Given that it exists on Android, it seems extremely countable to me.
After seeing this submission earlier today, I got curious... so I went hunting around for stories about AML. The funny thing is - they all mention the same single story about the Lithuanian boy saving his father's life. Even the Wikipedia page mentions that anecdote, and no other.
I'm not really against this concept in principle... but it really does sound like it's (possibly) saved exactly one life. And with what little info is available from that, it sounds like it was at their home (the kid didn't know his own address) - so it seems to me just doing the e911 thing would've also saved the father's life.
So far as I know, in Canada and the USA there's already e911, which is a system whereby the cell phone's GPS is turned on, regardless of the user's set preferences, and a GPS fix is sent to the 911 call center by the mobile service provider..
Landline phones have a physical address associated with them. Cellphone numbers can have a "master address" linked to them as part of a specific record maintained by each carrier. All enhanced 911 does is provide the originating phone number's associated address (assuming it exists) automatically to the dispatcher. With cell phones, that may not be where the caller is currently located.
The article listed exactly one life purportedly saved by this tech when a Lithuanian boy called the local equivalent of 911.
But one life obviously scales up to "countless".
However this service is actually only available in "UK, Estonia, Lithuania and parts of Austria" - not the EU as a whole, which seems to be implied by the submission. And, since the tech is owned by Google, we don't know what other requirements may be involved... as I recall, when they were still the official map provider for iOS, they kept lobbying for more access to iPhone owners' location data.
Some years ago, I had a Microsoft Bluetooth mouse. It felt good to my hand, and it worked rather well, even with my Macs... but it didn't have a power switch.
Who designs a wireless mouse and doesn't include a bloody on/off switch?
Yeah, for quite a few years I've been running my own little streaming "server" on whatever surplus computer I have at the time... currently a 2006/7 MacBook Pro. My DVDs and Blu-Ray discs generally come out of their case just once (for ripping), then go into a box in the closet.
It doesn't take much computing power to stream movies and TV shows; and it certainly makes it easier to find a given movie.
Even if you like most Disney movies (and I do), there just isn't enough value being provided for a subscription costing 8-10 bucks a month. Even if we didn't already own most of the titles we care about - there just aren't that many to have it make sense for more than a month or two.
And that's ignoring the more recent news that they're looking at splitting their titles up between two or more services!
Seriously - we all know this channel will only offer just a few Disney movies at any one time, padded out with 24-hour access to That's So Raven And Boy Meets World.
Cable TV has been continually losing subscribers because of cost... TV and movies just aren't that important to most people. Disney and others seem to think those same people are going to come back in droves, throwing money at them - but that's not going to happen.
I understand why you would say that... but, given the low cost for this device, people aren't going to be particularly locked-in.
I am curious, though: I've had an AT&T Android phone, which did come with a fair bit of bloatware that I moved as out-of-the-way as I could. I also have purchased an iPhone from T-Mobile, but the only non-standard addition was the inoffensive T-Mobile app. Do they load a bunch of crapware on their Android devices?
Guy shouldn't have accessed it without permission... although going into a former colleague's email seems like a bigger deal to me. He deserves whatever he gets.
But, man, if they're running an FTP server in this day and age, this is likely not their only issue.
I realize this particular Reuters article may be new; but haven't we seen stories about this exact same research project several times already over the past couple of months?
That's weird. I'm seeing hunter2 on my screen instead of asterisks.
That's because "hunter2" is your password.
People who are logged in will see their own password; those who are not logged in will see only asterisks. Sorry that I didn't adequately explain that.
Thing is, it'd likely be cheaper to just buy the DVDs / Blurays of the Disney movies you want, rip them yourself and then watch them whenever you'd like.
Really, all this fragmentation will kill the business. Without one stop shopping and reasonable prices, it's better to just go back to bittorrent.
I've probably posted this before, but in any case - I fully expect the next several years to be really, really annoying for those of us trying to "do the right thing" and pay for content. Every entity which owns even a tiny piece of some popular show or movie is going to attempt to launch their own streaming service.
Eventually most of them will shut down after losing lots of money, and things will consolidate back to just a few aggregators - but until then it's going to be stupidly annoying.
In the meantime I'm not going to pay for a streaming service just for one show - not Star Trek, not Stargate, not Star Search. There's already more streaming content available than I could reasonably see in my lifetime.
My wife and I drove from Seattle to Anchorage back in the late 1980s - her sister had gotten married, and we went up to meet her husband and his family. Not long after we crossed from Canada into Alaska, we started noticing that pretty much every road sign had been shot multiple times. It got worse, the further into Alaska we travelled. Along the stretch of highway that heads down the peninsula towards Anchorage, many of the signs had so many bullet holes that they were unreadable.
After meeting my (now ex-) brother-in-law and his friends, I ceased to be surprised at the state of the road signs - instead, I wondered why none of them had thought of destroying the signposts using automatic weapons.
There's part of me that wonders whether Intel knows its offering is going to be underwhelming, and is therefore choosing to release it on a day when a lot of tech/science types will be somewhat distracted.
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You also have to be wary of the Hawthorne effect
You, on the other hand, have to be wary about assuming anything stated in an anonymous posting actually happened. :-)
Given that it exists on Android, it seems extremely countable to me.
After seeing this submission earlier today, I got curious... so I went hunting around for stories about AML. The funny thing is - they all mention the same single story about the Lithuanian boy saving his father's life. Even the Wikipedia page mentions that anecdote, and no other.
I'm not really against this concept in principle... but it really does sound like it's (possibly) saved exactly one life. And with what little info is available from that, it sounds like it was at their home (the kid didn't know his own address) - so it seems to me just doing the e911 thing would've also saved the father's life.
