Do they even support seamless connection handover as you walk down the street?
If it's like Comcast Xfinity, yes and no. Yes, it's supported if you save a certificate on your laptop/phone (this way, you don't have to click through a EULA each time). But no, in practice Xfinity hotspots are not all the same quality and at the same distance while you travel, and some do not work at all. So if you have a cell phone, and if you're using GPS navigation, you'll want to disable the wifi on your phone because your phone will possibly connect to non-working Xfinity hotspots instead of using your working mobile connection.
That being said, when my own Xfinity cable connection goes down and I have to reboot the modem (which happens at least once a day because Xfinity prefers to have good speed stats on Ookla so it will shut down connections that fall below a certain speed), I switch to a neighbor's Xfinity hotspot during the reboot, this way, I don't have to wait the one to two minutes for the connection to get re-established.
What if Larry Garfield was the bottom instead of the dom? Would that be acceptable to you? Or what about if his submissive girlfriend had a job at Drupal and didn't want to stop being submissive? Would you want her fired as well? Do you see what I'm getting at? If they're both consenting adults, why do we need to mess with their sexual identities?
And I do think that the anonymous scared drupalista on Twitter is being unfair to the guy. How would you react if an anonymous heterosexual man said he was afraid of sharing the stage at a drupal conference with a gay man? You'd call that person out. After all, most gay men don't go out raping heterosexual men (either on stage or even in private). And yes, the heterosexual man may be completely disgusted by the gay dude, but he has to get over his disgust of sharing the stage with him and get over his desire to punish/change the gay guy.
Last I remember, Drupal's mission wasn't to change people's perfectly legal sexual identities or fetishes.
Usually, HR will prioritize job applications so that anyone qualified that falls within an under-represented protected class will be placed at the top of the list, or be automatically given an interview.
Also, if the applicant is not from a protected class and is good looking, HR can just filter out that particular application/video (and legally practice reverse discrimination) before it even gets to the manager, or to the franchise owner (because it's usually those folks doing the discrimination, not the trained HR expert who is sitting hundreds of miles away from the actual restaurant in question).
M$ is making tons of cash from Android device manufacturers, with the help of a secret set of patents. May be Google is trying to bring together a set as big as M$ one ?
Yes, I believe that's it. Google is going after Microsoft's patent tax.
By design, many Android developers can now port their Android applications to Windows phone without changing a line of code. The only thing that's missing is Google Play Services (if an app depends on those particular APIs), and even then, Microsoft is funding a replacement of Google Play Services, and in the meantime, power Windows phone users (the few that exist) are simply rooting their Windows devices and installing Google Play Services themselves.
So with Microsoft depending more and more on Android itself and becoming more vulnerable as a result, it would make sense that Google would try to leverage the patents of the Android community at large to stop Microsoft from continuing to impose its patent tax on existing Android manufacturers.
And this is also where the "Google reserves the right to decide first whether your motives are pure" test comes in. If Google were to accept patent partners willy nilly just like some open source licenses automatically do it, then Microsoft would just need to spin off a separate part of itself to hold all its patents (or sell all its patents to a patent troll) before another part of itself partnered with Google.
...by paying a one-time fee of $100 or less as part of the Xbox Live Creators Program.
Finally, Microsoft is showing some humility.
I remember when they were first starting the app store for Windows phone, they would waive the first year of registration for app developers but would tell us that we should expect a fee of $100 for each year after that (when the Android app store only had a one-time fee of $25 and 10+ times the existing market share.)
However, it is unfortunate that Microsoft is still a bit out of touch. In the case of game system emulators, they should have just said that they're banning the emulation of proprietary game systems (not officially endorsed by the companies owning those game systems in the first place). That policy would have been sensible enough. Instead, they chose to enforce a blanket policy that makes little sense, only attracts bad press, and that provides no significant benefit to their platform.
On that point, if you reverse the scenario, the few Hispanic women that can be found in Asia probably make a lot more than Asian women.
