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Comment Re: More than one Meaning (Score 0) 66

Yea, but when? This is far from a common usage of the word,

No it's not. You conveniently left out another definition of conscientious:

careful and painstaking; particular; meticulous; scrupulous.

conscientious application to the work at hand.

In re: your question, the person would pay attention to the details of harming someone as they were instructed. For example, a mob hit. They wouldn't just walk up to the person in broad daylight with hundreds of people around and shoot/stab them (though this has happened). Instead, they would observe the target, find out their routine, where they live, then, when that person is alone and it is dark, go out and kill them. The hitman was conscientious in how they did their task. They paid attention to the details and did their job well.

English isn't your first language, is it?

Comment Re:So the misinformation has some truth to it... (Score 1) 47

Intel pretty much figured that designed in the USA - manufactured elsewhere would continue to be a viable business model for the foreseeable future. Spoiler alert: it wasn't.

And yet, there are numerous other companies who use this same model. Look at their packaging. Designed in USA, made in China (usually China), but also Philippines, Thailand, etc.

Let's see if these companies get the same treatment. Spoiler alert: they won't.

Comment I remember (Score 2) 146

During the Bush depression, J.P. Morgan was selling a product to its customers that it was simultaneously betting against. According to Jamie Dimon, these were "sophisticated" investors who knew the risks.

Can't wait for this to happen with all the real estate and crypto scams which will be foisted on investors retirement accounts.

Comment "Unsupported platform" concept is anticompetitive (Score 1) 105

Are they stopping people that purchased the game from playing it?

With respect to Call of Duty games: Yes. Games supporting Xbox Live on the original Xbox console are no longer playable online. Games for PlayStation 2 had a trend of closing even earlier with DNAS error -103 "This software title is not in service."

And with respect to recent games: The publisher of the game Concord closed its sole server less than a month after release.

And with respect to recent games that rely on Windows security technologies: Players of Marvel Rivals on Linux and macOS got banned from the game's sole server for a century until server administrators had to reverse the bans manually. If you want more examples, I can provide them by searching DuckDuckGo for linux games ban site:slashdot.org.

Do you simply mean that paying customers have to play it on supported platforms and accounts that own the software, whereas people that stole the software can play it on unsupported platforms and accounts that do not own the software?

I suspect that grandparent means that the concept of an "unsupported platform" is itself anticompetitive. I certainly believe it is. If a paying licensee can technically make a computer program work on a particular platform, it ought not to be the publisher's privilege to arbitrarily ban said licensee for using said program on said platform.

Where do you work? What product or service do you provide?

I work for Retrotainment Games, and we sell pixel art games for about $10 to $15 on Steam* or $60 on cartridge.

* Disclaimer: A paid download on Steam or a major game console's download store is not a sale of a copy as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code.

Comment Sic the ADA lawyers on them (Score 1) 105

Then they will provide some API for websites to disallow extensions (again, an extension could steal your banking data!)

This invites a lawyer to find a client with a disability who can't use a website because it blocks the assistive browser extension on which the client relies. Together, they sue the browser publisher and website operator under Americans with Disabilities Act or foreign counterparts.

Comment Re:Sounds like the accusations are true. (Score 1) 96

Some website publishers have threatened publishers of ad-blocking software pursuant to the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), or other similar legislation. See "A Copyright Claim Was Reportedly Used to Stop Ad Blocking, But It’s Complicated" by Rhett Jones for details.

Comment Re:And yet iOS still has... (Score 1) 79

For the most part they don't have save buttons, things automatically save as you edit them.

Is there a way to turn this nightmare off? No way I want what I do automatically saved until I'm sure it's where I want it. I keep multiple copies of work because they have different edits and sometimes I refer back to something I did previously.

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