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...

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.

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.

I suppose that if the actor (Crispin Glover or otherwise) feels it looks too similar to their likeness that they will argue it in court.

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...

I have been sitting on an android update for my phone for probably the last 3 weeks. I just never notice it when it's convenient to update. I once went 9 months with a pending update because I didn't have enough free space to download it. There's no way to prevent software from having bugs, but a better update model could reduce their longevity in the wild.

This is a disingenuous argument, so let me do you a solid and explain why so you can stop embarassing yourself. Bush had already decided to invade Iraq and the CIA report was cherry-picked to seem to legitimize his bias. SRC: http://www.rand.org/content/da...

The sooner we can get to the last wave of capitalism, the better.

Other people would rather sacrifice their work happiness than give up their home comforts. They are offended that you are happy with fewer home comforts because it reflects poorly on their character.

Are we really supposed to pretend that the Russians pose a credible threat to the West? Or are they just relying on boomers failing ability to understand current events to trigger that emotional band-wagoning against the villain of yore?

I used to think that was a good argument, but then I worked with enough organizations to understand that they are all so far from operating at maximum efficiency that paying 20% more than they need to for an employee is the least of their worries. Hell, they are probably carrying all sorts of absurd dead weight in nepotism, and people promoted into incompetency, or simple 'bad hires' who looked good in the interview who haven't been detected yet or need to go through some kind of drawn out HR firing process. They are so far away from caring about the efficiency of 20% salary. Think about it.

Sexism is alive and well, and definitely impacts who is considered 'most competent' in the hiring process. I think /. would agree that most companies hiring developers don't even have an effective method of vetting their skills, much less have hiring managers capable of working around their own biases.

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.