^^ THIS ^^ The worst part is when it correctly transcribes it and shows the text to you on the screen THEN opens a Google search. Why would it send the string "Call Mom on mobile" to the search engine!? Sometimes it even spells the contact name the exact same funny way it is in my address book!
My favorite part of the article is the part where it says
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Ironically, I don't use Google Photos because I don't want Google to have that information. Yet to read an article about how I should give my information to Google, I must sign it to Google (or Facebook).
It's not always the users. Software developers really still don't think about security until it is forced upon them. For example:
A user takes photos with their cell camera. They install an application that automatically uploads the picture to some photo-sharing web site that shares the pictures with their family. That's neat. The photo-sharing site has a username/password. So the user types their username & password into the application so that it has credentials to upload. How is that username & password handled?
A fundamentally secure design might contact the server to request a unique key that merely has permissions to upload new photos to the account. It would store that key securely in the device's trusted keystore. But realistically, most software will store the user name and password in a plaintext file. And most servers don't support features like getting a limited access key. There's no standard protocols for doing that. And there's no way the user would know this! And most software developers won't even think about it. And I betcha the code ignores the HTTPS cert if it even uses HTTPS at all.
The state of security is bad right now, and you can't always blame the user.
You are correct. But those are the things that break applications. When I did consulting for small businesses in 1990's and 2000's, the most common "hard" problem I found was antivirus software interfering with the system. I saw them silently block file shares, DHCP requests, email attachments, and CD burner applications, break SSL connections and backup software, even screw-up the system time. The system cleaners constantly broke Microsoft office. I would often uninstall the Symantec SuperDuper Network Security Pro that they paid a monthly subscription for, and install a cheap or even free antivirus package that had a simple daily scan.
Windows Defender is exactly what we need. Block applications from injecting themselves into the startup and adding shell extensions, and scan files for viruses. If you want web protection, 90% of that can be gained with an ad blocker. Even if it breaks a few sites it can be easily disabled.
Good point. So perhaps it is not that the Europeans added pointlessly more powerful motors. Maybe Europeans are just dirtier and have thicker carpet in their homes so they needed powerful beater heads. You are right about suction not being the ultimate need: I have a new carpet that has a "liner" underneath and even on the lowest power setting the vacuum seals against the carpet and I can hardly move the head. Even with the beater bar running.
So I'm not sure what to take from this story. Why did the Japanese manufacturers iterate on quality while the EU manufacturers did not? It seems silly that the EU government had to get involved in something as trivial as vacuum cleaners when in Japan the free market naturally did that.
I recommend that you train animals to make the sound of car doors slamming, so that in your recordings you will never know if it was a natural sound or a man-made one.
Now the clock is somehow more important than actual, physical reality.
Technology also made this happen. Every time somebody doesn't like the time and changes their rules, every computer on the planet needs a software change. The cost of doing that and the resulting security rules and confusion makes this no longer worth doing.
Easier to get kids up and to school if there's only a fifteen minute time change every couple of months instead of an hour all at once./quote. Harder to change every computer system on the planet, and to remember to change your clocks every couple of months. Dang that would be expensive and annoying.
Actually, Amazon IS making local distributors. They bought whole foods, and they are building retail stores. They have one in Seattle and at least one in New York.
Does increasing the resolution of the screens increase the battery usage? I ask because manufacturers keep increasing resolutions completely pointlessly, and if it comes at the expense of battery life I want them to stop.
Trying to think this through: It would use more RAM, and more CPU to update the screen. On the other hand, the biggest battery drain is probably the backlight which remains the same. In the case of OLED, the pixels themselves product light, but it's the same overall luminance and surface area. So maybe it doesn't really make a significant difference. Does anyone here know for sure?
This is the only correct answer I have seen so far here. The article is like asking if software development is the same thing as working in IT. To a lay person not in the field, yes they might seem the same. To anyone in those fields it is very different.
