I've always been baffled by that myself. What drives me even more nuts is the constant jokes about Canada, and I'm an American. It's always some dumbshit redneck who's never been outside the country who calls Canada "America's hat" without considering that the Canadian dollar is worth more than ours and that he's got less teeth then they have provinces.
I've been to quite a few Canadian cities on hockey trips and I'm seriously considering moving there.
A few weeks ago I posted a comment on a slashdot story about that OCZ mind-reading device and how much I doubted it worked the way they described. The guy below me stopped just short of calling me a complete dumbshit for not having faith in the device.
That's strange, because I can distinctly recall articles on Slashdot in the past year talking about similar technology that specifically stated that this type of technology was many, many years away from being sophisticated enough to be useful, let alone mass marketed. I'll have to do some searching.
After reading the summary and then the article, I find myself sitting here baffled that this might even work. Hell, if I can even get this to move my mouse around a screen accurately I'll jump up and down with amazement. Maybe I'm just way behind on how much has been done in this field, but I would have imagined something likes this would be at least a decade away. After the reading the Slashdot summary I assumed that someone had decided to move April fool's to March 1st.
I'll agree to that. I work at a hotel (currently still in college) and we've got two computers at the front desk. One runs Windows and has a nice new shiny Microsoft keyboard with soft mushy keys. The other computer is command line only and has a keyboard that's probably older than I am, I love the old style keyboard.
For one thing, it is less tiring to type on the keyboard that has stiffer keys, don't ask me why. Secondly, it always sounds like I'm working my ass off when I type on the old keyboard because of the racket it makes.
Come to the bars at Purdue, stacking quarters on a machine is still the preferred method to indicate you've got the next round on a pool table or dart board. If my friends and I feel like playing pool for awhile, usually we just keep our own stack on the table and dump quarters directly into the machine while rotating players every game. Usually people are too drunk to notice.
I'm no expert on the subject, but my experience so far has been this, and I am a big fan of Schneier.
If you explain to a group of people why something is 'security theater' and then present an alternative, they flock to it. It does not matter that the alternative may also be 'security theater', as long as its shortcomings are of a different variety.
I rtfa, and I don't get how this could be more accurate than just regular old speech to text.
It seems like differences between people and the way they talk would have much more subtle variations as far as lip reading is concerned. The difference between words like 'cat' and 'hat' are much more obvious in speech than they are in lip movements, or at least thats how it seems to me.
The 'speechless dictation' thing doesn't make much sense to me either. Sitting here at work and messing around a bit with the idea I feel like my mouth moves differently when I'm not actually speaking, but just saying the words. Maybe I'm just weird.
I guess the one really nice positive would be if they could combine lip reading to text and speech to text into a single program, using both sources of information to check for errors.
Can anyone explain a reason why lip reading would be more effective than speech? I'd love to know.
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Pretty decent suggestion. Must be nice to watch a movie without any questions/complaints/interruptions, save all that for later.
I logged into my yahoo inbox this morning, didn't notice anything new other than a message from yahoo that included a link to Gmail signup and instructions on setting up an account.
You're right, there are three sides to everything, here's my side. I should mention I am about to graduate from a college with a CTI program with the goal of being a controller.
The odds that the FAA will ever get a fully automated system off the ground are essentially zero in my opinion. There are still airspace restructuring plans from decades ago that were canceled after running way over budget and missing every single deadline. The idea that the FAA will now leap from having equipment still branded with the Civil Aeronautics Board logo (like they do now) to a state of the art computer system is laughable.
The current stated goal of the FAA is to progress to 'Free Flight' where essentially pilots pick their flight path rather than being assigned one by ATC. Controllers then only issue commands to pilots if there is a potential conflict. If I were to start my career in ATC tomorrow, I would sincerely be shocked if it were implemented before I retired.
But then again, we could see another aluminum shower (mid-air collision) and that's been a pretty strong motivator in the past.
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I've never heard that before but you've made me extremely curious.
Got any information on just how it actually does that?
I've always been baffled by that myself. What drives me even more nuts is the constant jokes about Canada, and I'm an American. It's always some dumbshit redneck who's never been outside the country who calls Canada "America's hat" without considering that the Canadian dollar is worth more than ours and that he's got less teeth then they have provinces.
I've been to quite a few Canadian cities on hockey trips and I'm seriously considering moving there.
I really hope I live long enough to find out what "puree-of-moon" tastes like.
What were they planning on calling that country that was going to be owned by The Pirate Bay?
Exactly what I suspected.