And it isn't the fact that Hispanic women are more favored in Asia. It's just the fact that if you (or your family) crosses an ocean to get somewhere, you're probably way ahead of the curve in terms of wealth, connections, or education than the poor local illiterate girl who comes from a local farming family, or the local slums, of an adjacent country.
It would be interesting to see how stoned drivers perform on a racetrack with very safe vehicles of course...
As interesting as this is.
I think your initial premise is wrong. People switching from alcohol to marijuana is not the cause of this slowdown in drunk driving.
In my area for instance, which is a suburb outside of San Francisco, a bartender told me that taxis were too difficult to get ten years ago, that's why many of his customers didn't use them. He'd call one for a patron, and it wouldn't even show up. And when he'd get off work, he'd call a taxi for himself and the operator would tell him that it was going to take 45 minutes to get there to pick him up.
Now it just takes 2 to 10 minutes to get an Uber/Lyft. That's the crucial difference because the number of people leaving his establishment drunk hasn't really changed in the past ten years.
And no, you don't have to believe me, I am an Uber driver so I could be very biased. And if you live an Uber/Lyft rich area, I only ask that you ask longtime bartenders to see what they can tell you about this question. I suspect that they'll tell you the same thing that the bartender I met said.
I have it on my Android TV, but I don't see the point in using it when I already have the youtube app already installed on both my Android TV and my Samsung TV.
If they have access to the data, it will be datamined.
They don't even need to go that far.
They can just ransom that data once that first year has elapsed (because they're counting on the fact that most police departments will be too inept to backup everything correctly).
Did you contact the app developers like they said in that message? It would seem app developers would issue refunds -- if only to keep their star rating high in the google play store.
It's just interesting that a former employee of Waymo (owned by Google/Alphabet) was able to quit Waymo, then build and sell his own self-driving car technology company to Uber for $680 million in no more than four months. Four months? Build and sell a company? Can you believe that?
This guy must be a genius or something, the executives from Uber must have thought.
But that's not the reason Waymo is suing now, apparently Waymo received a spec from a supplier "by mistake" that was supposed to go to Uber, and they saw that the self-driving car mechanism that Uber was using was identical to the mechanism that had been developed by Waymo.
Social stability for a small fixed number of full-time taxi drivers, lack of reliability for customers including the elderly and disabled, and more drunk driving fatalities and the social instability those fatalities create in those families left behind.
OR
A more elastic workforce, elastic capacity (with UberPool or LyftLine), cheaper pricing, and more reliable service, that responds to a market that is already inherently elastic and variable where everybody calls an Uber after a game on TV just ended, or need to commute to work during roughly the same hours, or need to leave the bars at around the same times.
Ads for Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Toyota, Dish Network, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s Geico unit and Google's own YouTube Red subscription service appeared on racist videos with the slur "n-----" in the title as of Thursday night. Those ads ran before two videos that dub a racist song over videos of former first lady Michelle Obama or Chicago rapper Chief Keef. The videos, posted by the same account, have been viewed more than 425,000 times and 260,000 times, respectively.
Another video titled "Black people in their natural habitat," with a racial slur in the description, played monkey noises over footage of black men in prison and images of black civil-rights leaders Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Google showed ads for Amazon, Microsoft and GM's Chevrolet unit before or during that video.
If it is really true that uploaders have used the "n" word and other racial slurs either in the video title or in the video description, then Google could easily prevent ads from playing over those videos.
How about "occupying their time" with work such as making license plates, breaking big rocks into smaller rocks, digging holes, filling in holes, etc.?
Making license plates doesn't earn the prison near enough money. And before you tell me about INDOC not wanting to charge the inmate fees, you'd be right of course. INDOC doesn't want to charge the inmates. It wants to charge their families. This is exactly how they used to do it for phone calls.
They used to charge up to $14 per minute for collect phone calls until the FCC recently put a stop to it. Now, they're capped at no more than $1.75 for 15 minutes. Can you believe it? On a 15 min phone call, there is now a shortfall of $208.25
Prisons have come to depend on this extra income for their sludge funds. Now that the FCC took it away from them. They just need to start providing services on cheap devices that the FCC hasn't even thought to regulate for prison yet. This is the real story here.
