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Weekend Confirmed Episode 58
by Garnett Lee, Apr 29, 2011 11:00am PDTThis week Christian Spicer joins Jeff and Garnett on the show and they waste no time getting into the games. Well, okay, there might be a little NBA and NHL playoffs talk but then it's right on to Rage, Portal 2, Dragon Age 2 (Jeff finished it with 65 hours on the clock), and more. Of course, the big news of user data getting stolen from the PlayStation Network gets plenty of discussion as does the confirmation from Nintendo that a new console will indeed debut at E3. When Finishing Moves wraps it all up, the time has flown by.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 58: 04/29/2011
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- Whatcha' Been Playin Part 1: Start: 00:00:00 End: 00:32:40
- Whatcha' Been Playin Part 2: Start: 00:33:14 End: 01:03:48
- The Warning: Start: 01:04:56 End: 01:38:16
- Featured Music "2.2 Cherry Blossom [The Fire]" by the Velvet Chameleon: 01:38:16 End: 01:41:30
- Front Page news: Start: 01:41:30 End: 02:22:22
Vancouver, BC rockers The Velvet Chameleon contributed this week's featured track "2.2 Cherry Blossom [The Fire]." They describe themselves as, "a little out-of-the box like Radiohead, mixed in with the classic rock virility of Led Zep". Their self-produced EP at can be had on the band's Facebook or twitter.
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And while I agree there's reason to be angry, it's really bad form to just call everyone who isn't as angry as you an apologist.
Jeff wasn't excusing Sony for what happened... nobody's excusing them, we're just trying to be realistic about the situation. Sometimes things break, sometimes they go wrong, and sometimes people deliberately do things that hurt and violate other people. That's not to say that it's okay, but it does happen. That's not apologetics, it's Murphy's Goddamned Law!
Now, like I said, there are plenty of reasons to feel angry, betrayed, violated etc. I agree that no company should ever be given a free pass on account of "shit happens," but what exactly to you plan to solve by rallying these emotions and lashing out at other Sony customers (who have also been wronged, I might add) just because they're being slightly more stoic than you are?
Grow Up!
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I understand the anger projected from Garnett (however alcohol-fueled it maybe). However from the stand point of a corporate company, unless its a compromised product that directly leads to death (ie. Redswirl's Tylenol situation shown above), its standard protocol for companies to first figure out internally what went on. The eventual FBI involvement and 3rd party help makes it even more difficult to say the right thing as every new development possess increasing sensitivity. Yes, the wait for the announcement took a little bit longer than one would like, but I can understand why... though the timing of Good Friday to announce it wasn't good.
Again, I understand the anger, but understand there's a protocol that falls in place (and I know quite a few people automatically think "fuck protocol"). Apologies in advance if this offends, but just feel that this is partly a case where we have taken the "customers are always right" mantra way too much to heart, thus the anger when information isn't addressed to them neatly packaged up NOW NOW NOW.
As for Jeff, I understand his view about awaiting more information and keeping more calm. However his opinion regarding the password and the need to constantly change it feels akin to getting assaulted by a gang and the apologist for the gang saying "well you should've learnt some better self defense techniques". Sensitive information is sensitive information and regardless of whether you keep up with the password change or not, it being stolen/lost is still big. So yes for keeping a calm view, but NO for it being overblown. Whether you yourself have been affected or not, your faith in the security system is shaken, much like if your house gets burgled, thus making you a lot more fearful in future about your own home.
As a side note, with Christian's example of BP and the explosion in Texas, I happened to have attended a chemical engineering conference where one of the keynote panels was all focused on the process safety and the aftermath of the disaster. To cut it short, the comparison of that BP situation and Sony is quite different in that the BP disaster was absolutely avoidable as it was found that the safety was severely outdated and quite sketchy at best. For example, the trailers the worker lived in was well within the hypothetical blast zone of the main site, whilst also being "packed like sardines". Meanwhile the situation with Sony was something that was out of their control (I'm not including the argument as to whether it was Sony that provoked the hackers or not... that's a different topic). Again with the BP, that was also a life and death situation. Yes identification and personal information being leaked is big, but compared to the risk of death, I would be more angry if the life/death scenario was not addressed immediately.
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