Comment Re:Just ruining all the words... (Score 2) 146
The A stands for "another," the G stands for "grift," but I can't figure out what the I stands for.
Comment Re:If anyone wants to know why people buy vinyl (Score 0) 159
You're missing the point. It's not about electronics per se, but DRM. Audio quality is irrelevant.
Not for the majority of people buying vinyl.
So, unless that electronic turntable is monitoring what it is playing and cross-references that to a database of your licensed music, or needs a stupid app to work (I hope I'm not giving them ideas...), then your argument is moot.
Why do you believe that won't happen? Were you born yesterday? Imagine the personalized marketing that could be done with that info. No, I'm not kidding.
Comment Re:If anyone wants to know why people buy vinyl (Score 1) 159
But you still can't tell the difference between thousand dollar audio cables and a wire coat hanger. Or a banana.
Comment Re:If anyone wants to know why people buy vinyl (Score 2) 159
The vinyl may not be subject to reprogramming after the fact, but the turntable is . . . an electronic device.
Audiophiles are gullible cult members, even more so than wine snobs.
Comment Re:Brevard County has followed suit. (Score 3, Insightful) 61
Flock has really screwed up its marketing. It feels like they are a bunch of Techbros that don't understand peoples fear of privacy violations.
It isn't that they don't understand. They don't care. Why should they? The law doesn't apply to them, and lesser being exist to be controlled by their superiors. Just ask them.
Comment Re:Hypocrisy at it's finest. (Score 0, Troll) 233
You've jumped head first into the bottomless pit of TDS.
Comment Re: Trump is a loser (Score 0, Flamebait) 233
Found the TDS sufferer.
Comment Re:Trump is a loser (Score 4, Informative) 233
Jimmy Carter (notable for being a Democrat) was as low, as was George W. Bush, Harry S. Truman (another Democrat) was lower, by 2%. Only Nixon was substantially lower, by 10%.
Comment Re:Hypocrisy at it's finest. (Score -1, Flamebait) 233
You could have stopped after the fourth word.
Though, technically, I suppose you're right: It isn't possible to lie more than "every word out of one's mouth," and all politicians lie as much as Trump. Most of them at leas try to be subtle, where he doesn't.
Comment Re: "We're not a monopoly" (Score 1) 18
There are multiple definitions of "monopoly" in different contexts (eg. economic vs. legal)
And none of them really apply to the third largest company in the field.
Comment Re:"We're not a monopoly" (Score 1) 18
I'm having a hard time seeing the third largest company in the field as a monopoly. I believe the correct term would be cartel, or conspiracy in restraint of trade.
Comment Re:The sequence of events is fascinating (Score 0) 62
NO!
Kalshi IS specifically designed for insider trading, BUT it loses all value if every schmuck out there can do it
If everyone can do it, then it's not insider information.
Comment Re:fine by Kalshi? (Score 2) 62
That's the usual way, but calling it a "fine" is stupid and confusing. "Penalty" is the correct word.
Comment Re:maybe the low paid rent a cops took them. You k (Score 1) 34
Or just not let it connect to the internet.
Comment Re:maybe the low paid rent a cops took them. You k (Score 4, Insightful) 34
Or maybe it was a competitor who wasn't interested in stealing the laptop so much as stealing the game before its release?
In any event, "The laptop was stored in a cupboard in the booth." The whole point of a laptop is its portability. While the venue and convention organizers could certainly have done a better job, anybody who leaves something that valuable in the booth at night is a fool.
