It is interesting how the ready response to those of us who’ve expressed concerns about these drvices has been a dismissive “they aren’t sending audio back to the mothership all the time, that’s silly, you have to explicitly trigger them” - yet here we have case #1 showing an example of exactly what we were worried about.
For that matter, who’s to say some three-letter organization didn’t tweak the manufacturing specs to intentionally cause this?
With movies using the Disney system, you could actually download a DRM-protected copy of the movie to your Mac.
I joined the Disney program when it first started - they were offering a free copy of "The Incredibles" for signing up. It's still the only movie in my Disney-run vault.
Or you could buy a $99 Kindle Paperwhite and a $30 IP68 case.
Except the Paperwhite is swipe-only for navigation, which may matter to some people - like me.
I preferred the actual physical navigation buttons from my old 3G Kindle... but the haptic "buttons" on the Voyage (what I have) work pretty well. However I think the Oasis has actual, physical buttons.
I can't say I've ever said to myself "I wish this Kindle were waterproof!" However I have wished for a Kindle with larger page size*, and this new one has a 7" screen.
But, still, it'll likely be several years before I replace my Kindle Voyage. The main reason I replaced my old 3G was the dog got hold of it.
It's annoying to be put in that position... but it's not as if it's particularly novel for end users to be forced into taking action to stop web sites from doing things we don't want them doing.
A few years ago, my then-neighbors were selling their house. As part of the process, the realtor set up a weekend open house where people could swing by, walk through the house, ask questions, etc.
A week after the open house, the neighbors went away for a few days. At one point during their trip, my wife noticed a pickup parked behind their house. She thought that was odd, so she walked over to ask them what was going on. The guys said they were hired by $family's_name to do some work... but two minutes after she came back, they were peeling down the road at high speed with some of our neighbor's stuff. Fortunately she spooked them or they would've gotten away with more loot.
Again fortunately, these guys were pretty stupid and eventually got caught trying to sell some items which had some sort of registration number the neighbors had provided to the police. Turns out one of them had been to the open house, and this was a common way for them to scope out homes for later robbery.
Yeah, I'm gonna let some random delivery guy into my house.
I agree with you entirely - but if Apple adds some sort of identifier regarding which process triggered the pop-up prompt, it’s not clear a malicious actor couldn’t fake that part of the pop-up as well.
I wonder whether the whole process should be redesigned somehow.
People tended to hold onto them for as long as they were functional, which could be a decade or more. We had a 27" tube television which was 16 or so years old and still going strong when we replaced it with an HD set 10+ years ago (that old beast weighed something like 90 pounds too! I had a lot of fun hauling it away...).
And while Slashdotters are always more prone towards acquiring the new shiny toy, I suspect the average television owner still follows that principle... but the manufacturers keep trying (and generally failing) to induce people into treating their TVs as disposable gadgets which should be replaced every couple of years. 3D television was their first attempt; then 4K; now 8K. Meanwhile fewer people than ever are sitting down and staring at a television screen without also constantly texting on their phone or doing Facebook - it's doubtful they'd notice the increase in TV resolution even if they were a foot from the screen.
Now, having read TFA, it seems even more egregious than that - Comcast doesn't want to fulfill obligations it already agreed to fulfill as a condition of being allowed to acquire the local cable company.
The *moment* they saw what RIM was up to with the blackberry, they should have been thinking to themselves, "We could be doing that so much better, and providing a much better experience".
Yes, because if there's one thing that comes to mind when people think about interacting with a Microsoft product, it's the quality of the experience./sarcasm
Different people have different priorities and perspectives, of course.
I enjoy cooking. Additionally, it's not like my non-cooking hours are filled to the brim with productive activities - I mean, here I am, posting on Slashdot for goodness sake! So "spending time" to do something like cooking is often a better use of resources than spending money to eat out, from my perspective.
And, when our family goes out to eat, it's considered a treat rather than a time-savings.
Yeah, my end users generally want the option to pull everything into an Excel spreadsheet or to view it on a web page. So nowadays I end up relying on various modules far more often than I use perl's own built-in formatting capabilities.
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Let me know when you can do the same thing with a microwave oven.
It is interesting how the ready response to those of us who’ve expressed concerns about these drvices has been a dismissive “they aren’t sending audio back to the mothership all the time, that’s silly, you have to explicitly trigger them” - yet here we have case #1 showing an example of exactly what we were worried about.
For that matter, who’s to say some three-letter organization didn’t tweak the manufacturing specs to intentionally cause this?
Cook can handle pivot tables like nobody's business.
With movies using the Disney system, you could actually download a DRM-protected copy of the movie to your Mac.
