Newer iOS devices come with a little friendly helper called Siri
Siri does many things to help you during the day. When I drove from Connecticut to Chicago, I learned Siri will not do even the most basic tasks without having cellular data access – which says the speech recognition isn’t done in the phone. In the last week, Apple confessed that they are storing everything you ask zsiri to do for at least 2 years
But that’s not the big problem. If you turn on Siri but let Siri break through the pass code entry – let’s say you’re driving and tell Siri “send a message to my wife”, you don’t want to have to unlock the keyboard. What that means is anyone picking up your phone could make Siri do all kinds of unpleasant things.
Today, I told Siri to call me a string of expletives. With the phone still locked, I asked Siri “Who am I? Siri gladly volunteered my name, email address, home address. Siri no longer will show your contacts, but will do lots of things for a clever person.
There is a passcode setting to block Siri from working on your locked phone, but it is not the default
George Orwell, call your office – again.
Remember the commercial from the 70’s where someone tossed a sledgehammer through the video screen? Right – totalitarianism the new capitalism. Thank you Apple/Google/GE.
“send a message to my wife” …. cueing 60s classic. por favor y gracias, Maria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Y0x1jLkLg
When is the last time you used a dictation machine?
That would be a pretty good example of a “one hit wonder”. (He died last year)
I have a theory why his wife was seeking out another man for sex
She couldn’t understand why he had discrete recording machine, typewriter, filing cabinets, encyclopedia, pen set, and telephone. Her name was Siri from Syria …and I am not serious. 😉
XM?
Beyond AM. Beyond FM… Lee Abrams! 🙂
http://vimeo.com/17153282
How about a 1960s AM radio jingle montage. It has a very “Jetsons” sound. Nearly all of these jingles were made by a firm in Dallas that did them for stations across the country. You may recognize the jingles, but with different call letters for different stations.
On Memorial Day 1999, WABC had a retro weekend where they played entire multi-hour shows with commercials and news recorded in the 1960s. I knew it was coming and had set my alarm clock to wake up with it. Even expecting it, it was very disorienting when you are mostly asleep.
http://www.musicradio77.com/images/jinglemontage1999.mp3
If your friends leave their iPhone unguarded