Its a way of providing UX in a consistent way across many different contributors.
In the real world with companies like Microsoft constantly changing their "design language" to make their products look new and different what you actually end up with is pointless confusion and inconsistent interfaces with nothing substantive to show for it in return.
If anyone says something or behaves in a manner not to your liking it is your DUTY to "shut them down" and "call them out". You must protest until they stop doing what upsets/triggers you. If you fail at this you will never have good luck...ever.. and your SJW membership will be permanently revoked no matter how much of a raving loon you continue 2B.
Windows is like the tax software used to save time filing taxes only to have it take longer once you factor in brain-damaged UX interspersed with advertisements, repeated attempts to upsell forcing users to carefully navigate minefield to avoid being tricked into agreeing to additional services or "sharing" your information with god knows who for god knows why.
At the end of the experience you wish you had just filled out the damn form yourself and mailed it to the IRS.
The press in general pretty much abdicated it's job for the past 8 years.
8 years? Where were they when Bush and his flunkies were going around uttering the words Iraq and terrorism in the same sentence?
The point really is the press is part of the problem BECAUSE they've picked sides.
If the problem was really they have picked sides it would still leave a halfway useful result.
My personal view the time machine thing in Tomorrowland is a fitting analogy of the press. Not only are they stupid, lazy and bias they persistently deliberately seek to amplify negative energy, stoke controversy and fear for no reason other than self-enrichment. They have essentially devolved into a band of professional trolls.
What I especially love are polls routinely reported on showing what everyone thinks about "terrorism" and shit... gee golly gosh with 24x7x365 coverage of terror this and terror that where on earth would anyone get such ideas? They seem to be actively trying to close their own feedback loops.
If anyone is looking for a paired down version of Windows without paying for it Hyper-V 2012 server is apparently free. Doesn't come with management tools but you can connect from a workstation and install and run normal win32 software.
He used the 7 countries designated by the previous administration as countries of concern. Trumps EO doesn't even mention them by name.
No. The EO list hails from 8 USC 1187 (VWP)
Iraq and Syria are baked into the omnibus for VWP exceptions. Text for this within omnibus legislation was mostly incorporated from failed HR 158 text sponsored by the Republican Candice Miller.
"subparagraphs (B) and (C)--(i) the alien has not been present, at any time on or after March 1, 2011-- (I) in Iraq or Syria;"
Rest of countries are sourced from various naughty lists controlled by different actors:
"(II) in a country that is designated by the Secretary of State under section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 2405) (as continued in effect under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)), section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2780), section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2371), or any other provision of law, as a country, the government of which has repeatedly provided support of acts of international terrorism; or (III) in any other country or area of concern designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security under subparagraph (D);"
This. Does anyone seriously advocate that someone who posts something like "Death to America!" and has images of ISIS flags all over their Facebook page NOT be stopped at the border?? That's some pretty basic vetting, right there.
I would seriously advocate this. I don't subscribe to the arbitrary hypocrisy a states laws and values cease to apply to humans beyond arbitrary political boundaries drawn on a map.
Unless one has or there is reason to suspect one of breaking the law simply thinking poorly of the US or brandishing tokens of affection towards enemies shouldn't in and of itself disqualify those seeking entry.
If I posted "Death to the Queen!" on my Facebook page, should I be pissed if the UK then denied my travel visa?
When in Rome...
If anyone thinks this is wrong, I'd like some of what you're smoking.
If not legal to demand lists of websites visited and rummage through electronic devices without any legal showing within the country then I would argue it shouldn't be allowed at the border either (Or within the 100-mile constitutionally challenged zone within the US)
The problem with "basic security practices" is that they are too much for most users to handle on a general purpose OS...
The problem with this industry customers are allowing vendors to get away with failing for free with no consequence.
Perpetual forced updates are just an extension of this with vendors consolidating their position to further normalize and reduce burdens associated with their own screw-ups.
How do you expect users to install application software? They download it and execute it, how do you expect them to tell a legitimate site from a malicious one? The answer for such users is the repository / app store model...
