I read some time back, that when first working on their Translate application, Google contracted with the United Nations for access to their professional translation archive. Thousands of samples of source material and professional translations in dozens of different languages.
If that included voice recordings as well as written translations, it could be the solution to the problem of training material. Not regional accents, of course, but still, a big leg up.
No need to guess, it says so right in the last paragraph of the article.
However, the system is only trained to mimic the one female voice; to speak like a male or different female, Google would need to train the system again.
Training against different accents is something that would easily be within Google's reach, once they're satisfied with the main product.
United States, too. At home I just opted for an old, HP Laserjet 2300n and I expect it to outlive me. Whenever I travel, or am visiting my parents, I just go to the library with a USB drive and print.
No, that is incorrect. This is the government deciding that, in the 21st Century, access to broadband Internet is a fundamental part of national infrastructure as the electric grid and telephone, and that there are minimum standards that must be met by providers as per the law.
The idea is that by 2020, members of the public will have the legal right to request speeds of at least 10 Mbps from their ISP, whether they happen to live in a big city or in the countryside.
You aren't getting a 10 Mbps connection for free, just like you aren't getting electricity for free. What they are saying is if you elect to purchase access to those universally available services, there will be a minimum standard available to you.
Why would they do that? They'll just address it in the next sprint! If you're agile enough, that is. Just add those bugs to the backlog! We've got features to ship!
You joke, but The Four Nobel Truths of Buddhism are:
1) All life is suffering 2) Suffering is caused by desire 3) Eliminate desire and you eliminate suffering 4) Follow the Noble Eightfold Path to eliminate desire.
The ability to work with the removal of specific permissions depends on the minimum level of Android that the app was designed for. This works better on newer apps.
However, not all older apps have issues with disabling certain permissions. Just because *you* haven't seen one doesn't mean they don't exist. For example, Skype for Business is one of those apps designed for an older version of Android, yet survives my removal of its permission to access my calendar. It still works fine.
Yes, it is perfectly functional in that I only want it to have access to my Outlook Calendar and not my Google one.
Fanboy has nothing to do with it. I was simply responding factually. If an app asks for too many permissions, then don't use it.
I'm not sure what version of Android you're talking about, but granular permissions have been available for some time now.
My current phone is a OnePlus 3T and running Android 8.0.0 with the September 1, 2017 patch level. Yes, I know that is a very recent version of Android, but much of this was introduced earlier.
I can go into Settings --> Apps and from there, view and control app permissions by permission or by app. That is, I can see every app that has access to something like SMS or my camera. Or, I can go in and see what permissions a specific app has. In both views, I can toggle specific permissions on and off.
They damn well CAN throttle that much traffic. AT&T, Comcast, and the rest of the big ISPs all dream of the days of yore when there was AOL, CompuServe, and GEnie. Nothing but a few walled gardens, and the paying customers lived inside and almost never ventured out.
THAT is what they want, and how they will throttle. Comcast vs non-Comcast traffic is how it will be played. They'll prioritize THEIR VoIP over companies like Vonage, implicitly harming competition. Want NetFlix? Well, Xfinity Streaming is just like Netflix, but faster and cheaper!
These companies desperately do not want to become only transport providers, or dumb pipes. The money is in the content -- what the roads lead to, not the roads themselves. The ISPs was the return of the Company Town, where they own the roads AND the stores, and a big toll gate leading out of town.
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but Big Pharma isn't getting rich on this one.
I've been taking Lisinopril for high blood pressure for a couple years now and a 90 day supply (1 x 20 mg tablet) costs me $3.00 with insurance. Without insurance it is about 3x-4x higher, from what I've seen.
At 1/3 of a penny per dose, *my cost*, that isn't exactly high profit margin. U.S. Patents expired in 2002, meaning right now it is one of the cheapest medications available. Over the counter aspirin costs more.
You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toon Town once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful.
The FBI, DHS, and others in the intel community are looking to share information with private sector security teams.This occurs quite a bit in various critical infrastructure -- finance, utilities, etc.
Without a clearance their briefings are usually along the lines of "watch out for phishing schemes around the hurricanes".
With the clearance they can also provide things like "monitor for traffic to/from these specific IP addresses". Or "your IP addresses have been seen communicating with some CNC servers that we've compromised".
