...if seen in a time piece of that era. And yes, mixing up Charlie Chaplin's "Tramp" with Hitler just because of the moustache would indeed be funny.
But that friggin frog is contemporary.. well.. "artwork".
And as you mentioned, those moustaches were very popular in the inter-war years, but you might have noticed that they aren't today. So any current usage is a direct referrence to either a) general facial hair style in the 30s b) Charlie Chaplin c) Hitler
If seen in conjunction with antisemitic slogans, all ambiguity is resolved.
No. He thinks of 5.25'' as used in the CBM1541 (Read: C64)
Unlike anyone else, that was a single side drive so you had to flip the disc over. But to write to the other side you had to cut a whole for the optical write protect check, but not into the actual magnetic disc.
And that's why the heavy government regulation of email is why I can send an email from my account to anyone, no matter what mail-provider he or she is using?
I see where you're coming from, but you can't dismiss email as a one-off event.
I'd say it's not regulation (or lack thereof) that is to blame, but rather a sense of competition instead of cooperation. After all, communication is about cooperating. Or used to be, until it became a euphemism for marketing, propaganda and all other kinds of misinformation.
You mean from the Google Store? Google doesn't make hardware (well, I heard they made the Pixel C). The contract companies like HTC, LG, and Samsung to make phones that are Google branded. They supply the software. The profits from the sale go to the hardware company, not Google.
Wouldn't that be like money from selling iPhone going to Foxconn instead of apple as they make the actual phone?
It's mostly the manufacturer who is freeloading as using Android spares him from developing their own OS and App store infrastructure, push notification service and so on from scratch.
But is it more ore less paranoid than wondering if that webcam activity LED can actually be switched on and off independently from the camera by the device driver software? (which it usually is. Not due to malice, but to bad or "unsafe" design)
And most camera sensors today ARE already IR cams due to sensor characteristics. Most have an IR filter to improve image quality in sunlight, but again, it wouldn't even take malice to cut that filter for cost saving reasons.
Yes. As long as you can't be sure that the cam can't be activated without lighting the LED. But then, you would not be able to tell if the cover would not be transparent to IR....
You can't get a camera in the air vent from a drive-by download from an otherwise reputable website that had the bad luck of its ad content network being hacked.
And the workaround with the tape wouldn't even be necessary if the camera LED would be hardwired to the camera reliably across laptop manufacturers and not switched on and of by the driver on a goodwill base.
Of course, having a slightly choppy computer voice is one way of overcoming the uncanny valley. Holding a conversation with a dead person might be unnerving for some people. Hearing the little clips and weird tone changes as the voice is reassembled would be a constant reminder that you're actually talking to a computer, not a person, and might be of some comfort.
So we are recreating the voice of a dead person as a computer voice to honor the person who actually gave a computer a human voice. That's no uncanny valley, that's a first class uncanny round-trip!
That's how the synthetic voices of Siri and Cortana are made, too. Voice actors read texts, the recordings are split up into phonemes and these are then used to synthesize the actual words we can hear. These computer voices aren't made on a word-by-word basis anymore.
The recorded text however are nonsense texts that are specially designed to contain a maximum phonem variety in a minimum of recorded text and that way of course it's known how many vairants of each phonem are available exactly where in the recording. So, with enough recorded material it should be possible to extract the same phonem variety. It's just more work as you have to find them first
Less creepy when you remember that there were actual plans to call a digital assistant "Majel". And that all computer voices we hear today could already be the voices of dead voice actors. And they are already disembodied voices.
not "you" or "me". But "somebody". That somebody usually isn't "you" or "me", but someday it just might happen that you or me is the poor bastard that that some cop in a bad mood thinks is in need of a "lesson". The sad thing is that this behavior isn't just seen in some corrupt third world countries anymore. Or how would you call that "rough ride" thing that hit news a while ago.
Or to quote "Broken Arrow": I don't know if it's more shocking that it happens or that it is so common that there is an actual name for it.
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Let's just hope for the best:
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
higher than YOU planned or how he planned?
Why should publishers care for amazons budget? Was it part of the contract? I don't think so.
Ever tried that with a doctor's bill? "Oh sorry, I have reached my monthly budget on your bills"
This is somehow cool and would definitly have some great novelty factor. And is completely useless at the same time:
It's a perfect Chindogu.
...if seen in a time piece of that era. And yes, mixing up Charlie Chaplin's "Tramp" with Hitler just because of the moustache would indeed be funny.
But that friggin frog is contemporary.. well.. "artwork".
