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Comment · 3 years ago
In my case it was. Got an automatic flag on an work composed, performed, recorded, and released by the Air Force Band of the Pacific.

Turns out someone was re-selling it on media and the label had auto-filed all their holdings. So you'd get flagged on every usage.

The sergeant in charge of the correspondence for the band was annoyed but as YouTube is private there honestly wasn't anything they could do (other than write me a polite response to send on that I was correct). I did make them aware of it in the unlikely event someone else asks, though.

Annoyingly enough YouTube doesn't take down the automatic match even when it's a false claim from what I saw.

Comment · 3 years ago
That's generally the case with most museums. Only a fraction have physical displays.

The idea is that the "stuff" is archived or stored properly which is much less of a burden. When it's desirable to do so public displays of it can be created.

Comment · 3 years ago
Right. It was also popular in some Arabic language countries and South America at the very least.

Probably more correct to say it was a computer standard launched in Japan.

Comment · 3 years ago
That'll still work to see which driver is running. Might want to append "| head -30" so you don't get all the unnecessary debug for your answer, though. Or grep for what you're expecting (i.e. "| grep -i nvidia").
Comment · 3 years ago
I... just assume any bluetooth device that requires a vendor supplied locked-in application is exfiltrating every piece of data it can get it's grubby mits on. As the business model.

Unless it provably states otherwise. Is that a minority opinion?

Comment · 3 years ago
The lead is used to adulterate the product for color if I'm recalling correctly.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes. As per the original post above 200$. Advertising is what is omitted in the thumbnail estimate.
Comment · 3 years ago
Drowning, if it's not covered elsewhere, would be my guess. Possibly infants with improper bedding and smothering hazards in their bed.
Comment · 3 years ago
46.23 billion for apple. And that's a single manufacturer, albeit potentially the highest revenue one.

I imagine Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. all are also massive core producers despite not making an external product for sale.

So I'd guess trillion(s?) in production of product or internal use, or near enough.

Comment · 3 years ago
A large part of the reason people ignore your model for business use, where the target platform is locked down to a single target, is the perceived need to run their software on any given piece of hardware.

That's a question that really aught to be answered. If the business application only requires Windows PCs as a target your design wins out despite the perceived shortcomings.

Comment · 3 years ago
Smart or not it's hard to make ad revenue (or get readers, whatever the author's going for) with a concise summary or a context heavy conversation.
Comment · 3 years ago
How many programmers work on last pass? From a solo coder with no specific interest in cryptography I wouldn't find this kind of flaw odd.

From a large development team whose sole product centers around encryption? It seems strange to get it this wrong. What leads to that might make a good business case study.

Comment · 3 years ago
That's appalling. We've gone from running internal on local networks to forcing a potential security issue to allow for multiplayer.

My personal favorite is Microsoft discouraging local Minecraft servers with the rational that anyone could type anything on them! Who knows what you and the people you explicitly allow on your server might type!

But your switch example is worse, I think.

Comment · 3 years ago
I would posit that installing an open UEFI implementation and taking advantage of the A) Cost and B) ridiculously good power saving features of a used Chromebook with the OS of your choice is a good Chromebook use.

But as a stock laptop I get your point.

Comment · 4 years ago
That smacks of the same model as a gym membership. Sucker in a large number of marginal users and make it as onerous and hard to leave as possible under law to retain them as long as possible... that's the actual business model.

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