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Someone still thinks an always-on mic is a good idea?
Am I hopelessly old-fashioned if I say that I genuinely like physical ON/ OFF switches?***
***(Had to buy a new telly not too long ago. Do you know what a struggle it is to find a telly that you can really switch OFF (so no stand by, but 0.0 W) without pulling out the plug?)
You must be fun at parties... just for the sake of it, I crunched the numbers...
A 55" LG OLED TV of 2019 (OLED55B6V) draws 0.5w on standby.
0.5w/hr x 8760 hours in a year (365 days) = 4.38 kWh of electricity a year.
I just checked my SSE bill and I pay 18.43p per kWh. This comes to a grand total of..... £0.81 a year, or less than 2p a week, for not having a standby button. Given the restrictions on model based on having a physical button, personally, I'll stick with being able to pick my remote up any time and turn my TV on.
I'm curious; do you have a Satellite/cable/Sky box plugged in? Do you also turn your broadband router off when not using it?
@ACThanks for doing the numbers. But... it's not about that. It's about the fact it is my consumer preference that I can turn a thing off. And be honest, if you want I can come up with just as many reasons why that would be a good thing (fire anybody?) But then again, we're all grown ups here (I think, not sure, come to think of it, ermm ☺). I suppose the point I was to make is why are there more and more devices you can't turn off OFF. Because yes, it's no big cost to me right. So how much will it cost a manufacturer to put a physical switch on their devices? Ahhh... profit... Continious online... And since you mentioned it:
Sure, take those numbers you mentioned, and then consider the whole world population. Having their devices they have on stand by. Including their routers (yes, mine came with a time switch, as did yours probably. Use it?)... and phones which seem soooo difficult to turn off when I look around me. And my satellite is integrated in the (new) telly. No use for Sky, we have proper telly here...</grumpy old fart mode>
@Simon Harris I know what you mean from my own time in Blighty. But also have to admit it was the only country of the 9 I live(d) in where such switches are on outlets. Sadly...
Silly question, but don't the plugs in your house have on/off switches? If you're walking to the TV, then it's probably about the same distance to the plug socket (Or perhaps less).
You can also get those smart extension lead things that turn it all off for you (supposedly), although... I bet they draw current, possibly even more than the TV itself would in standby.
>I crunched the numbers...
Assuming it stays off
I used to come home to the TV having been on full all day, or being woken up in the middle of the night - because there has been a momentary power glitch that had restarted it
In the end i had to buy a switched extension cord to switch it off at the wall
Given the restrictions on model based on having a physical button, personally, I'll stick with being able to pick my remote up any time and turn my TV on.
But when you LOSE that remote (as is certain to happen in THIS household), you have a piece of useless electronic junk, since apparently *ALL* manufacturers have decided to do away with buttons on the TVs now. So it looks like our next TV will be a *used* one from the local resale shop, as I don't want to reward the electronics manufacturers by buying the shit they're making now.
"4.38 kWh of electricity a year.....£0.81 a year, or less than 2p a week, for not having a standby button."
Now multiply that by (my guess), 40 million TVs in the UK. 175GWh per year or 20GW generating capacity. Now we starting to look at the equivalent of an entire power station, just to keep TVs on standby. Now add in all the other devices left on standby, not to mention all the phone chargers and the like the many people tend to leave plugged in and switched on 24/7, even when not being used.
My mother-in-law turns off her router when she shuts the lid of her laptop (after playing solitaire), then wonders why her cellphone uses up all her included data and $9 credit on the first day of her 28-day pre-pay rollover period.
But at least she deletes all her text messages after reading, to save space...
Am I hopelessly old-fashioned if I say that I genuinely like physical ON/ OFF switches?***
Same here.
I actually stopped buying proper external drives when the half-wit shits decided not to include ON/OFF switches anymore.
Easier to buy bare drives and use them in a dock or home-made enclosure rather than reward those idiots for such mean and unhelpful decisions. Just yanking the cable or finding the right plug out of a dozen is not an option and I prefer drives to unmount properly and not be turned on by accident.