I think he is meaning something like diaspora allowing people to communicate with people on competing social networks.
Oh, sorry Dallas May, the AC cleared this up. I thought you meant internet infrastructure.
These are fake barriers designed to lock users into ecosystems.
Agreed. This problem started when developers began making *platforms* instead of *protocols*.
When you download a video editor, it has options like "Upload to facebook" or "Upload to youtube." Those should not exist. It should instead offer "Upload via FTP" and then I type the URL of the site I want to send it to. As soon services stopped supporting standard protocols, and when as we started tying things to proprietary platforms, the world-wide-web stopped becoming the world-wide-web. It was replaced with a series of monopoly sites that happen to be juuust compatible enough that we can also browse them.
If we want a system for sharing social media, we should start with a protocol. Submit that as an RFP to the W3C. Then begin a few different implementations. Thats how it was in the 1990s and early 2000s.
But that's the key thing: you break them up, then you fix the regulatory infrastructure that led to the problem. Only doing one or the other isn't sufficient.
I do agree that we need another breakup + regulatory change. The whole thing with allowing other companies to use their lines has fallen into disuse. I live in a major metropolitan area, and the last company that was offering internet over Verizon's lines died about 10 years ago. That solution isn't working right now. And there is no equivalent rule for cable companies or wireless carriers.
The NetSmartz program is childish and painfully out-of-date. My 3rd-grade scout had to watch a video where kids and robots singing about netiquette, that looks like it is based on the days of AOL chat rooms. It's totally inaccessible to any child. It doesn't talk about text messages, online games, or web sites. It treats the internet like some giant chatroom where saying mean things makes people turn smelly and singing a song fixes it. The stuff they put for Grades 6-8 should be for Grade 2. Once a child can read well-enough to open a browser and type in a search, or once they can play Roblox or Fortnite, or even once they can turn on a TV news program, they need more than a literal song and dance.
Sorry to be so harsh, I'm glad someone is at least trying.
We need to fund schools well-enough that they can generate their own curriculum, instead of my kids having to hold bake sales and sell chocolate to fund their education while corporations "donate" so-called "educational materials" with their branded logos on it. If we are afraid of what government-funded education looks like, wait till you get a load of corporate-funded education looks like.
Third, companies should recognize that data belongs to users
This is the fundamental issue, and we went the wrong way back in the 1980's when companies starting building computer databases. Your electric bill and phone bill should be your data. Your bank account transactions should be your data. But we went the wrong way and decided that your bank account information really belongs to your bank, and they just license you to access it. Wrong wrong wrong, and it's going to be a really difficult slope to go back and fix that.
Most public figures, when confronted with something that brings public ire, try to apologize
I agree with the rest of your post but I find that politicians do know to not apologize. They have learned instead to blame, misdirect, or just plain flip-flop and claim you always held the opposite position.
George H W Bush apologized for raising taxes, and became a 1 term president. Note that congress raised the taxes, not him, and he only voted for the spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.
Compare that to his son George W Bush, who sent the US into the Iraq war on false pretenses and caused a worldwide recession. But at the end of his presidency, he said that "knowing what I know now" he would still go into Iraq.
There is water in the Martian atmosphere so can we send some of these to Mars now, and have them build a store of drinking water for us when we get there?
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^^ THIS ^^
The worst part is when it correctly transcribes it and shows the text to you on the screen THEN opens a Google search. Why would it send the string "Call Mom on mobile" to the search engine!? Sometimes it even spells the contact name the exact same funny way it is in my address book!
My favorite part of the article is the part where it says
This story is for Medium members. Medium curates expert stories from leading publishers exclusively for members (with no ads!). Register for a free account to begin your member preview. [Continue with Google.] [Continue with Facebook.]"
Ironically, I don't use Google Photos because I don't want Google to have that information. Yet to read an article about how I should give my information to Google, I must sign it to Google (or Facebook).
