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  • YouTube spent $100,000,000 on their ContentID system and it's a disaster.  (Tech Dirt)

    This is the barrier to entry the EU wants to establish: It will cost 9 figures to enter the market, it won't work, and then they'll fine you 10 figures for trying.

  • Speaking of expensive failures in content filtering, Tumblr's new FigLeaf system blocks its own examples of permitted content.  (Gizmodo)

    To be fair, it's right, that second picture is horrifying.


Picture / Map of the Day

https://ai.mee.nu/images/Sydney1888S.jpg

Sydney in 1888, 100 years after settlement.

Click for larger version.  Quite a lot larger.

Many of the buildings are easily recognisable and still present today: Customs House, the GPO, the Town Hall, St. Andrew's and St. Mary's Cathedrals, Government House, and the, um, precursor to the current Conservatorium of Music, which was, at the time of this illustration, the Governor's stables.

They cleaned it first.

Oh, and the Goldsbrough Building, an old wool warehouse over in Darling Harbour - though at the time of this illustration, brand new - which is now upscale apartments.  They cleaned that first too.

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1 "There's also a do not want 1366x768 TN option."
I mean, if you're going to sit it at a desktop and run it out to a 1080p monitor and never take it anywhere, who cares?  But in general, yeah, I agree.
My laptop is a 13" Acer Spin 5, and it's got a 1080p touchscreen, which is pretty nice, but once you realize that it's set to 120% scaling so you can read the text, you lose a lot of that resolution.
"I use VirtualBox to run Linux on my Windows systems"

Have you tried Ubuntu under Windows 10 yet?  It's pretty nice.  If you get an X server you can even run X apps on your desktop.  I haven't seen anything yet that doesn't just work, not that I've gone on an extensive search.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, December 20 2018 02:30 AM (Q/JG2)

2 Re: ContentID:  people like Fat Rat need to sue Youtube.  They are losing money every time some scum falsely claims copyright--and from what I hear, like movies, most of the money made is up front when the content is first released, so even if he gets his song back after a few weeks, there's not going to be much ad revenue left at that point.  Everyone knows it and Youtube won't do anything about it.  With their money, they'll probably have to lose a billion-dollar class action before they do anything.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, December 20 2018 02:35 AM (Q/JG2)

3 Yeah, I saw the tweet TheFatRat made. F-ing YouTube actually SIDED with the copyright thief who "Remixed" his song and then filed a claim against HIM!

When he contested the claim, all YT did was ask the Thief, who just re-affirmed it was "his", and YT then threatened TheFatRat with a strike!

Posted by: Mauser at Thursday, December 20 2018 01:03 PM (Ix1l6)

4 Remember when we were kids and we copied all the music that we wanted, and the bands were pissed but couldn't do anything about it? We stuck it to The Man!
And now we are The Man, and it's stuck to -us- and it sucks.
The DMCA safe harbor stuff opened up a big hole for abuse. Yeah, abuse of that process is grounds for suing for damages, but a) you still have to sue in US federal court, so if your damages are less than a few thou in filing fees and lawyer time, you can forget it, and b) people can get away with claims like this that they couldn't possibly even dream of doing in an actual courtroom.
If you filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in a federal court against the actual creator of a work, once the judge figured out what you'd done, he'd -end you-. You'd lose so hard your kids would have to disown you to avoid lifetime poverty. You'd lose so hard the judge would go directly after your lawyer and take -his- money.
But if you do it on Youtube, apparently they send you checks. Hm. Maybe I'm in the wrong business...

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Thursday, December 20 2018 09:31 PM (v29Tn)

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