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Cortana Now Reminds You To Do the Things You Promised in Emails (theverge.com)
From a report: Microsoft is adding a new feature to Cortana today that will remind you to keep your promises. Suggested reminders lets Cortana remind you when you've promised to do something in an email. Microsoft is using machine learning to highlight phrases in emails where you might promise your boss something, or make a commitment to a friend or family member. The result is a reminder that pops up telling you "don't forget you mentioned this." Cortana's suggested reminders will be available in the US first on Windows 10 PCs, and Microsoft is planning to bring them to iOS and Android in the coming weeks. Microsoft is supporting Outlook.com and Office 365 accounts for these reminders, and other accounts like Gmail will be supported soon. You'll need to connect an Outlook.com or Office 365 account to Cortana to enable the feature, and you'll start receiving reminders once the service detects your promises and commitments.
Remind me to disable Cortana
OMG!!! Ponies!!!
Mmm yummy a program that reads my mail and will chase me down for shit
Where do I sign up for this abuse? (oh yeah I installed Windows 10 abuse is complimentary)
Important things wont get done if you get reminded all the time to go back and fix all the perfect world problems that you promised yourself you'd do. Unfortunately life gets in the way and the important things quickly take priority. Being reminded to go and correct the whitespace in a random header file isn't going to help anyone.
Why UNIX?
Then again, if Google can do exactly the same thing to improve the accuracy of targeted advertising I suppose this is relatively innocuous. Still, can I meaningfully out out of should I just make sure GPG/PGP is installed and working correctly? After all, the OS itself does a couple dozen phone-homes, why should web services be any different?
It is still possible to disable Cortana in any version of Windows 10.
Go to http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/... and scroll down to Does that mean that you cannot turn of Cortana anymore? and you will find instructions to activate the GP template or enter the registry key directly into regedit.
I love how "Machine Learning" is basically the new hit buzzword (phrase) of 2017. Everything is now "WITH MACHINE LEARNING!" - which is really usually just a static algorithm that searches for generic key words. If you use Facebook, you've probably already seen this in where they highlight words representing time or dates and if you click on them it'll generate a calendar item for you. Microsoft is literally just doing the same, only without the asking part now, but labeling it "Machine Learning" and calling it "OMGZ INNOVATION!"
seriously people, how are we still putting up with this shit ?!
Corporations are like political factions. It's always OK when we do it, it's those other guys doing it that's bad!
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
Microsoft kept telling everyone that only Google reads your email, and they don't. Now they're admitting that Cortana will read your email without your permission!
Needs to read, "Cortana now reads all of your emails".
*ding* Cortana reminder: Don't forget your appointment with Todd today (Friday) to rip your fucking nuts off and feed them to your children.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
I'll bet she'll still be active and silently reading your email.
1. "Can it be disabled?"
2. "How much longer are we going to be able to disable it?"
3. "What will break in the process of this being disabled that I actually DO want from the system?"
These are honestly the 3 questions I have been asking EVERY SINGLE TIME Microsoft announced any new "feature" for an OS in the past 3 years. There was not a single instance of "hey, I've been waiting for that!" or "Now that's a good idea".
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We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.