This has nothing to do with being a gov't contractor. The intel community wants to be able to share actionable intelligence without giving away methods and means.
Don't be fooled by offers to make source code available for closed-source products. If they don't deliver the product EVERY TIME with source, that you then compile and use -- instead of the other binary they provide -- it is fairly useless.
Updated code is/was a popular way to get malware into Google's Play Store for Android. The benign app was vetted by Google, allowing it in. Once installed, it phoned home and installed "updates" that change the function to something more malicious.
Properly executed MITMs are very effective. It's why we still use deep water submarines to splice into telecommunication cables.:-)
P.S. - Before anyone responds with Ken Thompson's 1984 talk "Reflections on Trusting Trust", please read Wheeler's paper on countering this threat and Double Diverse Compiling.
Kaspersky's AV solutions scan files, and transmit data back to their servers if found to be malware. If nothing else, they can send back lists of files on machines that are scanned, etc.
The transmission is done thru TLS-encrypted channels.
The Russian Government, like most major governments, do their best to monitor all of the traffic they can. See the recent Wikileaks documents on "Peter-Service" for some details.
If the Russian gov't has obtained, one way or another, copies of Kaspersky's TLS keys, then they really don't need cooperation to see everything that's coming down the pipe. They can also probably MITM the connection and take control of the AV application, without Kaspersky's knowledge.
It is called "plausible deniability" for Kaspersky and fairly trivial in a country where the use of strong encryption requires a license from the gov't.
There are numerous current news articles about our (American) Justice Department is salivating over the possibility of that being possible in the U.S.
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Did you just fat shame gorillas? :-)
It runs Ubuntu. Head over to Reddit /r/GPDPocket for details.
I read some time back, that when first working on their Translate application, Google contracted with the United Nations for access to their professional translation archive. Thousands of samples of source material and professional translations in dozens of different languages.
If that included voice recordings as well as written translations, it could be the solution to the problem of training material. Not regional accents, of course, but still, a big leg up.
No need to guess, it says so right in the last paragraph of the article.
However, the system is only trained to mimic the one female voice; to speak like a male or different female, Google would need to train the system again.
Training against different accents is something that would easily be within Google's reach, once they're satisfied with the main product.
United States, too. At home I just opted for an old, HP Laserjet 2300n and I expect it to outlive me. Whenever I travel, or am visiting my parents, I just go to the library with a USB drive and print.
No, that is incorrect. This is the government deciding that, in the 21st Century, access to broadband Internet is a fundamental part of national infrastructure as the electric grid and telephone, and that there are minimum standards that must be met by providers as per the law.
You aren't getting a 10 Mbps connection for free, just like you aren't getting electricity for free. What they are saying is if you elect to purchase access to those universally available services, there will be a minimum standard available to you.
Sailfish by Jolla, on either the Sony Xperia or any of a number of other phones as aftermarket.
Why would they do that? They'll just address it in the next sprint! If you're agile enough, that is. Just add those bugs to the backlog! We've got features to ship!
You joke, but The Four Nobel Truths of Buddhism are:
1) All life is suffering
2) Suffering is caused by desire
3) Eliminate desire and you eliminate suffering
4) Follow the Noble Eightfold Path to eliminate desire.
The ability to work with the removal of specific permissions depends on the minimum level of Android that the app was designed for. This works better on newer apps.
However, not all older apps have issues with disabling certain permissions. Just because *you* haven't seen one doesn't mean they don't exist. For example, Skype for Business is one of those apps designed for an older version of Android, yet survives my removal of its permission to access my calendar. It still works fine.
Yes, it is perfectly functional in that I only want it to have access to my Outlook Calendar and not my Google one.
Fanboy has nothing to do with it. I was simply responding factually. If an app asks for too many permissions, then don't use it.
That sounds like an ad for one of those $200 directional Monster cables. Or $10,000 AudioQuest Ethernet cables.
http://www.jklossner.com/humannature/
John Klossner hit this on the head back in 2006.
I'm not sure what version of Android you're talking about, but granular permissions have been available for some time now.
My current phone is a OnePlus 3T and running Android 8.0.0 with the September 1, 2017 patch level. Yes, I know that is a very recent version of Android, but much of this was introduced earlier.