Do you mean the model where thousands of seedy app vendors prey on the ignorance of their users while OS vendor encourage and enables or at least turns a blind eye to abuse so long as it does not overtly threaten integrity of the platform?
Humanity has been managing trust since the beginning of civilization. This isn't new. Simply asserting everyone is too stupid isn't helpful regardless of validity when no better solution exists. Promoting ignorance/promiscuity (walled gardens) is not a useful means of managing trust nor has aggregating power and punting such decisions to kings ever worked.
The only difference of consequence between smartphones and traditional PCs is the security model of the environment software runs within. The ability to run software in an isolated jail without having to worry about escape is just as valuable on PC as it is smartphone. The concepts of choosers to mediate access is no less useful to PC. If any app can be made to run happily thinking it is "root" with little consequence on a throwaway virtual machine then why can't people who click on the wrong email link be given the same opportunity?
Piss poor design, insufficient capabilities, missing constraints, absent aspects and software defects are not inherent to general purpose computers. They exist due to industry failures.
General purpose computers are tools for geeks, always have been. Give average users their walled garden ipads, and keep complex machines available only for those who know how to use them.
Good responsive design is hard; to have the same page layout on a two inch wide mobile phone screen as on a 24 inch monitor, and have it attractive and easy to work with on both requires a great deal of thought, and often some compromise. Making the compromises at the small end of the range doesn't work because on a very small screen pages that are not well adapted are completely unusuable, whereas if you make the compromise at the big end of the range you end up with a page that looks ugly but still works.
But the challenge of responsive design is to respond to a wide range of screen sizes and be functional and elegant on all. It's a significant challenge, and too many designers design to one fixed size or a small range of fixed sizes.
Designers make things that look nice. Asking designers to also be programmers is why all of this "responsive" crap is universally yielding poor results. It is exactly the same type of outcome one would expect where programmers are asked to be designers.
If you want something that works in the real world:
1. Throw extreme scalability hogwash in the trash where it belongs. It's too big an ask for talent most people are willing to afford given constraints of current technology.
2. Have designers design interfaces separately for each class of form factors
3. Have programmers create common interfaces to support all designs
4. Invite your competitors to keep alienating their users with their "responsive" garbage.
Doomsday clocks interestingly enough seem to have very narrow operating ranges.
Furthest from 100% (Doomsday) this particular clock has ever been was 17 minutes to midnight in 1991 @ 98.8% of the way till doomsday.
Now it's 2.5 minutes or 99.8% of the way to doomsday.
Do these wonderful PhD scientists really have objective scientific information they believe is able to inform predictions able to discriminate between 98.8% vs. 99.8% distance to doomsday or have the hands been driven primarily by random noise since the clock started ticking?
Engineer A: Lets re-interpret intent to make it faster Engineer B: Lets re-interpret intent to make it current GOTO A
The history of HTTP cache headers are filled with this same contention between different people trying to reinterpret the meaning of words to further their narrow agendas.
This crap always ends with everyone having a headache without solving anything.
If you want to make reload better try adding mechanisms to explicitly signal intent so it can explicitly be acted on rather than hacking shit to make it work better for *you* because you can.
The biggest barrier to the smart home is getting all of the devices to talk to each other. Until it's basically plug-n-play, it's just not going to happen. It looks like Amazon, and others, are trying to solve this. We'll see if they can succeed...
The point is, I'm blown away by the willingness to plop an omnidirectional microphone in the middle of your house.
Get a clue. Your computer and your phone also have microphones, and transmit WAY more traffic that could hide spying.
I'm blown away by the dismissive response and display of technical ignorance.
Amazon Echo does not have enough on board computing to do voice recognition
It has 250MB of RAM, 4GB of flash and DM3725 arm processor. My blackberry 9000 did local voice recognition with half the RAM a quarter of the onboard flash and slower less capable processor. The original version of dragon recognized 25k words in less than 30MB of ram.
4GB of flash is enough to store a bit less than two months of continuous non-silence detected cell phone quality audio. With silence detection in most settings and a more complex/aggressive codec you could easily push a year.
it has minimal memory for buffering, and it transmits a very small amount of data when, and only when, the trigger word is used.
