99% of Slashdot users will hate on this story... Sight Unseen.

Right, I remember reading about this when it happened. I don't know if that trial is still going on, but if it is I hope they're found guilty. I'd be interested to see if they would restore it worldwide or just for European consoles.

I think what they did with their DRM is stupid, and I am most definitely not a fan of DRM. That said, what would stealing Playstation customer information prove to Sony that all of the revenue lost immediately after that whole fiasco didn't? If they wanted to make a point, the hackers did just that. Time to move on if you ask me.

Forgive my generalization on the OtherOS topic, but my point is still valid. Removing functionality from their product, while not a great business tactic, isn't an appropriate excuse to steal a company's customer information thus causing them to take their service down.

If my bank said I could no longer use their online banking I would think that it would not be okay to rob the bank in retaliation. Plus, I would think they would be rightfully upset at anyone who tried to setup their own website to bank online at that same bank.

Yeah, I understand that they've tarnished the Sony brand by exposing customer's information, but you're making it sound like they were handing out that information to anyone who asked. They didn't ask to have someone take customer information or have their online network taken down. And, I'm sorry, taking away a popular feature they no longer wanted to support isn't an invitation either. I wasn't a fan of removing OtherOS but I don't think the appropriate course of action was to steal customer information in order to defame their company.

I don't think most consumers care why they were hacked, just that their service was interrupted. Sure Sony's security sucked, but I think the general public will just hold the hackers responsible for the brunt of the problems down the road once this whole thing passes. In the end, Sony will move on and likely continue to do unpopular things which is why I don't really see anything meaningful being accomplished.

I get it, they've done a ton of unpopular things, but what has all of this hacking done? Do they really think it's made them think twice about potentially unpopular business decisions? Are a ton of other hacker just jumping on a bandwagon because they can? Do you think that losing all that money will inspire them to do good by their consumers? I can only speculate as to the true intentions of the hackers out there, but it kinda bothers me when I get the impression that people are doing this to "get back at them for something they did that I don't like or agree with." If that's really the case, I wish they would just get over it already and move on. I am personally getting sick of reading about Sony.

it is discrimination against illogical people. You should say "the applicant appeared to be a replicant, do not hire" to cover your ass completely.

What does it say about people who conduct studies about facebook?

As a self-taught programmer myself, learning standard C has given me a whole new outlook on how I code. I also thought it would be good to know where a lot of the more modern languages were derived from.

b) What features were missing from OO which you use in MS Office ?

Outlook?