I can go into Settings --> Apps and from there, view and control app permissions by permission or by app. That is, I can see every app that has access to something like SMS or my camera. Or, I can go in and see what permissions a specific app has. In both views, I can toggle specific permissions on and off.
They damn well CAN throttle that much traffic. AT&T, Comcast, and the rest of the big ISPs all dream of the days of yore when there was AOL, CompuServe, and GEnie. Nothing but a few walled gardens, and the paying customers lived inside and almost never ventured out.
THAT is what they want, and how they will throttle. Comcast vs non-Comcast traffic is how it will be played. They'll prioritize THEIR VoIP over companies like Vonage, implicitly harming competition. Want NetFlix? Well, Xfinity Streaming is just like Netflix, but faster and cheaper!
These companies desperately do not want to become only transport providers, or dumb pipes. The money is in the content -- what the roads lead to, not the roads themselves. The ISPs was the return of the Company Town, where they own the roads AND the stores, and a big toll gate leading out of town.
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but Big Pharma isn't getting rich on this one.
I've been taking Lisinopril for high blood pressure for a couple years now and a 90 day supply (1 x 20 mg tablet) costs me $3.00 with insurance. Without insurance it is about 3x-4x higher, from what I've seen.
At 1/3 of a penny per dose, *my cost*, that isn't exactly high profit margin. U.S. Patents expired in 2002, meaning right now it is one of the cheapest medications available. Over the counter aspirin costs more.
You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toon Town once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful.
Washington, DC sees your MTA and challenges you with Metro!
When was the last time an MTA car caught on fire?
This exists on my OnePlus 3T. When listing apps on the phone, there is an option to Show System Apps. You need to turn that on to see EngineerMode.
"Test Root" is one of the many functions it offers from the main screen. I don't see a way to *gain* root without using the adb command.
You joke, but...
http://www.miamirealestateguy.com/miami-beach-to-raise-west-avenue-1-to-2-feet-to-combat-rising-sea/
You are incorrect.
The FBI, DHS, and others in the intel community are looking to share information with private sector security teams.This occurs quite a bit in various critical infrastructure -- finance, utilities, etc.
Without a clearance their briefings are usually along the lines of "watch out for phishing schemes around the hurricanes".
With the clearance they can also provide things like "monitor for traffic to/from these specific IP addresses". Or "your IP addresses have been seen communicating with some CNC servers that we've compromised".
This has nothing to do with being a gov't contractor. The intel community wants to be able to share actionable intelligence without giving away methods and means.
How fast before they add a "find your wife/daughter/mom/ex" option?
No need for a male option. You can tell the guys just by their bragging.
Don't be fooled by offers to make source code available for closed-source products. If they don't deliver the product EVERY TIME with source, that you then compile and use -- instead of the other binary they provide -- it is fairly useless.
Updated code is/was a popular way to get malware into Google's Play Store for Android. The benign app was vetted by Google, allowing it in. Once installed, it phoned home and installed "updates" that change the function to something more malicious.
Properly executed MITMs are very effective. It's why we still use deep water submarines to splice into telecommunication cables. :-)
P.S. - Before anyone responds with Ken Thompson's 1984 talk "Reflections on Trusting Trust", please read Wheeler's paper on countering this threat and Double Diverse Compiling.
Kaspersky's AV solutions scan files, and transmit data back to their servers if found to be malware. If nothing else, they can send back lists of files on machines that are scanned, etc.
The transmission is done thru TLS-encrypted channels.
The Russian Government, like most major governments, do their best to monitor all of the traffic they can. See the recent Wikileaks documents on "Peter-Service" for some details.
If the Russian gov't has obtained, one way or another, copies of Kaspersky's TLS keys, then they really don't need cooperation to see everything that's coming down the pipe. They can also probably MITM the connection and take control of the AV application, without Kaspersky's knowledge.
It is called "plausible deniability" for Kaspersky and fairly trivial in a country where the use of strong encryption requires a license from the gov't.
There are numerous current news articles about our (American) Justice Department is salivating over the possibility of that being possible in the U.S.
Upgrade the universe to 64-bits already!
Let the "Antarctica == Your Mom" joke fest begin!