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Comment Re:Not Aware? (Score 1) 317

Sony hasn't lost any customers with this whole thing. In fact, they gained many customers since the PS3 was hacked.

If people could force sony to exchange their PS3 with an xbox360, then I'm sure maybe 5 or 10% of PSN customers would switch.

Under current conditions, negligible amounts of people will switch.

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Sony Blames 'External Intrusion' For Lengthy PSN Outage 321

Several readers have noted that outages on Sony's PlayStation Network have prevented online play for the past few days. The company has now blamed an 'external intrusion' for the trouble, saying they took down the network to "conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going forward." Some suspect an attack by Anonymous, who declared war on Sony earlier this month, but Anonymous has disavowed knowledge of such an attack. Meanwhile, others are asking whether Sony should compensate users for the inability to play PS3 multiplayer modes, and even single-player modes on a few downloadable games.

Comment Umm, BluRay-R/W media weaknesses anyone? (Score 1) 1162

We had 4.7GB DVD-Rs when HDDs were around 20 GB. a 4:1 ratio.

Today, we have 500GB HDDs while bluray media is 25GB. a 20:1 ratio, soon to be 40:1 or more.

The speed needed to burn enough data has stagnated while data volumes have ballooned immensely.

By 2020, SSDs will come in multiple TBs. As a rule of thumb, today's internet will fit in a laptop's storage in 2042. The same is true today with 1982's internet.

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