I had both a first generation Rio (or was it diomond?), and a disk Man I'd used in my car via aux in back then.

If anything was released commercially, I swapped disks. The mp3 player was used purely for bootlegs and b sides I couldn't easily get on disk.

The 64 megs held less than a CD at high bitrate, and transferring music over serial was slllllooooowwwwww.

I was middle class, disposable income teen (hs senior), I was the only person I knew with an mp3 player until the iPod, and not the first gen, the one with the touch wheel and clicker

Yet I did know audio nerds, I'm very skeptical that mp3 players were used by many at all at that time.

That's not how I remember 1999. Mp3s that's weren't garbage were hard to come by, syncing large collections was super slow, even disk space was somewhat relevant back then.

The flash based long life players had essentially no storage.

The 4k is the width though, so it'd be HD1 (1280), HD2 (1920), etc. etc.

The focus I rented with sync was horrible.

To use ad2p audio, I had to connect the phone, and would get a message "to play music through Bluetooth, go to audio settings". There we're two audio settings headings, one two levels deep, the other three levels deep, and I could never remember which one to go to, or what the path to it was.

It would forget this setting every time I restarted the car.

The setting forgetting, the two menu items with same name, and the message telling me where to go leaving out the path to get there are all thing's I would consider terrible ui design.

I assume they have client isolation. Hotels do it. Some home routers do it and can't be told not to. I can't think of a reason Comcast would decide to not do so on a public ap.

I wish xm was that nice. I politely asked three times before I started getting belligerent.

After about the fifth time (8th call) when I asked them if they had heard of the Internet yet, and why they thought I'd pay for what I already paid for (Internet radio and podcast donations) they stopped.

It was so strange to talk to them, asking if oh enjoyed their radio stations.

I never had even listened, I highly doubt they match my tastes for a particular moment as well as Pandora, Spotify, or Google, and suspect that they are at best with the same variety per station as Pandora.

I actually don't mind the deals at all.

That is how I think advertising should work, relevant, and discount.

Yeah, I know, but I hate those underline things.

That's why I stopped going to phoronix.com.

I hate the popover adds on my phone, at least the /. ones seem to close easily.

the blue underline ads are always terrible and useless, and I click them by accident when scrolling via touch, they really annoy me.

Apperently so. The new Slashdot.

I'm also getting those blue underlain word ads, and popover ads on my phone.

Between the people leaving, and this, I may be leaving myself.

I just haven't found exactly the right fit.

I'm pretty sure the cash discounts are about taxes. Places that have them usually have them well above the fees.

Large businesses have other ways to avoid taxes, so they don't need to preferentially accept cash.

I'm pretty sure they hate MasterCard gift cards too.

That's what I was thinking, reminds me of this:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id...

I always find it weird that somehow donations are looked at as being less influencing than ads.

You can get ads through a network where you have no communication with the buyers, and place them on the front page only (to make sure no ads show up near articles that may be controversial). The only possible influence is the ad network, so we can look for evidence of that as the public.

Clearly mark the ad, and it should all be fine.

I don't see how a large donation is any less prone to influence than an advertiser.

I suspect that in at least some jurisdictions this will fall into a close enough to taxi to be taxi category.

Similar to how Aero lost the lawsuit where it was determined that they were functionally a cable company, not a rental of equipment (which is what they were technically).

Which has absolutely nothing to do with my questioning that active THC remains in the body with a similar pattern to its matabolized parts.

I have no idea the reasonableness of the limits set, but it does look like they are talking about people that currently have THC in them, and are actively trying to test that, unlike employers.