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Some of your assertions are not strictly true. It isn't impossible for Apple to come up with the 1 : million number, and it's not even impossible for them to test that number. The thing about the probability is that it is likely an algorithmic calculation based on the probability of collisions in their image hash. It's not a real-world tested number, but it is likely generated by taking a massive database of sample images that are run through the facial recognition software and then checked for collisions - "matches" that are invalid. If they take 1000 images and run them through their software and 2 images match - that gives you a 2 / 1,000,000 probability that any two random faces will be erroneously matched by their software. In fact, you would need 1,414 unique images to generate a testable 1 / 1,000,000 probability. Now what will happen is that facial recognition will be too restrictive to start with. Different lighting conditions, different angles... it's a hard problem. If people complain that its too hard to unlock their phone because facial recognition isn't reliable enough, if it needs optimal conditions to work, then what is likely to happen is an adjustment to the algorithm to loosen those constraints. But this is a sliding scale, the more you loosen those constraints, the more likely collisions will occur. It's a balancing act between convenience and security - and that's a juggling act that will always have SOMEONE complaining about. There are many reasons I don't like the idea of using facial recognition to unlock a device, but I won't get into them here. Accessibility wise there might be a use case where it makes sense, though I don't know what that use case is. For the general public though, I don't consider this a net positive feature. Then, another e-mail an hour later (and just as interesting). There are a couple of confounding factors that may cause the actual incidence of collisions being higher than the statistical incidence of collisions. Consider a random (representative) sampling of test data, and select 1500 images. If you get a single collision, that would translate into slightly less than 1 collision per million comparisons. But the distribution of people who look at your phone is not random, nor representative. Consider all the people in the world, which of those people is going to be mostly likely to be misidentified as you by an algorithm? The answer: your closest blood relatives. Your brothers and sisters especially (due to aging factors). What this means is that the people around you that are most likely to mistakenly unlock your phone are also the ones closest to you. Now consider this. The chance that any random person has an identical twin is roughly 1 in 150. So if you consider a geographic sampling of people as opposed to a purely random sampling, the actual likelihood of a false-positive match is 1 in 45,000 simply due to the existence of identical twins. This is a problem that isn't likely to come up in a random image sample due to the astronomical odds of selecting BOTH twins (which is somewhere in the range of 1 in 363 billion that a sample of 1500 single portrait photos will contain pictures of each twin). So the likelihood of your phone being able to be unlocked by another person is actually MUCH higher than 1 in a million (it's actually somewhat more frequent than 1 in 45,000). But the numbers that Apple is giving you (although it is not explicitly stated since as far as I know they haven't published their methodology) isn't the probability that your brother or sister can unlock your phone. What they are telling you is that if your phone is stolen by a stranger, the odds of that stranger being able to unlock your phone because their face is a collision with yours is 1 in a million.
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face ID works great and the phone owns
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enjoy getting your face ripped off  
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carry on then posted:you can crash most apple watches by asking Siri for the weather uh how do you ask because its never been a problem with any siris for me its one of the few things it does consistently right whereas it cant tell 15 and 50 for timers so im always setting timers for 49 minutes
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For me it doesn't even work for timers. Well it does but acts like it doesn't and will add a bunch of steps to replace it if you ask again. Every time.
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emoji posted:For me it doesn't even work for timers. Well it does but acts like it doesn't and will add a bunch of steps to replace it if you ask again. Every time. charge your phone
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Nov 5, 2017 03:15
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run that poo poo dry
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emoji posted:For me it doesn't even work for timers. Well it does but acts like it doesn't and will add a bunch of steps to replace it if you ask again. Every time. thats me and reminders where itll get words wrong so i correct it and it seems to set fine but then i get multiple reminders because each typo correction is a new reminder
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emoji posted:For me it doesn't even work for timers. Well it does but acts like it doesn't and will add a bunch of steps to replace it if you ask again. Every time. lmao every single cellphone screenshot has the battery about to die
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LOL what kind of marble mouths can’t be understood by Siri?