And as you mentioned, those moustaches were very popular in the inter-war years, but you might have noticed that they aren't today. So any current usage is a direct referrence to either
a) general facial hair style in the 30s
b) Charlie Chaplin
c) Hitler
If seen in conjunction with antisemitic slogans, all ambiguity is resolved.
I'd rather say that putting a Hitler moustache on it made it a hate symbol-
"permissioned" blockchain systems,"
"managed by designated administrators under agreed governance rules,"
In other words: They are doing something completely different, but still call it "blockchain" because that's the current buzzword.
Reminds be a bit of what "cloud" should have stood for until it became a generic moniker for simple online storage.
No. He thinks of 5.25'' as used in the CBM1541 (Read: C64)
Unlike anyone else, that was a single side drive so you had to flip the disc over. But to write to the other side you had to cut a whole for the optical write protect check, but not into the actual magnetic disc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
Someone already beat me to that joke.
I don't regret being one of the few Germans who gets that reference.
Funniest show ever.
And that's why the heavy government regulation of email is why I can send an email from my account to anyone, no matter what mail-provider he or she is using?
I see where you're coming from, but you can't dismiss email as a one-off event.
I'd say it's not regulation (or lack thereof) that is to blame, but rather a sense of competition instead of cooperation. After all, communication is about cooperating. Or used to be, until it became a euphemism for marketing, propaganda and all other kinds of misinformation.
No. Google Assistant is that AI that does these guesses, Allo Allo is a messenger app. (I can't help typing this with a fake french accent in my head)
But I wonder why Assistant couldn't be integrated in an existing platform.
You mean from the Google Store? Google doesn't make hardware (well, I heard they made the Pixel C). The contract companies like HTC, LG, and Samsung to make phones that are Google branded. They supply the software. The profits from the sale go to the hardware company, not Google.
Wouldn't that be like money from selling iPhone going to Foxconn instead of apple as they make the actual phone?
It's mostly the manufacturer who is freeloading as using Android spares him from developing their own OS and App store infrastructure, push notification service and so on from scratch.
Well, yes.
But is it more ore less paranoid than wondering if that webcam activity LED can actually be switched on and off independently from the camera by the device driver software? (which it usually is. Not due to malice, but to bad or "unsafe" design)
And most camera sensors today ARE already IR cams due to sensor characteristics. Most have an IR filter to improve image quality in sunlight, but again, it wouldn't even take malice to cut that filter for cost saving reasons.
Yes. As long as you can't be sure that the cam can't be activated without lighting the LED. But then, you would not be able to tell if the cover would not be transparent to IR....
You can't get a camera in the air vent from a drive-by download from an otherwise reputable website that had the bad luck of its ad content network being hacked.
And the workaround with the tape wouldn't even be necessary if the camera LED would be hardwired to the camera reliably across laptop manufacturers and not switched on and of by the driver on a goodwill base.
Of course, having a slightly choppy computer voice is one way of overcoming the uncanny valley. Holding a conversation with a dead person might be unnerving for some people. Hearing the little clips and weird tone changes as the voice is reassembled would be a constant reminder that you're actually talking to a computer, not a person, and might be of some comfort.
So we are recreating the voice of a dead person as a computer voice to honor the person who actually gave a computer a human voice. That's no uncanny valley, that's a first class uncanny round-trip!
Have you ever met my grandparents? They had the habit of, when watching tv, going on about all those dead people, too...
That's how the synthetic voices of Siri and Cortana are made, too. Voice actors read texts, the recordings are split up into phonemes and these are then used to synthesize the actual words we can hear. These computer voices aren't made on a word-by-word basis anymore.
The recorded text however are nonsense texts that are specially designed to contain a maximum phonem variety in a minimum of recorded text and that way of course it's known how many vairants of each phonem are available exactly where in the recording. So, with enough recorded material it should be possible to extract the same phonem variety. It's just more work as you have to find them first
Less creepy when you remember that there were actual plans to call a digital assistant "Majel". And that all computer voices we hear today could already be the voices of dead voice actors. And they are already disembodied voices.
I'd swing more to the "fitting tribute" side
not "you" or "me". But "somebody". That somebody usually isn't "you" or "me", but someday it just might happen that you or me is the poor bastard that that some cop in a bad mood thinks is in need of a "lesson". The sad thing is that this behavior isn't just seen in some corrupt third world countries anymore. Or how would you call that "rough ride" thing that hit news a while ago.
Or to quote "Broken Arrow": I don't know if it's more shocking that it happens or that it is so common that there is an actual name for it.
No, they detect *ALL* flash media, even if it is totally and completely unrelated to porn.
Has anyone ever heard of that?
A high death toll is not even the goal, but rather a means. Terror is the goal.