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Jean-Luc Picard.

Mostly because they somehow nailed Xavier as being similar to Picard, sometime before Stewart was cast as Xavier.

name recognition

Though that is debatable, given how hard that they've been trying to shed it for the "X" name for ages.

Or even a market that let you just buy individual wallpapers as you want them, like how you used to be able to buy individual tracks in itunes instead of a whole album.

A subscription model is a bit silly.

It's like that aeroplane company who had a chatbot serve answers, and then tried to weasel out of it when the chatbot informed the customer about a refund policy that didn't actually exist.

If they're presenting it as an authoritative source of information, then they should be held to the standard they claim.

Bit of A, bit of B?

Wouldn't it still need overhead to chose those blocks and send them instead of the video? Especially if they're also trying to do it in a way that prevents the user from just hitting the "skip 10 seconds" button like they might if it was served as part of the regular video.

I like how the company didn't consider using standard software to do it, and then switch to the in-house system that they made later, instead of just having it done by hand instead.

At least in theory you could still do NLP from online sources, but the sheer amount of work necessary to ensure that you got the bots out makes it unfeasible.

Not just that, but the increasing number of sites blocking or having countermeasures against the tools they use also increases the amount of work/makes it harder.

Several years ago, it would have been easy and cheap to noodle up a quick Twitter or Reddit bot to churn through posts and spit out the posts on the other side. These days, you need to pay for that, and in some cases, pay quite a lot.

X (formerly known as Twitter), for example, wants to charge $100/month, and Reddit wants $0.24 per 100 API calls.

You can scrape, of course, but that risks getting you banned, if you're not going to run into barriers. The website formerly known as Twitter no longer allows you to see parent tweets, nor replies if you're not logged in, for example.

Its strange to think that the game is nearly a decade old.

It doesn't feel that long ago when you'd see a bunch of people playing with it and marvelling at the realism/newly added voice recognition features.

In Voyager, he's shown to have pips. In fact, switching him over to Command mode shows a deliberate animation of pips showing up on hid collar.

However, it is possible that this is something that only applied on the Voyager thanks to their excsptional circumstances, and regular Starfleet doesn't recognise it as a "proper" rank.

• Can a self-aware hologram hold rank or a non-com position in Starfleet?

Technically, yes, in practice, it would be a bit more complicated. A lot of the Federation still has issues around recognising the personhood of inorganics, and a good many of them would hold the early Voyager attitude of seeing him as a regular hologram/tool that the Voyager got too attached to, like the Enterprise did with their Data.

• If so, how would the Doctor attaib it?

The regular way, in theory. The ranking system technically doesn't change depending on what species you are, other than some minor twiddling to account for your species' characteristics.

It would be silly to expect a species who can't speak to give verbal commands, for example, or give them a crew who is not receptive to telepathy.

In practice, there's a lot more complications, like how the crew of the Sutherland nearly mutinied against Data because they believed him to be a dispassionate computer weighing lives at data points.

The Dr originally wasn't autonomous, it could be argued he's just part of the ship, but the holo emitter changed that.

There's an argument to be made that that changed the moment he started to be established as a sapient individual of his own.

I'm amazed the Daystrom institute let him keep it, but since it's apparently his, and that makes him autonomous, I would argue he's just like Data (minus the permanent corporeality of course).

It bring future Federation technology bequeathed to him may help there too. The Federation likely doesn't want to risk issues with the Time Police by confiscating and studying the emitter, so just let him keep it to do with as he wants.

There's also an ethical argument that removing it would severely restrict his ability to move, given that Starfleet would have trouble furnishing him with a sufficient replacement.

I suppose there's a question about ownership given his origins as a Starfleet asset, but since he can be replaced with a copy of the original program, there's no real material loss in letting him leave the ship.

We also know from Prodigy that the Voyager was intended to be shelved for study, so it no longer being active might also be a good reason to allow the Doctor to roam about, instead of effectively trapping him on the inactive ship while Starfleet scientists pulled it apart and studied every crook and nanny.

Both. Though regular holograms would immediately dissipate on arrival, since they're separated from the projectors maintaining the holomatter.

There have been many cases which The Doctor has become solid so other solid objects can no longer pass through them. If the object we are seeing being beamed is the mobile emitter, then is it necessary for them to be on a separate pad? I imagine the person accompanying The Doctor could just hold the emitter instead.

The Doctor needs to externally reconfigure himself through the computer control panel to change his tangibility, he can't just do it on the fly.

Transporting him as if he was a human, rather than just the emitter probably helps Voyager's crew remember that, instead of treating him as a piece of equipment.

It's also unclear whether transporting just the emitter instead of the whole hologram might risk damaging his holomatrix, since you'd effectively be forcibly removing the emitter. He wasn't designed around having a mobile emitter, or with the ability to be transported.

Or it turns out you accidentally left caps lock on, and now you're locked out for a few minutes.

Big "if" though, and that would be contingent on the fact that the data is desirable enough that other people are willing and able to host it long-term, even before being able to find a country like that, and set up a torrent. I've a few torrents that are dead now, for example, because people weren't that interested in keeping a copy of what they pointed to/the tracker no longer works.

You'd still need to share the torrent to spread it anyhow, and that runs into the DMCA issue all over again. The pirate bay only hosted torrents and magnet links, but it still got shut down for piracy, way back when. "facilitating pervasive online infringement [of copyright]" is something that can get you shut down, as Limewire found out.

A fair few sites will also wipe image/EXIF metadata for safety reasons, since photo metadata can include things like the location where the photo was taken.

Or, session cookies. They don't need special privilege to access, and if you grab all of someone's cookies, you can probably get some valid session cookies for logged in accounts just by checking for some common domains in one/by keyword.

From there, it would be trivial to get into email, social media, and other accounts to do other things with.

It would be trivial to add a "please click 'yes' to the UAC prompt to allow verification" screen, so that isn't really going to stop anyone.

I've seen a bit of office malware in the past that did that, where it had a bunch of images instructing you to enable macros and that.

That's probably why they "helpfully" include a little picture of the symbol on the key, so you know what it looks like.

This feature is extremely insecure now that there’s several AIs that can replicate voices. If a scammer calls you and you say a few words (like if you say “hello” and “sorry, I think you’ve got the wrong number”), a recording of that can be enough for them to replicate your voice.

It honestly wasn't really that secure to begin with, since the audio would have the daylights crushed out of it through the phone system. Though AI probably makes it easier by just letting you have a computer at the end of it spit out some words.

Someone could probably get away with it by sounding vaguely enough like the person calling.

Or just do the tried and true method of going through the in-person support. Voice recognition, at least in my experience, over the phone, has trouble with accents, so someone calling to get around that isn't uncommon. It never works with me, for example, it just goes "please try again" until it redirects me to an agent.