Digital Lifestyle

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Cloudscout
Damn you, auto correct. SD card, not Senior.

What a pity. I was looking forward to meeting Señor Card.

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John Willoughby
What a pity. I was looking forward to meeting Señor Card.

How about Senor Cardgage?

From reading the article it seems like they're targeting cheapskates rather than pirates per se. I think they could get in trouble for that on many fronts.

Or Señor Senior, Sr.? I think DDT knows him...

Sony has let hackers take all of your data, quite possibly including credit card info, if you use the Playstation network. They apologize for the inconvenience.


Yeah, I'll keep ALL my stuff on the cloud.

It's annoying, shows bad management on their part and such, but as long as I don't get hurt/bothered by hackers, I don't really care too much. It's a reality of the age we live in. I've had cards RE-issued multiple times due to compromises of various internet retailers. If that's the worst that happens, I'm good.

It's more that I'm upset with a DRM and update scheme that relies more and more on FORCING people to join their network to play games that could otherwise be played entirely offline. And THEN failing to secure it. And THEN switching their network off without notice. And THEN taking a week to admit to the issue in any detail. Maybe I'm unfairly generalizing, but it seems like the first response of any Japanese company to a disaster is to slam down an iron curtain around themselves, and then to divulge as little as possible, even if that exacerbates matters for their customers. If I were a Sony stock holder, I'd be very pissed. I'm already annoyed that all of my freaking info is out on the net for the sake of Rock Band.

But that's me. I think more general notice should be given to this, and Amazon's recent troubles, when listening to all of the hype about "The Cloud." The Cloud ain't fast, The Cloud ain't safe, and the Cloud ain't guaranteed to be available.

Think globally, store & backup locally?

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John Willoughby
The Cloud ain't fast...

Just wait 'til I soup up the Miata!

PSN has 77 million customers. That's a lot of personal data to steal. The most ever, probably.

Yes. If it turns out that credit card numbers ARE included in the breach, the ensuing shitstorm will likely bankrupt SCEA. They'll eventually recover but the lawsuits and PCI penalties combined with the inevitable reduction in revenue as angry customers quit the service are going to drown them in the short term.

Their partners are already pissed off. Netflix is blameless in this ordeal but they're still stuck fielding complaints from angry subscribers who have been unable to reliably stream movies on their PS3.

Welcome to the Amazon Mac App Store.

Sony hacked again, for over 1,000,000 accounts. All info was stored in plain text, and has been released on the web. Not PSN, this time.

From the comments to the story, more info about what was taken:

I have looked at the "hacked information" and there is identifying information in one of them which has the physical address but the rest of them it's just a username and password. This is a hack on sony pictures and sony bmg specifically and not PSN. The Sony BMG's do not contain any information besides what seems to be executives email addresses and their passwords. The Sony Pictures on the other hand seem to contain sweepstakes entries so no credit card info was stolen. The sweepstakes were autotrader, some kind of beauty and delboca sweepstakes. Where they probably give you music codes/coupons which are what those are listed. The only one that would worry people would be the autotrader sweepstakes since that one has a lot of identifying information including name, date of birth, phone number, zip code and home address. The amount they leaked out only goes to up to the year 1943 for date of birth partially thanks to a person named jane who has entered like 100 times into the sweeps.

The top comment under that story is priceless.

Google announced their "Google Music" service during the keynote at the I/O conference and I didn't really care. As an attendee, I even got my invite to the beta that day. It didn't seem like a big deal to me.

Today I realized how big of a deal it is.

I now have access to my entire music collection from my phone even though I only have about 18GB of storage space. Everything in my iTunes Library (except for the handful of remaining DRM'd tracks) are available wherever I have a data connection. It's also available from my tablet or any computer.

Yeah, but go through a tunnel or on a plane and you're screwed. I like cloud as a supplement to local storage, not as a substitute. If iCloud is what we think it will be, and I get a MacBook Air, I will definitely use the cloud for my music there. My iPhone, probably not.

kind of similar, but when we went through the tunnel at Norfolk, our GPS (Navigon) showed and tracked us surrounded with water. I mean, it showed the progress we were making whilst being unable to maintain a Sat link I would think. I thought it was interesting. I have a photo or two... [sorry, blurry driver cam]