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Consoles have no margin. It takes years to be profitable off a console. That said, you'd be surprised how much of the market Sony has in some of the areas you listed. For example, you listed Samsung and Panasonic as the inferred 'high end' that people go for (granted, only Vizio is really...

Honestly, they make a lot of great stuff these days. Their primary problem is branding and marketing, in my opinion. Case in point, they more or less have price parity with Samsung across the board (often slightly cheaper), but the perception is that Sony is significantly more expensive.

Mobile posted such a large loss due to some legacy costs associated with the purchase of Ericsson. The phones sell very poorly in the US to be clear, but it's also not a market Sony really invests in. The devices are much more popular in Europe and South America. Sell off Sony Pictures? You...

I've written my share of process flows for point of sale systems and I can tell you that it's very rare that these companies are actually retaining the data in an unencrypted format. Instead, what's happening is they're behind the times a bit and the malware is scraping the memory for plaintext...

Definitely true

People look at it through the lens of the US, which is a pretty minimal focus for Sony right now. The company is quite a bit more popular outside the states, even in regard to mobile phones, but not popular enough to be popular it seems. The US is an extremely expensive market to compete in from...

The PS4 is a very small part of Sony's global business. It's funny people keep throwing that around. As for the recommendations for Sony to engage in a price war--they did and it didn't work. Exchange rates, when looking at Korea vs Japan, aren't favorable for Sony. Sony also can't afford to...

A lot of them don't store the information. The card number isn't encrypted at the hardware level (pinpad) and is being scraped from memory.

Hardware tokenization accomplishes the same thing without needing to retain actual card data. I have a token associated with your past transactions--when you swipe your card for me, the pinpad converts the card number into that token, which is sent to my register. I can then match the token to...

It's such an easy attack to prevent though...really boggles my mind that these companies would take so long to invest in preventative measures. Target's hardware was ancient. If you've been in there in the last few months, all the pinpads have been replaced with Verifone MX950s and presumably...

That was my thought as well. I was surprised how little they are paid. 80-100k isn't even enough to get you what many would consider a 'good' apartment in many of these cities.

That's actually how it goes down. No joke. Granted, POS software and hardware runs in the many, many millions of dollars and can take years in development and implementation. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as saying "let's just do some pen testing!" and be done with it. I do agree with you...

But did he get his Xbox? It never said. :(

While I am no way excusing the storage of credit cards, this statement isn't exactly true. From a business perspective, there are several reasons a retailer may want to store credit cards. Storage of credit cards, whether encrypted/tokenized/whatever, are pretty much a must for asset...

This is true, but in such a situation it would mean the credit processor would have been compromised and not necessarily Target.

I'm really curious what will come out as the true cause of this. Contrary to what some are saying here, 'good security' actually saves a lot of money in implementation and maintenance costs on a POS system (dealing with PCI stuff is expensive). I find it unlikely that a company like Target...

In all honesty, I'd say the guys doing help desk typically have the most 'demanding' job in IT. Talk about soul destroying.

Funny enough...similar things already exist. I know little about it, but from what I know, sewage treatment plants use the methane gas to generate power.

It's called 'reality'.Children are taught this from a very early age. From politics to Robin Hood. In fact, this is an absolutely fundamental aspect to American culture for the last fifty years. Am I saying it's ethically 'right'? Not necessarily, but it's reality.

In reference to opening 'banking information' and that sort of thing...curiosity and malicious intent are very different things. Also, I'd imagine if a checking account was visible from 'banking information', the amount listed would play a large factor in whether or not the phone was returned.

True, but at least there's some sort of penalty for illegal activity. Unfortunately, criminal executives aren't thrown in prison as they should be, so it's the next best thing.

Strange...same deal with MSI Afterburner. It acknowledges the changed clock speeds but under stress, the senors reflect default speeds. Setting the speeds in afterburner also does nothing. edit: rebooting and trying again with afterburner seems to have done the trick. Thanks Kaynar. second...

GPU-Z is 0.5.9 Catalyst version 11.12 Picked up an Asus 7970 (reference card) the other night and wanted to do a mild overclock while I wait for my waterblock. Essentially, when I up the clock speeds using CCC, GPU-Z will report the change on the 'graphics card' tab, but on the 'sensors' tab...

No need to backpedal, you were absolutely on the money. The reason most small businesses fail is a lack of initial capital. If you're starting a business with 10k in the bank, unless you're incredibly lucky, you're planning for failure. Additionally...if you're expecting your average...

History classes already lie about Lincoln. Totally gonna see this movie though.

+1 Ticket prices around here are right around 12 bucks a pop...and theaters have definitely been hurting. They HAVE to charge ridiculous prices for concessions to even keep the doors open.

Agreed. It's comical to me that Europeans have the mindset that they're somehow better off or have some moral high ground. Their political systems are just as corrupt.

That's actually a very costly way of conducting business, however, it unfortunately happens frequently. There's a lot of costs associated with hiring and training.

I usually pull out $500 at a time from my ATM...so $300 is definitely not a universal limit.

No fingerprints are collected for most misdemeanors, at least in California. Collection of DNA for a misdemeanor is going way overboard.

It's been a very long time since I've been in an Apple store, but six or seven years ago they required no proof of purchase. You could simply bring in your busted iPod and they would give you a new one. That was all there was to it.

Only as a technicality, as a true 'private sector' is rare these days in any large corporation--much more government sponsored enterprise.

I don't believe Skyrim deserves it. Sure it was good and all and far better than Deus Ex (I just didn't see the appeal after my first play through). If it were up to me, Witcher 2 would win hands down.

Fido does not approve. http://evankafka.com/sensorsensibility/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/EKMBP_Scr-2.jpg

Good RPGs are a rarity these days on any system... Western RPGs have their charms, but most don't quite have the same luster of those from a decade ago.

+1 Right around 15% (capital gains) after all the deductions.

I THINK the first video card I purchased (well, purchased for me as I was something like 8) was the S3 801 so I could play Tie Fighter (game is still awesome :D) First computer was a Tandy 4000. When the floppy drive broke they told us it would probably be cheaper to simply buy a new computer...

That's true...but it would certainly be hard to show damages outside of the minimal property damage. I doubt this will keep Mythbusters off the air.

From what I understand, they sit over / inside. They've been found on ATM machines and gas pumps throughout the country. I have heard (I have no way to prove this is factual) you should tug on the piece you insert your card into prior to engaging in your transaction to verify there isn't a sniffer.