Here's what should and probably will happen eventually.
Google of course must give users the option of selecting and/or recording their own activation phrase and/or password phrase. Even given the option, most users won't bother to set that up.
So Google should give allow users to say "Block Burger King", block "Whopper", etc. to block specific voice activations.
Let Burger King play their harmless and educational trick.
When users get disgusted, they can block it. BK loses in the long term. They and other actors will then have to decide whether future exploits like this will do more harm than good.
When you have a tablet, you can do things like punch in what defense the other team just used to provide statistical analysis of what the next best play is, or what kind of defense to run if your opponent is doing X often...
You could, but not in the NFL. These tablets are locked down to a single app provided by the NFL to show still photos of earlier plays in the game. The photos are sent to the tablets during the game, thus the need for connectivity.
The tablets, the app, the connectivity, and the photo feeds are all provided by the NFL. Probably hard to fault the tablet hardware itself for any complaints Belichick may have.
Mod this up. Very serious issue - if pedestrians know the car will avoid them at the cost of the driver, they'll have no incentive to be cautious. Forget about "look both ways before crossing"; now it's "I cross, you die."
Let's agree that the government has a legitimate need to regulate this.
Let's assume they set up an organization of 100 people with average salary of $100K per year to regulate and monitor the industry. Seems like plenty to get the job done.
In 10 years they spend $100M in salary. Throw in another $100M for overhead costs. Total: $200M over 10 years.
Remember, industry develops the technology, pays all testing and regulatory costs, etc. Government just works with them to make sensible rules and confirm the rules are followed.
So how do you come up with a proposal for the government to "invest" $4B, twenty times as much? Answer: government overreach.
I grew up right next to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. My dad and the vast majority of my friends moms and dads worked there for a long time as physicists. Being around these people for 35 years has taught me something. They are morons.
Interesting and probably true but nothing more than an ad hominem attack with regard to this study.
In your analogy, Netflix is the retransmitter. And yes, Netflix pays content providers like CBS for the right to retransmit. So by your logic, Aereo should pay content providers just like Netflix does.
Thank you for supporting my argument. Or is that not what you were trying to do?
Now that I think about it, I'm surprised Aereo won that ruling. Sure, every consumer has the right to receive a broadcast signal on an antenna and record it for time shifting purposes, and ostensibly with Aereo you simply outsource those functions to them. But there's a crucial difference: Aereo is not located on your premise; it's remote. That means in order for the signal to reach you, Aereo must transmit it from the remote DVR to your premises. I mean, isn't that a re-transmission by definition? And if so, is Aereo legally entitled to retransmit without compensating the original provider of the signal?
Probably not a popular opinion here on Slashdot, but legally speaking I'm surprised Aereo won. Of course, IANAL and all that.
Glad to see I'm not the only person on this board old enough to remember the original Mission Impossible TV series: "This tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds" followed by a smoking real-to-real tape player.
The guy lives so much more humbly that its hard to think if he is as crazy as western media shows him or is there more going on. The country is making progress in spite of all the sanctions. Not sure if its the Iranian media spin but the guy sits and eats simple foods on a mat on the floor, sleeps on the floor.
First of all, Ahmadinejad is not the real face of Iranian leadership. The ayatollahs make policy, not him.
Second, to the extent that he does influences Iran's behavior, what does Ahmadinejad's eating habits have to do with his policy goals? Is it OK that he wants to wipe Israel off the map and long as he gets lots of fiber in his diet?
Remember when Amdahl made computers that were "plug-compatible" with IBM mainframes? As I recall, any Amdahl component was a drop-in replacement for the equivalent IBM component.
What the hell has happened to patent laws (or corporate patent strategies?) that you can't even build a damn power connector without running afoul of some licensing issue? I agree with the parent: no patents on connectors! How does it "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" if nobody can independently build a device to connect to yours?
The "Photo" app only lets you see ones your Pictures folder (Library->Pictures). I've got games and apps that don't happen to use that as the default directory. As a result, I need to copy or move all my pics into this ONE place that is usable, or hunt them down in the explorer for desktop mode, then double click (causes a "flip" to metro mode) to view each one. This blows chunks and my compromise (for now) is to enable the small preview mode (lower right toggle).
Pictures is a library, not a folder. Libraries were introduced in Windows 7. A library lets you join multiple distinct folders, even across drives and network shares, into a single logical entity. For what you are trying to accomplish, you should add your game and app folders which contain pictures to your Pictures library. In Windows 7 you do this pulling up the properties for the Pictures library and using the "Include a folder..." button.
After you've done that, the Photo app should should all of your pictures.
Read How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) by David P. Goldman for the reason behind this.
In all societies, fertility rates have a very strong inverse proportional relationship to women's educational level. The fertility rate in Iran is crashing - which I wasn't aware of until reading Goldman. It has fallen below replacement level; the population is aging and will be heavy with old people and the cost of supporting them in the coming decades. Ahmadinejad has been exhorting families to have more children to no avail. The next logical step is to enforce a lesser level of education for women.
Bottom line: keep the women dumb and they'll have more babies. History prove this to be true.
Depends on the corporate culture. Definitely wear polo shirts or similar collared shirts; no T-shirts. In some places IT middle management wears jeans; in others it's Dockers or similar khakis.
I've been a contractor for a few years, formerly in IT management, and I've seen this dress in many, many places.
Has anyone written a program that is capable of taking standard IQ tests? In the current state of AI, could such a program score very high? If it did, what would that say about the intelligence of the program?
