there.
These stuck around for a long time, and Groupon is just a newer version. So I don't think this will go away, but I don't see why companies are falling over each other to get into this business space.
TEPCO failed at not having prepared for the scenario when the plant suffers complete blackout, including all backups being flooded. That's all.
That is not all.
They had 8 to 24 hours (I forget) to bring and connect additional power generators or charged batteries to the site before the existing batteries failed, but they didn't do it despite knowing what the stakes were.
They failed to vent the hydrogen from the reactor buildings. They thought to vent the vessels to the buildings but didn't vent the hydrogen from the buildings. This lead to significant avoidable additional damage from explosions and probably raised the amount of radiation released to the environment.
They said they found a file called "Anonymous" with "We Are Legion" inside. They didn't draw conclusions. At question 7 when asked if they know of the individual(s) responsible for the break-in, they say "no".
Please stop misreporting this just to troll your readers.
Sony gave factual answers, when the allegedly well-informed tech press can't even read it without stating information that wasn't in the release, what chance is there for accurate info to get out?
Sony never said no credit card numbers were compromised, they said that credit card numbers were in a separate encrypted database and probably were not accessed. But they can't be sure.
And they are saying the exact same thing now.
You don't understand how the politics break in the US.
In general, it is the old people who have the money who are complaining about taxes, government regulation and state how the free market will fix everything.
But it's the young people who watch a lot of video over the internet (specifically torrent a lot) and they aren't anti government-regulation in general. Mostly because they wouldn't mind voting some older people's money into their pockets, which is (to circle back) what the old people are worried about in the first place.
So you've created a false dichotomy. Those who are up in arms about caps likely would not complain if the government stepped in.
This guy failed to do his job. Doing your job is a condition of being paid. Don't like the restrictions? Quit.
You cannot do mutual authentication if the server doesn't know your password. And if it only has a hash, it doesn't know your password.
Additionally, Sony didn't say they were storing passwords in a way that could be unencrypted. It may be that losing the hashes is considered a severe enough incident to report that your password was compromised. Many security experts would agree with this, as even with hashes a breach of them exposes common passwords can be easily found through brute forcing a short list of common passwords or rainbow tables as applicable. See the gawker incident for a case of this.
MPEG-LA is a mutually beneficial organization too.
They're both patent pools.
TI isn't really developing new chips, they are developing new software for their chips (DSPs) which is actually better because it means WebM acceleration will be available more quickly and on a wider range of devices than if you had to wait for new chips.
Calling MS and Apple patent trolls is to misuse the term. Patent trolls are companies that don't develop anything, they just make claims against other people's products. MS and Apple both create significant products of their own, that's their primary source of income, not license fees.
For the rest of us, saying an external factor triggered this doesn't automatically land at 4chan's feet. There are plenty of assholes in this world, 4chan didn't corner the market.
Sock-puppets? Are you kidding me? The customers who are angry are angry because they can't play games. Using sock-puppets to try to lay the blame isn't useful, it doesn't let customers play games.
It's too bad they couldn't have done it proactively while the system was online instead of after the fact.
Wow, what a powerful use of the jump to conclusions mat. You just did the equivalent of "think of the children".
If your roommate would rummage your computer to determine if you are gay, they'd rummage your other personal effects which they also have access to and find out anyway.
And if company I work for is the type to keep tabs on me, I wouldn't sync my iPhone with my work computer, even if I did have iTunes on it. And if I did sync to my computer there wouldn't I check the "encrypt iPhone backups" box?
This is sloppy software, but your scare tactics are sloppy too.
Sony has released absolutely no information blaming 4channers for this downtime or even for the downtime the 4channers took credit for.
You'd have to have a ridiculously high opinion of the 4chan vigilantes to think that Sony would take down their own network on a big release weekend just to smear them, especially when Sony isn't even bothering to make press releases smearing them.
How about this? We cannot put it past the 4channers to DDoS Sony again and just deny they are doing it because they don't like Sony but don't like taking heat for the customer inconvenience either.
