If memory serves the whole argument comes down to whether the IMSI or any unique number to that phone is an interception of cellphone traffic.
Currently only law enforcement can get at these and hackers/mobile providers obviously.
Lets all just get these with cameras,car number plate+facial recognition and publish the combined results.
Or we could record all FLO (forces of law and order) or owners of shops movements to get our own back.
I was kind of hoping this would be something that would make computer recognition fail while still being pretty subtle to human eyes. I'm not sure of the methods, but there are plenty of factors that we could make use of. For example, CCTV tend to be higher up than human height, and take 2D images. So, perhaps a technique may involve masking shadows from a certain set of angles in a subtle way that avoids detecting a face shape while not being too noticeable by normal people.
This to be expected,.. the higher the live expectancy, the worse the gene pool becomes,.. in 3rd world countries people with bad genes are probably not surviving,.. due to missing medical treatment,.. so countries where live expectancy are higher, people do tend to get kids at an older age, and a lot of people with bad genes survive and are allowed to reproduce,.. I'm not saying there should be bans I'm just suggesting this is obvious,.. and everyone can come to this conclusion.
And this got nothing to do with bad habits. like alcohol, smoking, or whatever.
High life expectancy is not not in itself bad genetically though is it. It just gets normally screened out before you get to reproduce.
People aren't going to use Siri very much, because talking to your phone makes you look stupid. It's been on Android for years anyway, and no-one used it there. That Apple claim it's more useful now means nothing. It's like forward facing cameras - outside of a tiny niche no-one cares.
I had to look at my HTC to see if it had a front facing camera then.:) its that useful.
While a program that fetches more things you are interested in is great, you should realize the consequences of such a program. In particular you should realize the concept of a filter bubble. Namely that by only picking out things you are already interested in, you exclude things that you could be interested in or things that are too important to exclude.
There's been a TED talk about this, I suggest you watch it so that you can take active steps (when needed) to step out of your comfort zone now and then:
I already have a real world filter bubble. I like the the things I like. I like to go out of my comfort zone now and then but I often end up back there as its my comfort zone:)
I would be intrigued to see what the AI would do for me.
Can I just point out that Vlingo has a website from 2006 so this stuff has existed for a fair time and hasn't been particularly revolutionary.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071011102531/http://vlingo.com/
"Tell your phone what to do! The Vlingo Virtual Assistant turn your words into action. Vlingo combines voice to text technology with its "intent engine" to help you quickly complete your desired action. "
I guess Vlingo for android is not as integrated but even the google search bar has a voice search option.
I have used the google voice search once and it was very good but I don't think in that way. For example I am typing this and not using Dragon Naturally. (I have tried it)
I tried Vlingo and its quite good but I am bored already.
I remember windows introducing voice recog and the volume down problem when the software can't hear you.
What I predict is pretentious apple - lets just say people - walking around saying "Iphone text Mum is dinner ready"
Surely you get a friend or relative to sign up for the connection. Also what happens if you work from home ? What Internet on your phone? Pay as you go etc..
Then I can see a human rights problem, if a cat gets you to say in the UK surely the Internet and connectivity in general will be an abuse of human rights:)
Then there is open wifi etc..
Community wifi for banned people:)
In business school they call this the Gillette strategy, after the razors. Sell the razors at a loss...make your money back easily on the blades.
Nail guns are sold the same way. The companies have been know to pass out free nail guns to construction companies just so they will buy more nails. Even if you buy a gun in a store, they are sold at pretty close to cost.
Its a classic strategy. Besides, the more volume they can build, the closer to break-even they can get. By this time next year I bet they will be making a profit.
Except its not a strategy by Gillette:
"The usual story about Gillette is that he realized that a disposable razor blade would not only be convenient, but also generate a continuous revenue stream. To foster that stream, he sold razors at an artificially low price to create the market for the blades.[1][3]
But in fact Gillette razors were expensive when they were first introduced, and the price only went down after his patents expired: it was his competitors who invented the razors-and-blades model.[4]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing
I know, it is hard to fathom that anyone would not have an account, but I have intentionally avoided it myself. However since I do appear to be the only person left in the world who doesn't have one, there is bound to be something that someone who knows me has posted that relates to me.