"Just don't lie. It's 10 years in Gitmo if you lie. Remember Martha Stewart. She went to prison because she lied to Federal agents. You're not a Martha Stewart? Are you?"
"Is that your iPhone? Please unlock it for us. Yes, my colleague will return your iPhone shortly to you. It just takes a few minutes."
"Has anyone else used that iPhone other than yourself? Please write down their names, contact info, dates, and circumstances in which they did."
"Any other email address? Keep in mind that the average traveler in your age group that comes to the United States has used at least 12 email addresses over the years. It would be very suspicious and we would probably require a full body cavity search if you only provided one, especially if it had very few messages in its inbox, and you'd probably miss your connecting flight delaying the rest of your family. "
"Ok, sexfocashmesohony at Yahoo dot com "
"We're almost done. One last question. Provide a list of your 10 closest Facebook friends and their contact information. "
"Yes, the ones that you're constantly bitching and complaining to because they've stopped inviting you to events since you're not on Facebook. "
I believe the Google Authenticator was available on a keyfob that displayed 6 digits, but it seems that even that was replaced by the following. https://www.technologyreview.c...
So Google wants to add paid audio clips that don't sound like Ads but are descriptions of timely partner products?
Yes, basically.
Their main argument is that no one actually paid for that ad. But most likely, it was just an A/B test designed to see how far they could push the line (without receiving backlash for it) and then measure its success rate so that they could convince Disney (or similar big brands) to buy more ads like it.
It's a bit like a cook trying to boil a frog by starting to turn on the heat really slowly, but then doing it too quickly and so the frog freaks out. And now the cook is doing everything it can to reassure the frog that the heat was for its own good and that it should just think of the water pot as its own personal relaxing jacuzzi.
Would each closed-captioned syllable or word need to be manually synchronized with the video first? Or can the training be done without it?
Getting half the words correct, then feeding that into a grammar / context engine should yield very close to 100% accuracy.
But this AI is already using context to some degree. The article gives the example of "Prime Minister" for instance, where the AI knows that if the word "Prime" is read on their lips, that the word "Minister" will probably follow. Also, the AI has been trained in one context alone, which means that the context is already taken into account. For instance, if the same anchorman were to order his favorite frappuccino at Starbucks, I really don't think that the AI would do as good a job.
Also, they say they used thousands of hours of video, but it could be that they trained the AI on just three to four news anchors, which could make it easier on the AI. After all, I would expect a professional lip reader to do a lot better with reading the lips of his own family members, simply because he was so accustomed to their style of talking.
And last, I always doubt the self-reporting of scientific results to the mainstream press. An AI developer/researcher has every incentive to exaggerate the success rate of his own work. Also, any professional lip reader hired probably received compensation for their work and probably signed an NDA with the researcher. So it could be very easy for the researcher to claim whatever he wanted and no one would be there to contradict his story.
After all, we're talking about big money here for the right sleight of hands (whether it's exaggerating, lying, or doing something else completely unethical). For instance, the guy who sold his self-driving car company to Uber after having only started four months earlier sold it for 600 million dollars. Can you imagine 600 million dollars after only four months? Many people, including researchers, would be willing to lie, cheat, or even kill for a tiny fraction of that amount, and some others would even be willing to do it for free for the ego boost alone.
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Do they even support seamless connection handover as you walk down the street?
If it's like Comcast Xfinity, yes and no. Yes, it's supported if you save a certificate on your laptop/phone (this way, you don't have to click through a EULA each time). But no, in practice Xfinity hotspots are not all the same quality and at the same distance while you travel, and some do not work at all. So if you have a cell phone, and if you're using GPS navigation, you'll want to disable the wifi on your phone because your phone will possibly connect to non-working Xfinity hotspots instead of using your working mobile connection.
