To me that is so fascinating, but I think you hit an important part of the whole "Weird/cool" vibe that reminded me of the late 90's early 00's revitalization of downtown Milwaukee. It became kinda weird but there was this undercurrent of "Wow we are so unsual isn't that funny?" but few people actually seemed to enjoy…

Nah, look up Janesville, WI. There is pretty much nothing here beyond bars and churches. And bars next to bars across from bars.

It is pretty bad at times.

If it does, and Portlandia is even 20% accurate, I want to move there. It seems like my kind of town. It really does.

Will it have Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr. as multiple characters?

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…

I offer both Cody & Rapping Ninja's first born children, and their LEGO collections.

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.