echo, because now amazon wants to know when you're fapping, too...
Amazon Echo
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Re: Amazon Echo
#742Earlier quoted context omitted.
Privacy is different than culpability. Just because I can legally have sex with my wife doesn't mean I want the government to have a recording of it. Some things are meant to stay private.
Then you shouldn't buy this thing, or if you do be very careful about how you use it - including distinguishing between what the government has a recording of and what Amazon has a recording of (I rather doubt you are cool with your sex life providing entertainment for Amazon employees either, right)? The point I'm making, though, is not what level of privacy you should be happy with (a decision only you can make), b…
I was merely responding to this singular point:
"Most people don't care [about privacy] because they're not culpable enough to feel paranoid."
Let be honest, I don't have a sex life.
Re: Amazon Echo
#743Other than the usual HN fear discussion, does anyone have any thoughts on the product itself? Doesn't offer any functionality that would be useful to the average person?
Maybe can you do:
- some phone call without having to hold the phone.
- put that in the office and have quick responses to the classical technical question. It may act as replacement of a internal wiki for question like "What the IP of the sever?" or "What the syntax to add a column in SQL?".
Re: Amazon Echo
#744Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Google's voice search already does this (feeding into audio captchas), but obviously there is a smaller crowd from which to source free audio recognition assuming that people who are both sighted and hearing typically prefer visual captchas due to environmental constraints.
Most of the privacy concerns voiced in this threat don't sound like anything new to me, but this one made me take notice. You're suggesting that Google takes random queries from individuals and serves them as captchas to other random people? That sounds like a privacy disaster. Most of the time the queries would be anonymous, but it's certainly not guaranteed there wouldn't be identifying information.
Sorry, I could be completely wrong. After further research, it seems like today's audio captchas consist of distorted output from TTS engines.
Re: Amazon Echo
#745Watch the promo video again and pretend it's the first few minutes of a horror movie. A package arrives on the front porch. The family brings it in and opens it. It's Alexa. It's "for everyone," says Father. The next few days are blissful. Alexa integrates herself into the family. She is indispensable. How did they ever get by without her? Father rushes in from the backyard, "Alexa, how tall is Mt. Everest?" Alexa an…
"Is it on?" "It's always on. ... It uses far-field technology, so it can hear you from anywhere in the room." Jeez, whoever wrote this is missing their calling. They should have their people get together with Wes Craven's people and do lunch, or something. (Edit: OK, the producers clearly knew they what they were doing, even if the people paying them didn't. Check out the daughter's sweater at 2:52.)
was that Jeremy Piven??
Re: Amazon Echo
#746Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope you don't put your phone on the table while eating with your family, or have it in your pocket at that time.
Nope. We have a family rule that dinner time is an electronics free zone.
Or in your pocket for that matter - yes, the acoustics are pretty much good enough to pick up everything you say.