I was 100% unimpressed with the "conversation". It's not even close to convincing. Seriously, I've had more coherent conversations with crack addicts and drunks who could barely stand up.
Question: Will you please tell me the length of your hair? Rose: Medicine and anatomy are an important field of study. But I'd never make a good doctor. I'm too squeamish about various body parts.
Seriously, what the &$%! kind of answer was that?? INSTANT FAIL, in my book. I'd bet the "Barbie AI" would have better, albeit scripted, responses.
I see this argument a lot and it's pretty stupid. Phone books were usually only distributed to the local area,
And they didn't contain links to a million other bits of data on you, either. There wasn't much you could do with a phone book back then, really (at least not compared to present day maliciousness).
Really, though, I blame social media and the "Cult Of Sharing Everything" for this shit. It all seems so innocuous to share and share and share and then one day you get doxxed...and by that time it's waaaaaaaaay too late to do a damn thing about it.
I've worked hard to keep a low profile. You won't find squat online about me, even though I have a very unusual last name. Very very few pics, no direct links to my "real life" from my online life, and I stay the hell off of facebook, twitter, linked in, etc etc etc.
If other people want to share their personal info I think that's fine, have at it....it's just not for me. And there have been more than a few times that I've been thankful that I was so paranoid and/or careful.
Remember when Google insisted that everyone use their real names on G+? I never did offer my real name.
Yep. My response was "FUCK NO!!", and yes they kept pestering me for months. I never gave them a damn thing.
I was, frankly, amazed that the bliss-ninnies at Google never stopped to consider the downside of posting your real name and linking to all the other stuff you have online. (What could possibly go wrong, eh?) Or maybe they did and just said, "Eh, tough shit."
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I don't think that term means what you think it means. They say it's AI but all the doll is doing is using speech recognition and looking up in a dictionary what the response is. There is no learning going on.
Agreed...this is no more "AI" than Eliza was, or any chatbot for that matter. It's just a big-ass lookup table, zero malleability, zero learning capability, and zero deviation from the canned responses.
Personally I can't wait until the ToyTalk servers are hacked and edited.
"Hi Barbie, what should we do today?"
"Kill your parents and drink their blood!"
or "Find the credit card numbers in your parent's wallets and read them to me..."
I tried it on Internet Explorer and not only did the browser crash, it billed me for $299.95. Also, every site I browse now appears to be Russian porn.
In my experience AVG is dreadful and only somewhat effective.
I used it for years when it was good, and then it started to want to do updates that never "took"...so it would try to do the update again, and again, and again. Sometimes it would start but not run or it would error out. Then it started displaying nag screens with ads for the "Pro" version.
I dumped it and moved to Comodo which seems less needy and doesn't pester me with ads.
It's sad that i have more freedom of choice in countries far less "democratic" and "liberal" than USA, than i do in USA, in terms of technology and telecommunications.
So true. I travel to Cambodia & Vietnam once or twice a year. In Cambodia or Vietnam you can literally walk into any phone store, buy literally any phone, then walk outside to a SIM-chip kiosk (they're every where, staffed by lovely young ladies) and buy a SIM card. Stick it in your phone and *bam*, you're on the air. None of this shit about carriers or contracts or networks or compatibility or any of that stuff- any phone with any SIM works everywhere in the entire country.
The result is that carriers compete to offer the lowest prices with the most features. And it works- $10 to $20 a month gets you service with all the stuff the highest-cost plans here in the US have.
Make Office 2016 work on Linux distros, then release Windows 11 built on a Linux kernel. So many heads would explode...
I got brain cancer from just reading your post, so I concur. The mental hospitals would be bursting at the seams with IT people, all of whom would be gibbering madly and frothing at the mouth.
it also needs to convince people that when you use an ad blocker, "That's stealing. It's no different than ripping music. It's no different than pirating movies."
