It seems Sony doesn't attach the right amount of importance to domains. Domains should be renewed for 10 years (sony.com has just been renewed, 4 days before expiration, for 2 years), and registrar mails should be directed to a person mailbox. This again shows that Sony neglects its IT infrastructure / (people?) Remember how many times Sony was hacked in recent years...

What they don't understand is the change of era. Before, a review was a note in a magazine. Nowadays there are tons of reviews everywhere on the web, some positive, some negative ; it is now so easy to drop a review that if, for a given restaurant, there are only a 1 or 2 negative reviews, people will not stop there and try the restaurant. In other words a unique web review has much less impact than a review in a magazine as it was the case 20 years ago. The judges don't get that.

Glad for you. But, in France, out of the thousands and thousands of negative critics on the web, it happens sometimes/rarely that someone is prosecuted. And when this (rarely) happens, the media covers largely the fact, as it definitely is an exception. You can bet the woman will change lawyers, appeal, and win.

The real problem is that while most judges are from older generations, they must adjudicate on modern societal issues they don't really understand.

Don't forget the /.ers. Expected names: "frist post", "goetse", "get off my lawn" and "insensitive clod"...

The pictures don't show the inside. If the inside bottom is as tortuous as the outside, the cleaning is gonna be a real challenge indeed.

The capacity to become intelligent is.

Of course such an ambitious project seems so extraordinary that 30 years looks like an unattainable ETA. Actually for some people a "conscious" computer is just unrealizable. Because it's too hard to conceive mentally that one day men will talk to a HAL9000? That time will come, and probably sooner than 30 years. What we miss is not the hardware, what we need is the right algorithms.

So smart == anti-social?

Since when Facebook is an IT company?

An ad company: 180 / 6 = 30 sats per letter ; we'll see soon in the sky "Google" in big letters..

- I write in Java because I have to.
- I write in PHP because I choose to.
- I write in C because I can
(originally was Windows/Mac/Linux)

There are many interesting aspects about Multics that deserve to be heard about if not studied. To name a few: the second-dimension access system or protection rings via "ring brackets" that allowed a 'r', 'w' or 'x' access to a "segment"/file depending on the caller (user or daemon) own "running ring". Thus, a lower (higher privilege) ring program would extend its r&|x access via brackets to allow a user to enter that program (a "gate"). For instance the continuums (now forums) were usually running in ring 3, while a simple user was in 4 (the core system was in 0). Multics had also convenient and powerful ACL, accesses provided to user/group-project/login-mode. Using long names or short names for a file(segment)... Studying a bit of Multics helps to realize that most of OSes concepts were already invented ~50 years ago...

MIT Project MAC

Gmail, bottom, right, "recent activity", Details.