The more accurate analogy is that you, as a landlord, must constantly have your private conversations listened to, in case at the dinner table you mention to your wife that you noticed suspicious things going on at your rental.


I'm surprised you are on slashdot, yet didn't understand the technology being discussed to make a more accurate analogy. Interesting audience here.

No, more to it than that.
If we fulfill ourselves and a customer leaves negative feedback about delivery, we are stuck with it.
But if you pay Amazon to fulfill it, they will remove any fulfillment feedback for that order - yet they will still debit your account because of the carrier's performance. You loose either way, and you have even less insight when you use Amazon fulfillment. You do get the "protection" from negative feedback.



Also their order defect rate calculation is terrible. You can have 1,000,000 orders in a month, but if you only get 2 feedback that month and one of them is negative, you will have a 50% feedback rating. The denominator should really be total orders, not total feedback. Why would the company that patented one-click buying think happy people are going to spend time praising a seller?

This is how Amazon handles refunds for late deliveries.

Merchant fulfilled: You should have used a better carrier! We will deduct the funds from your selling account
Amazon-fulfilled: The carrier we used was slow. We will deduct the funds from your selling account.

Funny how there are only 3 major carriers in the US to use, and we all use the same ones, but when Amazon uses them it is still your fault for not.. flying it in your personal helicopter?


Another aside, we had to stop fulfilling orders to people in the service. Believe it or not, accurate delivery scans for tracking API's aren't a priority for the military, especially in overseas bases. Could even be a security issue. Well, Amazon was going to punish us for these orders not showing final delivery, despite no customer complaints. So we had to stop sending headphones, protein powder, all sorts of stuff to our military members because Amazon cannot see the forest through the trees.

Every so often we get a product taken down until we upload paperwork from the manufacturer. But if one customer doesn't know how to connect to widgets together and complaints that it must be fake, Amazon suspends our listing because it must be counterfeit - even though it is our product AND we gave them the damn documentation previously. Losing thousands of dollars, have to cut hours for employees because Amazon support in bongobongostan cannot read.


I welcome Amazon getting spanked.

"it's "sad" that they are fighting the inevitable rise of AI"

Wow, what a load of horse shit.
If I don't want my doorbell being rung 24/7 so people can see my flight simulator rig, you wouldn't say I'm "against getting more people into aviation".
You fuckwit.

I had the same thought initially.

For a game I have been playing, there is a twitch streamer who actually is a "content creator" and not just someone with a camera on him for hours.
I tune in whenever he attempts to solo missions that were designed for 3 people on the hardest difficulties.

Anyway, the production value is off the charts. Great on-screen effects and family guy-style live cutaways (or more like the different stages on Saturday Night Live, idk) whenever he fails to accomplish it. Greenscreens provide a loop of the failure which he deconstructs a bit.
Interactive polls on whether it will work out or not. You can use your channel points to force him to afk right before a boss fight and go for a quick walk around the block. Drone camera kicks in.
Anyway, I wouldn't watch people play things I can already do/accomplish. I agree with you there.

We used to get plenty of malicious traffic from Digital Ocean, but instead of spam it is carding attempts on our ecommerce websites. Solution? Block their ASN, and just about every other hosting provider from accessing our websites.

Occasionally this causes a hiccup for a service that our marketing department wanted to use. I tell them to find someone else. We aren't budging. Digital Ocean and OVH (not US-based but still) never replied to any abuse reports so that is that.

I wish FIreFox let us change shortcuts.

Ctrl Shift P is for incognito mode
Ctrl P is for printing

That is just asking for an embarrassing mistake.

I think Google Chrome's makes more sense. Ctrl N is for new window. Throw a shift in there, and you get a new window but it has shifted into incognito. What is FireFox's shortcut reasoning? I guess private or shift to public view.

Not everyone uses WiFi for streaming devices. I've got things wired directly on different subnets and vlans throughout the house. I sometimes have Netflix on at work in the background. Do I have to take my work PC home now to sync? And more importantly, COULD I even do that, since the "primary" network at home isn't WiFi?

I largely agree.

Everything not working out for the good guys, at least perfectly, was a refreshing concept for blockbuster star wars. Order 66 is similar, but for Rouge One we are talking the cast on the movie posters just outright being deleted. All of them. The only thing I would change is spread some of it out a bit more. Could have lost 1-2 more people earlier. I'm satisfied either way.

Solo was enjoyable for me. It felt simpler despite the budget being similar to that of The Last Jedi. Perhaps a few things could have been yanked. How much did the gambling city CGI cost? Perhaps humans could have raced instead of those beasts. Just my opinion, it felt like it should have had half the budget. I wish it did - because as the slashdot summary mentioned, the budget to box office ratio wasn't favorable, which basically killed these standalone films.

Rakuten bought the coveted 3-letter domain buy.com.

Not only is it short, which is coveted, but you already know what to expect just from the domain name.
During the last decade, they renamed it to Rakuten and redirected the website to rakuten.com. Presumably because they have a boner for their own name.

They wound up shutting down the entire marketplace two years ago. What a shame, as we used to get plenty of sales there when customers didn't have to ask "What is a Rakuten?"..

They do make a decent bike. Perhaps overpriced but our only comparison is a $400 one that broke TWICE. These $400 ones appear to be for people who think they will workout daily, but never do. ProForm was the brand, I believe. The bolt that spins for adjusting the resistance gets stripped. A repairman came to replace it and within a month it wore down again. So now you have a bike that is stuck at one resistance forever.
For people like my wife who actually follow a class and want to change resistance during an hour session to simulate different inclines, Peloton beat the $400 bike.

I'm sure somewhere in between ProForm and Peloton exists a bike that doesn't whittle itself into metal dust, but we don't have time or money to try them all.

schrodinger's murder

Thing is they don't even bother milking it for some. I want to play Pokemon HeartGold. Nintendo doesn't currently offer it for sale physically or digitally. Most carts on ebay are reproductions. So my choices are pirating a rom that came from a real copy, or giving money to a scammer. Why reward the scammer?

Hyundai Santa Fe

One trim level has wireless charging, but not wireless carplay
Another trim level has wireless carplay, but not wireless charging


No model has both. So much for "wireless" if you want to use CarPlay. The reasoning I've seen online seems to align with what you said - garbage hardware doesn't have enough juice to do it. The ironic part is its the more expensive trim level that can't do wireless CarPlay. They couldn't spend the extra pennies to make it truly wireless.