I don’t have any of those devices, but I have observed the test I described showing the voice recognition being performed.

Ask Siri if she knows who you are. Let another person ask Siri anything. Then ask Siri if it’s doing voice recognition to identify your voice.

There are a lot of companies already doing voice recognition on our audio data, but you don’t hear much about it.

It seems like China is putting a lot of efforts into becoming environmentally cleaner in the last few years though. I’m hoping that they’ve finally realized that pollution is bad.

Well here we are, with all the signs of everything going as badly as possible fully present. Goddamn evil robot sentries guarding the fascist dictator-wannabe’s personal luxury habitat. At least down there, if one of those things malfunctions and hurts somebody it would have to be one of the worst people around.

This is certainly not the future I dreamed of as a child and young man.

Maybe what they are trying to say is that most everyday folks don’t use those terms in any normal conversation. I’ve never used those terms myself and haven’t heard them in any conversation I can recall outside of the Internet.

Your first comment was right: no phone

So Teams calls of 1-4 people can send traffic direct peer-to-peer if they’re on the same LAN right?
Do all calls of 5+ users stay centrally hosted on the cloud? These are the kinds of things that MS should document and make easily available for IT and firewall admins. Finding info on Teams ports wasn’t easy in my experience.

“9 out of 10 workers support the policy” he decided to imagine and then say out loud

Well they could still just blacklist all 3rd party drivers except storage drivers. Many categories of 3rd party drivers could be excluded fully during a selective recovery boot process.

The OS should be mature enough by now that it could automatically recover from crashing on the load of a bad 3rd party driver. But it was not, wtf.

It’s better because it’s not from Facebook, and it does VR extremely well overall.

We could implement age limits for semi-auto rifles, like age 25+

Bolt-action and other non-repeating rifles / shotguns could stay at age 18

Handguns are already at age 21, maybe we should make that just revolvers or single-shot handguns age and move semi-auto to 25+

This is based on the common factor of young men using semi-auto handguns and rifles to do a lot of murders, before their critical thinking skills are fully mature and stuff

But that’s only a small issue if you look at the actual murder stats. The vast majority of deaths by gun are not committed with “high-end firearms” with only an average 3% of homicides involving rifles. Knives and blunt instruments kill many times more people than rifles. Cheap handguns are the number one firearm used in homicides.

That’s true about the test group deployments, but it turned out this one was not an agent update under that control system. It’s a Channel File update that goes out to all endpoints automatically.

And they need to download more RAM

Because the discs will safely store that data for decades longer than any of your hard drives will likely work.

Nice

Audiobooks are also passive listening which is not cognitively absorbed as thoroughly as active reading. IMO you have not “read” a book if you just listened to someone read it to you. Reading with your own eyes engages more thinking processes, forcing the reader to think more about what they’ve read.

Yep there are tons of great videos on there. Norm MacDonald’s podcast, Wonder Showzen, MTV Liquid Television et cetera

Yes, they are the best medium for long term backups, as optical discs should be fine for decades. Hard drives and USB sticks are liable to fail within a few years.