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Comment Re:tell me you haven't tried this (Score 1) 23

steve@hotmail.com made all the sense in the world...

And them spammers, they nail first-name addresses. All of them. All the time. Complaining about your 'name' being a spam magnet shows you do not well understand the methods spammers use to get mail out the door.

Naturally this reeks of the problem being solely on the email victim and never on the spammers who should have been legally beheaded in the town square by now. In order to permanently fix the problem of 98% of ALL email being spam.

As if History needs to prove actual enforcement actually fucking works.

Comment Re:Phone numbers are scarce Re:Never used emails (Score 1) 23

"Short, easy to remember" email addresses are also scarce, but you don't need a "short, easy to remember" email address to function in society. Most people do need a phone number.

Wrong. Everyone needs an alias, not a number to remember. Most people know everyone by a contact name, not a number.

Most people couldn't even tell you their own parents cell phone number. If their life depended on it.

Comment Re:Horrible (Score 1) 23

Imagine if a phone number or mailing address was reused? You'd get someone's old spam all the time. Getting messages not relevant to you with the wrong name on it must be most frustrating experience a person can have.

Worrying about recycled email addresses will soon be about as legitimate as worrying about someone's snail mail getting delivered to the "wrong" address.

Tough shit if you happen to be born well after a planet invented email addressing. You better be willing to be known as [random_number_generator@email] if you intend on being "hidden" from spam for more than 30 fucking days.

Comment Re:How many are actually losing their jobs? (Score 1) 31

The article says "Verizon also plans to transition about 200 stores into franchised operations, which will shift employees off its payroll". So how many of those 15,000 are going to keep their job at the franchise Verizon store?

Shit-shifting a failed business model into "franchises", reeks of the ignorance of a brand-new Subway franchisee wanting to use Pedo Jared as their marketing frontman.

They should really stop pretending that we don't smell that business move from a mile away.

Comment Re:Companies are cutting essential staff now (Score 2) 31

It's an entirely new kind of economy. Capitalism without competition. They can keep raising prices and screwing us over and firing us and making us work longer hours for less pay and there's basically nothing we can do about it.

After Too Big To Fail, taxpayers will be ready to do something about it when it comes to light that these greedy fucks intend on abusing their obvious losses by trying to socialize them.

The Rich won't realize they're on the menu until they're tied up over the spit. They're predictable. Not smart.

Comment Making Proton, obsolete. (Score 1) 23

use PGP. This company has a long history of complying with police.

If that is true, then I have NO idea why this company even exists. Encrypting email prior to sending it, tends to completely defeat the entire point of bragging about 'secure' email and the entire business model around it.

And not that you're wrong, but you're literally recommending thirty-five year old technology. This is akin to telling newly licensed drivers that they should buy a '91 Corolla because every model newer than that isn't going to get you from point A to point B without getting carjacked. Every time.

Comment Re:Never used emails (Score 4, Interesting) 23

TFA is self-contradictory. If this is about "never used" emails, then there is no concern about sensitive messages, as the only emails would be misdirected spam.

Does it really matter in 2025?

Here's an example. You are 9-12 years old and getting ready to be a brand new recipient of what will forever be known as your phone number.

Prove to me today that the phone number knowingly issued to a child isn't some recycled drug lords number, or that anyone issuing smartphone numbers is legally obligated to give a flying fuck about what number anyone gets.

Comment Re:BB guns vs. shotguns. (Score 1) 35

And your claim is that one-fourth of the entire human race is not only online, but is on a high-speed connection and gaming DAILY?!?

If we define high-speed connection as 200mbps or faster, than over 70% of the entire world has it. So, yeah.

I have NO fucking idea

You sure don't.

Since you claim to, prove it with factual statistics. 1.9 billion. Daily. Define gamer first, since Grandpa still playing Pac-Man is something Capitalism already forgot to give a shit about.

Comment Re:Should not require an app (Score 1) 112

So the need for an airline-specific app is...?

There isn't. You would still be able to check-in and do everything else from their website. The only thing that will go away are their check-in counters at the airport. The "app" part is because a) many people don't know what a website is, and those who know assume that a website can only be accessed from a PC..

If people are going to participate in the online world of today, then perhaps they should be forced to take a test first. Because I simply cannot subscribe to the concept that people don’t know what a website is. The fuck do idiots think our clickbait infected world hyperlinks to? The toilet seat?

Browsers are literally software that vendors pay tens of millions of dollars every year just to fight over who is default browser. THAT is how much websites still matter. Assuming a smartphone junkie doesn’t know what a website is, is like assuming EV owners don’t know what gasoline is. Or why it exists. I want to hope that people are ignorant but not that ignorant.

Comment Re:Should not require an app (Score 1) 112

Every airline has a website that allows check-in and can generate a QR-code like boarding pass (which can also then be printed!). Both iOS and Android have "wallet" capabilities for storing such things. So the need for an airline-specific app is...?

Can you still log onto their website prior to flying, download the QR code boarding pass image to your phone, and use that to check in without the need for any app?

If the QR code is what the gate monkey needs, then the QR code is what the gate monkey gets.

Comment Re:Exported deflation (Score 1) 205

Maybe. Here in North America, the big three have already conceded the budget market. None of them are interested in anything other than luxury cars. For the first time, the average car purchase in the US has hit $50k.

Forget 2026. The big three look like they’re still struggling to sell last year models off the lot. As every new car lot can attest.

Not sure what the big three conceded to sell in North America, but it ain’t cars at $50K+.

Comment Prevailing Piss in those Headwinds. (Score 3, Insightful) 42

"..which we estimate is a $60mm revenue headwind."

Gotta love it when they try and use innocent terms like "headwind".

As if it's some kind of natural organic event in Capitalism causing this and not a couple of greedy dicks pissing in the wind at each other.

Comment Re:BB guns vs. shotguns. (Score 2) 35

Nah.

There are about 1 billion PC gamers worldwide. A number and proportionality no console manufacturer will ever attain.

1 in 8 humans on this planet (including third worlds), are PC gamers with rigs equal to at least a PS4 in performance?

I'm just gonna stand waaay back here and let you pull that evidence out of your ass. Guessing you're still counting Billy Mitchell in there too.

Comment The Model T-101. (Score 1) 69

Only this time we have nuclear weapons.

Uh, who you talking "we" there, Kemosabe?

I seem to recall us training those robots in the Model T-101 factory to do a slightly different mission at Skynet Automotive. We will be lucky if we maintain control of those nuclear weapons.

Who knew James Cameron could be as prophetic in 1984 as George Orwell was writing 1984..

Comment BB guns vs. shotguns. (Score 1) 35

PCs are far more important to modern gaming than the PS5 can ever hope to be.

There was a question between maybe 1998 to 2004 if consoles would become the dominant game platform culturally and in terms of development.

We've now answered that question, and the answer is "no."

You mean how many hardcore gaming PCs sold by comparison?

Trying to lump "PC sales" into this comparison, is beyond disingenuous. The one running an embedded POS video card and 16MB of RAM playing browser games on a lap-tablet is more the cultural norm.

Tell me what the culture looks like when you compare shotguns to shotguns.

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