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Windows XP is Listening
jfengel writes: "According to Newsbytes, some Windows XP users are finding random words inserted into their text as they write. The problem is caused by XP's speech recongition system, which is turned on by default by some manufacturers. It's listening to the random noise you get even when the mic is turned off. Kind of an insight into your computer's subconscious, perhaps."
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Kind of an insight into your computer's subconscious, perhaps.
Geez.. leave a word processor open when the computer goes to 'sleep' mode. Get to see all its crazy dreams!
"NOOO not WINDOWS!!! AHHH... I'M FALLLLING!!!! must.... install.... li... nu..x"
Speech Recognition......or........Listening Device?
/paranoia off
They are going to write windows xp as a word macro, huh?
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I'm really not trying to troll, but is this really worth being an entire thread on Slashdot?
;-)
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now an operating-system configuration issue caused by user-error is cause for concern?
If major distributors ship with this feature enabled (which I have not yet confirmed; the article appears to be down), then this is indeed a large (newsworthy) problem.
And in any case, it's awfully funny.
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Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what mnemonic means, you've got a problem. - Larry Wall
There is fucking noise on the fucking line-in. I don't fucking know about your fucking sound card, but mine doesn't fucking have any fucking noises that just fucking happen to fucking come out of it--they fucking show up in the fucking samples.
You know, he was masturbating while looking at those pictures and he made sounds like "uh,uh,uh,uh,uh,uh,uh,uh........aaahhhhhhhhhhh" and that's +1 funny...
I've written two applications with the Microsoft Speech Recognition and Text-To-Speech engines, and that has taught me enough to know that turning it on by default is a REALLY bad idea. Of course, M$'s speciality is turning things on by default that shouldn't be on, so this does not really suprise me.
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and this warrants a slashdot article why .....?
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Why do we care about some random unimportant Microsoft bug? Worthless stories like this crowding out other news are what make people think that /. has turned into a purely anti-Microsoft forum.