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Understanding when smart speakers mistakenly record conversations 'mistakenly'? Riiiiiiiight
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Quote: The average rate of activations per device is between 1.5 and 19 times per day (24 hours) during our experiments.
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devices have the longest activations (20-43 seconds). Conclusion: They are "recording" you up to 15 Minutes a day, and that only due to television (mostly false positives)
Nice...
I think I am going to start making something like: xkcd: Listening[^]
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Just remember that a vampire cannot enter your home unless you invite it in.
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A research team at the Center for Energy Storage Research of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) led by Dr. Hun-Gi Jung has developed a new battery made of silicon anode materials that offers a great improvement on traditional batteries. "It's also a floor polish!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: silicon anode materials
Meh, like the kids all ask - what's an e between friends? When are the first silicone cpus coming out?
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It fell off, somewhere over the Atlantic.
TTFN - Kent
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Quik, look!
Thar she goes
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Why would an Australian demand usage of the US dialect?
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For the same reason a Dutch fella would enquire - his curiosity was piqued.
In all seriousness though - help me understand how foolish I am. What do you mean?
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I ain't Dutch, innit?
"Silicon" is English for the substance, and "silicone" is only used for compounds that contain silicon (like bathroom sealant); "silicone" is often used in the US for both.
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Heheh heheh
Bloody bewdy! Thanks mate. I love the way many of your comments are like good movies and make more and more sense, revealing their brilliance ever more upon re-visiting. I shouldv'e bloody figured there wouldn't be the distinction made in the US.
For fun - was watching a thing on the idiot box the other day discussing our newly opened national space agency. Amongst all the laughing at the ridiculous acronyms we'll inevitably get and the joyfully printed clothing (ASS cap, anyone?) talk turned to ockerisms of "Houston, we've got a problem". In the most horrible, nasal voice came the morning's goldmine - "Yeah ah, Woomera. We're cactus mate"
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Damn, you've just reminded me of that movie about the Australian observatory that covered some of the first moon landing!
I've no idea what it was called, and can't remember who was in it, but I'd love to watch it again!
That's going to consume the rest of my day, now...
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Ha! The Dish (2000) - IMDb[^]
I just went straight to it, using imdb's advanced search!
Next stop, bol.com.
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I wonder what charging current it takes to fill twice as much energy into a battery in five minutes.
And I wonder which cable dimension is required to carry that current.
Obviously you could raise the voltage to, say, 12 kV. That might require a rethinking of the insulation.
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From the article: Jung and his team focused on water, oil, and starch Ah, that's why no-one in the West thought of it!
Only an Asian would think of using noodles!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Only an Asian would think of using noodles! Take your racist comments to the soapbox.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Take your racist comments to the soapbox. Can't.
CP sold the Soapbox deed to my wife, and she won't let anyone in.
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University of Otago researchers have been able to hold individual atoms in place in a new experiment that is said to be a first for quantum physics. "What have I got in my pocket?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "What have I got in my pocket?" A dead cat? or is it alive?
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Ye Gods, why do people have to wait thirty years to implement the things I write about?
I even had it down to using lasers (although I also conjectured that sonics could be used, if focussed through the right materials).
But I suppose it will take them another thirty years before they realise that a corollary of such stasis is that quantum teleportation can now leap ahead, to the degree that "real" teleportation may become possible.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: why do people have to wait thirty years to implement the things I write about? I like the quote:
Quote: What today is written as science-fiction, you might tomorrow read it in a newspaper.
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I should stick that on my wall.
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Once again, Microsoft is fiddling with the local accounts settings in Windows 10 and this new iteration is the company’s most flagrant attempt. "Resistance is futile."
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No words
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