I have used Siri about 10 times.
Honestly, I barely talk to people, why would I talk to my phone.
Month: October 2013
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Quote of the Day
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An accurate prediction
Five years ago, I wrote this:
Experience suggests that if Obama does indeed win the election, the Obamessiah cult will praise him to the heavens for continuing to do exactly the same things that Bush has been doing for the past eight years, while the Busheviks will condemn him as the Antichrist for doing exactly the same things that Bush has been doing. And of course none of them will ever acknowledge that their “beliefs” have reversed overnight, any more than they did when Bush replaced Clinton.
Unsurprisingly, I was right.
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Cause and Effect
Swartz-Designed Whistleblower Tool “SecureDrop” Launched. An anonymous reader writes in with news about a new tool for whistleblowers/ “The ‘strongest-ever’ whistleblowing tool for sources to speak anonymously with journalists, partly developed by the late Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, has been launched by the Freedom of The Press Foundation. Before his suicide in January 2013, Swartz had been working on a tool for sources to anonymously submit documents to journalists online, without using traceable email and in a way that could be easily catalogued by news organisations. Called SecureDrop, the tool can be installed on any news organisation’s website as a ‘Contact Us’ form page. But where these pages usually require a name and email address, the encrypted SecureDrop system is completely anonymous, assigning the whistleblower two unique identifiers – one seen by the journalist, and one seen by the whistleblower. These identities stay the same, so a conversation can be had without names being shared or known.” [Search Slashdot]
I had no idea that Aaron Swartz had been working on such a tool until this story came out. It certainly explains why the Evil Empire was so determined to hound him to death.