I joined the Disney program when it first started - they were offering a free copy of "The Incredibles" for signing up. It's still the only movie in my Disney-run vault.
Someone must like Haumea.
Porn has always led the industry. Always.
Which is why we all have HD-DVD players in our homes now.
What on earth does "laptop-level keyboard" even mean?
Also, the only specific Chromebook mentioned is the new Pixelbook. Aren't those in a slightly higher price class than most Android tablets?
Or you could buy a $99 Kindle Paperwhite and a $30 IP68 case.
Except the Paperwhite is swipe-only for navigation, which may matter to some people - like me.
I preferred the actual physical navigation buttons from my old 3G Kindle... but the haptic "buttons" on the Voyage (what I have) work pretty well. However I think the Oasis has actual, physical buttons.
Kellyanne isn't much more reliable than her boss. Her boss lies like a rug.
He lies; she's mainly just an idiot.
Now you have a friend in the spy business!
I can't say I've ever said to myself "I wish this Kindle were waterproof!" However I have wished for a Kindle with larger page size*, and this new one has a 7" screen.
But, still, it'll likely be several years before I replace my Kindle Voyage. The main reason I replaced my old 3G was the dog got hold of it.
* Yes, I remember the DX
I assume one could "opt out" using NoScript.
It's annoying to be put in that position... but it's not as if it's particularly novel for end users to be forced into taking action to stop web sites from doing things we don't want them doing.
A few years ago, my then-neighbors were selling their house. As part of the process, the realtor set up a weekend open house where people could swing by, walk through the house, ask questions, etc.
A week after the open house, the neighbors went away for a few days. At one point during their trip, my wife noticed a pickup parked behind their house. She thought that was odd, so she walked over to ask them what was going on. The guys said they were hired by $family's_name to do some work... but two minutes after she came back, they were peeling down the road at high speed with some of our neighbor's stuff. Fortunately she spooked them or they would've gotten away with more loot.
Again fortunately, these guys were pretty stupid and eventually got caught trying to sell some items which had some sort of registration number the neighbors had provided to the police. Turns out one of them had been to the open house, and this was a common way for them to scope out homes for later robbery.
Yeah, I'm gonna let some random delivery guy into my house.
I agree with you entirely - but if Apple adds some sort of identifier regarding which process triggered the pop-up prompt, it’s not clear a malicious actor couldn’t fake that part of the pop-up as well.
I wonder whether the whole process should be redesigned somehow.
Or one.
I run U-Block Origin.
People tended to hold onto them for as long as they were functional, which could be a decade or more. We had a 27" tube television which was 16 or so years old and still going strong when we replaced it with an HD set 10+ years ago (that old beast weighed something like 90 pounds too! I had a lot of fun hauling it away...).
And while Slashdotters are always more prone towards acquiring the new shiny toy, I suspect the average television owner still follows that principle... but the manufacturers keep trying (and generally failing) to induce people into treating their TVs as disposable gadgets which should be replaced every couple of years. 3D television was their first attempt; then 4K; now 8K. Meanwhile fewer people than ever are sitting down and staring at a television screen without also constantly texting on their phone or doing Facebook - it's doubtful they'd notice the increase in TV resolution even if they were a foot from the screen.
Now, having read TFA, it seems even more egregious than that - Comcast doesn't want to fulfill obligations it already agreed to fulfill as a condition of being allowed to acquire the local cable company.
I wonder if they knew he was going to spend so much time writing books after he became CEO?
The *moment* they saw what RIM was up to with the blackberry, they should have been thinking to themselves, "We could be doing that so much better, and providing a much better experience".
Yes, because if there's one thing that comes to mind when people think about interacting with a Microsoft product, it's the quality of the experience. /sarcasm
I'm a grown-up. I don't use "apps". I want the best phone in order to get work done (calls and e-mail).
You don't use "apps", yet you somehow get email on your phone?
Have you never used Waze, or another navigation app?
I suspect you're being arbitrary here.
Does that summary actually explain what the issue is at all?
Different people have different priorities and perspectives, of course.
I enjoy cooking. Additionally, it's not like my non-cooking hours are filled to the brim with productive activities - I mean, here I am, posting on Slashdot for goodness sake! So "spending time" to do something like cooking is often a better use of resources than spending money to eat out, from my perspective.
And, when our family goes out to eat, it's considered a treat rather than a time-savings.
Yeah, my end users generally want the option to pull everything into an Excel spreadsheet or to view it on a web page. So nowadays I end up relying on various modules far more often than I use perl's own built-in formatting capabilities.
I wish that the summary explained what Google Home actually is.
It's Google's next discontinued product.