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Alexa is Coming To Windows 10 PCs From HP, ASUS and Others (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon's Alexa recently arrived on headphones and even toilets, but it's about to become much more ubiquitous by hitting Windows 10 PCs later this year. HP, ASUS and Acer have revealed that the voice assistant is coming to various models, including ASUS's ZenBook and VivoBook lineup, the HP Pavilion Wave, and select Acer Spin, Swift, Switch and Aspire notebooks. Amazon will release a special Alexa app in the spring, and laptop builders are tapping Intel's Smart Sound tech to make sure that the app can pick up your voice when you're not right next to your PC. "Hands-free access to Alexa on PCs can be helpful to customers in many ways, like making it simple to interact with your smart home, get news or weather, set timers, and more," Amazon Alexa VP Steve Rabuchin said in a statement.
why I would want this?
"builders are tapping Intel's Smart Sound tech.."
That's not the only Intel tech people have been "tapping" into lately.
Trump is a tremendous amount of money and he is a tremendous tool to be able to make it work. I donâ(TM)t want you guys in my luggage and you need me to grab it. This game was so good it just needs to level the speed of the game.
so it goes where it belongs.
Why would I not want anything to do with that couple over there?
"Hey Amazon, this is the telemetry stuff we normally pull from Joe Schmoe using his regular PC." (nods toward a thick wad of 132-column perforated continuous form folded paper)
"No, this is your pile. That, right there is mostly NSA stuff, they'll be picking it up within the hour"
"So, this is *your* stuff. Any more questions; you know how to reach us. See you"
Putting Alexa on toilets is just the first step in ensuring a crappy race to the bottom, which I'm sure HP will have no problem winning.
This will be the voice assistant version of IE vs Netscape. If Windows 10 S doesn't allow other browsers, then Microsoft won't allow Alexa on it either.
Just like the evisceration of NN so the wealthy and powerful corporations can pillage- it no longer matters what we as consumers want. 80%+ of Americans supported Net Neutrality, yet it was killed anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
What you or I want as "free" Americans in a "Democratic" society no longer matter. If a company can extract our personal information it will at any cost to our liberties or pocket book.
So, conveniently can remove the following laptop from my list of possible new laptops to replace my agin ASUS Zenbook this spring -ASUS's ZenBook and VivoBook lineup, the HP Pavilion Wave, and select Acer Spin, Swift, Switch and Aspire
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Still blazing it up with CNN?
I've already disabled Cortana on Windows 10 and Google Assistant on Android, Alexa is just yet another privacy-invading annoying ass-istant to disable...
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Having a private conversation is becoming more difficult by the day. Smartphones, voice assistants, desktop / laptop computers, smart tvs, remote controls, security systems, etc often have microphones and/or cameras. Even if one doesn't have an eavesdropping listening device, odds are someone nearby does.
Already, such technology is seemingly in use to eavesdrop on conversations, such as for ad purposes. It's remarkable how many times I've noticed, along with relatives and friends, being shown very specific ads relating to a recent conversation. Some of that could be coincidence, but likely doesn't fully explain the ad occurrences unless a device(s) is listening in. Furthermore, I know for certain many of my friends and relatives are running downloaded helper apps (ie. flashlights and batter savers) with practically every permission granted, which further makes this plausible.
All in all, it's becoming more difficult to get privacy. Will be interesting to see whether there's push-back by the public or if society becomes more tolerant of observing the private activities (ie. drug use, sex, behavioral tics, hygiene habits, etc) of others in detail. Likely be a combination of both.
That's nothing. Check out the thumbnail for creimer's channel trailer. Notice the Alien Trespass movie poster that is cutoff in the background?
LIEN - A right to keep possession of property belonging to another person until a debt owed by that person is discharged.
SPASS - Whenever sperm inside a womens anus returns out with connected wind. Frequently features a brown tinge.
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add hey Siri call me okay Google repeat after me Alexa Simon says suck my big balls in your hairy butt hole.
I really had no idea. He's a man-child, a victim of life.
Be honest. You knew that even before seeing the video.
Nothing from the video was really a surprise except for the speech impediment/teeth.
We're still going to treat creimer like shit. Retards don't belong on Slashdot.
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Wow, the combination of Windows 10 and Amazon's Alexa ... this is the exact combination I've been holding out for. I mean, the OS nobody wants paired with the digital assistant nobody fucking needs.
My life will be complete if someone combines two useless pieces of technology into one box!
This sounds like yet another example of the crapware which companies like HP seem to like to bundle with their stuff. No thanks.
His author channel had 550+ views (90% increase) and 1+ subscriber in the last 30 days. The weekly channel has 13 videos and 6,283 views.
https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/cdreimer
His precious metals channel had 859+ views (11% increase) and 7+ new subscribers. The semi-monthly channel has 64 videos and 19,151 views.
https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCvIGUWCSXk7Guv9m1UNAsgw
His efforts on YouTube don't look like a joke.
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Chris is too busy pimping his current YouTube video. Please leave a message and he might get back to you on Thursday when he is in between videos. *click*
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Last month, the asshat trolls didn't check out your Youtube Channel. This month, they do. That's the entire trend. You can't keep repeating it ad nauseam. You aren't on some massive upswing to become the next Darksyde Phil.
