Ironically of you had read my other comment too...
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Yeah it's important to keep perspective. To Take Two this represents material loss, millions of dollars potentially gone, ruining an entire marketing campaign and wasting shitloads of money. (Remember, whether or not you agree, that's their perspective).
To this hacker's perspective, it is a 100 dollar game. Do I agree with the fact that gaming has gotten insanely shitty? Absolutely. However at the end of the day it's a game, and you're gambling your entire future livelihood and wellbeing.
man I honestly do not know how these people are so brave. Seriously. They're going to be absolutely giga-fucked when they're found out, and it sounds like they're going to be since they're using OneDrive, Discord, and it sounds like their crypto address is directly linked to a known crypto exchange who validates IDs. It's only a matter of time. At this point they should be planning on leaving the country IMO.
Also note how they're asking for Machine IDs. We only heard about their existence a month ago over "security" and already the lawyers are using them. Don't trust non-open-source.
Take Two won't forget this, they go after mod developers. They're only a step down from Nintendo in terms of their legal pushes.
If there is no jail (which at this point I'd be surprised), minimum they're going to have millions owed. Guaranteed these are some idiot kids who are going to fuck up the rest of their lives.
Correct, "safety" compromises our privacy. Now you're getting it, captain shithead CEO! So with that in mind, there is no way we can accept these cameras.
Recently too. Delta was 200 bucks hub to hub. Had family at the other hub so went semi frequently. Checked the other day and it was 600 fucking dollars. Hell no I'm not doing that.
Of course their idea is to raise prices even more! That'll get people to fly more!
So much security through obscurity, or worse the dev doesn't know how to do it properly and doesn't have time to learn it. So many completely open blob storage buckets allowing full read write, cors * * *, I'll roll my own authentication, database with plain passwords. "No one should be able to get to there anyway"
Next week having closed courtains will be illegal. What's going on in there? Probably something suspicious! Why is your bathroom window frosted?!
Very validating to hear others who saw the same. So frustrating that when I was there I really did pride myself on my work and making people's lives easier. (I always am annoyed at people who are like "har har geek squad dumb" when they really don't know what we do, doing the simplest tasks for people who are too afraid to do it themselves). Sadly, it appears that all of that has just gone down the drain as the search for more profit has eaten up all of that goodwill.
I also completely agree, with Fry's closing and microcenter only in a few places, and then radio shack long dead consumer electronics is very sparse. Like them or not we need best buy as an electronics retailer elsewise most of the country is empty.
Yup, I started at the tail end of where you ended where they realized they done fucked up again, and then rinse and repeat. Good leaders learned it's a long term gain, that services are there to support the sales. Then they get "line go up" short term morons who kill all of that good will for a good quarter, and the stock plummets. To me you can see it clearly in their stock price:
You can see your drop down, then they realized they fucked up, then my time was around 2011-2015, you can see the collapse and rebuild. Then wit does go up during the tenure of Jolie, until he was forced out. They enjoyed short term profits and got lucky through covid, and now they're floundering because they don't really know how to retain customers, so it's wildly fluctuating.
It is, but more because they (employees as a whole) used to know, but now they just kind of "read the cards" that are in front of them. Not their fault, corporate killed all of the training
I worked at best buy geek squad for 5 years over a decade ago. I saw best buy turn their reputation around with a new CEO who focused on customer care, training employees so they knew what they were doing. I rose through the ranks to a full repair agent where I did repairs proudly.
About 6 years ago the board ousted the last CEO for not making enough profits. The new one essentially reversed everything overnight. Less training, lower wages, less employees. It shows every time I'm in a best buy and it kills me. We had something special then, but new CEO doesn't care. Line must go up, and torpedoed all of that consumer trust. Now I don't recommend anyone buy anything from best buy.
I had to buy a laptop 2 years ago and was eyeing a laptop, and a sales person attempted to help me. I tried to be nice, thanks but I got this, but obviously had a madatory spiel. Told them I was just going to install linux and they said "oh this won't support that". Okay sure, thanks for showing you don't know anything, okay goodbye. I went from promoting geek squad warranties to now I wouldnt trust them at all.
Amazing that they never accounted for being offline. Didn't want to stick to the schedule that was set for a week of offline? Say it has to be online (it doesn't) but just say it does. Why not keep a copy of the weekly schedule locally, and then follow that if internet drops. Have a rule that says it will continue for a week offline. But it was probably done at bottom dollar