2011: The year of Duke Nukem Forever, GNOME 3, and an actually sensible Slashdot comments system? Am I dreaming? Somebody pinch me!
The mayans were pretty good, they just had an off by one error. It's the beginning of the end.
Sony Corp (6758.T) blamed Internet vigilante group Anonymous for indirectly allowing a hacker to gain access to personal data of more than 100 million video game users.
That sounds to me like Sony blames them. They're saying it wasn't necessarily them that did it, but Sony are using them as an excuse for distracting them away from their security responsibilities. The title and summary are correct, although they are exaggerating some facts to make it sound more serious than it is. The accusation that is, not the breach itself.
On a side note, what kind of company has security set up such that because someone else is ddossing you, other people can get in. Pure bs and incompetence.
I use "free" streaming virtually all of the time where I am, but as odd as this may sound, I still pay for my content. Over here in the uk we have no hulu, we have no netflix, none of the streams coming from the other legitimate sites, all we have is iPlayer, which is a bit of a joke as far as most of its content is concerned. But that's never stopped me, plenty of less legitimate sites out there to give us what we should already have.
However, I don't think the content should be free, it should be available, how it is now illegally, for a reasonable fee (or at least ad supported). But no-one wants my money.. Here's the clincher though, in this country, if we watch anything that is being broadcast on a tv channel at the same time we have to pay a license fee to the government. Technically I don't need to pay it, but I do because it directly supports british content being created. Also, I have an internet connection, which we're pretty much forced to bundle with cable tv and a phone line. So, whilst I use the internet solely for my entertainment, I still indirectly pay what I consider reasonable(ish) for what I'm getting. It's kind of a guilt and responsibility thing.
Now, if the companies pulled their heads out of their asses and provided me with the streaming methods that are clearly feasible, preferably for a reasonable price, then they could drop out the middle men, I would drop the rest and they would get all the cash. But they're morons who would rather whine that they don't have my money rather than actually allow me to give them it. Go figure..
I meant for phone too. It's too expensive here, full stop. I don't think I will ever have a data plan here unless things change drastically.
I completely understand, but when you normally have a reasonable price for internet everywhere and your "never get lost again (tm)" device it suddenly becomes a shock when you're in an unfamiliar city without it... Crutch? Of course it is, but I don't care. Sometimes you have to go with the hand you're dealt.
This. If I lived in Europe, I'd want 3G. - In North America, fuck it. The price is just not justifiable.
Even in Europe the price is not justifiable. I'm already paying for 3g on my phone and it tethers without a hiccup, why would I let them double bill me?
I have an ARM based tablet running Android 2.3. Why would I want to use Android on x86? Is it really that much faster?
Most consumers don't give a diddle about arm vs x86, they just want a tablet that works. Intel wants in on some of the tablet money running around and this is their only way in. Meanwhile it'll also give the consumers more choice and nvidia/qualcomm/arm/whoever more competition keeping innovation running. Wins all round as far as I can see.
Honestly, if you're angry because RIM, or Google, or Microsoft, or whoever isn't trying to stick it to every dictatorship, you're an idiot. If the US government goes and tries to say a dictator is being too mean (perhaps by killing them), they're the terrible World Police. But if RIM refuses to do the same thing, you get angry. You're an angry, fickle group of people. Mod down if you disagree.
I don't disagree, but the issue should be addressed. If he was asked a question like that there are much better responses, such as explaining the circumstances they are under, explaining that for whatever reason you are unable to comment on that issue at that time, whatever. Calling a reasonable and important question "unfair" is just silly and has lost even more of my respect for the company.
For example, no, taking 80% away from education funding and tripling fees is not a compromise, it's a fucking joke.
Sorry, that should have been university education.
That's a very limited, and to be honest immature, view of it, and neglects the reality of coalition politics. If you want to say that you're against coalition governments of any sort, fine, say so. But if no parties win an election outright, and some of those parties then form a coalition government, the coalition partners are going to have to compromise on some of the policies they started out with, and the smaller the party, the more they're going to have to compromise. They still get some of their policies implemented, as opposed to none if they didn't form a coalition, but a smaller coalition partner is simply not in a position to implement all the policies they may have had in their pre-coalition manifesto; deal with it.
There's nothing wrong with coalition governments, nor is there anything wrong with having to compromise in places. But they're not compromising, they're caving, on virtually every promise they made. Our government is one of MP's voting. The smaller the party in the coalition government, the less sway they have on the outcome due to the less votes they actually have. Promises were made, and immediately broken, when they could have at least stood up and fought for a reasonable compromise (It's politics I know, breaking promises is what they do). For example, no, taking 80% away from education funding and tripling fees is not a compromise, it's a fucking joke.
Just remember, Conservatives would be having a much harder time if the Lib Dems didn't form the coalition. Who else would they have joined up with? Would they be getting away with such activities if they were just a minority government?
Sure there is: cable (internet, TV, telephone). They've been pulling similar crap for ages.
Has anyone else noticed that they are all actually the same industry. The cheap and easy transference of data...
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
