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Comment Re:Bah! In my day... (Score 1) 78

...we'd buy cheap used records and cut them into quarter-sized blanks and feed the laundry machines with those. Kids these days with their fancy technology.

When I'd park on campus, you could pay an attendant cash. I had a $100 bill from my saving that I'd hand over, and they'd say "I can't cash that" and open the gate.

Comment Re: Decades in prison (Score 1) 44

Wrong. If Bitcoin wasn't as high as it is, FTX wouldn't have the money to repay even the dues from Nov 2022

Note I said after recovery of assets. Since they announced it, they have no doubt already obtained the money so any subsequent change is irrelevant. While an increase no doubt helped in the recovery, to claim they lost money based on it’s value after the funds were recovered is ad wrong as would be claiming they got a windfall if it dropped.

Comment Re: Decades in prison (Score 1) 44

They still lost money.

Whoever had 100$ worth of BTC in November 2022 will now get 100$ if I understood correctly.

That BTC is worth 380$ now, though. Assuming the customers wouldn't have sold in between, every customer ironically while receiving money back still lost 280% of their investment, in a sense.

And had it fallen to less than 100$ after the recovery of assest they would have come out ahead. They are lucky to at least be made whole as of the date FTX failed.

Comment Re: Pay or move on (Score 1) 43

Spotify's free tier has ads, just like radio; so they are getting paid for free users and the more they have the more ad revenue potential.

Yes and no. It's very well known that Spotify's ads don't even remotely cover the cost of licensing material for users. Heck even with ads + premium subscriptions Spotify has been completely unprofitable nearly every quarter of its existence, and still has been unprofitable every year of its existence.

Ads is not a viable business model for them, it exists as a trial to push people to premium subscriptions.

I agree, and that is the crux of their problem. Spotify free is good enough for most users, especially hen it is used like the old radio model for casual listening or when traveling. Spotify has the advantage of tailoring music to one's tastes,and not having to move up and down the die while traveling; so a few ads in exchange for what is essentially a customized radio experience means there is no compelling reason to upgrade.

Spotify's problem is, if they make the free experience so bad that upgrading is the only choice with them to get a good experience, I suspect many users will switch to another service or simply listen to music they already have. iPods, Android and iPhones have all made it easy to have your own radio station travel with you.

Comment Re:shoddy (Score 1) 73

A Miami-based CEO will serve over six years in prison for selling counterfeit Cisco equipment to numerous buyers on Amazon and eBay, with some of the shoddy hardware ending up in sensitive US government systems.

OK, but what about the authentically shoddy Cisco equipment?

Don't forget to sign up for the expensive service contract. Nice business you have, it'd be a shame if your network went down unexpectedly.

Comment Re:well older models may only be on ebay and if yo (Score 1) 73

Yeah.. I'm curious what the situation is they're applying the word counterfeit to here.

If it was branded as Cisco, even if it was off the same product line and just happened to be an "overrun," unless Cisco sold it it's counterfeit. It may be identical to a genuine Cisco part but it never passed though their sales pipeline. Even "Genuine" can be problematic in that manufacturers may have different quality specs or tolerances depending where it will be sold. They need to meet a price point, so while both parts in two separate areas are "Genuine" in that the part is sold by the manufacturer, they are not identical. You can import them as gray market items and sell them as genuine for less, which is why some companies are adding ever more sophisticated bar code like tags o track parts and where they come from.

I know the vendors have a very dim view as to product resales, and it may even be that they consider a Resold genuine unit to be counterfeit if the reseller did not erase all the software from the unit before selling.

I would not call that counterfeit, just used. You bough the real deal, and then resold it.

Comment Re:The TSD-485 titanium-alloy submarine screen doo (Score 1) 251

And of course, one might to see scenes like this since that person in that bathroom category is mandated by law:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/...

Your example raises a point: What happens when someone uses the bathroom mandated by law, women freak out that a man is in the women's bathroom and someone decides to confront them? In Idaho, it could easily devolve into a shooting. Of course, then the politicians and religious nutters will just blame the trans person, because well...

Comment Re: Pay or move on (Score 1) 43

All the music, ever, in the world, instantly, on any device, with no limit.

"I can't believe they expect us to PAY for this!"

smh

Spotify's free tier has ads, just like radio; so they are getting paid for free users and the more they have the more ad revenue potential.

Spotify wants you to pay but whines when they have to pay Apple to be on the App Store; at least Spotify pays artists well.

(For the sarcasm impaired the text after the semi colon is sarcasm.)

Comment Re:Actual range? (Score 1) 94

Soanybody seen an article that says how FAR it can travel, and not merely “a journey consuming 80,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity?”

It's not that big, 700 TEU, equivalent to 1400 40ft trailers, vs 5000 - 20000 TEUs for container ships. It appears to bee coastal freighter given TFA said it plys between Shanghai and Nanjing.

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