Audio Spotlight To Focus Sound
from the very-cool dept
The NY Times has an article about some research that is being done on an audio spotlight that can focus pinpointed sound to certain locations. There are a bunch of practical applications, such as targeted audio advertising in supermarkets (yes, your own personal audio spam to follow you around) or allowing people in a car to each listen to a different radio station. It's also cool to see that the main researcher behind this concept kept pursuing it after plenty of universities told him it couldn't be done. I hope those people who said no to him are always forced to listen to country music in cars where they have no option to listen to something else.
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These New York Times articles might be interesting,
but I resent having to register, so I didn't.
Thus, I can't read any of them. Who reads the NYT
anyway? 0 foir 2 this am.
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Can't you just use an alternate identity for registering on the site? If it's a pain to type in each time, just let it set a cookie.
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Plenty of people read the NY Times. If you don't want to, then don't. But that doesn't mean I'm going to stop linking to it. If you resent having to register... then don't. And don't read the story, but don't blame ME for your decision.
Here was yesterday's explanation and I stick by it:
"Ok, I've explained this one a number of times. I link to NY Times stories even though they require a registration, because it's popular enough that almost everyone knows how to get in somehow or another. Either they've registered themselves (most people) or they know one of the hundreds of "well known" username/password combos that lots and lots and lots of people use.
I probably post to 4 or 5 NY Times articles per week, and once every three or four months someone suddenly gets it into their head that I'm causing them a problem. If you don't like it, don't go to the site, but don't make me feel bad for finding news that's interesting."
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I appreciate you looking across the spectrum
of knowledge, which is low entropy, and pointing
us to sources of interest.
Some sites, I don't like their policies, so I don't go there, encource others to not go there, and don't do business there.
I need to make you feel bad for finding news
thats potentially interesting, but not readily accessible.
Why does the NYT want this information? Who do they share it with, and sell it to? Who has access to it, that the NYT is not aware of?
I spend a lot of time cleaning up virus attacks, hacker attacks, and security holes. I run with cookies off. If a site wants cookies on, I rarely go there. If a store plays loud obnoxious music, I shop some where else.
Not that the NYT is not an excellent souirce of info, but I don't need to supply my Mother's maiden name to get the print edition. It's a question of access policy. And of arrogance.
certainly theirs. Perhaps mine.
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As I said, if you have a problem with the NY Times, then you should take it up with them. Personally, I don't have a problem registering for the NY Times - for which you can certainly give them plenty of false info. Not only that but there are probably hundreds of fake username/passwords out there.
I'm really not so worried what the NY Times (or these mysterious hackers who have stolen it) does with all the fake information I've given them. I also really wouldn't be all that worried if I had given them real information. Yes, I do believe in the importance of privacy, but I also do believe in trust, and I really don't think the NY Times is out to get me on this one.
As for cookies... again, that's completely your decision. Techdirt doesn't require cookies, but I, personally, have no problem with them. For the most part they are very useful, and the chances of them being misused are slim. Yes, it's a possibility, but there are risks in everything that you do, and cookies strike me as being pretty low on the threat level.
Anyway, I'm going back to an old policy of changing the links to the NY Times to start with "partners" which apparently gets around the registration info.
-Mike
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Problems with Audio Spotlight
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