Is it possible to request it? After all, if a user requests all the info that facebook as on them, and all they give them is the information that they posted, that is - to be kind - a very incomplete version of the data set.
How do you know which person you are getting the information on, without the unique login?
So they can only give information on the person's userid and anywhere they are mentioned uniquely. tagged photos etc.. come to mind.
Imagine trying to code the logic for anything else and make it correct.
I have google and my friends. Its all about the keywords and remembering which friends from which time periods you need to speak to. O and facebook is quite useful nowadays. Obviously IMDB,Wikipedia and ermmmm -- - thingummmy ------ Snopes thats it, are useful too. o look hackaday is calling;)
No, not really. Unless, maybe, you're Geordi LaForge.
Yes! AR makes a cool gimmick and you could build cool games around it but on the other hand, it's fairly useless if you don't have a display device you can wear all the time. Some glasses, some contacts, something fancy and futuristic even by today's standards. Sure, video glasses exist, but all of them are ugly and none of the high-res ones are even vaguely affordable. Virtually none of them have mounted cameras so you need to add a rangefinder to calculate parallax.
Where is my cheap eyetap? You could build one for a thousand dollars years ago, supposedly.
Slashdot Mirror
Not always that easy to get a nexus on the carrier you want.
If memory serves the whole argument comes down to whether the IMSI or any unique number to that phone is an interception of cellphone traffic. Currently only law enforcement can get at these and hackers/mobile providers obviously. Lets all just get these with cameras,car number plate+facial recognition and publish the combined results. Or we could record all FLO (forces of law and order) or owners of shops movements to get our own back.
I was kind of hoping this would be something that would make computer recognition fail while still being pretty subtle to human eyes. I'm not sure of the methods, but there are plenty of factors that we could make use of. For example, CCTV tend to be higher up than human height, and take 2D images. So, perhaps a technique may involve masking shadows from a certain set of angles in a subtle way that avoids detecting a face shape while not being too noticeable by normal people.
A hat :)
See, there you go again, you have made a fool of yourself.Perhaps you haven't heard about start-up (now only in beta) Republic Wireless
Why would you buy republicwireless when skype exists amongst others?
Yes, technology itself isn't bad. Like they say "Guns don't kill people, people kill people".
No rappers do.
And do not forget jamming devices, they will be banned if somthing new comes up to counter.
Sawtooth Jammer to block controlling and sending frequencies and/or IR Leds to stop nightvision as people are doing on baseball caps.
> Who is Emil Protalinski? Second cousin to Hiro Protagoniski?
+1 funny :)
The iPhone version was $56,000. The Blackberry version was $40,000. Together, they were $96,000. It says this very clearly in the original scan.
It doesn't sound that much once you have dealt with specs and tenders with govt orgs.
This to be expected, .. the higher the live expectancy, the worse the gene pool becomes, .. in 3rd world countries people with bad genes are probably not surviving, .. due to missing medical treatment, .. so countries where live expectancy are higher, people do tend to get kids at an older age, and a lot of people with bad genes survive and are allowed to reproduce, .. I'm not saying there should be bans I'm just suggesting this is obvious, .. and everyone can come to this conclusion.
And this got nothing to do with bad habits. like alcohol, smoking, or whatever.
High life expectancy is not not in itself bad genetically though is it. It just gets normally screened out before you get to reproduce.
Here are pictures of the car: http://www.streetscooter.eu/news-und-info/bildarchiv.html
RENDERS not pictures. Thery didnt make anything but some renders.
Surely renders not photographs. Both renders and photos are pics. Although your point is very valid.
People aren't going to use Siri very much, because talking to your phone makes you look stupid. It's been on Android for years anyway, and no-one used it there. That Apple claim it's more useful now means nothing. It's like forward facing cameras - outside of a tiny niche no-one cares.
I had to look at my HTC to see if it had a front facing camera then. :) its that useful.
While a program that fetches more things you are interested in is great, you should realize the consequences of such a program. In particular you should realize the concept of a filter bubble. Namely that by only picking out things you are already interested in, you exclude things that you could be interested in or things that are too important to exclude.
