a company taking copyrighted works for their own purposes diminishes the value of the artist to be able to make their own AI with their own works. there's no universe where this constitutes fair use.

All of the other analogies to infringement, etc are useless distractions. the training data is the only question, and the works belong to the artist for their use only.

the difference is, a computer consumes and stores (briefly) that information *exactly*, whereas a human does not.

and analogies between humans and machines are idiotic in the first place.

I had this same issue, and then switched to using privacy.com virtual credit cards to solve this.

Remembering to cancel never worked, and some places don't allow you to disable auto-pay when you first sign up. You have to go in afterwards to do it. Amazon is even more insidious. If the credit card you use for Prime expires, it will switch to any other valid credit card on file you have, even if it wasn't used for Prime.

Switching to privacy.com stops all that. Each store gets a virtual credit card, and I set the card's lifetime charge for the exact amount I want billed, and future charges fail. I can keep the card by by adding the amount of any new purchases to the lifetime charge amount of the card, so I don't have to keep updating the credit card number at the vendor site. And my "real" credit card is always safe and never needs to be cancelled to avoid charges. Privacy.com is free (I know that I'm the "product") but I would gladly pay for it.

I did a trial of Prime for something I needed shipped that I couldn't get anywhere else, and now months later I have big banner on my Amazon page saying "Your Prime benefits are on hold due to insufficient funds." Yeah, no duh, it's by design.

Dark patterns, meet my dark counter-measures.

you can get a firefox and chrome extension to do exactly that, Unpinterested I think

The driver in that case (who should be in jail) ran over the girl not because he was an Uber driver, BUT just because he was a negligent driver on the road at the time.

Or maybe an inattentive driver, as even if he's not picking up a passenger, by being an Uber driver, he by necessity has to have his phone with him and will need to actively check it while driving.

In college, one of the EE professors recounted a story about a frantic call he got the day before a test. The student said he had been in a bad car accident, was calling from the hospital, and asked if he could take the test next week. The professor assured him that, of course, this would be no problem, but noted the test was not in fact tomorrow, but the same day next week. The student cursed and hung up the phone.

I always thought that the student should have been smarter and played it cool, "Oh thank God! I was so worried." etc and then the professor would have been none the wiser. But I guess if he was smarter, he wouldn't need to avoid taking the test...

Poor form to reply to myself, etc, but the person who wrote the paper is David Lowery, frontman for the band Cracker ("Low"), a trained mathematician, and now a lecturer at Univ of Georgia.

I remember using lyrics.ch, and was disappointed to see it go, but the "Undesirable list" pdf makes some reasonable points (even if it wasn't attributed at the top, you can tell it was written by a person, and not some committee). It notes that the fully-licensed azlyrics is in the top 500 of websites, and presumably takes in a proportionate amount of ad revenue, and that "unlike the sound recording business, the lyric business may be more valuable in the Internet age." The interesting thing is VC darling rapgenius (investors including Marc Andreesen) is at the top of the list. I guess $15,000,000 Series A financing didn't leave any money for paying the people it will be profiting from.

Is XBMC any good for streaming, e.g. from Hulu, Netflix, etc and live TV/DVR? I looked into XBMC once, and it seemed to be primarily for stored media, and not TV or internet streaming. For example, there wasn't an official browser plugin to go to the various sites I use. Has this changed, or are there other options for this?

Did you actually try clicking the link? If you identify yourself as a Home/HomeOffice user, it says "The product you have selected is not currently available for online purchase in the segment you have selected." IIRC it turns out to be easy to "pretend" to be a small business on Dell's site, so you can still get it from Dell Business, but this is far from a mainstream solution.

Additionally, the price is $329, probably $150 over a typical TFT 1920x1080 monitor, a premium you're paying mostly for the monitor being IPS, even if all you wanted was the higher resolution. As 1920x1200 resolution is increasingly "relegated" to the premium market, it becomes increasingly hard to find it on inexpensive mainstream monitors.

this. I have twin 1920x1200 screens, which I bought a few years ago when they were abundant. They're a *lot* harder to find now, and typically are more expensive higher end models, e.g. IPS. On the chart labelled "Windows 7 screen Resolutions" it shows 1920x1200 is ~1-2% of Win7 installs, reflective of this. Relative to 1920x1080, I feel 120 pixels is a lot to give up. Surprisingly 1920x1080 is only 8%, which speaks to the broader trend of how more than 50% of installs are on cripplingly low resolutions. I think this is a combination of factors: fewer desktops/more laptops, and work environments that won't ever spring for more than bottom of the barrel monitors. I checked my work monitor, and even though I use medical apps to view radiology/echos etc, the resolution is a meager 1280x1024.

daytum.com (acquired by facebook) is personal tracking gone mainstream. they have iphone/android apps so you can easily track things throughout the day, and then can generate pretty reports of your activity. one of the co-founders has been putting out his "annual reports" for a number of years, see http://feltron.com/ar11_02.html for an example. his report includes things like number of days spent in NYC, servings of coffee during the year, etc...

wow. mike nelson posted to the that thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3450845&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=4#post398052361