If you worry about the Echo, and you don't worry about your cellphone or laptop, then you're an idiot.
Every time someone raises a concern about x you will always find someone jumping on the...but what about y and z bandwagon. WTF do cellphones and laptops have to do with the topic at hand? Is it really necessary for someone raising a concern about x have to enumerate a list of everything else that can possibly raise similar concerns without being called an idiot?
And there's no reason why I'm not in my flying car, living in my moon base right now, as futurists claimed would be the case when I was a teen. Or maybe it's easy to state vague ideas, and hard to actually work out all the practical details...
Back on earth a "smartphone" I had some dozen years ago set appointments, called people I told it to call, played music from artists I wanted to hear and ran programs for me locally without any Internet access at all.
On this planet in the year 2017 most non-trivial requests to Siri/Cortana are in fact resolved by passing transcriptions to publically accessible search engines.
I've been carrying an extensive self-contained geographic database detailing the entire country and POI/business listings in my pocket here on the planet Earth three rocks away from SOL while Bush Jr was president.
I never indicated anything was easy. I only stated it was reasonable/tractable to achieve.
Since you seem to know the basics of ANN-based AI but not the details, check this article out to get into the current decade, it's a good overview of how much resources it really takes to do ANN right: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...
I seem to have no idea what you are asserting or relevance of this New York times article. It does not address the topic at hand, offers no useful technical details and does not address the premise of my point -- there exists a massive difference in computational requirements between training vs using trained networks.
For example when level 5 self driving cars hit the roads they will be executing against trained networks locally without "the cloud". ANN based systems generally have this property.
Summary is: sure you can do really crappy NLP locally, but what Google has started doing is at another level entirely. And that's not even at the level that will be required to really get "intelligent agents" to be truly useful. The limiting factor to ANN right now is computing power (and/or much more special purpose hardware). That's the reason it was nearly abandoned 20 years ago and revived recently - it was impossible with the previous concepts of "supercomputers", etc and now only with massively distributed computing has it been possible to actually simulate the multilevel networks required.
My own opinion why these things don't see daylight is primarily the value proposition was always so weak in the first place. People are happy with tools that only cover trivial aspects such as managing their schedule, contacts and some interactions with local and external datasets to find common shit like a someone's number or nearest MC Donald's. Speech recognition industry has seen a near total collapse of vendors and crickets in terms of research dollars over the last couple decades. Using Siri/Cortana/Alexa does not make the user more productive or assist them in getting their jobs done.. it is a wiz-bang cool gimmick that many people lose interest in over time. The utility of IA is it's role as "glue". It doesn't need to be anything approaching AGI to be useful to me.
You're still going to need a MITM unless everyone figures out how to do proper port forwarding or exposing the port from behind the ISP's modem's router/firewall.
Apparently, Linux people still fail at understanding some of these basic networking concepts. Not surprised.
All you need is something that looks like a naming/directory/oldschool ILS type server to coordinate things.
With IPv6 implementations ports are mapped 1:1 because there is no packet mangling. All you need to do is prime the SPI with a few UDP packets in either direction and your good to go.
With IPv4 NATs... especially the CGN variety without a 1:1 map required much more creative approaches such as birthday paradox spam across the port space which is slow and unreliable and may not work at all due to lack of common overlap in mapped space.
And the 2017 list... Free smartphone OS basically seems to be "free Android" - I'm sure it will be about as successful at the 2008 goal with "gNewSense". FSF personal assistant? Could it be possible they don't understand how these work? It's trivial client software with billions of dollars in server hardware behind it. And seriously, "projects that replace Google, Facebook Apple, and so on"? Again, you don't replace those unless you have billions in backend investment and billions of users.
Originally "intelligent agents" were supposed to be software running on the users behalf which strived to understand contextually what the users needs were and act to support the user. What actually happened big data cyber stalking firms have entirely corrupted this vision.
