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tech, humor, and nuance by David Chartier—tech distiller, freelance writer, Macworld contributor, wrangler of Finer Things in Tech

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“Taste often describes flavors, appearances and forms; it blends into fashion, which spins as fast as people can spend their money. Even the classics shift as priorities change; something may be tasteful but irrelevant. Design, however, also concerns itself with function. If a design fails to encompass good taste, the result will be ugly. But if taste fails to encompass good design, it’ll be useless. Talking about another Sony laptop that buries functionality under tasteful appearances and spec sheets, it’s not hard to see the point in all this.”

What the Vaio Z says about Sony’s little design problem - Boing Boing (via thisistheverge)

(via thisistheverge)

Spain Arrests 3 in PlayStation Cyberattacks - NYTimes.com

David Jolly:

The Spanish police said Friday that they had arrested three suspected computer hackers in connection with recent cyberattacks on Sony’s PlayStation network as well as corporate and government Web sites around the world.

In a statement, the police said that with the arrests, they had dismantled the local leadership of the shadowy international network of computer hackers, called Anonymous, that has claimed responsibility for a wide variety of attacks.

Update on PlayStation Network and Qriocity – PlayStation Blog

Six days later and Sony finally admits that the attacker gained access to a wealth of personal information stored on PSN, including our names, addresses, email address, birthdate, and PSN login and password.

Sony also “cannot rule out the possibility” that credit card numbers and expiration dates (but not security codes) may have also been compromised.

Six days.

We deserve to know A) how long it took Sony and its third-party security firm to figure this out and B) how long it took them after that to tell us this.

If B is anything besides “the roughly 20 minutes we spent drafting, editing, and publishing this blog post just now,” Sony has an incredible amount of explaining to do.

Announced today in Tokyo not one, but two Sony® Tablets « SONY make.believe

  1. You need to use ® on your own company name on your company blog? Really?
  2. Sorry, but using “months of rumor, speculation, and excitement” on your official blog isn’t cool. It’s disingenuous and desperate. Please leave the cool stuff to the hip and edgy gadget blogs.
  3. Not one, but two uses of the ® symbol. When the hell did WAN become a registered trademark?

The “we approve or deny others’ work” approach with the App Store has worked so far for Apple. Maybe it will work for Sony and its notebooks.

I mean, fat chance. But… you never know, right?