That being said, when my own Xfinity cable connection goes down and I have to reboot the modem (which happens at least once a day because Xfinity prefers to have good speed stats on Ookla so it will shut down connections that fall below a certain speed), I switch to a neighbor's Xfinity hotspot during the reboot, this way, I don't have to wait the one to two minutes for the connection to get re-established.
What if Larry Garfield was the bottom instead of the dom? Would that be acceptable to you? Or what about if his submissive girlfriend had a job at Drupal and didn't want to stop being submissive? Would you want her fired as well? Do you see what I'm getting at? If they're both consenting adults, why do we need to mess with their sexual identities?
And I do think that the anonymous scared drupalista on Twitter is being unfair to the guy. How would you react if an anonymous heterosexual man said he was afraid of sharing the stage at a drupal conference with a gay man? You'd call that person out. After all, most gay men don't go out raping heterosexual men (either on stage or even in private). And yes, the heterosexual man may be completely disgusted by the gay dude, but he has to get over his disgust of sharing the stage with him and get over his desire to punish/change the gay guy.
Last I remember, Drupal's mission wasn't to change people's perfectly legal sexual identities or fetishes.
Well, the shopping list was an advantage over Amazon's Alexa.
Now, that the advantage is gone. You might as well just unplug your Google Home and use it as a door stop.
Usually, HR will prioritize job applications so that anyone qualified that falls within an under-represented protected class will be placed at the top of the list, or be automatically given an interview.
Also, if the applicant is not from a protected class and is good looking, HR can just filter out that particular application/video (and legally practice reverse discrimination) before it even gets to the manager, or to the franchise owner (because it's usually those folks doing the discrimination, not the trained HR expert who is sitting hundreds of miles away from the actual restaurant in question).
The job applications, which McDonalds calls "Snaplications" (I vomited a little), will be the first step in the recruitment process.
On that note, I'm kind of glad that the OP is not applying for that job.
M$ is making tons of cash from Android device manufacturers, with the help of a secret set of patents.
May be Google is trying to bring together a set as big as M$ one ?
Yes, I believe that's it. Google is going after Microsoft's patent tax.
By design, many Android developers can now port their Android applications to Windows phone without changing a line of code. The only thing that's missing is Google Play Services (if an app depends on those particular APIs), and even then, Microsoft is funding a replacement of Google Play Services, and in the meantime, power Windows phone users (the few that exist) are simply rooting their Windows devices and installing Google Play Services themselves.
So with Microsoft depending more and more on Android itself and becoming more vulnerable as a result, it would make sense that Google would try to leverage the patents of the Android community at large to stop Microsoft from continuing to impose its patent tax on existing Android manufacturers.
And this is also where the "Google reserves the right to decide first whether your motives are pure" test comes in. If Google were to accept patent partners willy nilly just like some open source licenses automatically do it, then Microsoft would just need to spin off a separate part of itself to hold all its patents (or sell all its patents to a patent troll) before another part of itself partnered with Google.
...by paying a one-time fee of $100 or less as part of the Xbox Live Creators Program.
Finally, Microsoft is showing some humility.
I remember when they were first starting the app store for Windows phone, they would waive the first year of registration for app developers but would tell us that we should expect a fee of $100 for each year after that (when the Android app store only had a one-time fee of $25 and 10+ times the existing market share.)
However, it is unfortunate that Microsoft is still a bit out of touch. In the case of game system emulators, they should have just said that they're banning the emulation of proprietary game systems (not officially endorsed by the companies owning those game systems in the first place). That policy would have been sensible enough. Instead, they chose to enforce a blanket policy that makes little sense, only attracts bad press, and that provides no significant benefit to their platform.
On that point, if you reverse the scenario, the few Hispanic women that can be found in Asia probably make a lot more than Asian women.
And it isn't the fact that Hispanic women are more favored in Asia. It's just the fact that if you (or your family) crosses an ocean to get somewhere, you're probably way ahead of the curve in terms of wealth, connections, or education than the poor local illiterate girl who comes from a local farming family, or the local slums, of an adjacent country.
Alphabet Inc. owns Google, not Twitter.