It isn't that you start over and run parallel infrastructure. It is more about designing local agents able to effectively leverage the network as it is to fulfill needs of the user. There is no reason an IA can't run a google, wolfram alpha, bing search, check specialized databases of interest or rummage through your email or local files on your behalf. The only difference is the IA is acting in YOUR best interests NOT a third parties and it isn't sending all of your local personal shit to god knows who for god knows why.
Current systems are more than capable of doing NLP and voice recognition locally. Even if you go with generic ANN approach for recognition you don't need exotic hardware to use a trained network. Granted all of this requires specialized skills but far from unreasonable.
If done properly you can provide value with IA's the likes of siri, cortana, alexa...etc can't because it's not in their business model. If you got the basic interfaces, perhaps some specialized DSLs and focus on making it easy for people to build their own agent logic and share it with others.. there is a chance... perhaps a small one of creating something that snowballs where the value and the capabilities of the IA grows organically as more people contribute or improve upon logic that scratches their itches.
I lurk on the Nim IRC channel sometimes. The toxicity there can be unbelievable.
I don't know any of the people who created any of the non-DSL languages I use every day. I don't know if they worship Natas and sport Hitler Mustaches or if they have some kind of oxymoron "tolerance" thing going on like the Rust heads. I don't know if they are into Satanic rituals while being employed by NSA as part of ongoing efforts to compromise all the worlds systems.
How can anyone take the language seriously when they have to put up with so much anger and rudeness from its community?
How can anyone seriously care? People select languages for RESULTS not social hour. The only thing I care about is technical merit.. whether NIM can deliver. I have never in my life heard of anyone contemplate criteria for selecting a language based on who said what in an IRC channel.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, am wondering if I should be doing a factory reset before the plane finishes taxiing. Or will they then demand my Google/Apple password?
Factory resets are worthless.
BACKUP YOUR SHIT
Google reaped billions of dollars while leaving Oracle's Java business in tatters.
Oracle did this all by themselves.
You are kidding right?
Its a way of providing UX in a consistent way across many different contributors.
In the real world with companies like Microsoft constantly changing their "design language" to make their products look new and different what you actually end up with is pointless confusion and inconsistent interfaces with nothing substantive to show for it in return.
If anyone says something or behaves in a manner not to your liking it is your DUTY to "shut them down" and "call them out". You must protest until they stop doing what upsets/triggers you. If you fail at this you will never have good luck ...ever.. and your SJW membership will be permanently revoked no matter how much of a raving loon you continue 2B.
Oh give me a break. GoDaddy runs a seedy domain registrar and some hosting services.
Windows is like the tax software used to save time filing taxes only to have it take longer once you factor in brain-damaged UX interspersed with advertisements, repeated attempts to upsell forcing users to carefully navigate minefield to avoid being tricked into agreeing to additional services or "sharing" your information with god knows who for god knows why.
At the end of the experience you wish you had just filled out the damn form yourself and mailed it to the IRS.
The press in general pretty much abdicated it's job for the past 8 years.
8 years? Where were they when Bush and his flunkies were going around uttering the words Iraq and terrorism in the same sentence?
The point really is the press is part of the problem BECAUSE they've picked sides.
If the problem was really they have picked sides it would still leave a halfway useful result.
My personal view the time machine thing in Tomorrowland is a fitting analogy of the press. Not only are they stupid, lazy and bias they persistently deliberately seek to amplify negative energy, stoke controversy and fear for no reason other than self-enrichment. They have essentially devolved into a band of professional trolls.
What I especially love are polls routinely reported on showing what everyone thinks about "terrorism" and shit... gee golly gosh with 24x7x365 coverage of terror this and terror that where on earth would anyone get such ideas? They seem to be actively trying to close their own feedback loops.
You know those clips where folk like Mr. O says what he is "really" thinking...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
When I notice CNN folk use phrase "so we can see how we are doing" when referring to polls... I want to believe it's not intentional... I really do.
Home of secret law, land of safe cowards.
Encryptions next
If only they had waited two months more before posting TFA it would have been worth reading.
