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These Are the Five Types of Alexa Users: Which one are you?
Slate ^ | MAY 27, 2018 | CHRISTINA BONNINGTON

Posted on 05/27/2018 4:46:40 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

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To: Kipp
He didn't like calling it "Alexa" so I changed it so it now responds to "Computer" instead.

"Telescreen" would be more appropriate, except Alexa doesn't have a screen. As a second choice "Big Brother" would do.

62 posted on 05/27/2018 7:58:42 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 trillion dollars.)
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To: PJ-Comix
No way. If the features are worth the risks to you, knock yourself out. Amazon et. al. may claim they don't monitor everything within pickup of the mics... Maybe that's even true. But it would be all too easy for them to switch on monitoring - say if asked quietly by law enforcement, or some agency known by it's initials...

Now, I'm not that paranoid that I think anyone would bother monitoring me. If they did, I should probably apologize to the agent(s) tasked with it for boring them to tears, the bad singing in my car, lack of porn or anything even remotely interesting, eclectic taste in music, my obsession with fail videos, etc. They should definitely get hazard pay and free psychological help.... However, I am saying it could be done with relative ease. Worse, it could be done by hackers looking to steal personal information. For me the risks of exposure to criminals and general invasion of privacy are not worth the benefits.

63 posted on 05/27/2018 8:00:09 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Doing my part to help make America great again!)
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To: PJ-Comix
I'm a type 6.

Why are these things women? Why are feminists not going berserk on them? I've been getting along without Cortana, Alexa, and Siri.

I don't need music, video, or people talking to fill my day. Maybe someday when I can't do things for myself, I will get one of these female slaves to do my bidding.

64 posted on 05/27/2018 8:03:39 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: google,TWITTER,FACEBOOK,WaPo,Hollywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: PJ-Comix

Don’t need it. Don’t want it. Won’t buy it.


65 posted on 05/27/2018 8:05:13 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: PJ-Comix

Mark


66 posted on 05/27/2018 8:05:46 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: TexasGator

Not really

And it wasn’t funny so hardly a jke


67 posted on 05/27/2018 8:05:48 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Fungi

“I will never buy one of these. Is there a sixth category?”

We’re in the “Not stupid enough to buy one” category.


68 posted on 05/27/2018 8:21:15 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Fresh Wind

“except Alexa doesn’t have a screen”

Your post shows what you don’t know.


69 posted on 05/27/2018 8:26:43 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: CodeToad

Yes. Merci beaucoup.


70 posted on 05/27/2018 8:46:21 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: CodeToad

Why do people who have no interest in the topic come and insult fellow freepers?


71 posted on 05/27/2018 8:47:52 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: ASOC

“this becuase the fuzz have openly sued to get the recording form a geographic area. We would they sue to gain access to what supposedly does not exist?”

I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you did not make that up and you can provide a soure.


72 posted on 05/27/2018 8:54:32 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Fungi
"I will never buy one of these. Is there a sixth category?"

Yes mine, which is hell no! I will use my android cell phone to talk to google for a search but that is all. The only reason I do that is it is quicker and easier than typing it on on a cell phone.

73 posted on 05/27/2018 9:13:38 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: BBell

Yep. 24/7 wiretap pretending to sleep until you wake it up. That thing is listening all the time. Not welcome in my house.


74 posted on 05/27/2018 10:10:22 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: PJ-Comix

bookmark


75 posted on 05/27/2018 10:12:19 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: TexasGator

>> I bet you use your tv remote?

Credit Cards, Internet, Smart Phones, and some observing TVs...

I trust the marketplace more than I trust creeps like Clapper that have undeserving access to the entirety of personal data.

That said, Alexa once activated while my wife and I were having a vigorous dispute nearby. It was quite humorous as we both were instantly tongue-tied — staring at each other in deafening silence...


76 posted on 05/27/2018 10:29:43 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: neverevergiveup

I bought a tractor because it’s easier to move 30 cubic yards of dirt & rock with a tractor than a shovel and wheelbarrow.


77 posted on 05/27/2018 11:00:41 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: TexasGator; CodeToad
Why do people who have no interest in the topic come and insult fellow freepers?

No insulting, because we have a curiosity about those that need so many crutches from electronic baubles to get through life.

Your hilarious list of things you need your plastic toy to provide, that which you cannot figure out on your own are illustrative of what we are curious about.......

78 posted on 05/27/2018 11:14:16 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: plain talk
My guess is it would respond with an answer of less than 6 decimal places.

The correct answer is that there is no last digit of pi.

I posed the question to my Google Home, and she answered 2.7 trillion (the current record for human attempts) and then cited the true fact that the expansion is infinite.

79 posted on 05/27/2018 11:46:34 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
The correct answer is that there is no last digit of pi.

Yeah I think we all know that. :-)

80 posted on 05/27/2018 11:51:34 PM PDT by plain talk
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