It's not always the users. Software developers really still don't think about security until it is forced upon them. For example:
A user takes photos with their cell camera. They install an application that automatically uploads the picture to some photo-sharing web site that shares the pictures with their family. That's neat. The photo-sharing site has a username/password. So the user types their username & password into the application so that it has credentials to upload. How is that username & password handled?
A fundamentally secure design might contact the server to request a unique key that merely has permissions to upload new photos to the account. It would store that key securely in the device's trusted keystore. But realistically, most software will store the user name and password in a plaintext file. And most servers don't support features like getting a limited access key. There's no standard protocols for doing that. And there's no way the user would know this! And most software developers won't even think about it. And I betcha the code ignores the HTTPS cert if it even uses HTTPS at all.
The state of security is bad right now, and you can't always blame the user.
You are correct. But those are the things that break applications. When I did consulting for small businesses in 1990's and 2000's, the most common "hard" problem I found was antivirus software interfering with the system. I saw them silently block file shares, DHCP requests, email attachments, and CD burner applications, break SSL connections and backup software, even screw-up the system time. The system cleaners constantly broke Microsoft office. I would often uninstall the Symantec SuperDuper Network Security Pro that they paid a monthly subscription for, and install a cheap or even free antivirus package that had a simple daily scan.
Windows Defender is exactly what we need. Block applications from injecting themselves into the startup and adding shell extensions, and scan files for viruses. If you want web protection, 90% of that can be gained with an ad blocker. Even if it breaks a few sites it can be easily disabled.
Good point. So perhaps it is not that the Europeans added pointlessly more powerful motors. Maybe Europeans are just dirtier and have thicker carpet in their homes so they needed powerful beater heads. You are right about suction not being the ultimate need: I have a new carpet that has a "liner" underneath and even on the lowest power setting the vacuum seals against the carpet and I can hardly move the head. Even with the beater bar running.
How often do Japanese homes have carpet? Vacuuming on hardwood requires significantly less power.
Or the definition of "hate speech" will erode until nothing meaningful remains.
So I'm not sure what to take from this story. Why did the Japanese manufacturers iterate on quality while the EU manufacturers did not? It seems silly that the EU government had to get involved in something as trivial as vacuum cleaners when in Japan the free market naturally did that.
Implied in your post is the thought that homosexuality is an undesirable condition that would go away if "things were perfect".
Nothing in blindseer's post implies any such thing. You just made-up a bunch of stuff, attributed it to him, then attacked it. You even put stuff in quotes, as if they were in the post! Probably someone else said those things to you, and you are transferring.
I recommend that you train animals to make the sound of car doors slamming, so that in your recordings you will never know if it was a natural sound or a man-made one.
Now the clock is somehow more important than actual, physical reality.
Technology also made this happen. Every time somebody doesn't like the time and changes their rules, every computer on the planet needs a software change. The cost of doing that and the resulting security rules and confusion makes this no longer worth doing.
Easier to get kids up and to school if there's only a fifteen minute time change every couple of months instead of an hour all at once./quote.
Harder to change every computer system on the planet, and to remember to change your clocks every couple of months. Dang that would be expensive and annoying.
without the local distributors.
They ARE building local distributors!
Actually, Amazon IS making local distributors. They bought whole foods, and they are building retail stores. They have one in Seattle and at least one in New York.
Does increasing the resolution of the screens increase the battery usage? I ask because manufacturers keep increasing resolutions completely pointlessly, and if it comes at the expense of battery life I want them to stop.
Trying to think this through: It would use more RAM, and more CPU to update the screen. On the other hand, the biggest battery drain is probably the backlight which remains the same. In the case of OLED, the pixels themselves product light, but it's the same overall luminance and surface area. So maybe it doesn't really make a significant difference. Does anyone here know for sure?
This is the only correct answer I have seen so far here. The article is like asking if software development is the same thing as working in IT. To a lay person not in the field, yes they might seem the same. To anyone in those fields it is very different.
