jwdavidson

As a teenager, I worked at a big box store that figured out how to monetize this: The department I worked in had a blank on the pricing form marked "Hand Placement Fee" that our company trainer taught us to call the "PIA Charge"

We were instructed to upcharge customers for being jerks, and use our own judgement to determine the fee.

RJ45, part of the Registered Jack family of connectors designed by government-mandated telephone monopoly AT&T and codified in 47CFR-68 by the FCC, is free of bureaucratic regulation?

Commercial displays are more like $700-$1000 in this size class, and power isn’t free, so there is presumably some crossover point in total cost of ownership.

I’ll gladly replace my menuboard 43” TVs with eInk displays if they ever reach the rough price neighborhood ($1500?) and have a single-digit-seconds repaint time

I have exactly one non-shady use case:

I work with an event org with a fairly common name, and another city in our region has an event with the same name. For some years, we’ve outranked them for major keywords and getting their confused customers was becoming a headache for us.

So now if our website thinks you’re in the other city, a little banner appears above the content asking if you’re looking for the other site, and offers the link.

This has saved us ~10 phone calls per day in season. Before adding this link we all got to the point of just doing their customer service for them and helping people buy tickets because it was less drama than trying to get them to call the right people.

This is literally the soap opera model. Soaps actively solicit fan feedback and run productions with composable sets and flexible casts.

Unfortunately in this case "uninstall it immediately" does not actually mitigate the vulnerability, since it will just reinstall itself if you come across a triggering link.

"soy" is Spanish for "I am"