Then over the past year or so the performance of the Win 10 installation started to degrade; taking literally 10 minutes to boot up and settle down enough to use and freezing up for minutes at a time or having to reboot on occasion. Frustrating.

But these are trivial to fix and smarmy posts like this will not age well.

Vauge header one

.. I still stole the car. Same thing here. Is this like dithering of images? Sure you changed the underlying pixels but the general image is still there - and last I checked that doesn't fix copyright violations.

Yes, it is possible. You need to get a list of BIN (Bank Identification Numbers) which correlate to card type (debit or credit). You then can compare the BIN number, which is the first 4-9 numbers of the card, to that list which will tell you the card type.

Processors like Worldpay and Card Connect make lists like this available. I am unsure if there is a cost or not. I found this free one but you'll need to massage it a bit to consume it programmatically. This API also claims to be free.

An AI company who is completely dependent on mining every bit of data out there, copyright be dammed had another company who also is completely dependent on mining every bit of data, copyright be dammed violate their terms of service?

How awful.

No, wait, that's completely expected. It's sad that the best we can hope for is these companies get shut down by the courts because LLMs aren't fair use.