Apart from the Iron Law of Monopoly, I don't know why the drive-makers all ate themselves until only 3 survived, but survival of the fittest in no way meant survival of the cleverest for this industry.
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Alao I may say how smart and sharp it is, after the dinosaur age of beige boxes to have a dozen wires together very very black.
Apart from the Iron Law of Monopoly, I don't know why the drive-makers all ate themselves until only 3 survived, but survival of the fittest in no way meant survival of the cleverest for this industry.
How true. If Western Digital is still around, then it's certainly not survival of the best/cleverest, more like the Peter Principle at work.
No actually, this means the malware developers are not going to test their stuff against Microsofts monotonic whatever and Microsoft will remain in the dark and their tool be useless.
Does anyone at Microsoft really think that it'll be that simple ? Those malware developers are not skript kiddies, they are intelligent people. I do not see them shrug and decide to put their code into Microsoft's database. If they were testing on an offline computer, it was for a reason : they didn't want Microsoft to find out what they were doing.
These recordings are accompanied by user data showing location, contact details, and app data.
Well, well, well ...
What a surprise!
I've tried to keep an open mind and see the point of it but have have failed (over and over again) to understand the reasons why anyone in their sane mind would let this crap into their homes.
So, (very) loosely paraphrasing the great George Carlin (1937-2008), my conclusion is this:
Never underestimate the capacity of stupid people to do stupid things.
O.
If Siri/Alexa record conversations involving illegal activity, does the company (or their contractor) have a duty to turn these over to the police? Corollary: Would a privileged conversation be still considered privileged if both parties knew an "always-on" microphone was recording and sending their conversation to a non-privileged third party?
Can the police acquire Siri/Alexa recordings from a warrant if the police believe illicit behavior may have been recorded by the device?
Lastly, my parents, brother, and son all have these devices in their homes and all require yelling at the top of one's voice to get the damn things to respond. When there are multiple noise sources (conversations, music, kids, etc), they have to stand over the device, speaking loudly to get it to respond. Sorry, not sorry, I don't have one myself.
>Can the police acquire Siri/Alexa recordings from a warrant
Warrant?
Why would they need a warrant, the data is stored in the USA so the UK plod don't need a warrant (and v.v.)
Or it's international data transfer so already covered by a warrant from 50years ago
Or it's purely data not a phone call so no warrant.
Dictionary is a book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage.
These companies MANUALLY make dictionaries. They soon will stop. No sense. I patented that.
"Training Data is nothing but enriched or labeled data you need to train your models."
https://hackernoon.com/what-is-training-data-really-adf0b97a116c
They all manually make dictionaries and definitions.
1. A computer system implemented method of creating and using structured data from a textual input, the method comprising: providing a table for structured data; receiving at least one textual input; dividing at least a portion of the textual input into one or more paragraphs; for each of the paragraphs, creating a profile by extracting one or more predicative phrases from the paragraph; for each of the predicative phrases, extracting a noun from the predicative phrase; for each extracted noun, receiving a textual definition from the dictionary corresponding to the noun of the predicative phrase; dividing the textual definition for each noun into one or more definition paragraphs, and creating a profile for each definition paragraph by extracting one or more predicative phrases of the definition paragraph; comparing the profile of each definition paragraph to the profile of the paragraph containing the respective noun based upon an algorithm for compatibility; and adding the predicative phrase containing the noun into the table for structured data if the algorithm for compatibility is satisfied.
Their "models" are actually an attempt to cheat on me and don't pay me for my patented AI, these "models" are nothing else but hand-made dictionaries.
"Training Data is nothing but enriched or labeled data you need to train your models."
https://hackernoon.com/what-is-training-data-really-adf0b97a116c
I'm waiting to see what voice hacks can be done to the Assistants. Can we make them format themselves? or make the device think that a command is coming from another device. So,,,, I can set a wake up call every 15 min between 2 and 5 am for Mark Zuckerberg, playing "Never gonna give you up" Rick Roll song.........
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