In the newly-published NSLs, the FBI asked Twitter to turn over "the name, address, length of service, and electronic communications transactional records" of two users.
Yet another reason you should never give real personal info to social networking sites.
While I'm sorry for what happened to your niece, you're not winning this argument any better than known_coward_69. Can either of your provide statistics for how high the risk is of SIDS? The parent poster is correct in there is a certain level of playing to fear and baiting helicopter parents to make sales here.
Isn't that what FCC has been *trying* to do, but has been blocked at every possible avenue, if not by corporations, then by congress, who have stated that FCC is exceeding it's authority?
Yeah, kinda like how Obama wanted to give us universal health insurance, but the Republicans in Congress wouldn't let him because it was "too Socalist", and the compromise was forcing everyone to become customers of for-profit insurance companies. But now Trump is in office and he's going to give health insurance for all.. And he can't do it by amending the ACA, because then the Republican's can't talk about how they repealed that miserable failure Obamacare and gave us this new insurance for everyone (that somehow isn't Socialist when they do it).
Reasonable enough. Other than the stock capabilities (weather, time, shopping list, timers, alarms, "what's playing at the movies?", "what's the phone number for Tire-Rama?", oodles of music sent to the theater system), the only third-party capabilities we use regularly are:
o Adjust the lighting via TP-Link smart plugs o Adjust the heating / cooling via Sensi smart thermostat o Check Fitbit stats / progress
Is it worth $49 or so out the door, plus hardware cost for associated devices to be able to do all this without having to otherwise go and do it? Well, it is to us.
For instance, sitting in the theater, it's either get up, make a 20 foot walk to the light switch, flip the switch, a 20 foot walk back in the dark, and sit down again, or just say "Echo, Turn off the lights." Likewise, when the show is over, it's just "Echo, Turn on the lights."
Well, if we ignore the extra hardware needed for lights/thermostat/etc control, I think people don't use these systems much because their full capabilities are not really demonstrated or explained much. Most of the Alexa-related commercials, etc deal with (no surprise) using it to play music from Amazon music and order stuff from Amazon -- so new ways to empty consumer pockets. The Google ones are more cute, but I hate to say maybe they don't get as much traction because people aren't curious enough about the world to feel the need to ask the phone random questions all the time, and when we are we'll automatically open Wikipedia or some other site to check (likely Google's own search page, ironically enough).
I would use Google Now more if I could scan a nice list of questions and phrases it does understand, and understand well. But I'm not going to sit and ask random things to test what it can do and learn how to "ask it the right way" to get the answer (this also plays into the reason people don't want to use these services in front of other people I think -- it's a bit embarrassing to ask the device something and have it misinterpret your input). When it comes to the easy ones, things like "what's the weather like outside?" I can open the Weather app on my phone in less effort, and get more information for my actions, than using Google Now. The only thing missing is the auditory announcement of the temperature.
Listen to that Tommy! You can actually hear the monstrous ship groan as the SS Verizon tries to do a turnabout and avoid that sand bar. Can they overcome corporate inertia and avoid this mess? Tune in next time to "Mergers on the High Seas!"
It can also require you to be careful how you pronounce the request, and the exact phrasing you use. The devices may advertise themselves as "natural language" interaction, but understanding a phrase when pauses for commas and such come into play, or overcoming the speaker's personal accent or speech issues isn't that easy..
Hours-of-Service Safety Regulations uber does not give a dam about them but what will happen when an uber driver falls asleep at the wheel and does big damage?
Nothing will happen. Mr Driver will be held responsible just like any Joe Sixpack that fell asleep behind the wheel. If he says anything about being an Uber driver: 1) Uber will bring up their "independent contractor" (not our employee/liability) business plan. 2) His insurance will bring up their "you're not covered under your personal policy if you're acting as a ride sharing/taxi-for-hire service" clause... and more of them have this nowadays.
The only "bad thing" here is that some developer can't even be bothered to patch known security issues out of their code
Oh, I don't disagree. I was replying to the parent's puzzlement as to why the article has a negative tone, that's what I meant by "at least that's the only thing I can take away from this" since I had to search for that reasoning someone might have. Because otherwise I don't see anything wrong here.
This write-up sounds awfully negative, but if your software is so bad that it can be auto detected to be insecure, you belong in the penalty box until you make it right. Be respectful of users' data.
