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It is expensive at scale. In a world where each gram of CO₂ is taxed. "Windows Timer Resolution: Megawatts Wasted"[0] - Microsoft has since added coarse timers and coalescence.

[0] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/windows-timer-r...


Printers probably use more ink keeping their heads clean in inkjet printers than they ever do printing these dots on the page. And even if it is expensive the customers bear that expense and send it right back to the printer companies. However many microliters of ink a customers' printers use is just more ink bought from the manufacturer.


But why? Why spend the engineering hours on this? In a world where any corners that can be cut are, why is this one not cut?

Is there a shadow regulation in place?


I'm not sure but again this probably required very little time to implement. The printer already has to process the rendered image adding an extra layer probably took a day to hammer out the first versions.

It's also potentially useful for business customers too to be able to where a document was printed from without central print dispatch and tracking.


To "catch a serial killer" you'd need each retailer selling printers to track the ID and model number on a receipt, to be submitted to a central government agency and saved in a database. This is not what's happening in your country either, am I correct?

Instead this ordeal makes it possible for the government agencies, who do keep track of their own inventory to follow the tracks of those, who decided to leak documents to the outside world by printing them on printers at work. Like the outing of the whistleblower, courtesy of a journalist at The Intercept.

https://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reali...


> A person printing a single small book they didn't want to buy

Oh btw, you've paid a "tax" to unknown entities for this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy


The fact the author hadn't responded to multiple requests to contact here, makes me think too, it is a made up story.


This entire comment chain is moot, if that were the implication, they had no business interviewing him and wasting everyone's time.


The "eh?" should be directed back at your comment, how you casually omit that microtransactions and the incentives to purchase them have become a central part of modern game design. In the end, how much of an issue you rank this to be entirely depends on your weekly play hours. Maybe you just play so much as to have no issues to unlock best in class content from DLCs (most notably cars in GTAV).

Unfortunately, a quick search didn't yield anybody doing math like for the Star Wars: Battlefront (new) debacle.[1][2]

PS: The non-microtransactional design goal in multiplayer games will optimize for more play time.[3] How convenient to offer purchasable shortcuts.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7c6bjm...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7dmvdv...

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/1i2qtay/comment/...


Now that you've written it out, it explains why my solo games are better than when we queue with a friend, who never plays outside our games together. And I end up promising "I just had nice team mates the last game!" :)


The above commenter was probably inspired by the recent investigative(!) video series by Coffeezilla (and decided not to mention it?). It was either in part 2 or 3, where C-z alleged/suspected Valve's legal actions to have been mostly about good PR and to send a signal to those ~websites~ businesses to keep them in check.

However it is indeed the case, that Valve has introduced greater and greater restrictions on inventory handling. The measures obviously go far beyond just counteracting possible scammers and phishing. Still, I am inclined to believe, they could've implemented all these features many years ago, if only they had wanted to. I highly recommend the videos. You can maybe skip the first one. It's mostly about casino owners' drama.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q58dLWjRTBE

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6jhjjVy5Ls

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13eiDhuvM6Y


> Slavic family: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Croatian

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#ind...


Maybe he should've pardoned himself into the past and a little bit into the future too, like that other man did. /jk


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