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  1. I've been curious about digitizing the voices and the best way to do so. Something that can take the phonetic alphabet and apply a voice to it would be cool. I'd really like the voice of Joshua from War Games to be my GPS voice.

    Nah, everyone wants the quality Jarvis voice of Paul Bettany.

  2. who owns the rights to the digitization?

    I'd imagine "forward looking" studios including their ownership in contracts to the point where actors don't own their own faces.

    The next step is digitizing the voices...

  3. Wnat you would like vs what you have to do on 'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used By Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    DNT settings in browsers.

    Then stop blindly accepting cookies.

    The toss in uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger to see how bad the trackers really are. I have hit pages with 40-60 different trackers being blocked, Looks like 18 on this page

  4. Why not toss in a free wristband for 350 on Palm Is Back With a Mini Companion Android Phone That's Exclusive To Verizon (droid-life.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then it would be the Apple Watch killer too. /s

    If it had an HDMI port, it may be useful as a kodi box with 3GB of memory. $350 does buy a nice shield, or a bunch of mi boxes or amazon fire boxes,,,

    At work I was already carrying 3 phones, my personal, a dedicated support phone and a lot of weeks a year, an on-call phone. I didn't pay for the phone I have now, why would I buy a toy phone.

  5. 8 years ago, the Logitech Revue came out on Facebook Plans Camera-Equipped TV Device, Report Says (cheddar.com) · · Score: 1

    with an available camera for video calls.

    Other than constantly listening to what you are saying, and what you are watching, and the inability to play Netflix, and probably no keyboard, I don't really see anything new here.

    The Revue was pretty good for what it was at the time. It died a horrible screaming death, (due to lack of continued support) along with Google TV.

  6. Re:"history" may be misleading on US Voter Records From 19 States Is Being Sold on a Hacking Forum, Threat Intelligence Firms Say (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Keep in mind, that the "voting history" in the summary is easy to sensationalize. In most cases it only means you were issued a ballot, and possibly for mail-in ballots that you returned it. No state has a history of what actual voting selections were made.

    You hope.

  7. "Tasty, Tasty - Ain't it time we mellow out"

  8. I don't want a network connected car, television, refrigerator or implanted in my body.

    I w0uld hope eventually cheap and easy would be the less preferred alternative to secure; But human nature being what it is will ignore security until it bites them in the ass.

    When people's computer implants become more common than insulin pumps, pacemakers and cardiac monitors, it would behoove them to not skimp on security; This is probably the next great digital divide,,,

  9. is that you have to log into bookface to see if your account has been "exposed" A couple years of not logging in wasted. Now it's Day 0 again...

  10. Their seems to be two kinds of homeless on Twitter and Salesforce CEOs Spat Over Who is Helping the Homeless More (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    1) People who can't afford the prices of current housing.

    2) People who wouldn't live anywhere provided to them due to mental health/substance abuse issues. Not that shelters are that much better than a cardboard box beneath an underpass.

    You do not gain any credit if your tax dollars/philanthropic efforts close the local/state medical efforts to help the second category.

    Talk/twitters are cheap. put your money where your mouth is.

  11. I can prove my Canadian girlfriend is real. /s

  12. Like if you were "renting/leasing" your router from your ISP and they bricked it as a "favor" for you,

    If you bought your own router:

    1) Disable remote access

    2) Change all the "passwords" you can. Extra points if you can change the admin account to something other than admin.

    3) Get the most recent update from the vendor and apply ir to your device. Repeat step 1 and 2.

    4) Create some local firewall rules, make sure nothing in your network is in an Internet reachable DMZ.

  13. alphabets bottom line. For the people behind this search engine, not so much.

    I guess the next step is proving "alternative revisionist history" where legitimate search requests are redirected to "the party line" search responses. No tank guy, no Chinese purge results, no Free Tibet, no criticism of any government official.

    And of course the natural response of more donations of fertilizer and organs, and more expensive use of bullets in response to "Bad Queries" categorized and reported...

  14. I guess you could go with on US Lawmakers Urge Canada To Snub China's Huawei in Telecoms (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia instead...

    So South Korea, Sweden and Finland instead of China... Unless they get their chips from China of course...

  15. As usual I prefer subs to dubs on Movie Commentary Tracks Are Back (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If anyone created a decent .srt file to go with the best ripped versions of these films, I'd be ok with it.

  16. is to hand the investigation and oversight of bookface to the FCC. They fuck up everything they touch. /s

  17. Immigrants will only be able to purchase/be given self-driving cars (and trucks).

  18. Does this mean that sometime on President Trump Signs Music Modernization Act Into Law (billboard.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the original music on WKRP will be restored?

  19. What is the point on Google Home Hub Is Nothing Like Other Google Smart Displays (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    why not just buy a cheap android 7 or 8 inch knock-off tablet for $50?

    If you want a google powered refrigerator, why not buy a 10 inch android tablet and velcro it to a dumb fridge?

  20. The most important thing to know about on Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Wal-Mart shopping carts is the location of the anti-bacterial wipes in the front of the store.

    God only knows what the previous user of the cart did with it. Up to and including cooking meth...

  21. Re:Xbox Failure - MS Exiting Console Market on Microsoft Announces Project Xcloud For Streaming Games To PCs, Consoles, and Mobile Devices (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, the original Xbox was great when XBMC first came out. It kinda ran linux too. Toss in a nice big hard drive and you were good to go. Not bad for the $20-$50 a used Xbox was going for.

    They got so cheap, I gave some to people, and would stop by every month or so to toss another couple hundred GB of new content onto them.

  22. Why not activate on Body Camera Maker Will Let Cops Live-Stream Their Encounters (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the body camera as soon as a weapon leaves the holster instead of when it's fired?

    This may end up more entertaining than Russian Car Crash Compilations.

  23. Some actual good uses on Facebook Unveils Portal and Portal+ Smart Speakers With Video Calling Feature (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In long term care facilities to keep the orderlies monitored

    Instead of just an ankle bracelet, also install them in the homes of people on probation (convicted felons have limited civil rights anyway)

    For senior citizens living on their own. "I've fallen, and I can't get up!"

    In stores to monitor pilferage.

  24. You need to add some more terms on Researchers Created 'Quantum Artificial Life' For the First Time (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    like blockchain and bookface integration and self-driving to get enough words for BS Bingo, /s

  25. Like anybody who has any job related to computers on The First Rule of Microsoft Excel -- Don't Tell Anyone You're Good at It (wsj.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Make sure your most clueless people move to Apple products, tell them you know nothing about them.

    As far as MSE goes, once you can create pivot tables, you'll be considered elite, and never get promoted again.