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The problem is that it doesn't scale the same way that pwning everyone who visits a site I can con into loading my "analytics" script onto.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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But where's the fun in that?
Way more fun seeing what people are doing watching in their bedrooms!
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I know what most of you are watching anyway!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I found another way to identify what videos you're streaming without access to the datastream; ask.
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The fast food chain's 15-second television ad targeted Google Home, a speaker that can answer questions and control other smart appliances. "Hail to the king, baby"
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Quote: (Just imagine a burglar spying a voice assistant and asking it to unlock all the doors.)
Uuuhm.. Aren't those voice assistants supposed to be *inside*? I mean - One can't command the assistant to unlock the doors if the assistant is locked inside. Maybe if a window is leaned on - But shouting "OK GOOGLE - UNLOCK ALL DOORS" is probably noisier than just opening the window the old-fashioned way 
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Marco Bertschi (SFC) wrote: Uuuhm.. Aren't those voice assistants supposed to be inside? I mean - One can't command the assistant to unlock the doors if the assistant is locked inside. Maybe if a window is leaned on - But shouting "OK GOOGLE - UNLOCK ALL DOORS" is probably noisier than just opening the window the old-fashioned way
Most doors in the UK have letterboxes you can shout through.. might be easier than trying to shout through a closed window.
Alternatively, if the homeowner has an answerphone and you know their number you could call them, wait for it to pick up and then issue your command (most answerphones go to loudpspeaker when they answer). Just don't forget to delete your message on your way out!
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Most doors in the UK have letterboxes you can shout through.. might be easier than trying to shout through a closed window.
My point was that, even when one is shouting through a gap, it is likely to be heard by your neighbors. If you're not well known for shouting at your voice assistant it will draw attention.
Brent Jenkins wrote: Alternatively, if the homeowner has an answerphone and you know their number you could call them, wait for it to pick up and then issue your command (most answerphones go to loudpspeaker when they answer). Just don't forget to delete your message on your way out!
You got a point there. But this can be avoided by placing your device away from your answerphone, or getting an answerphone which doesn't shout out loud.
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So my next patent will be for a shouting-through-letterboxes hood and hose!
... And you never know when I'll be in your town!
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Try it. First of all, I don't own a voice assistant. Second, I don't have a hole in my door.
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Hmm.
So I'll have to incorporate a tank-cutter and a couple of waldoes for the homes of luddites.
Thanks for the inspiration!
(No, you don't get a cut of the huge profits!)
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Marco Bertschi (SFC) wrote: Try it. First of all, I don't own a voice assistant. Second, I don't have a hole in my door.
Have you got a chimney? Santa must get in somehow..?
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Nope. Always been naughty. You don't wanna hear details, don't you?
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So Mr Logic has a crystal ball nowadays?
Stephen Hawking claims: Professor Stephen Hawking thinks the human species will have to populate a new planet within 100 years if it is to survive,
I'd make a strong claim in the opposite direction. Moving to mars would fail if done too quick, and it would mean a throwback for earth.
Earth will not be 'guaranteed uninhabitable' in 100 years, and we have more urgent problems than the TV-movie based fear of a professor.
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in the face of catastrophes like climate change, asteroid strikes, epidemics and overpopulation.
An good asteroid strike would solve the last two, and eventually the first one would recover.
So what's the problem? 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: An good
:cringe:
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I read A Brief History of Time within days of its release, and thought "meh".
I appreciate that he'd spent time on working the Maths, but that didn't make his not-even-remotely-brilliant theory either genius or right. In a subject so abstract, you can find numbers to back almost anything up.
So his latest not-even-remotely-brilliant theory will not make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
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Hawking, and his supporters, fail to answer two key questions:
1) Why should humanity be saved?
2) What is the point of bankrupting ourselves for humanity generations from now?
I'm not being a misanthrope--even assuming humanity was perfect, why should it be saved? Also note that EVERYTHING will end a hundred billion years from now. So, does it make a difference if it's 5 billion? 1 million? 1000?
One suggestion is that we should save humanity out of altruism, except it's demanding everyone else be altruistic (to support those whose cause this is.)
(BTW; we can't even maintain a base in Antarctica 24x7x365 without massive support.)
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I don't really agree, but this:
Joe Woodbury wrote: (BTW; we can't even maintain a base in Antarctica 24x7x365 without massive support.)
is a worthy point. I think people largely fail to see the possibilities to generate proof of concept on our own planet at a reasonable cost.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Remarkable that a man in a wheelchair can jump a shark.
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Let me guess.. he'll also need a 10:1 female-to-male ratio for a breeding program?
Dr. Strangelove - Wikipedia
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: 10:1 female-to-male ratio
Works for me... 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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