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SONY HAS BEGAN to make up for its Playstation Network outage by extending subscriptions for premium members and offering discounts for all users.
Those who had an active membership or free trial on Christmas Day will receive an extension of five days. If a user’s membership or trial ends before the extension is made available, they will also receive it and will be notified about it.
Alongside that, members will also get a 10% discount for the next cart transaction they make in the Playstation Store. The company will send out the codes for these transactions later this month.
Playstation Network originally went down after an alleged DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack was performed on it. The attacks stopped after internet mogul Kim Dotcom claimed he stopped Lizard Squad from continuing their attacks on both it and Xbox Live.
Back in 2011, a more serious attack brought the service down for nearly a month and saw sensitive information stolen. Sony apologised by offering free games and discounts to users as compensation although it agreed to a €12.4 million settlement in July 2014 after some customers sought a class action lawsuit against it.
Meanwhile a man allegedly linked to the group Lizard Squad, which claimed responsibility for the cyberattacks on Playstation Network and Xbox Live, has been arrested in the UK. The arrest was made in connection to cyberfraud offences made between 2013 and August 2014 but the individual has been linked to the group.
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If any group deserves improved conditions it’s nurses. Nurses work an average of 1872 hours annually compared to 735 hours for a teacher yet it’s the teachers making all the noise….baffling!
@Soccer T’s: If teaching is so easy feel free to become a teacher.
If it’s so difficult feel free to change career
@Soccer T’s: Why should I stop being a doctor because teaching is a challenging job?
Patients will die for every minute nurses go on strike.
I hope the union thinks twice before beginning a genocide of our most vulnerable.
A little hyperbolic there al…
@Al Ca: sure the government via cuts to support have done that last few years.
@FifiJamming: Are you claiming that nurses don’t save lives? That’s a little insulting.
@Al Based on your comment, if nurses go on strike for 24 hours, 1440 people will die. Damn!
@Soccer T’s: The idea that 1,440 people would need urgent hospital care out of a population of 4.5 million is hardly shocking.
They won’t need care if they are all dead but they will need undertakers. Another career option for you
Well you’d better be a good Doctor.
Do YOUR job well and stop undermining others.
You said die… yes they’ll obv have urgent care, but you did say they’d all die because of the strike. Now if your arbitrary number is on top of the norm – then yes, your statement is hyperbolic
Oh god the world is just full of ignorant people. I am surprised daily even though I shouldn’t be shocked by it anymore.
And that comment is pointed directly at Al Ca. I genuinely don’t understand someone commenting on something they clearly have no knowledge about.
I bet the nurses you work with love you Al!
Article is a it misleading – it’s a work to rule FROM Tuesday mArch 7th, with one day work stoppages (strike days) to be announced. It’s not a work to rule ON Tuesday March 7th!
Unless the INMO talks with the WRC lead to a resolution on safe staffing, recruitment and retention measures that work.
https://www.inmo.ie/Home/Index/217/12858
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