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What are you talking about? 100% of that page is an advertisement.
That claim seems pretty weak, especially without any support whatsoever.
Unless we all look at the page for ourselves??
Xbox One: The Review
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The device runs arbitrary code. It's trivial to have a module that runs locally, downloads a "wanted list" and returns a probability of match for each entry. This functionality will almost certainly be implemented given how effective it would be in locating young males.
I can't tell if you're serious or not. "Almost certainly"? If this were true, why wouldn't every smartphone already have this? Turn on the front-facing camera and send a picture of the user to the FBI. We've had this capability for years, and the Xbox doesn't add much new to the equation.
Spyware deployed by law enforcement like Finfisher does capture and transmit photos and audio.
In terms of mass surveillance, only very recently has facial recognition been built into phones and penetration is still low. It is also easier to detect because of limited connectivity and conspicuous bandwidth and battery usage. But yes it will become almost as easy to do it on phones in the near future.
Given what we now know about surveillance the claim that facial recognition and gait analysis on the Xbox One will be used in mass surveillance shouldn't be contentious.
It's an easy sell: "NSA/FBI: If we had such a system deployed during the Boston bombing we could have found the perpetrators in a matter of hours instead of days."
"POTUS: What about privacy concerns?"
"NSA/FBI: The biometric data is stored on the users machines, we only query the Xbox network for individual suspects and return high probability matches, it's not mass surveillance at all!"
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#103If you've ever complained about surveillance then I don't see how you could even consider buying this. >Kinect is also used for lots of little things throughout the Xbox One's user experience. Profiles support fast facial recognition for sign-in. Once a profile has a face associated with it, the console will sign that person in whenever they sit in front of the console — it even says hello. Controllers sync automatic…
I miss the simplicity of the old consoles. Why did game systems evolve into some distopic nielsson box?
lack of gameplay innovation was for a long time masked by growing pixels, polygons, 480p, 720p, 1080p, 3d, occlusion/raytracing, etc. Now, that most people are stuck with 1080p TV for some years, what console makers to hype? Enabling new gaming interactions is more difficult than slapping on multitasking, shares, badges and occasional voice command. I like where Kinect is going, but its a last moment afterthought in the current crop of games. How it is used in shooters? wave your controller to reload! I will be the first to buy console which offers me to do some real jumping and crouching in the FPS. Hell, I would even buy M4 replica if needed. But sitting there for hours and gaining real pounds? I am too old for that.
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> Anyone with a computer and Wireshark. This assumes that the information is not encrypted, for one. > Do we want to get into justifications about what could possibly be done with a technology and therefore refuse to use said technology? When it comes to security, yes, you must consider all vectors. See the two news stories below about cell phones doing similar things as far back as 2006.
So people are also refusing to use the PS4 camera, their cell phones, any laptop with a webcam, any tablet, the Moto X with its always-on microphone, etc? Because they could be used to infringe on privacy? It's about risk management. What's the potential harm, what's the likelihood of that harm, and what would be the impact if this were to be used maliciously? It sounds to me like people are rejecting this because a)…
Activists have long required that any electronics go in the freezer in a different room while meetings happen, yes.
Most people just don't even think about it at all.
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#106If you've ever complained about surveillance then I don't see how you could even consider buying this. >Kinect is also used for lots of little things throughout the Xbox One's user experience. Profiles support fast facial recognition for sign-in. Once a profile has a face associated with it, the console will sign that person in whenever they sit in front of the console — it even says hello. Controllers sync automatic…
If you don't like kinect and its implications on privacy, I highly suggest you do not get any sort of smartphone or open any email accounts. Oh right, you do those things. Its just the usual HN tinfoil hat hypocrisy that extends to MS, but seemingly not to Apple, Google, Yahoo, Sony, Dropbox, Twitter, and Facebook.
> Its just the usual HN tinfoil hat hypocrisy that extends to MS, but seemingly not to Apple, Google, Yahoo, Sony, Dropbox, Twitter, and Facebook.
Tu quoque and that's not even close to true.
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What are you talking about? 100% of that page is an advertisement.
Oh go jump. Polygon is awesome, and frankly take their journalistic stance far more seriously than any other game-review website.
Oh, sure. Except when they change review scores as it suits them and "editors" defend game publisher lies and berate users on twitter.
http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/13/polygons-simcity-review-is...
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Oh go jump. Polygon is awesome, and frankly take their journalistic stance far more seriously than any other game-review website.
Oh, sure. Except when they change review scores as it suits them and "editors" defend game publisher lies and berate users on twitter. http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/13/polygons-simcity-review-is... https://twitter.com/aegies/status/310282795564015616 https://twitter.com/aegies/status/313370778013954048
Um, they specifically state that review scores are liable to be changed, and in fact I think that it is much better that they do.
I guess we'll just have to have differing opinions here :)
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Up to date chrome on windows 7. The scrolling is broken because it dynamically loads content as you scroll.
Windows 8.1 Firefox 25 : Works flawlessly. Up to date Chrome : Works great. Spoiler : 2x2x2
I clicked to look at the PS4 one to compare score, in order to do that I had to scroll to the bottom. Try refresh and then scroll to see the score as fast as you can, scroll bar jumps all over the place.
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Oh, sure. Except when they change review scores as it suits them and "editors" defend game publisher lies and berate users on twitter. http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/13/polygons-simcity-review-is... https://twitter.com/aegies/status/310282795564015616 https://twitter.com/aegies/status/313370778013954048
Um, they specifically state that review scores are liable to be changed, and in fact I think that it is much better that they do. I guess we'll just have to have differing opinions here :)
Got it. Changing scores is good so your reviews are worthless and defending EA lies is also good. Polygon is just another game journo blog towing publisher lines.