If anyone is looking for a paired down version of Windows without paying for it Hyper-V 2012 server is apparently free. Doesn't come with management tools but you can connect from a workstation and install and run normal win32 software.
He used the 7 countries designated by the previous administration as countries of concern. Trumps EO doesn't even mention them by name.
No. The EO list hails from 8 USC 1187 (VWP)
Iraq and Syria are baked into the omnibus for VWP exceptions. Text for this within omnibus legislation was mostly incorporated from failed HR 158 text sponsored by the Republican Candice Miller.
"subparagraphs (B) and (C)--(i) the alien has not been present, at any
time on or after March 1, 2011-- (I) in Iraq or Syria;"
Rest of countries are sourced from various naughty lists controlled by different actors:
"(II) in a country that is designated by the Secretary of State under
section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 2405)
(as continued in effect under the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)), section 40 of the Arms Export
Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2780), section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2371), or any other provision of law, as a country,
the government of which has repeatedly provided support of acts of
international terrorism; or (III) in any other country or area of
concern designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security under
subparagraph (D);"
This. Does anyone seriously advocate that someone who posts something like "Death to America!" and has images of ISIS flags all over their Facebook page NOT be stopped at the border?? That's some pretty basic vetting, right there.
I would seriously advocate this. I don't subscribe to the arbitrary hypocrisy a states laws and values cease to apply to humans beyond arbitrary political boundaries drawn on a map.
Unless one has or there is reason to suspect one of breaking the law simply thinking poorly of the US or brandishing tokens of affection towards enemies shouldn't in and of itself disqualify those seeking entry.
If I posted "Death to the Queen!" on my Facebook page, should I be pissed if the UK then denied my travel visa?
When in Rome...
If anyone thinks this is wrong, I'd like some of what you're smoking.
If not legal to demand lists of websites visited and rummage through electronic devices without any legal showing within the country then I would argue it shouldn't be allowed at the border either (Or within the 100-mile constitutionally challenged zone within the US)
The problem with "basic security practices" is that they are too much for most users to handle on a general purpose OS...
The problem with this industry customers are allowing vendors to get away with failing for free with no consequence.
Perpetual forced updates are just an extension of this with vendors consolidating their position to further normalize and reduce burdens associated with their own screw-ups.
How do you expect users to install application software? They download it and execute it, how do you expect them to tell a legitimate site from a malicious one? The answer for such users is the repository / app store model...
Do you mean the model where thousands of seedy app vendors prey on the ignorance of their users while OS vendor encourage and enables or at least turns a blind eye to abuse so long as it does not overtly threaten integrity of the platform?
Humanity has been managing trust since the beginning of civilization. This isn't new. Simply asserting everyone is too stupid isn't helpful regardless of validity when no better solution exists. Promoting ignorance/promiscuity (walled gardens) is not a useful means of managing trust nor has aggregating power and punting such decisions to kings ever worked.
The only difference of consequence between smartphones and traditional PCs is the security model of the environment software runs within. The ability to run software in an isolated jail without having to worry about escape is just as valuable on PC as it is smartphone. The concepts of choosers to mediate access is no less useful to PC. If any app can be made to run happily thinking it is "root" with little consequence on a throwaway virtual machine then why can't people who click on the wrong email link be given the same opportunity?
Piss poor design, insufficient capabilities, missing constraints, absent aspects and software defects are not inherent to general purpose computers. They exist due to industry failures.
General purpose computers are tools for geeks, always have been. Give average users their walled garden ipads, and keep complex machines available only for those who know how to use them.
IPADS ARE GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS
Good responsive design is hard; to have the same page layout on a two inch wide mobile phone screen as on a 24 inch monitor, and have it attractive and easy to work with on both requires a great deal of thought, and often some compromise. Making the compromises at the small end of the range doesn't work because on a very small screen pages that are not well adapted are completely unusuable, whereas if you make the compromise at the big end of the range you end up with a page that looks ugly but still works.
But the challenge of responsive design is to respond to a wide range of screen sizes and be functional and elegant on all. It's a significant challenge, and too many designers design to one fixed size or a small range of fixed sizes.