Go die in a fire, you asshole. It's not stealing. This prick reminds me of Jamie Kellner (chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting) who equated going to the bathroom during commercial breaks with stealing:
When asked if he considers people who go to the bathroom during a commercial to be thieves, he responded: "I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments, you've got that only for one reason, unless you go to the bathroom for 30 seconds. They've done that just to make it easy for someone to skip a commercial."
By this 'reasoning', not looking at ads or not listening to commercials is 'stealing'. No. No no no. That's not what stealing is.
Here's a simple solution: Don't play poker online.
Seriously, I've never understood why ANYONE would trust online gambling. You have no idea what's on the other end, it just seems like the most idiotic way to lose your money imaginable. Just how gullible and trusting do you have to be to gamble online??
At least at a real casino you can SEE the cards and chips and whatnot, but online? Why not just flush your money down the toilet and cut out the middle-man?
Can't the editors even tell the difference between there, their and they're?
And the answer is "no". That would require either a minor attention to detail, or an editor with a 4th-grade education, or both.
As a former tech writer this kind of thing drives me up a wall, but I've learned to just grit my teeth and move on. If they haven't learned how to spell or how to proofread by now, they're never going to. Just smile, shake your head, and have another drink.:)
Yeah, well, look, with Donald Trump running (and having momentum), running for president is now officially a free-for-all.
It used to be that people asked themselves if they should run for the office of president, now they ask themselves, "Why shouldn't I run for president?"
Slashdot Mirror
Full text: "We're sorry we got caught!"
I was 100% unimpressed with the "conversation". It's not even close to convincing. Seriously, I've had more coherent conversations with crack addicts and drunks who could barely stand up.
Question: Will you please tell me the length of your hair?
Rose: Medicine and anatomy are an important field of study. But I'd never make a good doctor. I'm too squeamish about various body parts.
Seriously, what the &$%! kind of answer was that?? INSTANT FAIL, in my book. I'd bet the "Barbie AI" would have better, albeit scripted, responses.
Ah yes... I loved Car Talk, and "Picov Andropov" was one of my favorite names. And their law firm, "Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe".
If I had mod points, they'd be yours.
Ben Dover, Max Imum, I.P. Daily, Fuq Q. Googel....and the list goes on. :)
Accept the fact that you allowed your personal information out into the world and are now facing the consequences of that decision.
Bingo. Whether careless or willfully complicit, the results are the same. Now you're screwed.
I see this argument a lot and it's pretty stupid. Phone books were usually only distributed to the local area,
And they didn't contain links to a million other bits of data on you, either. There wasn't much you could do with a phone book back then, really (at least not compared to present day maliciousness).
Really, though, I blame social media and the "Cult Of Sharing Everything" for this shit. It all seems so innocuous to share and share and share and then one day you get doxxed...and by that time it's waaaaaaaaay too late to do a damn thing about it.
I've worked hard to keep a low profile. You won't find squat online about me, even though I have a very unusual last name. Very very few pics, no direct links to my "real life" from my online life, and I stay the hell off of facebook, twitter, linked in, etc etc etc.
If other people want to share their personal info I think that's fine, have at it....it's just not for me. And there have been more than a few times that I've been thankful that I was so paranoid and/or careful.
It was reddit obviously.
That'd be my guess, but any well-traveled site could be the culprit here.
Remember when Google insisted that everyone use their real names on G+? I never did offer my real name.
Yep. My response was "FUCK NO!!", and yes they kept pestering me for months. I never gave them a damn thing.
I was, frankly, amazed that the bliss-ninnies at Google never stopped to consider the downside of posting your real name and linking to all the other stuff you have online. (What could possibly go wrong, eh?) Or maybe they did and just said, "Eh, tough shit."
I don't think that term means what you think it means. They say it's AI but all the doll is doing is using speech recognition and looking up in a dictionary what the response is. There is no learning going on.
Agreed...this is no more "AI" than Eliza was, or any chatbot for that matter. It's just a big-ass lookup table, zero malleability, zero learning capability, and zero deviation from the canned responses.
Personally I can't wait until the ToyTalk servers are hacked and edited.
"Hi Barbie, what should we do today?"