Unless the Twitter account used a gmail account to open it, I don't see how Alphabet intelligence would be able to help.
It would be interesting to see how stoned drivers perform on a racetrack with very safe vehicles of course...
As interesting as this is.
I think your initial premise is wrong. People switching from alcohol to marijuana is not the cause of this slowdown in drunk driving.
In my area for instance, which is a suburb outside of San Francisco, a bartender told me that taxis were too difficult to get ten years ago, that's why many of his customers didn't use them. He'd call one for a patron, and it wouldn't even show up. And when he'd get off work, he'd call a taxi for himself and the operator would tell him that it was going to take 45 minutes to get there to pick him up.
Now it just takes 2 to 10 minutes to get an Uber/Lyft. That's the crucial difference because the number of people leaving his establishment drunk hasn't really changed in the past ten years.
And no, you don't have to believe me, I am an Uber driver so I could be very biased. And if you live an Uber/Lyft rich area, I only ask that you ask longtime bartenders to see what they can tell you about this question. I suspect that they'll tell you the same thing that the bartender I met said.
What's the advantage of having Kodi for youtube?
I have it on my Android TV, but I don't see the point in using it when I already have the youtube app already installed on both my Android TV and my Samsung TV.
Thanks for the update. I didn't know that. It's worse than I thought.
If they have access to the data, it will be datamined.
They don't even need to go that far.
They can just ransom that data once that first year has elapsed (because they're counting on the fact that most police departments will be too inept to backup everything correctly).
And voila, profits!
Did you contact the app developers like they said in that message? It would seem app developers would issue refunds -- if only to keep their star rating high in the google play store.
No reason. No one needs to care about this.
It's just interesting that a former employee of Waymo (owned by Google/Alphabet) was able to quit Waymo, then build and sell his own self-driving car technology company to Uber for $680 million in no more than four months. Four months? Build and sell a company? Can you believe that?
This guy must be a genius or something, the executives from Uber must have thought.
But that's not the reason Waymo is suing now, apparently Waymo received a spec from a supplier "by mistake" that was supposed to go to Uber, and they saw that the self-driving car mechanism that Uber was using was identical to the mechanism that had been developed by Waymo.
It would depend on what your goal was:
Social stability for a small fixed number of full-time taxi drivers, lack of reliability for customers including the elderly and disabled, and more drunk driving fatalities and the social instability those fatalities create in those families left behind.
OR
A more elastic workforce, elastic capacity (with UberPool or LyftLine), cheaper pricing, and more reliable service, that responds to a market that is already inherently elastic and variable where everybody calls an Uber after a game on TV just ended, or need to commute to work during roughly the same hours, or need to leave the bars at around the same times.
The first article cites these examples
Ads for Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Toyota, Dish Network, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s Geico unit and Google's own YouTube Red subscription service appeared on racist videos with the slur "n-----" in the title as of Thursday night. Those ads ran before two videos that dub a racist song over videos of former first lady Michelle Obama or Chicago rapper Chief Keef. The videos, posted by the same account, have been viewed more than 425,000 times and 260,000 times, respectively.
Another video titled "Black people in their natural habitat," with a racial slur in the description, played monkey noises over footage of black men in prison and images of black civil-rights leaders Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Google showed ads for Amazon, Microsoft and GM's Chevrolet unit before or during that video.
If it is really true that uploaders have used the "n" word and other racial slurs either in the video title or in the video description, then Google could easily prevent ads from playing over those videos.
He actually put the blame on the Democrats for his own inability to close the deal with GOPs.
That was a real funny one. It's like he thinks the Democrats have magical powers.
Well, he said he cared about cleaning up Wall Street.
But then he picked Steven Mnuchin for Treasury Secretary and Jay Clayton for leading the SEC.
Is there any reason to suppose Trump gives a shit about this issue?
His heart may be in the wrong place, but yes, I'd say that he cares.
Nothing scares him more than brown people coming over to the United States.
How about "occupying their time" with work such as making license plates, breaking big rocks into smaller rocks, digging holes, filling in holes, etc.?