Designers make things that look nice. Asking designers to also be programmers is why all of this "responsive" crap is universally yielding poor results. It is exactly the same type of outcome one would expect where programmers are asked to be designers.
If you want something that works in the real world:
1. Throw extreme scalability hogwash in the trash where it belongs. It's too big an ask for talent most people are willing to afford given constraints of current technology.
2. Have designers design interfaces separately for each class of form factors
3. Have programmers create common interfaces to support all designs
4. Invite your competitors to keep alienating their users with their "responsive" garbage.
Doomsday clocks interestingly enough seem to have very narrow operating ranges.
Furthest from 100% (Doomsday) this particular clock has ever been was 17 minutes to midnight in 1991 @ 98.8% of the way till doomsday.
Now it's 2.5 minutes or 99.8% of the way to doomsday.
Do these wonderful PhD scientists really have objective scientific information they believe is able to inform predictions able to discriminate between 98.8% vs. 99.8% distance to doomsday or have the hands been driven primarily by random noise since the clock started ticking?
Engineer A: Lets re-interpret intent to make it faster
Engineer B: Lets re-interpret intent to make it current
GOTO A
The history of HTTP cache headers are filled with this same contention between different people trying to reinterpret the meaning of words to further their narrow agendas.
This crap always ends with everyone having a headache without solving anything.
If you want to make reload better try adding mechanisms to explicitly signal intent so it can explicitly be acted on rather than hacking shit to make it work better for *you* because you can.
The biggest barrier to the smart home is getting all of the devices to talk to each other. Until it's basically plug-n-play, it's just not going to happen. It looks like Amazon, and others, are trying to solve this. We'll see if they can succeed...
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The point is, I'm blown away by the willingness to plop an omnidirectional microphone in the middle of your house.
Get a clue. Your computer and your phone also have microphones, and transmit WAY more traffic that could hide spying.
I'm blown away by the dismissive response and display of technical ignorance.
Amazon Echo does not have enough on board computing to do voice recognition
It has 250MB of RAM, 4GB of flash and DM3725 arm processor. My blackberry 9000 did local voice recognition with half the RAM a quarter of the onboard flash and slower less capable processor. The original version of dragon recognized 25k words in less than 30MB of ram.
4GB of flash is enough to store a bit less than two months of continuous non-silence detected cell phone quality audio. With silence detection in most settings and a more complex/aggressive codec you could easily push a year.
it has minimal memory for buffering, and it transmits a very small amount of data when, and only when, the trigger word is used.
If you worry about the Echo, and you don't worry about your cellphone or laptop, then you're an idiot.
Every time someone raises a concern about x you will always find someone jumping on the...but what about y and z bandwagon. WTF do cellphones and laptops have to do with the topic at hand? Is it really necessary for someone raising a concern about x have to enumerate a list of everything else that can possibly raise similar concerns without being called an idiot?
And there's no reason why I'm not in my flying car, living in my moon base right now, as futurists claimed would be the case when I was a teen.
Or maybe it's easy to state vague ideas, and hard to actually work out all the practical details...
Back on earth a "smartphone" I had some dozen years
ago set appointments, called people I told it to call, played music from artists I wanted to hear and ran programs for me locally without any Internet access at all.
On this planet in the year 2017 most non-trivial requests to Siri/Cortana are in fact resolved by passing transcriptions to publically accessible search engines.
I've been carrying an extensive self-contained geographic database detailing the entire country and POI/business listings in my pocket here on the planet Earth three rocks away from SOL while Bush Jr was president.
I never indicated anything was easy. I only stated it was reasonable/tractable to achieve.
Since you seem to know the basics of ANN-based AI but not the details, check this article out to get into the current decade, it's a good overview of how much resources it really takes to do ANN right: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...
I seem to have no idea what you are asserting or relevance of this New York times article. It does not address the topic at hand, offers no useful technical details and does not address the premise of my point -- there exists a massive difference in computational requirements between training vs using trained networks.