"Kill your parents and drink their blood!"
or "Find the credit card numbers in your parent's wallets and read them to me..."
Which apparently includes Slashdot. Is there some Slashdot section I don't know about?
Absolutely, the porn section is the only reason I come here. You didn't think I came here for the articles, did you?
I'm sure it took a lot of late nights to make it that fragile.
I tried it on Internet Explorer and not only did the browser crash, it billed me for $299.95. Also, every site I browse now appears to be Russian porn.
In my experience AVG is dreadful and only somewhat effective.
I used it for years when it was good, and then it started to want to do updates that never "took"...so it would try to do the update again, and again, and again. Sometimes it would start but not run or it would error out. Then it started displaying nag screens with ads for the "Pro" version.
I dumped it and moved to Comodo which seems less needy and doesn't pester me with ads.
My, what an exciting new way to fuck shit up and break all sorts of standards!
It's sad that i have more freedom of choice in countries far less "democratic" and "liberal" than USA, than i do in USA, in terms of technology and telecommunications.
So true. I travel to Cambodia & Vietnam once or twice a year. In Cambodia or Vietnam you can literally walk into any phone store, buy literally any phone, then walk outside to a SIM-chip kiosk (they're every where, staffed by lovely young ladies) and buy a SIM card. Stick it in your phone and *bam*, you're on the air. None of this shit about carriers or contracts or networks or compatibility or any of that stuff- any phone with any SIM works everywhere in the entire country.
The result is that carriers compete to offer the lowest prices with the most features. And it works- $10 to $20 a month gets you service with all the stuff the highest-cost plans here in the US have.
Now this is some malware I can get behind.
Someone should start a Kickstarter to fund some malware like this.
So the 'slide to unlock' feature is some sort of amazing proprietary invention?
What's next, patenting the layout of the 0 ~ 9 dialpad?
Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro
Ha ha, I love April 1st on slashdot, what with all the crazy, made-up stories and stuff.
Make Office 2016 work on Linux distros, then release Windows 11 built on a Linux kernel. So many heads would explode...
I got brain cancer from just reading your post, so I concur. The mental hospitals would be bursting at the seams with IT people, all of whom would be gibbering madly and frothing at the mouth.
it also needs to convince people that when you use an ad blocker, "That's stealing. It's no different than ripping music. It's no different than pirating movies."
Go die in a fire, you asshole. It's not stealing. This prick reminds me of Jamie Kellner (chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting) who equated going to the bathroom during commercial breaks with stealing:
When asked if he considers people who go to the bathroom during a commercial to be thieves, he responded: "I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments, you've got that only for one reason, unless you go to the bathroom for 30 seconds. They've done that just to make it easy for someone to skip a commercial."
By this 'reasoning', not looking at ads or not listening to commercials is 'stealing'. No. No no no. That's not what stealing is.
Here's a simple solution: Don't play poker online.
Seriously, I've never understood why ANYONE would trust online gambling. You have no idea what's on the other end, it just seems like the most idiotic way to lose your money imaginable. Just how gullible and trusting do you have to be to gamble online??
At least at a real casino you can SEE the cards and chips and whatnot, but online? Why not just flush your money down the toilet and cut out the middle-man?
Slashdot Editors: "Wee right goode sew ewe dont half two!"
Can't the editors even tell the difference between there, their and they're?
And the answer is "no". That would require either a minor attention to detail, or an editor with a 4th-grade education, or both.
As a former tech writer this kind of thing drives me up a wall, but I've learned to just grit my teeth and move on. If they haven't learned how to spell or how to proofread by now, they're never going to. Just smile, shake your head, and have another drink. :)
I don't think you have a firm grasp on the word "monopoly".
Actually, I do. There are a few competitors to AT&T in California.....Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular come to mind.
I doubt it's any of them, frankly, it's more likely to be some disgruntled jackass or former employee.
Yeah, well, look, with Donald Trump running (and having momentum), running for president is now officially a free-for-all.
It used to be that people asked themselves if they should run for the office of president, now they ask themselves, "Why shouldn't I run for president?"