South Park Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo

These creators are just great guys. Not only is this again a sign of them being on the edge of healthy creativity, but they&#x27;re also the only show that just has all episodes for free to watch.<p>There&#x27;s a documentary on how they make each show &quot;a la carte&quot; each week, and never missed its deadline except once, but it&#x27;s often been a close call of just a few minutes.<p>Edit: &quot;6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gQ-Un8JjUwo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gQ-Un8JjUwo</a>

Audio is a terribly insecure channel to accept commands through. You presume no one else has access to the device because it is physically locked in your house, but sound travels through walls and through speakers. Heck, you can even make a window pane into a speaker with some simple gear.<p>It&#x27;s no big deal when the worst case scenario is being served up a search result you don&#x27;t need or listening to a song you didn&#x27;t request, but you definitely wouldn&#x27;t want to link voice recognition tech up to anything non-reversible like a stock trade or the lock on your front door.

They should add a character named alexa, and have everyone address her by name and order her around.

The fact that these voice response devices don&#x27;t lock into a particular set of users&#x27; voices is a major problem. In fact, multiple times I&#x27;ve had a Google ad cause the phone it was playing on go do a web search triggered by that ad. Totally insane.

Tim Cook&#x27;s voice (or someone else from the presentation) enabled Siri on my phone during the iPhone X event (watching over YouTube). I thought it was supposed to be locked to my own voice though?

I wonder if there is a low-pass filter on Alexa&#x27;s microphone? Triggering your Alexa with ultrasonic commands outside of normal human hearing would be even more entertaining. Ads already embed ultrasonic chirps to some extent for tracking purposes.

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I feel like I should get a writer credit for this episode: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11724174" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11724174</a>

Didn&#x27;t Google have this issue with a Burger King commercial? Shouldn&#x27;t Amazon have learned from that, and tried to cut this kind of thing off?

The underlying problem is not being able to rename assistants.

Countdown to Stone and Park enduring a lawsuit under the CFAA.