There's been a TED talk about this, I suggest you watch it so that you can take active steps (when needed) to step out of your comfort zone now and then:
http://www.thefilterbubble.com/ted-talk
I already have a real world filter bubble. I like the the things I like. I like to go out of my comfort zone now and then but I often end up back there as its my comfort zone :)
I would be intrigued to see what the AI would do for me.
Ipad owners :)
those guns that shoot around corners. http://www.gizmag.com/go/2576/
Can I just point out that Vlingo has a website from 2006 so this stuff has existed for a fair time and hasn't been particularly revolutionary. http://web.archive.org/web/20071011102531/http://vlingo.com/ "Tell your phone what to do! The Vlingo Virtual Assistant turn your words into action. Vlingo combines voice to text technology with its "intent engine" to help you quickly complete your desired action. "
I guess Vlingo for android is not as integrated but even the google search bar has a voice search option.
I have used the google voice search once and it was very good but I don't think in that way. For example I am typing this and not using Dragon Naturally. (I have tried it)
I tried Vlingo and its quite good but I am bored already.
I remember windows introducing voice recog and the volume down problem when the software can't hear you.
What I predict is pretentious apple - lets just say people - walking around saying "Iphone text Mum is dinner ready"
I've got to hand it to you two, that's almost textbook material for petty internet bickering. :)
No it's not. oblig xkcd http://xkcd.com/386/
Surely you get a friend or relative to sign up for the connection. Also what happens if you work from home ? What Internet on your phone? Pay as you go etc.. Then I can see a human rights problem, if a cat gets you to say in the UK surely the Internet and connectivity in general will be an abuse of human rights :)
Then there is open wifi etc..
Community wifi for banned people :)
In business school they call this the Gillette strategy, after the razors. Sell the razors at a loss...make your money back easily on the blades. Nail guns are sold the same way. The companies have been know to pass out free nail guns to construction companies just so they will buy more nails. Even if you buy a gun in a store, they are sold at pretty close to cost. Its a classic strategy. Besides, the more volume they can build, the closer to break-even they can get. By this time next year I bet they will be making a profit.
Except its not a strategy by Gillette: "The usual story about Gillette is that he realized that a disposable razor blade would not only be convenient, but also generate a continuous revenue stream. To foster that stream, he sold razors at an artificially low price to create the market for the blades.[1][3] But in fact Gillette razors were expensive when they were first introduced, and the price only went down after his patents expired: it was his competitors who invented the razors-and-blades model.[4]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing
you can't be tagged if you don't have a facebook profile.
I am sure you can put people's names in(that arent on facebook) but its not proper tagging as its not unique.
I know, it is hard to fathom that anyone would not have an account, but I have intentionally avoided it myself. However since I do appear to be the only person left in the world who doesn't have one, there is bound to be something that someone who knows me has posted that relates to me. Is it possible to request it? After all, if a user requests all the info that facebook as on them, and all they give them is the information that they posted, that is - to be kind - a very incomplete version of the data set.
How do you know which person you are getting the information on, without the unique login? So they can only give information on the person's userid and anywhere they are mentioned uniquely. tagged photos etc.. come to mind. Imagine trying to code the logic for anything else and make it correct.
First Person Journalism - hasn't got a ring to it really.
Do you get to use a Canon for this?
You could nickone - no I'll get my coat
I have google and my friends. Its all about the keywords and remembering which friends from which time periods you need to speak to. O and facebook is quite useful nowadays. Obviously IMDB,Wikipedia and ermmmm -- - thingummmy ------ Snopes thats it, are useful too. o look hackaday is calling ;)
Who would do a thing like that?
I read that as someone taken his IP address. Makes much more sense as intellectual property :)
The implications are profound.
No, not really. Unless, maybe, you're Geordi LaForge.
Yes! AR makes a cool gimmick and you could build cool games around it but on the other hand, it's fairly useless if you don't have a display device you can wear all the time. Some glasses, some contacts, something fancy and futuristic even by today's standards. Sure, video glasses exist, but all of them are ugly and none of the high-res ones are even vaguely affordable. Virtually none of them have mounted cameras so you need to add a rangefinder to calculate parallax.
Where is my cheap eyetap? You could build one for a thousand dollars years ago, supposedly.
Here: http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/female-artist-wants-bionic-eye-goes-kickstarter-14-07-2011/