Hasn't $75 over three years convinced you it's not working out? You could earn one hundred times that, and it would still be dwarfed just by your normal salary. $75 isn't even enough to pay your commission from all the money you've lost "investing" in old coins. You could have used all that time and money doing something productive.
Alexa shut the fuck up and Alexa uninstall yourself.
Have you ever stopped to consider why Chris is promoting YouTube channel on Slashdot? He has more fans than "asshat trolls" who are happy to click on his links and feed the YouTube algorithm with external users. Seriously, you're the problem here. Stop paying attention to him and he will leave for a few years.
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Chris, you can promote all day long and maybe get your viewership up...what? Twice what it is now? Ten times?
Your latest video has 12 views. 120 views will (in the real world) not earn your 12 cents, it will earn you nothing. The cause is hopeless. If you want more money, work on getting a better job or move out of the Bay Area. If you want to have fun, pick up some kind of enjoyable hobby.
Never mind his dysfunctional family, can you imagine the horrific abuse he must have endured in a 1980s high school?
Have you paid attention to anything that creimer wrote in the last 10+ months? Or are you besotted with your own brain farts?
Chris graduated from Special Ed in the eighth grade, skipped high school, worked in construction with his father for a few years, and graduated from community college with his first associate degree in General Education. After starting his technical career, he went back to community college to earn his second associate degree in computer programming with a 4.0 GPA and making the college president's list.
The entertainment value has dropped dramatically for me, he looks like an average homeless person to me now, and it's no fun punching down.
Except you're still here making your idiotic comments, accusing every AC of being Chris and rationalizing your own bullying behavior. Look in the mirror and you will find a troll staring back at you.
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There's no end to your rationalizations of abusive behavior.
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You aren't on some massive upswing to become the next Darksyde Phil.
Actually DSP is a great case study. A million times more successful than cdreimer but despite his initial success he has managed to ruin everything.
He got a girlfriend who convinced him to move to Seattle from New England.
The cost of living in Seattle was high.
People like cdreimer flooded youtube and other video content sites trying to make a quick buck. This diluted DSP's viewership.
Now that competition and costs are up he has to beg people to help make end's meet.
Girlfriend has to get a job.
DSP gets caught jacking off on camera (LOL Yes really)
Girlfriend leaves DSP and takes her long tail revenue stream with her.
DSP has piles of bills and debt and a shrinking viewer base.
DARKSYDEPHIL is still more successful than cdreimer,
Ok chris. So by this account one would predict that you'd be making something approaching normal tech worker pay for silicon valley. You do not make normal pay though.
At this point you're supposed to sit down and scratch your chin and consider why not. You should be identifying actions for the next step in your career progression, "Carl took a class in JRubyPenis and he was promoted and makes lots of money, I should do this too"
"Mary applied at KellyOfficeNappers and got a better position, I should do that"
"Jodie got his CISSP and doubled his pay"
But instead you scratched your chin and got involved in precious metals and youtube crap. I guess you can make money off this stuff but very little in life pays off like enriching an IT career in Silicon Valley, so you should be concentrating more on that.
It's my opinion that you're intelligent enough for complex tasks like programming but for whatever reason your judgment and executive function is extremely poor.
Think about it like this. If there was a safe with a keypad and 4 digit display, the safe contains a million dollars... and above it there is a tree with 1000 5 dollar bills attached to it. You can shake the 5 dollar bills off the tree and they'll fall off, maybe new ones will grow maybe not.
Or you can punch all 10,000 combinations into the safe until it opens.
You're shaking the fuck out of that tree and you're reading books about tree shakers who didn't have safes at the bottom of their trees.
In school you did fine because you had people with normal judgment to guide you but in normal life the only guidance you have is from your boss, who will never tell you to work on opening your safe even if he plans on getting rid of you at the end of your contract.
Darksydephil did even more than you.
Doesn't matter if all the people on youtube are making a quick buck or a slow buck they're all chasing the same dollars.
DarkSydePhil made LOTS of money and made LOTS of mistakes. But the only thing that has made his lifestyle unsustainable is the fact he lives in an expensive part of the country. If he didn't he wouldn't even be in hot water right now.
You live in THE WORST part of the country for doing the sort of shit you're trying to do. Tell me. Why don't you work on your career instead?
Please answer this question, I already know the answer. But you can't tell me why you would keep making low-value internet content instead of concentrating on your career.
Tell me why you would keep making low-value internet content instead of concentrating on your career?
I don't know about that.
Why don't you reply directly to Chris? I doubt he reads these comment pits that you create for him.
Why don't you stop pretending you're a third person, Chris? All it does is prove " your judgment and executive function is extremely poor".
Jiminy Crickets, what happened to you to make you like this?
You've had this conversation with all of your trolls several times CHRIS DALE REIMER
1) You're down here at the bottom of this comment pit reading it right now CHRIS.
2) I do believe you that you don't bother reading long posts
3) We nest the posts so we don't have to bother the rest of slashdot and it pisses you off so bad that you have to beg us to stop.
I jack off in celebration every time you ask why we do this because it proves it works. You're desperately trying to increase the visibility of your posts even if it means being such a dick that people respond
but to they have to pay me for their using my equipment?
But, but Alexa, the toilet is going to plug if I flush both my megaload and the paper together. I need to flush my load separately first!
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