Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Sony Compromised (again)
It looks like the problems still aren't over for Sony, which finally began bringing its Playstation Network back online over the weekend following a massive hack that exposed the information of millions of subscribers and left the company's online gaming network offline for almost a full month. News broke this morning that the email and password reset, aimed to help get players back online, has been compromised.
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Sony back online
This post is an excerpt from Almost 1 Month Later, Sony Playstation Network Coming Back On Line.
The Sony Playstation Network was taken offline on April 19 when hackers compromised the database. The episode has been disastrous for Sony PR, which took several days before admitting there'd been a security breach and revealing that its 77 million users' data had been stolen. The network has remained offline since then.
It's hard to say what's worse for gamers: this lengthy outage - one of the worst on record - or the compromise of their personal data. Either way, Sony will have a long road ahead to win back the trust of gamers, who have a wide variety of options for other console or handhelds games.
Indeed, even before this recent attack on Sony, the company had lost the favor of many with its decision to sue hacker George Hotz for jailbreaking the PS3. Hotz and Sony recently settled, but not before what Electronista described as Sony's "scorched earth attitude," in which it had demanded access to the records of anyone who had viewed or commented on the jailbreak video on YouTube. Sony also requested that Twitter provide the identities of those who revealed the hack there.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
$25 Computer the size of a USB Stick
Modern smartphones are often dubbed ‘PC’s in your pocket’ but its the recently unveiled ‘Rasberry Pi’ that can truly make a stake to that claim.
The micro-sized PC, which is targeted at a £15/$25 price point, is made up of:
700MHz ARM11 processor
- 128MB of RAM
- USB 2.0 ports
- Card reader
- 1080p HDMI video out
- Ubuntu 9.04
And that’s it! You need to bring your own keyboard, mouse and display. Oh and Wifi dongle, too. But the Raspberry Pi does boast an I/O slot for further expansion – such as with a 12MP camera, demoed on the picture below.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Understanding Google Searches
Classroom posters
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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