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Comment Re:And that is just voice... (Score 1) 49

"...but with the technology working so well It's going to be really interesting over the coming years to see how many actor identifies are essentially stolen and misused without consent.

Although this won't stop regular people from stealing actors identities for their own projects, the studios themselves aren't allowed, unless they want to be sued again. Crispin Glover sued Universal for using his likeness in Back To The Future 2, and now studios have to pay the actor, if the actor even allows it. Per the IMDB Trivia for the movie:
"...The Screen Actors Guild subsequently introduced new rules about illicit use of actors. "

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...

Comment Re:And this is why I use a video ripper... (Score 2) 262

I have pi-hole and set it as my DNS server for my televisions and I still see ads on Youtube, particularly the Subaru and Safelite glass, repeatedly! I will sit through the sponsored segments for the channels I do subscribe to, but the other ads are annoying.
  Is there a list I should be subscribing to specifically, I just use the default lists that are set up with the pi-hole.

Comment Re:the real solution (Score 3, Informative) 113

When I was a UPS Driver in Santa Cruz we would get back to the building with our pick ups and there were San Jose PD drug sniffing dogs going over the conveyor belts. Any hits and they would pull the packages aside and then let the dogs go over them more thoroughly outside.
  The dogs were from the San Jose PD, and I don't know how many centers they would check, or maybe it was just Santa Cruz, but it happened every fall during harvest time. I told my grower friends if they are going to use UPS, make sure to use Next Day Air, those are taken from the truck to the airport shuttle pretty quickly to make flights out, so the dogs never got to sniff those.
  This was back in 2000 though, so things may have changed until it became legal.

Comment Re:The interesting question is (Score 4, Interesting) 117

This came up before when the studio replaced Crispin Glover in Back To The Future 2, and he sued them for using his likeness.

From the wikipedia article:
  Dissatisfied with these plans, Glover filed a lawsuit against the producers, including Steven Spielberg, on the grounds that they neither owned his likeness nor had permission to use it. Due to Glover's lawsuit, there are now clauses in the Screen Actors Guild collective bargaining agreements which state that producers and actors are not allowed to use such methods to reproduce the likeness of other actors.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

Submission + - The World Health Organization issues a list of 12 most resistent bacteria (medicalxpress.com)

Artem Tashkinov writes: The World Health Organization has issued a list of the top dozen bacteria most dangerous to humans, warning that doctors are fast running out of treatment options. WHO said the most-needed drugs are for germs that threaten hospitals, nursing homes and among patients who need ventilators or catheters. The agency said the dozen listed resistant bacteria are increasingly untreatable and can cause fatal infections; most typically strike people with weakened immune systems. At the top of WHO's list is Acinetobacter baumannii, a group of bacteria that cause a range of diseases from pneumonia to blood or wound infections. In recent years, health officials have detected a few patients resistant to colistin, the antibiotic of last resort. So far, doctors have been able to treat them with other drugs. But experts worry that the colistin-resistant bacteria will spread their properties to other bacteria already resistant to more commonly used antibiotics, creating germs that can't be killed by any known drugs.

Submission + - When ISP copyright infringement notifications go wrong

Andy Smith writes: Yesterday I received an email from my ISP telling me that I had illegally downloaded an animated film called Cubo and the Two Strings. I'd never heard of the film and hadn't downloaded it. The accusation came from a government-approved group called Get It Right From a Genuine Site. I contacted that group and was directed to their FAQ. Worryingly, there's no way to correct a false report. The entire FAQ is written from the position that either you, or someone on your network, definitely downloaded what you're accused of downloading. Their advice to avoid any problems with your ISP is simply to not download anything illegally again. But if they can get it wrong once, then surely they can get it wrong again. How widespread is this problem? What safeguards are in place to ensure that people aren't falsely accused? Why has the government allowed this scheme to operate without the accused having some right to defend themselves?

Comment Re:Al-la-carte increased complexity of patches (Score 5, Insightful) 405

But is Apple installing telemetry and all sorts of crap that spies on their users? That's why people want to be able to pick and choose which updates they install. My feeling is the only reason MS is doing it this way is to get that telemetry onto all the computers that refused to install it.

Comment Re:Nothing to see. (Score 1) 155

I got the same result, but I eventually got it to let me in.
- I clicked the back arrow on my Android phone
- then it showed me the message in my inbox
- I clicked on the message to read it
- then it asked me to install the Messenger app
- then I clicked the X in the upper right hand corner
- then it showed me the full message
How long this will work I don't know. YMMV

Submission + - Top Security Experts Say Anti-Encryption Bill Authors Are 'Woefully Ignorant'

blottsie writes: In a Wall Street Journal editorial titled "Encryption Without Tears," Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) pushed back on widespread condemnation of their Compliance with Court Orders Act, which would require tech companies to provide authorities with user data in an "intelligible" format if served with a warrant.

But security experts Bruce Schneir, Matthew Green, and others say the lawmakers entirely misunderstand the issue. "On a weekly basis we see gigabytes of that information dumped to the Internet," Green told the Daily Dot. "This is the whole problem that encryption is intended to solve." He added: "You can't hold out the current flaws in the Internet as a justification for why the Internet shouldn't be made secure."

Submission + - Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers' DNA (fusion.net)

An anonymous reader writes: When companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe first invited people to send in their DNA for genealogy tracing and medical diagnostic tests, privacy advocates warned about the creation of giant genetic databases that might one day be used against participants by law enforcement. DNA, after all, can be a key to solving crimes. It “has serious information about you and your family,” genetic privacy advocate Jeremy Gruber told me back in 2010 when such services were just getting popular.
Now, five years later, when 23andMe and Ancestry both have over a million customers, those warnings are looking prescient.

Comment Re:EPIC? (Score 2) 240

that is exactly what those of us who have to use EPIC refer to it as, an EPIC failure!
  The interface was obviously written by people who have not worked in a medical office, and all the staff complain about it, but we're stuck. It would be too expensive to get another one and retrain everybody to use a new system and transfer information etc...
 

Comment Re:How can you trademark a color? (Score 1) 653

I was told that UPS Brown is trademarked, unsure of the validity of the statement though. This came about when someone had a scratch on their truck and I said just go to the hardware store and buy brown paint, the mechanic pulled out a can of paint and said "you can't its trademarked".

Comment Re: Debtors Prison? (Score 2) 467

As long as the debt is actually correct, then throwing a dead beat dad in jail is fine with me. It's when you go to court to fix their $7500.00 mistake only to find out two months later they screwed up and set it to $75,000.00 instead of zero! So please don't assume that a person is a dead beat dad because one of the most inept and incompetent agencies in the government says so.

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