paxman

I have never used any other voice service than Siri, and I have all but given it up. Bottom line - for Siri to be useful it needs to be MUCH better. Quicker, more reliable and more user friendly. Sending a text is an exercise in futility. And when the half recorded, cut out too quickly, mis-interpreted text is ready to send there is no easy way to fix it. Occasionally it works great. I do use if for dictation a fair amount, but it is hit and miss from one day to another. I don't care how much better or worse Siri is compared to other services, and I can live without Siri altogether, but as it stands Siri gets two thumbs down  from me as a digital assistant.

These procedures have been the same or very similar for as long as I can remember. The new option for me is @netling 's little trick above. That is brilliant. 

I welcome the new era of the empowered women. I welcome the era of women in charge at ever level of society. My god, men have been ruling for long enough and didn't do a very good job of it. I mean, it is hard to imagine things could get worse. Women, and to be more specific, young women (as well as young men), need to take charge. Old dudes have wrecked the place and it needs fixing. There is nothing about the current women's movement that I find threatening. It is time men got their act together and started talking. I think it is great that TC steps out and makes his voice heard.

AppleInsider said:

"We feel an obligation to those serving the public safety mission ....

Would that be a moral or business obligation, I wonder.

Soli said:

rob53 said:

Soli said:

rob53 said:

They’re hackers, plain and simple. Talk about double standards. If they were hacking government systems they’d be arrested but since they’re hacking private citizen’s phones, governments won’t touch them. Time for hackers to hack Cellibrite. 

That’s not accurate. Governments are major employers of hackers to get into all sorts of systems, foreign and domestic.

My point exactly. Governments can hack all they want but me hacking them or anyone else is illegal. Why is that?

You're asking why it's illegal to break the law? Like how you have obey speed limits and can't run stop signs and red lights, or drive on the wrong side of the road, but a fire engine is allowed? Is that the kind of comparison you're making, because I don't see it as being the same.

Just as a point of interest, an emergency vehicle in the UK is subject to the same laws as anyone else, in the sense that if they run into you and they are going on a red light, they are at fault.