This was my exact thought.

Oh no doubt. Again it was a different era, where people turn to scheduled news for their daily news beyond the local paper, and there was a significant amount of trust in those news anchors and stations. So I imagine for some people that felt CNN was their "home station" in the 80s or so would tune in out of…

A big part of the idea of television is distraction and comfort. Many people felt very connections to their television stations and in the ultimate hour of humanity's despair, there would be many that would in theory turn to their TVs with nowhere else to turn. These were ways of comforting those people.

At least that…

This is incredibly exciting to me. The fact this could be a huge step in the right direction for humanity makes me smile.

Thirty-four years ago, at the launch of Ted Turner's Cable News Network, the founder made a grandiose and specific promise about his newly created round-the-clock operation. "Barring satellite problems, we won't be signing off until the world ends," Turner declared. And in anticipation, he prepared a final video…

Aside from the fact that DDOS attacks are extremely difficult to mitigate, if not impossible to actually prevent.

Are you saying that that Sony wasn't the victim of that hack with the leaks and everything? Not quite sure how they can falsely play the victim card if they were the ones that were attacked/leaked/etc.

Speculating of course on cost, but if it is significantly expensive to implement the procedures you mention, prior to this it likely wasn't worth the expense. This level of attackuntil recently wasn't that common , and it really comes down to a cost/risk analysis to see if these measures are worth maintaining 24/7 vs…

There is animosity? I thought people were just upset they couldn't use their online services.

I get the gesture of extensions and free trials of PS+ being smart PR, I just questioned the author's (now edited to avoid misinterpretation ) feeling that Sony should apologize.

I don't think this has anything to do with that gamergate stuff? Unless I am missing something.

I don't see any bullshit, it seems like a reasonable response to a different perspective.

Ah gotcha, yeah it came across as if it implied that Sony was at fault for the downtime. Unfortunately there isn't really much any company can do in the current tech environment to completely stop DDOS attacks, especially ones on this scale.

Kinda sad that these kinds of attacks seem to be becoming more frequent.

There's a whole lot of "thanks" in that message. Given so many people are paying for PS+ these days, a "sorry" or two couldn't have hurt.

You hit it right on the head.
Right now we have people so dead set on dissolving any and all unions due to the "union thugs", that the unions that have been helping people are being lumped in with the ones that are garbage.

Oh no, I didn't take things that way from your reply, but this is a very small example of how flawed the current employment situation is in the USA.

Nearly everywhere people work they have incentives that are completely unrelated to their job and given in inappropriate ways. While it should be outlined clearly in…

Agreed, I didn't mean to start an argument or upset anyone. I agree it is gross and he is a horrible human especially with the firing thing, but in the light of the business, it makes some level of sense why he would even think of offer that. It isn't out of left field like someone working a 9-5 office job getting…

I am not defending his actions, I just was legitimately wondering if this was something previously discussed between them, and turned into an incentive? This isn't uncommon in the workplace at all, many people are purchased things that will increase their value to the company based on productivity/improvement.…

Oh I don't deny that it is pretty fucked up, but it isn't unusual for employers to have random incentives for employees, and while I would prefer a benefits package or a logically outlined bonus plan that I could look forward to myself, I have worked places that say "If you do X better, you get a $100 best buy gift…

So I obviously have not seen the episode, and I feel the need to ask this idiotic question;

Was the "boob job" offer something she wanted herself and it was an actual incentive, or was it as scummy as it sounds in this article? I mean I have known a number of individuals that would jump at the opportunity to get a…