A few weeks ago I posted a comment on a slashdot story about that OCZ mind-reading device and how much I doubted it worked the way they described. The guy below me stopped just short of calling me a complete dumbshit for not having faith in the device.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=472638&cid=22614648
None, if he had the power cord.
That's strange, because I can distinctly recall articles on Slashdot in the past year talking about similar technology that specifically stated that this type of technology was many, many years away from being sophisticated enough to be useful, let alone mass marketed. I'll have to do some searching.
After reading the summary and then the article, I find myself sitting here baffled that this might even work. Hell, if I can even get this to move my mouse around a screen accurately I'll jump up and down with amazement. Maybe I'm just way behind on how much has been done in this field, but I would have imagined something likes this would be at least a decade away. After the reading the Slashdot summary I assumed that someone had decided to move April fool's to March 1st.
Am I the only one?
I'll agree to that. I work at a hotel (currently still in college) and we've got two computers at the front desk. One runs Windows and has a nice new shiny Microsoft keyboard with soft mushy keys. The other computer is command line only and has a keyboard that's probably older than I am, I love the old style keyboard.
For one thing, it is less tiring to type on the keyboard that has stiffer keys, don't ask me why. Secondly, it always sounds like I'm working my ass off when I type on the old keyboard because of the racket it makes.
Come to the bars at Purdue, stacking quarters on a machine is still the preferred method to indicate you've got the next round on a pool table or dart board. If my friends and I feel like playing pool for awhile, usually we just keep our own stack on the table and dump quarters directly into the machine while rotating players every game. Usually people are too drunk to notice.
Well, this is Slashdot, I'm sure there are plenty of people around here who could assemble these things in no time.
That would be an awesome way to piss them right off, build mountains of these things and flood every market imaginable with them.
I hear that same stupid argument constantly. You know why no one cares that Google has so much information?
Google can't make laws, and they don't have an army.
pffft, I'm at least a 64-bit nerd. Get with the times man.
They trick my mind pretty hard...
I'm no expert on the subject, but my experience so far has been this, and I am a big fan of Schneier.
If you explain to a group of people why something is 'security theater' and then present an alternative, they flock to it. It does not matter that the alternative may also be 'security theater', as long as its shortcomings are of a different variety.
I rtfa, and I don't get how this could be more accurate than just regular old speech to text.
It seems like differences between people and the way they talk would have much more subtle variations as far as lip reading is concerned. The difference between words like 'cat' and 'hat' are much more obvious in speech than they are in lip movements, or at least thats how it seems to me.
The 'speechless dictation' thing doesn't make much sense to me either. Sitting here at work and messing around a bit with the idea I feel like my mouth moves differently when I'm not actually speaking, but just saying the words. Maybe I'm just weird.
I guess the one really nice positive would be if they could combine lip reading to text and speech to text into a single program, using both sources of information to check for errors.
Can anyone explain a reason why lip reading would be more effective than speech? I'd love to know.
Pretty decent suggestion. Must be nice to watch a movie without any questions/complaints/interruptions, save all that for later.
God bless America.
Getting my girlfriend fake boobs would qualify as "awesome", do you think I can get government funding for that?
I logged into my yahoo inbox this morning, didn't notice anything new other than a message from yahoo that included a link to Gmail signup and instructions on setting up an account.
Thanks for improving my inbox, yahoo!
I've been using a 42" 1920x1080 display as a computer monitor for almost a year now. By far the best purchase I have ever made.
Scientists theorize what would happen if they touched a cloud
Claiming that you're under an NDA made me think you were completely BSing and trying to raise your e-coolness level.
Then I saw your sig and realized you must be a college student studying engineering/networking/compsci. Sorry I ever doubted you.
Timezones don't change the fact that he should be in bed with a pounding headache from New Years next to a girl who reads.
(I had to work this year, I've got an excuse)
You're right, there are three sides to everything, here's my side. I should mention I am about to graduate from a college with a CTI program with the goal of being a controller.
The odds that the FAA will ever get a fully automated system off the ground are essentially zero in my opinion. There are still airspace restructuring plans from decades ago that were canceled after running way over budget and missing every single deadline. The idea that the FAA will now leap from having equipment still branded with the Civil Aeronautics Board logo (like they do now) to a state of the art computer system is laughable.
The current stated goal of the FAA is to progress to 'Free Flight' where essentially pilots pick their flight path rather than being assigned one by ATC. Controllers then only issue commands to pilots if there is a potential conflict. If I were to start my career in ATC tomorrow, I would sincerely be shocked if it were implemented before I retired.
But then again, we could see another aluminum shower (mid-air collision) and that's been a pretty strong motivator in the past.