1. Add the ability to recognize a specific voice that is authorized to issue commands. (No more South Park incidents. Period.)
2. Make sure that things like lights, door locks, etc. ALL have manual overrides. This capability will need to be certified, which will give Amazon a lot of control over which companies/devices will work with the system. OTOH, from a security standpoint, if you don't want your home broken into, you'd better have that sort of reassurance built-in.
Unless the OS security, both internal and external isn't a LOT better than what we're getting from the Internet of Crap, this will be another disaster.
They almost certainly do track that stuff. However, as Upton Sinclair pointed out: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
But a phone that unlocks when it sees your face is one that the police can confiscate and unlock by simply aiming it at your face.
Why wouldn't you want that convenience?
I'd like to get some information on just how accurate that face-match actually is. For example, my beard length changes over several months until I trim it back for another crop. I'm also wondering just how many attempts before you have to type in your passphrase.
Given the results of my experiences with the systems, they're designed for the hearing impaired to turn us into visually impaired as well. I had to stop trying to follow the subtitles after about 10-15 minutes because my eye muscles were starting to hurt from constantly changing my focus from screen to subtitles and back.
Subtitles in a theatre are NOT on the screen. In one case there is a display device that you set up right in front of your seat that picks up the subtitles from the theater. The other kind I've seen you have a mirror set up in front of your seat and displays subtitles that are on a screen in the back of the theater. Neither system matches the focal distance to the movie screen.
Blame the theater for the loud. Back in the 1950's there was a standing joke about the new "hi-fi" speakers and phonographs that volume != fidelity.
Last two movies I've seen were Dunkirk (got dragged by family) and Hitman's Bodyguard (same theater, two weeks later. I'm a big fan of both actors) I had a very hard time making out the words midst the background noise, even with a hearing aid. I'll see it again when Netflix gets it.
1. Aging population. I'm "hearing-challenged" and the subtitles in theaters are horrible, hard to read, and NEVER at the same focal distance as the screen. These days if a movie doesn't have subtitles on the DVD, I don't bother. My family has to drag me to a theater, where I miss at least half of the dialogue.
2. Discretionary income: It's dropping. Real wages have been dropping for decades. Add in how many young people are burdened with student debts and s**t jobs, and it's easier to avoid theaters and stay home.
Ford was warned by their own engineers that the car would explode in rear-end collisions and that it would cost $5 per car to fix it. Ford decided that killing a few customers and settling a few lawsuits was better and cheaper than actually building safe cars.
I do hope they're going to make a better set of choices this time.
Given that the FBI has repeatedly made it plain that they want unrestricted and owner-involuntary access to every piece of hardware on this planet, I'd take any cybersecurity recommendation they make with a grain of salt the size of the Benjamin Franklin.
"Ought to" and "will do" are two separate things. The authorities have a very vested interest in keeping the populace credulous. A skeptical public would overthrow them in an hour.
Consider the long and body-strewn history of companies whose products have done enormous damage to large numbers of people.
The cigarette companies were denying that their cute little puff-sticks could cause cancer after a decade in which the causality was as firmly established as 1+1=2. The company that brought out thalidomide was still denying their product maimed unborn babies quite some time after the evidence was rolling in like a tsunami. Monsanto is even now busy suppressing evidence that their roundup product causes cancer.
I could cite a bunch of other instances, but it all comes down to the proven fact that corporations lie about the disasters they cause. They have every reason to: Cleaning up their mess or making amends to the victims will cost them money!
"...once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind." -- Robert A. Heinlein Citizen of the Galaxy
Slashdot and Techdirt both have bunchteen stories about security researchers being threatened with $$$ lawsuits for revealing vulns in corporate software.
Does that behavior sound as if businesses really want/need security people? I'm sure it's a big encouragement for students to go into security so they can add lawsuits to their student debt.
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
The War on Drugs was and is nothing more than Prohibition 2. And like most Hollywood sequels, everything involved, bootlegging, corruption, and violence, are simply done over on a more massive scale to impress the audience.
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And if I ever move into a place with this crap pre-installed, I'll have an electrician out first to disconnect it all.
Disconnection is easy. Just turn power off at the main breaker.
1. Add the ability to recognize a specific voice that is authorized to issue commands. (No more South Park incidents. Period.)
2. Make sure that things like lights, door locks, etc. ALL have manual overrides. This capability will need to be certified, which will give Amazon a lot of control over which companies/devices will work with the system. OTOH, from a security standpoint, if you don't want your home broken into, you'd better have that sort of reassurance built-in.
