Whether the key can be used to activate the software is almost completely irrelevant. The implication, if not outright claim, was that she was selling licenses. Licenses are legal contract terms, and there is no way anyone buying these codes had a license from Microsoft.

I didn't bother to look up the case to see what charges were applied, but the most obvious one to me would be fraud (and interstate fraud at that, fraudulant wire transfer. etc.) If you ever look at those websites selling software keys, they always claim to be a 'license', which is it is not.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if someone started selling "Microsoft Activation Keys copied from acquired stickers." But then, why would anyone pay money for that instead of just using a free activation script?

I'm 90% sure that summary was itself written by AI.

They have already gone up 100% in the past 3 monts.

Nvidia is indeed a generation ahead. Which amounts to an approx. 1 year lead on R&D. Meanwhile, NVIDIA can't actually manufacture the chips they sell, and would have no ability to do so in less than 10 years. At any time they want, TSMC can capitalize on the AI Bubble by switching to their own Chinese chip design and stop or slow production for Nvidia/AMD. That's going to be a *big* adjustment for the S&P 500.

How bad of a teacher do you have to be that kids having a bit of fun in Math class, over nothing and with no effort on your part, is an existential crisis? I would be trying to sneak a 67 answer on every damn quiz until the fad dies off (as it must.)

Look for the Windows Update Blocker app on MajorGeeks.

Not obvious at all. What's the point all these giant industrial complexes to get stuff done if you can't achieve economy of scale.

This is kind of funny, but if you assume that this book was written by AI, which is being used to train humans on it's hallucinations to program / improve AI, this almost becomes a link to singularity, with humans brains as part of the neural net.

Thanks for the link. Looks like I wasn't paying attention to tax law in '21.

I hope that means Digital Services sold in Canada will now have to collect and remit GST, just like everyone else. Otherwise, Gov't must stabbed Canadian Companies in the back! (not that I want to pay more tax, but giving US companies a 13% price advantage over Canadian companies is *huge*. Digital tax has to either be evenly applied, or scrapped altogether for everyone.

Or, you know, just use USB-A port if you don't have a full feature usb-c controller. Honestly, this should have been part of the USB-C from go, but good on Microsoft for stepping up where they failed.

The big difference for Framework from the other laptops is that most Frameworks are *pre-sold*. Framework can't plan a laptop price 2 months in advance when the person in charge of Tarrif policy changes his mind every 3 days with 0 notice, and suddenly, all those laptops for which you negotiated prices and sold will now cost you an extra, 10, 20, or 30% on the day they ship!

Allowing Seagate to keep supplying them Barracuda Hard Drives would be even better sabotage of Huawei business.

The assume all the risk. They pay up front for the inventory,, and when the business goes sour, they are left on the hook for it.