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Comment Re:Also human (Score 1) 277

However when you forget once for several thousand customers all at once, each one is likely to take it as a seperate occasion. It's also perfectly normal to treat a mistake that affects orders of magnitude more people as orders of magnitude more irritating. Also it wasn't amusing for anyone affected that I've talked to, it was a combination or irritating and annoying.

Sincerely,
Someone who worked around the issue himself, but then got to spend hours via ventrilo and skype helping other players adjust their DNS settings so they could play the game they'd paid for.

P.S. Dear Sony: I would gladly maintain correspondence with your name / hosting providers in exchange for continued all-access membership during such periods.

Comment Necessity (Score 1) 280

Using weak passwords for cases when a password at all is unnecessary should be the norm as a defense against phishing, even by a company you presently trust. Mandatory complexity increases are probably being used already to undermine password variety. When a password has to be one thing different each time (another capital letter, another numeral, another punctuation mark) a service of dubious character could very quickly spot patterns that could be used improperly.

Comment Study first, then appeal (Score 1) 67

Essentially the judge points out that a different case requires a different trial. This also means more arguments to study for appealing the Aereo ruling. If Dish's lawyers poke holes in Fox's arguments that led to the Aereo ruling, those arguments are fair game for Aereo's lawyers to use if they're applicable.

Comment Re:Incomplete (Score 4, Insightful) 338

Not entirely true. While they don't collect funds collected via taxes, they also don't PAY taxes on many things, like say property taxes for their offices, sorting facilities, etc. So they indirectly are Government funded, at the state and municipality level.

So they're funded in the same way religious groups and non-profit organizations are funded by the government.

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