Unless the OS security, both internal and external isn't a LOT better than what we're getting from the Internet of Crap, this will be another disaster.
Don't they track that stuff?
They almost certainly do track that stuff. However, as Upton Sinclair pointed out:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
I still don't want the cops or other criminals able to unlock my phone by aiming the screen at me.
But a phone that unlocks when it sees your face is one that the police can confiscate and unlock by simply aiming it at your face.
Why wouldn't you want that convenience?
I'd like to get some information on just how accurate that face-match actually is. For example, my beard length changes over several months until I trim it back for another crop. I'm also wondering just how many attempts before you have to type in your passphrase.
After all, if it advances vehicle-to-everything communications, it certainly has to advance everythingincludinghackers-to-vehicle communications.
Given the results of my experiences with the systems, they're designed for the hearing impaired to turn us into visually impaired as well. I had to stop trying to follow the subtitles after about 10-15 minutes because my eye muscles were starting to hurt from constantly changing my focus from screen to subtitles and back.
Subtitles in a theatre are NOT on the screen. In one case there is a display device that you set up right in front of your seat that picks up the subtitles from the theater. The other kind I've seen you have a mirror set up in front of your seat and displays subtitles that are on a screen in the back of the theater. Neither system matches the focal distance to the movie screen.
Blame the theater for the loud. Back in the 1950's there was a standing joke about the new "hi-fi" speakers and phonographs that volume != fidelity.
Last two movies I've seen were Dunkirk (got dragged by family) and Hitman's Bodyguard (same theater, two weeks later. I'm a big fan of both actors) I had a very hard time making out the words midst the background noise, even with a hearing aid. I'll see it again when Netflix gets it.
1. Aging population. I'm "hearing-challenged" and the subtitles in theaters are horrible, hard to read, and NEVER at the same focal distance as the screen. These days if a movie doesn't have subtitles on the DVD, I don't bother. My family has to drag me to a theater, where I miss at least half of the dialogue.
2. Discretionary income: It's dropping. Real wages have been dropping for decades. Add in how many young people are burdened with student debts and s**t jobs, and it's easier to avoid theaters and stay home.
Why should Hollywood be rewarded by paying customers for producing trash?
Public's Answer: None! Why pay for trash?
Hollywood's Answer: Because we're entitled to take your money regardless of quality.
Thank you for a solid exposition and reply.
Ford was warned by their own engineers that the car would explode in rear-end collisions and that it would cost $5 per car to fix it. Ford decided that killing a few customers and settling a few lawsuits was better and cheaper than actually building safe cars.
I do hope they're going to make a better set of choices this time.
Given that the FBI has repeatedly made it plain that they want unrestricted and owner-involuntary access to every piece of hardware on this planet, I'd take any cybersecurity recommendation they make with a grain of salt the size of the Benjamin Franklin.
I think this is the best comment on the situation:
https://www.arcamax.com/thefun...
"Ought to" and "will do" are two separate things. The authorities have a very vested interest in keeping the populace credulous. A skeptical public would overthrow them in an hour.
Consider the long and body-strewn history of companies whose products have done enormous damage to large numbers of people.
The cigarette companies were denying that their cute little puff-sticks could cause cancer after a decade in which the causality was as firmly established as 1+1=2. The company that brought out thalidomide was still denying their product maimed unborn babies quite some time after the evidence was rolling in like a tsunami. Monsanto is even now busy suppressing evidence that their roundup product causes cancer.
I could cite a bunch of other instances, but it all comes down to the proven fact that corporations lie about the disasters they cause. They have every reason to: Cleaning up their mess or making amends to the victims will cost them money!
"...once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind." -- Robert A. Heinlein Citizen of the Galaxy
Half of the main characters will die.
Just like every season.
So the half-life of a Game of Thrones main character is one season?
Once you become dependent on cloud services, they are no longer in your service, you are in theirs.
"That's a nice business you got. Be a shame if anything happened to it."
At least, that's what I'm hearing.
Slashdot and Techdirt both have bunchteen stories about security researchers being threatened with $$$ lawsuits for revealing vulns in corporate software.
Does that behavior sound as if businesses really want/need security people? I'm sure it's a big encouragement for students to go into security so they can add lawsuits to their student debt.
Eventually responsibility will come looking for your ass.
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
The War on Drugs was and is nothing more than Prohibition 2. And like most Hollywood sequels, everything involved, bootlegging, corruption, and violence, are simply done over on a more massive scale to impress the audience.
That time is when you learn nothing from it.
If nothing else, we should have learned that the sacred album is as obsolete as the IBM 360.
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