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Comment Re:And what if an court forces YouTube to relist l (Score 1) 172

To be fair not all of it is fully automatic, but it's an option to have the video muted where the copyright disputed music is and as the uploader thats an automatic option. Adding subtitles would be more work.

Copyright claims can be challenged , I have had licensed music challenged and the claim by the third party withdrawn.

Anyway this scheme has failed big time as a search for taylor swift gives this story as the top result. Maybe the deputy didn't realise that copyright claims can be flexible. Even if it gets before a court, there is still a fair use defense. There is also a case for unlicensed use by the deputy...

Comment Re:And what if an court forces YouTube to relist l (Score 1) 172

Yes that is true, but it is dependant on the copyright owner what happens.

In the majority of cases the video is demonetized, which means it stays up and the copyright holder get any ad revenue from this video on Youtube.

In some circumstances the copyright holder will let it slide, especially if it's going to upset the fan base. Although that doesn't mean they don't take action a few months later.

second option e.g something Don Henley has a copyright claim on (he is well known for this) The Video gets pulled and then gets reuploaded without the infringing music and probably with subtitles in the silent spaces.

For an artist like Taylor Swift this would also likely incur negative publicity, although Scooter Braun maybe the copyright owner as he bought the rights to her back catalogue.

Comment FBA combats seller fraud (Score 1) 171

I was in the market for a camera recently and there were several sellers with prices too good to be true and the seller basically would try to get you to buy by bank transfer from them and even then it might be an italian vendor wanting you to pay into a spanish bank.

Amazon doesn't really police its third party vendors, one that i reported went from 100's of products in a lot of different areas. Had 1 product (a tape gun) left on sale. This was the one item they had that was fulfilled by Amazon. Some of the less fraudulent sellers claim to have stock relatively local and take a month to ship as it's coming direct from China along with a non disclosed customs duty.

With Brexit being a thing a lot of UK traders are struggling to sell into Europe but they can ship a number of products into Amazon warehouses in European fulfillment centres meaning fast shipping and no surprises for EU to EU trade. Being as I live in Ireland, if it's a product directly fulfilled by a trader it often comes as "cannot be shipped to your delivery location."

Then you get the dud items Amazon will take them back with few questions asked if any. Sure beats the chinese sellers that want expensive return shipping or suggest you sell the item to a friend. If I buy without prime from other Amazon stores they are not all priced the same the shipping cost is still reasonable.

Comment Re:In other news (Score 1) 184

There is a maximum percentage of wind that can go on the grid and keep it stable Once this is reached the Wind generation has to be curtailed. Some could go to battery storage and be used to support the grid frequency but even then there are limits to how much that can be stored. Such a site could be a good location for cryptocurrency mining.

Comment Re:Long time Thinkpad Mint user being forced to Ma (Score 1) 105

Well the terminal is pretty much the same as on linux. The odd thing is applications are folders with various fies inside which makes applications self contained, there is the Library which has a folder called application support. It's quite linux like once you are not looking at the gui.

Comment Re:Brazilian, Indian UK ect ...variant, only a lab (Score 1) 198

When George Carlin said something like 'how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.' He never imagined that latter Trump would refer to them his base.

Still it's not over yet, there is still a chance of bleach in the gene pool and a raise in the average IQ, when they don't comply with basic measures to limit risk of exposure.
   

Comment Brazilian, Indian UK ect ...variant, only a label. (Score 2) 198

To be quite honest the main questions are which Vaccines are effective against each strain.

All these names do is a shorthand as to who is on the frontline for these strains. It's not blame if anything it's sympathy.

The Brazilian strain for example seems more deadly for younger people, pretty much all people want to know is which vaccines are effective and which are spreading in our own countries and neighboring countries.

