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Comment Re:Capacity or Cost? (Score 4, Insightful) 237

The main problem with the USPS is that Congress has them operating as a semi-business, semi-public service. That is to say, Congress has told them "act like a business, and turn a profit." But they won't let the Post Office do the most basic of business-like things: set prices.

They can't raise stamp prices, they have draconian rules imposed on them about pension funding, etc. Now, I'm not against Congress artificially keeping stamp prices low - we can view that as a public service similar to roads (we don't expect the Highway Department to turn a profit). But we need to pick one or the other - either is a "government business" and needs to run like one or a public service where we expect a loss for public good. Asking for both gets us dysfunction. It's amazing the USPS is as good as it is, all things considered.

Comment Re:It's not that we deny climate change (Score 3, Insightful) 481

This has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but I find it interesting how Conservatives have started to use the term "Politically Correct" to mean "thing I disagree with." Here it means, "scientific." He disagrees with the scientific opinion on the matter, but since it's something he opposes politically, then it is - to him - the "politically correct" opinion that humans cause global warming.

Comment Re:$15-$18 million of real money or FIFA money? (Score 1) 149

They didn't steal those $15-$18 million from EA, though. They got that money from other players. If they didn't deliver on the virtual coins, then yes, that would be fraud. If the virtual coins arrived as paid for, it wasn't fraud.

Let me put it another way. Let's say I sell my World of Warcraft account to another player. It violates Blizzard's TOS, but it's not illegal. I may have also obtained the characters on that account through illicit means - using bots. Again, that's not illegal (maybe a DMCA case could be made for it - I'm not familiar - but it's not fraud). Substitute WoW characters obtained through hacks for virtual currency obtained through hacks, and here we are.

Though if selling imaginary world things for real world cash isn't fraud, I have a great vacation home in middle earth to offer you!

This is entirely how many games make their money. Is League of Legends fraud?

Comment Firefox on Android Is Where Its At (Score 4, Insightful) 294

I know there's a lot of Firefox-hate at the moment (with some good reason), but I use Firefox as my web-browser of choice on Android. Why? Adblock. No other mobile browser has add-ons like Firefox. And the ability to block ads really speeds up the browser compared to Chrome in any real-world situation.

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