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byVidar Leathershod
ovember 20, 2025 @06:20AM
(#65806567)
Attached to: UK To Ban the Resale of Tickets For Profit To Protect Fans
Scalper or troll, makes no difference. It's simply a new attempt at cornering a market. It robs value from the parties wishing to engage in transaction. An analogy would be if someone had bots that ordered all items in grocery stores that were the most popular, leaving only grape nuts, seitan, and sun dried tomatoes available for purchase directly, and listed those same items at 10x the price.
"Hey, buddy. You can live on grape nuts, seitan, and sun dried tomatoes, or you can grow your own. It's socialism to suggest that I am not allowed to do this!" - signed, Slashdot account number 10,156,657, probably one of several maintained by the same astroturfing leech.
What a pathetic argument. There are many things in this world that we don't *need*. At the same time, we don't need to protect scammers like you from scoring some 8th row seats at a concert you have no intention of attending, merely to make a few quick bucks (or if you are automating the process rather than relying on luck, quite a few quick bucks).
Two parties wishing to engage in commerce with each other shouldn't be required to allow a third party to interfere. It's no different than the way that mafias have historically sought to fraudulently extract value from the market.
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byVidar Leathershod
July 23, 2025 @09:54PM
(#65541220)
Attached to: How Much Would You Pay For an American-Made Laptop? Palmer Luckey Wants To Know
Similarly equipped? Doubtful. I buy Dell computers every week for corporate customers. Their prices have skyrocketed over the years, to where for âoeequivalentâ hardware to a $2700 MacBook will cost about $2800 to get in a Dell shell with a slower processor - M4 Pro 14 core vs Core Ultra 9 185H 16 core, and that Intel processor is not nearly as fast as the M4 Pro 14 core. In fact, if you move up to a Precision, with a Core i9-13950hx, you still have a processor that benchmarks lower in most tests. Of course, that model will cost you $3200, at which point you have the option to go to the M4 Max for just $300 more, and again you are getting higher performance for nearly every task.
Dell used to be price competitive. For customers that *need* to run Windows x64, they tend to be the most stable. But that competitive pricing is long gone. They learned from Apple that you can charge a premium and corporations will pay it. The sub-$1000 garbage you get off the shelf from them performs abysmally, and the build quality is pathetic.
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byVidar Leathershod
July 02, 2025 @01:45PM
(#65491934)
Attached to: Global Warming Is Speeding Up and the World Is Feeling the Effects
Wow. Nice weasel words. âoeâ¦all parties with parental responsibilityâ. That would exclude, of course, men who have lost custody because of their refusal to approve of gender bending their children.
And thatâ(TM)s just the obvious. There are, of course, children who have bugun various processes to âoetransâ without informed consent of the parents.
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byVidar Leathershod
ne 17, 2025 @03:07PM
(#65456509)
Attached to: 'Firefox Is Dead To Me'
Holy heck, your reading comprehension needs improvement. 52% supported Prop 8, which passed. It banned same sex marriages in the state, via State Constitutional Amendment. The rest of the country noticed that even far-left California did not support gay marriage, despite some local officials there performing said âoemarriagesâ in contravention of law.
The amendment was struck down by activist courts. SCOTUS claimed that the supporters of Prop 8 lacked standing to defend the law in Federal Court, as it was a State Amendment. This is a one time finding by SCOTUS, who never, before or since, claimed that a State Amendment could not be defended due to lack of standing. Notably, as was mentioned, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama said that they opposed legalization of gay marriage.
So, Eich agreed with the majority of Californians, and the vast majority of Americans, in saying that marriage was a union between a man and a woman. The caterwauling Leftists, obviously possessed of no particular technical talent, drove him out.
He now runs a far superior operation, and Mozilla continues to flounder.
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byVidar Leathershod
il 27, 2025 @10:42AM
(#65334763)
Attached to: Lenovo May Be Avoiding the 'Windows Tax' By Offering Cheaper Laptops With Pre-Installed Linux
As was mentioned, Oreos were basically a stolen design from the original Hydrox cookies. So you are correct in that sense that Oreos resemble Microsoft.
Whatâ(TM)s crazy is the similarities donâ(TM)t end there. Hydrox uses significant quantities of cocoa. They use real cane sugar. They taste better. Nabisco engaged in anticompetitive behavior, including reseller lock in, and it has been credibly alleged that their distribution system included the practice of attempting to hide their competitorâ(TM)s product on store shelves when stocking their own.
Also, Hydrox and Linux both end with âoexâ, and are both properly pronounced with a long âoeiâ.
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byVidar Leathershod
ruary 24, 2025 @09:49AM
(#65191155)
Attached to: Google To Eliminate SMS Authentication in Gmail, Implement QR Codes
Pray I don't alter it any further.
Having dealt with the fallout of people losing access to their accounts due to MFA, and not just from compromise, I am completely convinced that passkeys will result in the same. The whole system is completely ridiculous, and their whole claim of improved security has been demonstrated to be a fabrication.
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byVidar Leathershod
January 01, 2025 @03:57PM
(#65055687)
Attached to: Why Breakfast Is Busting Your Food Budget
The avian flu bit will be a nothing-burger. They are desperate to maintain regular plague-panics. The vast majority of culled flocks have no avian flu. However, the quick payout from Uncle Sam for the destroyed flocks creates a perverse incentive.
The prices will indeed come down after January 20th, as oil and other energy commodities will come down. Nobody wants to get stuck with high priced oil contracts when a perceived glut is approaching.
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byVidar Leathershod
ember 08, 2024 @12:46PM
(#64999537)
Attached to: What Do You Think of Mozilla's New Branding?
