Thats a bit much. But I do agree that a boycott of Sony is in order but not for the reasons you stated. The reasons you should boycott Sony is because they install rootkits on peoples computers, they remove features from products after they are sold, and they don't take the security of your information seriously.
Buy buying Sony products you are enabling them to continue.
Rainbow tables? I bet there isn't even a salt.
Haha
Ouch Sony that is *&@# lame!
I'm copying this from enemy's propaganda and i'll be happy if Sony deny:
Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext.
Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext.
Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext.
Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext.
can you believe it?
Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext.
Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext.
Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext.
Anonymous C.
Ouch very lame....
What is this 1967?
No one, anywhere can make sony secure enough to stop these hacks at this point. This has become a game for hackers now and it will continue. Sony is now a target to get picked on. And no security can protect them because security is created by man and if one man can build it there will be 2 dozen waiting in line to break it. There is no such thing as secure.
Not as long as applications are written in languages like C and C++. And maybe not even until capability languages like E emerge.
It has been said that criminals try to rationalize their crimes often times by thinking that they are just playing by the rules of life, even if its not the rules of society. An example would be a car thief who finds a car unlocked in downtown New York. They might steal the vehicle and rationalize it as a sort of "finders keepers", where if they didn't steal it, someone else would come along and steal it instead. "If I don't, someone else will, so I might as well benefit". You might say that is a ridiculous assertion to make, but if you found a $50 laying in the parking lot, you would probably pick it up and keep it thinking that someone else would take it if you didn't, and any hope of the original owner finding their missing $50 is a lost cause.
So when someone does virtual breaking and entering because the virtual back door was virtually unlocked, you have to ask what line of thought is crossing their minds. When my neighbor's door is unlocked, should I enter it and steal their TV because I think someone else is bound to do it instead?
While I don't condemn what these guys are doing. I have to admit it does make me smile every time Sony gets hacked. A bit like seeing a bully failing a math exam.
...Sony used unix-based servers instead?
Yep.
Big List of Sony's Crimes
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- Totally sucking balls
No comment.
- Being an oppressive, money sucking super-organism
To be fair a business is there to make money.
- Crash Bandicoot
What?
- Installing rootkits and spyware on your computers, as a sadistic form of DRM
I have to agree that seems insanely unethical, disrespectful and criminal.
- Violating the GPL
Also illegal and insanely disrespectful to the people giving their work for free.
- Violating your mom
If my mom was writing GPL code or had Sony rootkits installed on her PC I would agree.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sony_Music_Entertainment_artists (With the exception of R.Kelly, clearly awesome dude)
No comment.
- Disc Read Error
Not relevant.
- Having a superior console
"Had" I think is the word you are looking for. Still having a BD player and Linux support did make it superior in my view at the time.
- Including OtherOS in the first place
Yes I agree with you 100%! They shouldn't remove features after a unit has been sold.
- Etc...
Ok so they don't want organizations to buy iPads for people!? Why?
You found some 2.6 compliant hardware?! Amazing! You mean like an HID mouse? You're probably right 2.6.40 probably doesn't HID devices anymore.
I was expecting something amazing for 3.0.0 like hard real-time and a micro-kernel. Never did I expect this crap from Linus.
Changing numbers just to change numbers is a waste of time. The reasoning Linus gives for the change is absolutely worthless. He can't count to 40. what!? Where I work you would get fired for something like this.
This wastes everyones time and causes unnecessary confusion. If at least he said something like "It makes people talk about Linux" or "We wanted to celebrate our good work by tagging 3.0" I might have accepted the reasoning. I think the features between 2.6.40 and 3.0.0 have not earned the 3.0.0 badge.
Vector clocks can prevent causality violations in concurrent systems.
What makes parallel programming hard is computer languages.
Most languages today are actually not designed for parallelism or concurrency simply because most computers for a very long time had only one core. This is why we have threading and locks everywhere. Threads have huge overhead from hundreds of kilobytes to megabytes. That may seem like nothing but ideally for parallelism and concurrency to work you need to be able to create thousands of processes at nearly no cost (hundreds of bytes each). And locks, don't even get me started with that!
Shared mutable state is also a major problem it makes parallelism very hard, again current languages make heavy use of it (Singletons).
Anyway, this problem has been solved ages ago just look into the Actor Model and Erlang to get started that should pretty much cover it.
If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.