It's a "bad thing" because a large corporation was able to exert influence over a bunch of third-party developers on a supposedly Open mobile operating system platform. Much like Apple reviews apps and can take action against developers that are breaking rules, Google is showing they can too. So, even though the actions had a positive impact for users and the overall Android platform, it's not good because "EvilCorp can control me". The fact this is Google's Play Store has no bearing on the legitimacy of their actions. Because Google is a monopoly (somehow even when there are alternative ways of searching/getting apps), so they must allow everyone else equal access and cannot take measures in their own business interests now.
At least that's the only thing I can take away from this.
How far should it be allowed to drain? I thought the shortened battery life was cause by people topping up to often and not using the phone through full discharge cycles.
The problem is that, human nature being what it is, a lot of drivers will come to rely too much on autopilot and will stop paying attention just like this guy apparently did. That will cause a lot of crashes just by itself. This isn't DIRECTLY the fault of autopilot, but is rather an INDIRECT consequence of having it (combined with human nature).
Maybe we should get rid of warning sirens for weather-events, too. A lot of people will come to rely too much on the tornado siren to tell them if they need to take cover and stop paying attention to what the actual conditions are outside their homes. It's not directly the fault of the lack of sirens that the fellow was flattened in his house, but rather an indirect consequence of having the sirens not go off before the funnel came up his street (combined with human nature).
At what point is the operator ultimately held accountable for operation of a motor vehicle?
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In the newly-published NSLs, the FBI asked Twitter to turn over "the name, address, length of service, and electronic communications transactional records" of two users.
Yet another reason you should never give real personal info to social networking sites.
While I'm sorry for what happened to your niece, you're not winning this argument any better than known_coward_69. Can either of your provide statistics for how high the risk is of SIDS? The parent poster is correct in there is a certain level of playing to fear and baiting helicopter parents to make sales here.
...Windows PCs are starting to chip away at Apple's strong grip of the high-end computer market...
From my viewpoint, it looks as if Apple has abandoned the high-end computer market. The product line has been stagnating.
What does that leave then? Because Apple hasn't ever been in the low-end of the market, since the margins are too thin for their liking.
But, how do I run Internet Explorer on my Windows XP machine?
Joke fail.
Internet Explorer comes with XP. You didn't specify IE11.
Then we'll have a valid need to say "my hovercraft is full of eels".
Does anyone even use either of those?
For a few apps on my Windows (non RT) tablet, yes. That's it.
Isn't that what FCC has been *trying* to do, but has been blocked at every possible avenue, if not by corporations, then by congress, who have stated that FCC is exceeding it's authority?
Yeah, kinda like how Obama wanted to give us universal health insurance, but the Republicans in Congress wouldn't let him because it was "too Socalist", and the compromise was forcing everyone to become customers of for-profit insurance companies. But now Trump is in office and he's going to give health insurance for all.. And he can't do it by amending the ACA, because then the Republican's can't talk about how they repealed that miserable failure Obamacare and gave us this new insurance for everyone (that somehow isn't Socialist when they do it).
Rendered me speechless for the rest of the evening.
I see what you did there. ;-)
It's not really for you,, and It's more likely to be accepted by people than the government forcing everyone to get a telescreen.
He hasn't realized people already thought he was a jerk.
Twitter is a social app.
The value of the platform is directly tied to how many users they supposedly have for advertising/data-mining purposes.
I can't imagine how they make that work with so few of the actual devices in use.
I don't have any real pity for someone who dishes out that kind of money for headphones and can't keep track of them.
Maybe they should get a string, or wire of some sort to keep them from getting away.
Why they pulled the app a few weeks ago that allowed you to track down a lost airpod..
How is this NOT anticompetitive?
I hope the creator of the pulled app knows a good lawyer..
Maybe he should ask that guy who wrote the notification app that was copied by iOS7 (iirc?) how much of a case he has.
Not a very nice neighbour to have.
With the factory expansions and environmental policies, I think that ship sailed years ago.
Reasonable enough. Other than the stock capabilities (weather, time, shopping list, timers, alarms, "what's playing at the movies?", "what's the phone number for Tire-Rama?", oodles of music sent to the theater system), the only third-party capabilities we use regularly are:
o Adjust the lighting via TP-Link smart plugs
o Adjust the heating / cooling via Sensi smart thermostat
o Check Fitbit stats / progress
Is it worth $49 or so out the door, plus hardware cost for associated devices to be able to do all this without having to otherwise go and do it? Well, it is to us.