Only the terminally stupid would think a particular variant will only be found in a particular group
   

Comment Re: Do you want CO2 seeping back out? (Score 1) 94

EV's are pretty good, they waste less energy than a conventional fueled car. II did a comparison between a 1 litre corsa and a tesla and the tesla used around 20 euro's worth of electricity v 50 euros worth of unleaded for the corsa on a mile for mile basis.

so score 1 for energy efficiency for the tesla.

Wind Power can't power the whole grid (in ireland it maxes out at around 70 - 75%) more would risk destabilizing the grid. In practice this leads to days like today where wind is curtailed or wasted as the excess energy can't be used. EV's can expand system demand.

There are various battery bank projects coming online and they charge from the grid when the price/demand is low and can supply power when needed to the grid the most important service is the ability to maintain grid frequency.

Smart charging of EV's could be good for grid stability if the charging station or EV measures frequency, then charging can be halted when the grid frequency drops and resumed when it stabilizes. Once EV's become significant then they could be helping the grid and allowing more renewable energy onto the grid.

Comment Re:Thermodynamically efficient but still expensive (Score 1) 401

I drive an older car and I've looked at the cost of a new nissan leaf, my precovid mileage was about 25,000 miles and the nissan leaf would save me around 4,500 euro a year on that basis, the cost of buying the leaf would be about 5000 euro a year.

unfortunately the pandemic has reduced my commute significantly now it's about a 500 euro saving. After the pandemic I may just switch to something like the leaf. older leaf models are relatively affordable but are getting towards needing a new 5000 battery pack, seems a lot to spend on an older car but could pay for itself in less than 2 years.
             

Comment Re:He isn't the target market. (Score 1) 210

from the summary:

"The unavoidable truth about multiplayer matchmaking is that there will always be winners and losers. Someone's success always comes at the expense of someone else's failure. When players ask to be put into matches in which they can reliably chill and get 20 kills while only dying 10 times, this inevitably requires someone else to die 20 times. What they're asking for is special treatment. And that's just not fair."

You can look at it the other way , that a relatively low skilled player is robbed of the opportunity to defeat a skilled player. If that skilled player gets killed 10 times by lessor players surely that's an achievement by the lessor players each time that happens and helps their skills improve.

By being given this special treatment of always playing against lower ranked players they don't get to improve their skills by playing challenging opponents and that's just not fair.

Do you really want to be treated as a special snowflake and never being given the opportunity to face a challenge and win? Surely it's an adrenaline rush to realise you are going to be on your a game to avoid being destroyed completely.

I'm not a gamer and wasn't that into sports but I sure enjoyed rugby back in school where i managed to take down the best player a few times when no one else could stop his run and I was battered and sore as a result but boy did that feel good.

Comment Re:But what about the apps... (Score 1) 139

I only got an M1 Mini yesterday but runs IOS apps should be read as runs some IOS apps.
A fair number of apps I use on IOS do not show up as available for the M1. E.g Music streamer, Google home for 2 examples.

If you disable system protection csrutil disable apparently that stops any ios app from running.

It does perform well, seems to be similar to an i7 performance wise in multithreaded apps it's single core performance is excellent. I tried my delld3100 dock with the mini and i was able to run 3 screens off that and 1 more on the hdmi, the hdmi output didn't work with a dvi input on one of my monitors which was a pain I had to switch 2 of them around.

The 2 USBC/ Thunderbolt ports are kinda misleading each gets a seperate channel, where the 4 port USB C's were split a pair sharing a single channel. I found you can put itunes on the mini but i struggled to get anywhere with shared libraries.

Apple Music seems to work only with itunes bought music, doesn't want to use shared libraries from my macbook pro. I'm less than 8 hours in with the M1 and big sur so i'm not sure if i'm finding walls or just not familiar enough to get things working as I want.

Rosetta 2 seems pretty good so far I was prompted to install it when I downloaded brackets
it seems to work as expected.

I think that running anything "cracked" is likely to be a problem. If you want to use ios apps as well, but the ios apps seem to be a "select few" anyway.

Homebrew isn't ready yet but its only been a couple of weeks since the m1 macs have been available.
             

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