For example when level 5 self driving cars hit the roads they will be executing against trained networks locally without "the cloud". ANN based systems generally have this property.
Summary is: sure you can do really crappy NLP locally, but what Google has started doing is at another level entirely. And that's not even at the level that will be required to really get "intelligent agents" to be truly useful. The limiting factor to ANN right now is computing power (and/or much more special purpose hardware). That's the reason it was nearly abandoned 20 years ago and revived recently - it was impossible with the previous concepts of "supercomputers", etc and now only with massively distributed computing has it been possible to actually simulate the multilevel networks required.
My own opinion why these things don't see daylight is primarily the value proposition was always so weak in the first place. People are happy with tools that only cover trivial aspects such as managing their schedule, contacts and some interactions with local and external datasets to find common shit like a someone's number or nearest MC Donald's. Speech recognition industry has seen a near total collapse of vendors and crickets in terms of research dollars over the last couple decades. Using Siri/Cortana/Alexa does not make the user more productive or assist them in getting their jobs done.. it is a wiz-bang cool gimmick that many people lose interest in over time. The utility of IA is it's role as "glue". It doesn't need to be anything approaching AGI to be useful to me.
You're still going to need a MITM unless everyone figures out how to do proper port forwarding or exposing the port from behind the ISP's modem's router/firewall.
Apparently, Linux people still fail at understanding some of these basic networking concepts. Not surprised.
All you need is something that looks like a naming/directory/oldschool ILS type server to coordinate things.
With IPv6 implementations ports are mapped 1:1 because there is no packet mangling. All you need to do is prime the SPI with a few UDP packets in either direction and your good to go.
With IPv4 NATs ... especially the CGN variety without a 1:1 map required much more creative approaches such as birthday paradox spam across the port space which is slow and unreliable and may not work at all due to lack of common overlap in mapped space.
And the 2017 list... Free smartphone OS basically seems to be "free Android" - I'm sure it will be about as successful at the 2008 goal with "gNewSense". FSF personal assistant? Could it be possible they don't understand how these work? It's trivial client software with billions of dollars in server hardware behind it. And seriously, "projects that replace Google, Facebook Apple, and so on"? Again, you don't replace those unless you have billions in backend investment and billions of users.
Originally "intelligent agents" were supposed to be software running on the users behalf which strived to understand contextually what the users needs were and act to support the user. What actually happened big data cyber stalking firms have entirely corrupted this vision.
It isn't that you start over and run parallel infrastructure. It is more about designing local agents able to effectively leverage the network as it is to fulfill needs of the user. There is no reason an IA can't run a google, wolfram alpha, bing search, check specialized databases of interest or rummage through your email or local files on your behalf. The only difference is the IA is acting in YOUR best interests NOT a third parties and it isn't sending all of your local personal shit to god knows who for god knows why.
Current systems are more than capable of doing NLP and voice recognition locally. Even if you go with generic ANN approach for recognition you don't need exotic hardware to use a trained network. Granted all of this requires specialized skills but far from unreasonable.
If done properly you can provide value with IA's the likes of siri, cortana, alexa...etc can't because it's not in their business model. If you got the basic interfaces, perhaps some specialized DSLs and focus on making it easy for people to build their own agent logic and share it with others.. there is a chance... perhaps a small one of creating something that snowballs where the value and the capabilities of the IA grows organically as more people contribute or improve upon logic that scratches their itches.
I lurk on the Nim IRC channel sometimes. The toxicity there can be unbelievable.
I don't know any of the people who created any of the non-DSL languages I use every day. I don't know if they worship Natas and sport Hitler Mustaches or if they have some kind of oxymoron "tolerance" thing going on like the Rust heads. I don't know if they are into Satanic rituals while being employed by NSA as part of ongoing efforts to compromise all the worlds systems.
How can anyone take the language seriously when they have to put up with so much anger and rudeness from its community?
How can anyone seriously care? People select languages for RESULTS not social hour. The only thing I care about is technical merit.. whether NIM can deliver. I have never in my life heard of anyone contemplate criteria for selecting a language based on who said what in an IRC channel.