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Comment Re: I'm so glad the government makes me safe. (Score 1) 116

Underpriced according to who?

The market has a certain load it can bear in terms of how high it goes, but how is that the same thing as "this thing is underpriced?." Not to mention that it requires ignoring the role of scalper bots that can buy up supply faster than organic humans - even those intending on scalping (but doing so w/o bots) - can buy (especially if you factor in website crashes from the influx of bots).

Comment Re:How to tackle the bots (Score 1) 116

I wonder if there is a way to keep track of a purchase being made by a connection to a particular website. If so, I don't see why they couldn't track the time taken to make one or more purchases, and deny it automatically if under a particular threshold.

Sure, bot makers could just adjust for it, but at some point they would adjust the time taken by the bot by so much that they would absolutely lose that speed advantage bots have to humans, IMO leveling the playing field dramatically.

Comment Re:Reject All Things AI (Score 1) 32

People using AI for arguably positive things doesn't become bad just because bad peoiple use it, or it is used in bad ways. That's terrible logic whether applied to technologies, members of a fandom or hobby, or whatever. Use of AI to drive audio unmixing and editing in the likes pf SpectraLayers, or the likes of Project Revoice using it to give people who lost their voice to diseases like ALS their voice back have NOT been negated, this is beyond retarded logic.

Comment Re:Broken paywalls (Score 1) 42

It lets them send you the articles in whole so that they are in your possession after the fact which greatly aids their claims in court that you stole the content.

One problem with this hypothesis I see is ... didn't a company that makes porn movies get caught seeding their own torrents - which blew up in their face after they tried taking to court people who torrented said movies?

I can't help but imagine that would make such maneuvers, similar maneuvers, seem less likely to work - that there are cases of people trying it only to have it blow up in their faces, I mean.

Comment Re:If you want to blame someone ... (Score 1) 195

.. then blame the shoplifters

How did shoplifters force a store, any store, to potentially understaff their stores (adequate staffing being, time and again shown in virtually every training videos that exists / has been leaked online to be an effective deterrent? How did the shoplifters force a store to take a method that has real potential problems?

They didn't. Only the store choose to do that.

This "SOLELY X makes Y do Z" thing is not logical.

Comment Re:Cool (Score 1) 79

The other thing is - who gives a fuck, apart from scientists, on how many cores cpu has, if they all work on same slow speed.

Those who think, whether erroneously or correctly, that more cores = more tasks that can run concurrently without needing to fight for CPU time, and greater granularity in being able to divide up tasks that can be parallelized?

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