I would suggest it is as mentioned elsewhere, that Sony has been throughly hacked by someone (perhaps the 4channers) and that their systems are so compromised they don't feel safe bringing them back online and risk further compromises or some compromised code in their system being activated remotely and triggering some kind of outgoing attack or action.
I don't really agree it can't be because they don't know how to bring it back up.
If they feel all their systems are compromised, then they want to keep it down until it is completely deloused, otherwise they could risk an intruder turning every PS3 into a member of a botnet!
So they may be starting over from scratch or just having trouble finding a safe point to return to. This does show a level of incompetence (incomplete mastery of their own systems), but I don't really agree it has to be the full level of incompetence you mention of just not knowing how to bring their own systems back up.
Let me give an example. The whole world ships stuff in containers now.
These containers are all 20 feet, 40 feet or 46 feet long (the US defined the sizes, so they are in feet).
Do you know how much cost all the countries incur shipping stuff in these "odd size" containers?
None. It's just not an issue.
It's the same in reverse. Every American should know both systems and use what's appropriate for each case. There's just not a huge advantage to changing systems, which is probably why so many things haven't changed.
I can look up ipv6.netflix.com, but trying to connect to http://ipv6.netflix.com/ from work (which has native IPv6 access) tells me too many redirects.
Either way, this only shows the problem. If I go to www.netflix.com and it only returns an IPv4 address, of course I'm going to use IPv4 to access it. In order for netflix to have any appreciable amount of IPv6 traffic, www.netflix.com would have to resolve to an IPv6 address (and presumably an IPv4 one also). Otherwise, am I expected to memorize for which sites I'm supposed to go to ipv6.*.com instead of www.*.com?
And also, most of netflix traffic is generated by their video servers, not accessing their main web page. That would have to use IPv6 too. And I just checked by playing a movie, it doesn't.
If I play it on a console I don't get malware on my PC.
Consoles have DRM to shut out unlicensed developers.
Yes, but it doesn't mess up my PC.
A lot of indie developers are too small to qualify for a license. So do you just choose to shun games from developers without a console license? Or if not, how do you play these games?
I don't play those games.
I try not to buy games on Steam because the more games you buy on Steam, the more you stand to lose if Valve decides to cut your account off.
How is Xbox Live Arcade any different?
I don't (as a rule) buy games on Xbox Live Arcade. I have bought a few games costing about $5, and no full price games. I have less than $60 at risk on XBLA. Also, if MS kills your Xbox Live account, you still can play the games you already own on the console you bought them on. If that console dies, would be as screwed as with Steam though.
Hey, at least if I buy a game on XBLA I can play it when I want. I have a friend who hasn't been able to play Portal 2 because Valve's servers are overloaded. This is because XBLA doesn't check with the internet before letting you play a game. If it was put on your console, you can play it, MS can't disable it remotely.
Not when I look it up. It returns no AAAA records. And I have IPv6 access.
Companies tend to use IPv6 DNS whitelisting, meaning if they don't think you really have IPv6 connectivity, then they don't return their IPv6 addresses in queries and so you end up using IPv4. Google does this for sure.
This makes it tough to measure how many people have/are using IPv6. If companies just switch their DNS whitelisting off (as they are expected to do on IPv6 day), then we'll see how much IPv6 traffic there really is.
And the article states:
'It’s ironic considering Netflix is one of the few major companies with an IPv6-accessible website.'
What does it matter if netflix has an IPv6 accessible website? Most of their traffic is through their VoD service, not their website.
It doesn't say "at risk", it says "likely". And the reasons are for climate reasons, although not all due to rising sea levels.
This correlates with the story slashdot printed which is that 50M refugees were predicted due to climate reasons.
And the real numbers were much much lower.
The climate change issue has been so poorly represented on both sides. One side says nothing is happening at all. While the other makes overly dire predictions and draws unprovable conclusions (Katrina is due to global warming) in order to try to scare people into action.