For instance, sitting in the theater, it's either get up, make a 20 foot walk to the light switch, flip the switch, a 20 foot walk back in the dark, and sit down again, or just say "Echo, Turn off the lights." Likewise, when the show is over, it's just "Echo, Turn on the lights."
Well, if we ignore the extra hardware needed for lights/thermostat/etc control, I think people don't use these systems much because their full capabilities are not really demonstrated or explained much. Most of the Alexa-related commercials, etc deal with (no surprise) using it to play music from Amazon music and order stuff from Amazon -- so new ways to empty consumer pockets. The Google ones are more cute, but I hate to say maybe they don't get as much traction because people aren't curious enough about the world to feel the need to ask the phone random questions all the time, and when we are we'll automatically open Wikipedia or some other site to check (likely Google's own search page, ironically enough).
I would use Google Now more if I could scan a nice list of questions and phrases it does understand, and understand well. But I'm not going to sit and ask random things to test what it can do and learn how to "ask it the right way" to get the answer (this also plays into the reason people don't want to use these services in front of other people I think -- it's a bit embarrassing to ask the device something and have it misinterpret your input). When it comes to the easy ones, things like "what's the weather like outside?" I can open the Weather app on my phone in less effort, and get more information for my actions, than using Google Now. The only thing missing is the auditory announcement of the temperature.
Listen to that Tommy! You can actually hear the monstrous ship groan as the SS Verizon tries to do a turnabout and avoid that sand bar. Can they overcome corporate inertia and avoid this mess? Tune in next time to "Mergers on the High Seas!"
It can also require you to be careful how you pronounce the request, and the exact phrasing you use. The devices may advertise themselves as "natural language" interaction, but understanding a phrase when pauses for commas and such come into play, or overcoming the speaker's personal accent or speech issues isn't that easy..
Hours-of-Service Safety Regulations uber does not give a dam about them but what will happen when an uber driver falls asleep at the wheel and does big damage?
Nothing will happen. Mr Driver will be held responsible just like any Joe Sixpack that fell asleep behind the wheel. If he says anything about being an Uber driver:
1) Uber will bring up their "independent contractor" (not our employee/liability) business plan.
2) His insurance will bring up their "you're not covered under your personal policy if you're acting as a ride sharing/taxi-for-hire service" clause... and more of them have this nowadays.
The loser will be victims in the accident.
The only "bad thing" here is that some developer can't even be bothered to patch known security issues out of their code
Oh, I don't disagree. I was replying to the parent's puzzlement as to why the article has a negative tone, that's what I meant by "at least that's the only thing I can take away from this" since I had to search for that reasoning someone might have. Because otherwise I don't see anything wrong here.
This write-up sounds awfully negative, but if your software is so bad that it can be auto detected to be insecure, you belong in the penalty box until you make it right. Be respectful of users' data.
It's a "bad thing" because a large corporation was able to exert influence over a bunch of third-party developers on a supposedly Open mobile operating system platform. Much like Apple reviews apps and can take action against developers that are breaking rules, Google is showing they can too. So, even though the actions had a positive impact for users and the overall Android platform, it's not good because "EvilCorp can control me". The fact this is Google's Play Store has no bearing on the legitimacy of their actions. Because Google is a monopoly (somehow even when there are alternative ways of searching/getting apps), so they must allow everyone else equal access and cannot take measures in their own business interests now.
At least that's the only thing I can take away from this.
How far should it be allowed to drain? I thought the shortened battery life was cause by people topping up to often and not using the phone through full discharge cycles.
Who knew that Hawaiians were just another kind of Native Americans?
Apparently everyone but the author. What a moron.
Because someone will insist it gets connected to the public internet to make their personal lives easier.
The problem is that, human nature being what it is, a lot of drivers will come to rely too much on autopilot and will stop paying attention just like this guy apparently did. That will cause a lot of crashes just by itself. This isn't DIRECTLY the fault of autopilot, but is rather an INDIRECT consequence of having it (combined with human nature).
Maybe we should get rid of warning sirens for weather-events, too. A lot of people will come to rely too much on the tornado siren to tell them if they need to take cover and stop paying attention to what the actual conditions are outside their homes. It's not directly the fault of the lack of sirens that the fellow was flattened in his house, but rather an indirect consequence of having the sirens not go off before the funnel came up his street (combined with human nature).
At what point is the operator ultimately held accountable for operation of a motor vehicle?