Can a Facebook user query to see what categories Facebook assigns to them? How about to their friends?
I think he is meaning something like diaspora allowing people to communicate with people on competing social networks.
Oh, sorry Dallas May, the AC cleared this up. I thought you meant internet infrastructure.
These are fake barriers designed to lock users into ecosystems.
Agreed. This problem started when developers began making *platforms* instead of *protocols*.
When you download a video editor, it has options like "Upload to facebook" or "Upload to youtube." Those should not exist. It should instead offer "Upload via FTP" and then I type the URL of the site I want to send it to. As soon services stopped supporting standard protocols, and when as we started tying things to proprietary platforms, the world-wide-web stopped becoming the world-wide-web. It was replaced with a series of monopoly sites that happen to be juuust compatible enough that we can also browse them.
If we want a system for sharing social media, we should start with a protocol. Submit that as an RFP to the W3C. Then begin a few different implementations. Thats how it was in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Yet, there is much better competition in phone companies than the big internet companies
How many options do you have in your area? Most areas it is 1 to 3. That's not much.
Because your phone can call any other phone
Can your computer not call any other computer? I'm not sure I see a difference here.
The problem isn't interoperability. And phone companies *are* internet companies now. The concept that they are different is a regulatory absurdity.
But that's the key thing: you break them up, then you fix the regulatory infrastructure that led to the problem. Only doing one or the other isn't sufficient.
I do agree that we need another breakup + regulatory change. The whole thing with allowing other companies to use their lines has fallen into disuse. I live in a major metropolitan area, and the last company that was offering internet over Verizon's lines died about 10 years ago. That solution isn't working right now. And there is no equivalent rule for cable companies or wireless carriers.
What was it doing under the hood without telling you? Isn't a VLA basically just a call to alloca()?
LOL, fair enough, I'll get down off my soapbox now. :-)
The NetSmartz program is childish and painfully out-of-date. My 3rd-grade scout had to watch a video where kids and robots singing about netiquette, that looks like it is based on the days of AOL chat rooms. It's totally inaccessible to any child. It doesn't talk about text messages, online games, or web sites. It treats the internet like some giant chatroom where saying mean things makes people turn smelly and singing a song fixes it. The stuff they put for Grades 6-8 should be for Grade 2. Once a child can read well-enough to open a browser and type in a search, or once they can play Roblox or Fortnite, or even once they can turn on a TV news program, they need more than a literal song and dance.
Sorry to be so harsh, I'm glad someone is at least trying.
We need to fund schools well-enough that they can generate their own curriculum, instead of my kids having to hold bake sales and sell chocolate to fund their education while corporations "donate" so-called "educational materials" with their branded logos on it. If we are afraid of what government-funded education looks like, wait till you get a load of corporate-funded education looks like.
Third, companies should recognize that data belongs to users
This is the fundamental issue, and we went the wrong way back in the 1980's when companies starting building computer databases. Your electric bill and phone bill should be your data. Your bank account transactions should be your data. But we went the wrong way and decided that your bank account information really belongs to your bank, and they just license you to access it. Wrong wrong wrong, and it's going to be a really difficult slope to go back and fix that.
Most public figures, when confronted with something that brings public ire, try to apologize
I agree with the rest of your post but I find that politicians do know to not apologize. They have learned instead to blame, misdirect, or just plain flip-flop and claim you always held the opposite position.
George H W Bush apologized for raising taxes, and became a 1 term president. Note that congress raised the taxes, not him, and he only voted for the spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.
Compare that to his son George W Bush, who sent the US into the Iraq war on false pretenses and caused a worldwide recession. But at the end of his presidency, he said that "knowing what I know now" he would still go into Iraq.
There is water in the Martian atmosphere so can we send some of these to Mars now, and have them build a store of drinking water for us when we get there?