Making license plates doesn't earn the prison near enough money. And before you tell me about INDOC not wanting to charge the inmate fees, you'd be right of course. INDOC doesn't want to charge the inmates. It wants to charge their families. This is exactly how they used to do it for phone calls.
They used to charge up to $14 per minute for collect phone calls until the FCC recently put a stop to it. Now, they're capped at no more than $1.75 for 15 minutes. Can you believe it? On a 15 min phone call, there is now a shortfall of $208.25
Prisons have come to depend on this extra income for their sludge funds. Now that the FCC took it away from them. They just need to start providing services on cheap devices that the FCC hasn't even thought to regulate for prison yet. This is the real story here.
What if I don't have any social media accounts.
"Just don't lie. It's 10 years in Gitmo if you lie. Remember Martha Stewart. She went to prison because she lied to Federal agents. You're not a Martha Stewart? Are you?"
"Is that your iPhone? Please unlock it for us. Yes, my colleague will return your iPhone shortly to you. It just takes a few minutes."
"Has anyone else used that iPhone other than yourself? Please write down their names, contact info, dates, and circumstances in which they did."
"What's your email address?"
"Any other email address? Keep in mind that the average traveler in your age group that comes to the United States has used at least 12 email addresses over the years. It would be very suspicious and we would probably require a full body cavity search if you only provided one, especially if it had very few messages in its inbox, and you'd probably miss your connecting flight delaying the rest of your family. "
"Ok, sexfocashmesohony at Yahoo dot com "
"We're almost done. One last question. Provide a list of your 10 closest Facebook friends and their contact information. "
"Yes, the ones that you're constantly bitching and complaining to because they've stopped inviting you to events since you're not on Facebook. "
I believe the Google Authenticator was available on a keyfob that displayed 6 digits, but it seems that even that was replaced by the following. https://www.technologyreview.c...
So Google wants to add paid audio clips that don't sound like Ads but are descriptions of timely partner products?
Yes, basically.
Their main argument is that no one actually paid for that ad. But most likely, it was just an A/B test designed to see how far they could push the line (without receiving backlash for it) and then measure its success rate so that they could convince Disney (or similar big brands) to buy more ads like it.
It's a bit like a cook trying to boil a frog by starting to turn on the heat really slowly, but then doing it too quickly and so the frog freaks out. And now the cook is doing everything it can to reassure the frog that the heat was for its own good and that it should just think of the water pot as its own personal relaxing jacuzzi.
Would each closed-captioned syllable or word need to be manually synchronized with the video first? Or can the training be done without it?
Getting half the words correct, then feeding that into a grammar / context engine should yield very close to 100% accuracy.
But this AI is already using context to some degree. The article gives the example of "Prime Minister" for instance, where the AI knows that if the word "Prime" is read on their lips, that the word "Minister" will probably follow. Also, the AI has been trained in one context alone, which means that the context is already taken into account. For instance, if the same anchorman were to order his favorite frappuccino at Starbucks, I really don't think that the AI would do as good a job.
Also, they say they used thousands of hours of video, but it could be that they trained the AI on just three to four news anchors, which could make it easier on the AI. After all, I would expect a professional lip reader to do a lot better with reading the lips of his own family members, simply because he was so accustomed to their style of talking.
And last, I always doubt the self-reporting of scientific results to the mainstream press. An AI developer/researcher has every incentive to exaggerate the success rate of his own work. Also, any professional lip reader hired probably received compensation for their work and probably signed an NDA with the researcher. So it could be very easy for the researcher to claim whatever he wanted and no one would be there to contradict his story.
After all, we're talking about big money here for the right sleight of hands (whether it's exaggerating, lying, or doing something else completely unethical). For instance, the guy who sold his self-driving car company to Uber after having only started four months earlier sold it for 600 million dollars. Can you imagine 600 million dollars after only four months? Many people, including researchers, would be willing to lie, cheat, or even kill for a tiny fraction of that amount, and some others would even be willing to do it for free for the ego boost alone.