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Google of course must give users the option of selecting and/or recording their own activation phrase and/or password phrase. Even given the option, most users won't bother to set that up.
So Google should give allow users to say "Block Burger King", block "Whopper", etc. to block specific voice activations.
Let Burger King play their harmless and educational trick.
When users get disgusted, they can block it. BK loses in the long term. They and other actors will then have to decide whether future exploits like this will do more harm than good.
When you have a tablet, you can do things like punch in what defense the other team just used to provide statistical analysis of what the next best play is, or what kind of defense to run if your opponent is doing X often...
You could, but not in the NFL. These tablets are locked down to a single app provided by the NFL to show still photos of earlier plays in the game. The photos are sent to the tablets during the game, thus the need for connectivity.
The tablets, the app, the connectivity, and the photo feeds are all provided by the NFL. Probably hard to fault the tablet hardware itself for any complaints Belichick may have.
Mod this up. Very serious issue - if pedestrians know the car will avoid them at the cost of the driver, they'll have no incentive to be cautious. Forget about "look both ways before crossing"; now it's "I cross, you die."
Let's agree that the government has a legitimate need to regulate this.
Let's assume they set up an organization of 100 people with average salary of $100K per year to regulate and monitor the industry. Seems like plenty to get the job done.
In 10 years they spend $100M in salary. Throw in another $100M for overhead costs. Total: $200M over 10 years.
Remember, industry develops the technology, pays all testing and regulatory costs, etc. Government just works with them to make sensible rules and confirm the rules are followed.
So how do you come up with a proposal for the government to "invest" $4B, twenty times as much? Answer: government overreach.
Steve McConnell's Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art is the last, best word on this topic.
I grew up right next to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. My dad and the vast majority of my friends moms and dads worked there for a long time as physicists. Being around these people for 35 years has taught me something. They are morons.
Interesting and probably true but nothing more than an ad hominem attack with regard to this study.
In your analogy, Netflix is the retransmitter. And yes, Netflix pays content providers like CBS for the right to retransmit. So by your logic, Aereo should pay content providers just like Netflix does.
Thank you for supporting my argument. Or is that not what you were trying to do?
Now that I think about it, I'm surprised Aereo won that ruling. Sure, every consumer has the right to receive a broadcast signal on an antenna and record it for time shifting purposes, and ostensibly with Aereo you simply outsource those functions to them. But there's a crucial difference: Aereo is not located on your premise; it's remote. That means in order for the signal to reach you, Aereo must transmit it from the remote DVR to your premises. I mean, isn't that a re-transmission by definition? And if so, is Aereo legally entitled to retransmit without compensating the original provider of the signal?
Probably not a popular opinion here on Slashdot, but legally speaking I'm surprised Aereo won. Of course, IANAL and all that.
...lives on his back. The Gene Genie loves chimney stacks.
Glad to see I'm not the only person on this board old enough to remember the original Mission Impossible TV series: "This tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds" followed by a smoking real-to-real tape player.
The guy lives so much more humbly that its hard to think if he is as crazy as western media shows him or is there more going on. The country is making progress in spite of all the sanctions. Not sure if its the Iranian media spin but the guy sits and eats simple foods on a mat on the floor, sleeps on the floor.
First of all, Ahmadinejad is not the real face of Iranian leadership. The ayatollahs make policy, not him.
Second, to the extent that he does influences Iran's behavior, what does Ahmadinejad's eating habits have to do with his policy goals? Is it OK that he wants to wipe Israel off the map and long as he gets lots of fiber in his diet?
Remember when Amdahl made computers that were "plug-compatible" with IBM mainframes? As I recall, any Amdahl component was a drop-in replacement for the equivalent IBM component.
What the hell has happened to patent laws (or corporate patent strategies?) that you can't even build a damn power connector without running afoul of some licensing issue? I agree with the parent: no patents on connectors! How does it "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" if nobody can independently build a device to connect to yours?
The "Photo" app only lets you see ones your Pictures folder (Library->Pictures). I've got games and apps that don't happen to use that as the default directory. As a result, I need to copy or move all my pics into this ONE place that is usable, or hunt them down in the explorer for desktop mode, then double click (causes a "flip" to metro mode) to view each one. This blows chunks and my compromise (for now) is to enable the small preview mode (lower right toggle).
Pictures is a library, not a folder. Libraries were introduced in Windows 7. A library lets you join multiple distinct folders, even across drives and network shares, into a single logical entity. For what you are trying to accomplish, you should add your game and app folders which contain pictures to your Pictures library. In Windows 7 you do this pulling up the properties for the Pictures library and using the "Include a folder..." button.
After you've done that, the Photo app should should all of your pictures.
Read How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) by David P. Goldman for the reason behind this.
In all societies, fertility rates have a very strong inverse proportional relationship to women's educational level. The fertility rate in Iran is crashing - which I wasn't aware of until reading Goldman. It has fallen below replacement level; the population is aging and will be heavy with old people and the cost of supporting them in the coming decades. Ahmadinejad has been exhorting families to have more children to no avail. The next logical step is to enforce a lesser level of education for women.
Bottom line: keep the women dumb and they'll have more babies. History prove this to be true.
Depends on the corporate culture. Definitely wear polo shirts or similar collared shirts; no T-shirts. In some places IT middle management wears jeans; in others it's Dockers or similar khakis. I've been a contractor for a few years, formerly in IT management, and I've seen this dress in many, many places.
Has anyone written a program that is capable of taking standard IQ tests? In the current state of AI, could such a program score very high? If it did, what would that say about the intelligence of the program?