Exactly. They replaced a software engineer and creator of things with parasites and leeches. That's why the product suffers. Brave, on the other hand, has been innovating, adding great features regularly, especially on mobile.
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byVidar Leathershod
ember 08, 2024 @12:34PM
(#64999523)
Attached to: Drones, Surveillance, and Facial Recognition: Startup Named 'Sauron' Pitches Military-Style Home Security
Dang, you waited all of two seconds to post bullshit about "very fine people on both sides". It's been debunked with recordings, and transcripts, even by leftist "fact checkers". It's helpful, though, because it lets us know what whatever you say or believe has a 99.8% certainly of being bullshit propaganda.
I agree with the other commenter, in that it may be related to your cessation of various anti-psychotic meds.
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byVidar Leathershod
ovember 23, 2024 @09:50AM
(#64966739)
Attached to: Android's 'Restore Credentials' Feature Will Automatically Log You In To Your Apps On a New Phone
I recall back in the old days (maybe 5 years ago, before everything became tokenized) when you could migrate or copy to a new system and everything was already logged in then as well. Unfortunately, caterwauling about MFA led to tokens that can't be transferred in the migration process, and you are stuck re-authenticating everything.
Meanwhile, the world keeps a movin', and new breaches are made every day. But hey, at least we tried, right? Screw the fact that it makes life more miserable. So, here, we have another "new" method to do what you could do back then. Remarkable.
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byVidar Leathershod
ember 08, 2024 @09:36PM
(#64932113)
Attached to: Voted In America? VoteRef Probably Doxed You
Oh, it wasn't just actual votes. It's immaterial, as the courts refused to hear the evidence, which included sworn affidavits from various folks in the chain, and plenty of actual evidence of counting votes without observers. There are quite a few of these, even before you get to the geolocation cell data matched with surveillance video showing people stuffing so many ballots at once into "drop boxes" that some fall to the ground, only to go riding off on their bicycle and then return later with more.
At this point, its not even really a question. There is not an election where the leading candidate of the incumbent party receives 15 million fewer votes than in the previous election. There was no enthusiasm for Biden, and it was clear even before the election that the man was having severe cognitive issues.
But here's the thing: I'm not trying to convince you. I'm just pointing out the lack of intellectual honesty in suggesting that evidence was ever heard. It was not. YOu could see someone opening a panel on a voting machine and changing votes while you watched, and even in a ridiculously blatant scenario like that, which would never happen in real life, you would claim it was the most secure election ever. Which brings us to the pro-tip. When media troglodytes all drone on simultaneously about an election being the most secure ever, you can take it to the bank that the election was not, in fact, secure.
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byVidar Leathershod
ember 08, 2024 @04:36PM
(#64931621)
Attached to: Voted In America? VoteRef Probably Doxed You
That's not really intellectually honest. Having cases thrown out on procedural grounds, sometimes quite outlandish, is not "thrown out for being unsubstantiated". Normal legal actions entitle parties to discovery, and the ability to be assigned a date on the docket, and to have claims and evidence heard. They couldn't get that far. This includes for States that violated their own Constitutions, like Pennsylvania. That was not only substantiated, it was really undisputed.
The real reason is that Joe Schmoe Judge doesn't want to be the one seen as changing the outcome of an election by allowing arguments to be heard, especially if those arguments have merit.
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byVidar Leathershod
ctober 03, 2024 @10:45PM
(#64838643)
Attached to: Social Media Sanctions Hit Conservatives More, But Due to Content Sharing, Study Says
Luckily, it will likely soon be impossible for you to prevent people from sharing their thoughts on platforms which asked users to participate by sharing their thoughts. That way, we won't have to concern ourselves with your ridiculous policies based on regurgitated stories you read from whichever political party's media outlet published. "Anti-parasitic medication for horses" is all we need to hear from you to realize that you are a profoundly stupid person.
That, mixed with your authoritarian goals, is a deadly cocktail.
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byVidar Leathershod
ust 30, 2024 @10:36PM
(#64750384)
Attached to: Brazil Blocks X
Well, cisgender isn't really a word. It's a construct promoted by people who want to create a special label for people who are normal, so that they don't seem normal relative to someone who thinks they were born with the wrong body parts. In medicine, you learn that you should not participate or go along with a patient's delusion. It doesn't help, and it can actually put people at risk. In short, "transgender" persons are just that, and everyone else is just a person, male or female.
I can imagine it is difficult to not have a meltdown if your child has been affirmed (maybe even by you, to your horror) in a delusion which would potentially lead to their sterilization, mutilation, and more mental damage. He obviously erred in allowing things to progress as far as they did, and the child will suffer for the lack of appropriate parental guidance.
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byVidar Leathershod
August 21, 2024 @03:47PM
(#64725108)
Attached to: Ticketmaster's Nontransferable 'SafeTix' Are Anticompetitive, DOJ Suit Claims
Uh, fuck off yourself. We used to be able to go to concerts for bands that weren't mega attractions and pay reasonable prices.. Now, the tickets are instantly bought by bots and immediately posted on StubHub for anywhere between $750 and $1,500 per seat, when the original ticket was $75. You keep refreshing, and no tickets available through TicketMaster (including for "restricted presales).
Maybe consider not buying tickets for events if you aren't sure you will be able to go. Alternately, you can get your refund and you lose nothing. StubHub/SeatGeek etc are why people with average incomes can no longer affordably purchase tickets. One also has to wonder if your opposition to this is not misrepresented, and that you are involved in the bot/scalping industry.
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