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I Let an $800 Alexa Robot Creep Around My House Like a Tiny, Mechanical Zombie
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| 11/22/2017
| Andrew Liszewski
Posted on 11/25/2017 6:22:22 AM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:22:22 AM PST
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
🤖. Uh, no. Inviting something into your house that can eavesdrop on you? As bad as, or worse than cell phones. Alexa? 👺
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:25:59 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: BenLurkin
Good for target practice.
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:25:59 AM PST
by
budj
(Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:26:43 AM PST
by
CopperTop
(Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:26:52 AM PST
by
KC_Lion
(If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
To: BenLurkin
On the box it said it cleans floors, but it never did.
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:29:06 AM PST
by
Slyfox
(Are you tired of winning yet?)
To: BenLurkin
The cats would have that thing slain and laid at my feet within the first 3 minutes.
I’ve save those $800 for something more important like property taxes.
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:29:25 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
"...Alexa robots in the house..."
I am meanwhile putting tape over the laptop and television cameras.
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:31:12 AM PST
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: BenLurkin
Here, Jeff Bezos, come in, map, and resell the floorplan of my house.
To: Slyfox
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:36:46 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:39:57 AM PST
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: BenLurkin
Kept me awake for nights after watching it. And yeah, I don’t plan on purchasing anything that powers itself to walk across the floor and decides itself when I need to be cleaned up after.
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:40:59 AM PST
by
Slyfox
(Are you tired of winning yet?)
To: KC_Lion
I hereby nominate that for Post of the Year.
LFOD
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:42:31 AM PST
by
SirLurkedalot
(10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
To: Paine in the Neck
Here, Jeff Bezos, come in, map, and resell the floorplan of my house. Excellent response! That's exactly what will happen too.
And people will be wondering why they're suddenly bombarded with stair lift advertisements because Alexa knows they live in a multi-level home and how old they are too ........
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:43:50 AM PST
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:45:30 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:46:43 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
To: rktman
“Uh, no. Inviting something into your house that can eavesdrop on you? As bad as, or worse than cell phones. Alexa?”
After our Thanksgiving dinner, the conversation drifted into Cell phones.
Three of the adults at our dinner, who are in middle to upper management positions get so called free I phones from their companies.
All 3 told about having conversations with the phones on their desks or in their pockets,supposedly in the idle mode.
Conversations about the need to buy certain products. All three got emails from companies selling those products in a short time period after their discussions.
One of their wives before our Thanksgiving Dinner saw a tv ad telling about Apple’s new watch. She told her husband, she would like a new one for Christmas. She and he got emails telling them about the new Apple watch and Black Friday deals after her comments. That was what started the discussions above.
I’m sure that my wife’s and my Android do something similar and sometimes different.
Last year I got my wife a new Android for her birthday. We got it on line and transferred everything basically automatically.
The next morning she was crying that she had lost most of her photos.
I took her phone and in a couple of minutes, I discovered that overnight her new Android OS on her new phone had sorted her photos and put them in different categories by family, person, place and by holiday.
About a month later, I got a new Android phone, and it did the same thing after I had switched over to the new phone on the first night.
The new OS was powerful enough to do the above.
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posted on
11/25/2017 6:53:31 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(The fastest way to drain the swamp is to simply expose it! Sunlight does aid in evaporation!)
To: BenLurkin
The NSA is giving them away for free.
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posted on
11/25/2017 7:06:11 AM PST
by
McGruff
(Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
To: BenLurkin
cute at first but I bet it would get aggravating after a while. Turn around and there it is blocking your path? Probably waves to you and says something cutsie as it gets out of your way. After that happened a dozen times, I'd end up kicking it across the room.
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posted on
11/25/2017 7:07:22 AM PST
by
Pollard
(TRUMP 2016)
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