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Agile Vector posted:uh how do you ask because its never been a problem with any siris for me “hey siri what’s the weather” > apple logo/respring watchos 4 only i guess
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carry on then posted:“hey siri what’s the weather” > apple logo/respring noice, replicated. looks like the rumor is its a dst defect which given apples track record of clock glitches is very believable
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emoji posted:For me it doesn't even work for timers. Well it does but acts like it doesn't and will add a bunch of steps to replace it if you ask again. Every time. 2015 called it wants its non-iphone-x screenshot back i told it i would take care and also yelled at it MAKE BIDEN RUN FOR PRESIDENT while weeping
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the "iPhone 8" should be called iPhone 7S and next year's phone should be 8. This year's names throws everything off. Well, that's my piece.
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:charge your phone Looks like it is charging, Jim
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anyone else having this bug where the little action bar above the keyboard floats in the middle of the screen glitchy touchbar style? (look below the google search bar)  i can interact with things between the keyboard and the action bar just fine
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YA BOY ETHAN COUCH posted:face ID works great and the phone owns congrats on spending over $1000 on a phone
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echinopsis posted:run that poo poo dry isn't it bad to run down your iphone battery? i thought the old style (nickel cadmium or metahydrye?) were the ones you can't trickle charge iirc the newer style wont retain as much if you constantly drain them down
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maskenfreiheit posted:isn't it bad to run down your iphone battery? yes, one deep discharge damages the battery more than dozens of shallow discharge/charge cycles. battery memory is not a thing with lithium ion batteries, but an occasional complete discharge and recharge cycle does help the battery control circuitry get a better handle on changes in the battery voltage/discharge curve and give a better capacity estimate.
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and the battery circuitry is designed not to let your charge actually fall into "damage" levels as long as you aren't running it down to zero then sticking it in a drawer for a year
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emoji posted:For me it doesn't even work for timers. Well it does but acts like it doesn't and will add a bunch of steps to replace it if you ask again. Every time. update your phone
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akadajet posted:remember when phone batteries were replaceable? yeah, poo poo sucked
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Endless Mike posted:update your phone that charge level tho
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hi, it’s me iBooks, sure I’ll pause using the headphone remote. what’s that? start playing again? lol gently caress off
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iBooks on both the mac and iPhone manages to almost be worse software than iTunes. almost
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I've read a bajillion books on iBooks for iPad, iPhone, Mac, and I've never had any issues. Maybe you're holding the iBook wrong?
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Last Chance posted:I've read a bajillion books on iBooks for iPad, iPhone, Mac, and I've never had any issues. Maybe you're holding the iBook wrong? its insanely dumb to not be able to copy text chunks, or to not be able to export pdfs to other apps from iBooks its not very well integrated, basically
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a couple more problems with the x to report. there’s no way to show the battery percent in the top right without swiping down, its completely impossible and the ringtone is different and wrong. fuckin owned over here.
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actionjackson posted:congrats on spending over $1000 on a phone thank you it feels good to have gently caress you money
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actually the iPhone X is the Best iPhone Ever
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uncurable mlady posted:actually the iPhone X is the Best iPhone Ever 
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:its insanely dumb to not be able to copy text chunks, or to not be able to export pdfs to other apps from iBooks iBooks is for reading books, not copying/exporting them wtf lol
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:its insanely dumb to not be able to copy text chunks, or to not be able to export pdfs to other apps from iBooks iBooks is for reading books, not copying/exporting them wtf lol
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:its insanely dumb to not be able to copy text chunks, or to not be able to export pdfs to other apps from iBooks there sure is something insanely dumb in this post but I won’t tell what it is
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Last Chance posted:iBooks is for reading books, not copying/exporting them wtf lol i agree, the issue is that apple does not provide Preview for iOS, which is insanely dumb
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speaking of iBooks remember when Apple got sued for a possible monopoly on ebooks and amazon is all like lol
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i recently bought an iPad Air 2 and an iPad Mini 2 for ridiculously cheap at a university book store clearance sale. im gonna read some mad books this winter with my pal, iBooks.
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Last Chance posted:i recently bought an iPad Air 2 and an iPad Mini 2 for ridiculously cheap at a university book store clearance sale. im gonna read some mad books this winter with my pal, iBooks. you’re gonna download comiczeal and read Civil War II and erotic mangas, stop lying to yourself
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