I'm a little bothered by the fact that the SMS is sent invisibly - the user doesn't see the SMS or even a record of the SMS after the fact.
In previous years, Foxconn has promised to build other large plants in other US states - but never actually built them.
But he still was in Texas, which is far preferable to the overpriced shithole that is Silicon Valley.
It seems you've never been to Texas.
So far as I know, in Canada and the USA there's already e911, which is a system whereby the cell phone's GPS is turned on, regardless of the user's set preferences, and a GPS fix is sent to the 911 call center by the mobile service provider..
That's not what enhanced 911 does.
Landline phones have a physical address associated with them. Cellphone numbers can have a "master address" linked to them as part of a specific record maintained by each carrier. All enhanced 911 does is provide the originating phone number's associated address (assuming it exists) automatically to the dispatcher. With cell phones, that may not be where the caller is currently located.
The article listed exactly one life purportedly saved by this tech when a Lithuanian boy called the local equivalent of 911.
But one life obviously scales up to "countless".
However this service is actually only available in "UK, Estonia, Lithuania and parts of Austria" - not the EU as a whole, which seems to be implied by the submission. And, since the tech is owned by Google, we don't know what other requirements may be involved... as I recall, when they were still the official map provider for iOS, they kept lobbying for more access to iPhone owners' location data.
Some years ago, I had a Microsoft Bluetooth mouse. It felt good to my hand, and it worked rather well, even with my Macs... but it didn't have a power switch.
Who designs a wireless mouse and doesn't include a bloody on/off switch?
Yeah, for quite a few years I've been running my own little streaming "server" on whatever surplus computer I have at the time... currently a 2006/7 MacBook Pro. My DVDs and Blu-Ray discs generally come out of their case just once (for ripping), then go into a box in the closet.
It doesn't take much computing power to stream movies and TV shows; and it certainly makes it easier to find a given movie.
Even if you like most Disney movies (and I do), there just isn't enough value being provided for a subscription costing 8-10 bucks a month. Even if we didn't already own most of the titles we care about - there just aren't that many to have it make sense for more than a month or two.
And that's ignoring the more recent news that they're looking at splitting their titles up between two or more services!
Seriously - we all know this channel will only offer just a few Disney movies at any one time, padded out with 24-hour access to That's So Raven And Boy Meets World.
Cable TV has been continually losing subscribers because of cost... TV and movies just aren't that important to most people. Disney and others seem to think those same people are going to come back in droves, throwing money at them - but that's not going to happen.
I understand why you would say that... but, given the low cost for this device, people aren't going to be particularly locked-in.
I am curious, though: I've had an AT&T Android phone, which did come with a fair bit of bloatware that I moved as out-of-the-way as I could. I also have purchased an iPhone from T-Mobile, but the only non-standard addition was the inoffensive T-Mobile app. Do they load a bunch of crapware on their Android devices?
Just change the definition of "Great".
Guy shouldn't have accessed it without permission... although going into a former colleague's email seems like a bigger deal to me. He deserves whatever he gets.
But, man, if they're running an FTP server in this day and age, this is likely not their only issue.
blah blah blah. apple is right everyone else is wrong.
Except it's actual Apple employees - and rather important ones - saying they don't want to work in that open environment.
I realize this particular Reuters article may be new; but haven't we seen stories about this exact same research project several times already over the past couple of months?
I thought the Brits had their own social networks - FriendFace and Jitter?
That's weird. I'm seeing hunter2 on my screen instead of asterisks.
That's because "hunter2" is your password.
People who are logged in will see their own password; those who are not logged in will see only asterisks. Sorry that I didn't adequately explain that.
Thing is, it'd likely be cheaper to just buy the DVDs / Blurays of the Disney movies you want, rip them yourself and then watch them whenever you'd like.
Really, all this fragmentation will kill the business. Without one stop shopping and reasonable prices, it's better to just go back to bittorrent.
I've probably posted this before, but in any case - I fully expect the next several years to be really, really annoying for those of us trying to "do the right thing" and pay for content. Every entity which owns even a tiny piece of some popular show or movie is going to attempt to launch their own streaming service.
Eventually most of them will shut down after losing lots of money, and things will consolidate back to just a few aggregators - but until then it's going to be stupidly annoying.
In the meantime I'm not going to pay for a streaming service just for one show - not Star Trek, not Stargate, not Star Search. There's already more streaming content available than I could reasonably see in my lifetime.
Better yet, set it up so the female voice pulls over and asks for help and the male voice just keeps going until it thinks it reached the destination.
No, the male voice would keep driving around in circles while insisting it wasn't lost.
My wife and I drove from Seattle to Anchorage back in the late 1980s - her sister had gotten married, and we went up to meet her husband and his family. Not long after we crossed from Canada into Alaska, we started noticing that pretty much every road sign had been shot multiple times. It got worse, the further into Alaska we travelled. Along the stretch of highway that heads down the peninsula towards Anchorage, many of the signs had so many bullet holes that they were unreadable.
After meeting my (now ex-) brother-in-law and his friends, I ceased to be surprised at the state of the road signs - instead, I wondered why none of them had thought of destroying the signposts using automatic weapons.
Here is your current password: Pzssw0rd1
(Don't worry - while you'll see your password in plain text there, all the other Slashdotters will see a string of asterisks like this: *********)
The real problem is that, in 2017, so many web sites and institutions are still forcing users to comply with the exact same set of 2003-era rules.
There's part of me that wonders whether Intel knows its offering is going to be underwhelming, and is therefore choosing to release it on a day when a lot of tech/science types will be somewhat distracted.
Well done, Google. You turned him from a disagreeable twit into a sympathetic victim in one fell swoop.
Do you not have a PR department to advise you on this sort of stuff?