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  1. What did the child specifically say. on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless we have some certainty as to the child's words we don't know what did happen. How much guidance the Echo provides users in placing orders matters as well.
    Ex:
    Child: Alexa, I want a dollhouse.
    Alexa: There are x products matching that description.
    Child: I want the first one.
    Alexa: Order placed.
    Simplified, but meant to illustrate the feasibility of something happening well within the realm of possibility that isn't what is being described here.

  2. Conclusive evidence, one way or the other on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 2

    https://www.youtube.com/playli...
    People can judge for themselves with this playlist of Scott Adam's Periscope sessions.

  3. Lack of customization on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    People should be allowed to call out whatever they want. On a personal note, I don't want to call out Google to my phone or refer to my computer assistant as Cortana, which is also in a nebulous form on Android phones.

  4. Re:That's funny on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    That's funny, because I was just about to call Windows, Doors!

  5. Re:One true OS on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm holding out for the one true OS before dealing with this newfangled. I sent this post to a special posting center on postcards.

    Just joking. But that's what this oneupsmanship makes me feel like is in order.

  6. Re:Letters! What are they good for? Absolutely... on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    But if distributions aren't for u and i, then what are they good for?

  7. Re:problems on Bitcoin Was 2016's Best-Performing Currency (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe neither is the problem it is made out to be. Just how big a problem the original poster thinks it is really wasn't specified, just that Bitcoin wasn't suitable to do it with. Or maybe being criminal isn't the problem it is made out to be. I hear it's great to be a big-time criminal, but lousy to be a two-bit one.

  8. Re:Official on Bitcoin Was 2016's Best-Performing Currency (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Well on what basis did they become "official"? Where are they located?

  9. Re:a singular bully or several? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Deal With A 'Gaslighting' Colleague? · · Score: 1

    You bully an inanimate object or thing by bullying those responsible for the inanimate object or thing. It took me a little while to grasp the meaning at first, too. There are other people responsible for the things he scheduled, meetings for other people, other people whose timelines depend on when he does things, etc.

  10. Re:Reasons DAB failed in the US on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There was the chicken and the egg problem: Nobody would switch because there were no broadcasters. There were no broadcasters because no one would switch.

    The US government didn't work with device manufacturers and broadcasters like it did with TV to switch. There was no voucher program for buying devices for reception.

    People generally accept whatever radio comes with the car. There was no push by anyone to have DAB receivers in the radios that come with the car.

    If they had built DAB receiver technology into smartphones, that would have been a possibility.

    Devices to plug into an audio device and transmit short-range analog on a selection of FM channels exist. There could have been devices that received a digital signal and output an analog signal to the car stereo, but as far as I know, such a device was never made.

  11. I just use the alphabetical menu. Don't know if there's a way to make it the default view though.

  12. Re: Are the bursts periodic? on Astronomers Pinpoint Location of Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they want to "dance" with them. Any novelty is instantly in demand once you've reached the point where everything that ever was is available on demand.

  13. Much of the time the summaries give enough additional information to what some commenters have learned from other sources for them to make useful comments. Some commenters aren't most commenters though, and sometimes metacomments like these are in order.

  14. Re: Not a filling meal on Ask Slashdot: Why Did 3D TVs and Stereoscopic 3D Television Broadcasting Fail? · · Score: 1

    What trolls look for however would be in this case, "How dare you say mean things about Linux and take SCO's side!" Lame troll is lame.

  15. The meme around here is that nobody reads the articles.

  16. Wibbily Wobbly Timey Wimey on Astronomers Pinpoint Location of Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That is all.

  17. ... but its aliens!

  18. Re: Sluggish isn't the only problem with Windows 1 on Origin PC's Custom, Professional Overclocking Will Push Your Kaby Lake Chip Past 5GHz (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    64-bit Windows programs will complain rhey are out of memory.

  19. They shoud get confirmed clocks and sell different grades accordingly. It used to be said that parts at different clocks may have failed tests at higher clocks back in the day.

  20. And I bet I can get apps to claim "Out of memory" errors just like I can on Windows 10 64-bit, though I'm fairly certain it's due to Windows using "resource pools".

  21. Can confirm, am running Insider builds of Windows Home. However, the Home and Pro versions are also leaks versions.

  22. Games, at the very least. You say music videos, but at what quality. And music videos are generally the smallest of video files. Let's plays, not to mention shows and movies are generally larger. Tutorial videos? Like ones on how to use Unity or the "Processing" environment?

  23. Re:Interpretations on Legal Sparring Continues in Bitcoin User's Battle with IRS Tax Sweep (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Courts do revisit their interpretations and come up with new interpretations. Your absolutism is invalid.

  24. Re:Roe vs Wade on Legal Sparring Continues in Bitcoin User's Battle with IRS Tax Sweep (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The IRS is trying the same legal tactic Wade tried in Roe vs Wade, when it said that Roe was no longer a party because she had given birth and was no longer pregnant to be a candidate to have an abortion. The Supreme Court disagreed.