jony0

DAalseth said:

Eric_WVGG said:

> As it turns out, the problem is the iPhone — and some newer Android phones as well.

NO. It is absolutely the responsibility of the test makers to continually evaluate new devices for ongoing functionality. It is ludicrous to expect Apple or Google or Microsoft to test ongoing compatibility with the hundreds of millions of apps in the world, just impossible, so the burden sadly must be on app makers to stay current with this shit.

Lots of students are probably angry at Apple right now. That anger is displaced. This is on the test makers and the notoriously poor education tech sector.

To re-iterate: the problem is a test maker that hasn't bothered two check if their web app works with iPhones for three years. Period.

I'd put as much on the students that didn't check to make sure what formats were accepted and verify that's what they were sending. 

And also that they went outside of the app for whatever reason instead of following directions. Still however the onus is clearly on the IT department who usually barely know that anything other than Microsoft exists, including a 3 year old format used by, as mentioned previously,  the most commonly used camera in the world.

AppleInsider said:

"You can definitely hear a doctor and patient, talking about the medical history of the patient,"  […]  "Or you'd hear someone, maybe with car engine background noise - you can't say definitely, but it's a drug deal. You can definitely hearing it happening," he said.

Le Bonniec went on to state there were many recordings "featuring private discussions between doctors and patients, business deals, seemingly criminal dealings, sexual encounters and so on. […]"

Are we still talking about Siri requests, such was "Where's the nearest …" or "Play some artist's song …" or "Set timer for …" ???

• What kind of doctor invokes Siri to talk with his patient ?
• What kind of dealer would invoke Siri to make a drug deal ?

Clearly the examples given must be all accidental triggers and it would seem trivial for Apple to simply reject any sound byte longer than a typical request of seconds, since there is hardly no value for 'improvement' if it's any longer than a given time. Shame on Apple or the contractor if that's not the case. However if they were trying to improve dictation that's another matter and shouldn't even mention Siri in the report, that's just clickbait.

svanstrom said:

jony0 said:

As mentioned in the article, only 14 days worth of anonymized data is on the phone and only sent if the user opts in. I would have no problem that they include location, it can't be traced to you anyway and it could be useful for mapping hot spots so that they could apply more security measures, and yes, which could include a bit more surveillance. This is a nasty contagious pathogen the likes that have never been seen.

Never been seen?

For starters… There’s the Spanish flu.

You're referring to the pandemic, to be clear, I wasn't referring to the pandemic but to the pathogen and its uncanny contagion (the likes we have never seen). The Spanish flu was a considerably larger pandemic indeed but it was caused by the influenza virus, a pathogen of the likes we see every year since and is part of a slew of types and sub-types. Although coronaviruses were first discovered in the 1930s, we've only had 2 comparatively minor outbreaks SARS and MERS that totalled less than 1700 deaths. We've already hit 300,000 already with COVID-19 and counting. And yet the other 2 had greater fatality rates, they were contained much quicker and easier. Finally, this is 2020 not 1918, we should be doing much much better with all the advances in medicine and worldwide communication resources. This thing is just crazy.

When I read « Calling the greed-upon arrangement » I was shocked that AI would come out and say it as it is, then I went back and reread it. I still think my first read was more factual.

fred1 said:

I continue to see articles extolling the failures of Apple in both Business Insider and Forbes and wonder why they have it in for Apple.  (Hey, maybe Business Insider Is jealous of the success of Apple Insider! (joke))

Well envy might play a small part but I've always thought it was simply about money. On the one hand they get no advertising money directly from Apple but they do from its competitors. What may have started out with a slight leaning favoring their patrons and Apple competitors grew into a blatant bias. At some point in that trajectory they probably figured out the increased traffic the bashing brought in. So now they fill their coffers feeding the haters' insatiable hunger of clickbait fabrications to finally get advertising money from Apple, albeit indirectly, on the other hand.