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Sony to Publish Aibo Specifications

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the 10-arf-20-arf-30-goto-10 dept.

teambpsi writes: "According to this CNN news report... 'In addition to the new hardware, the company has also begun publishing details of Aibo's system architecture on the Internet in an attempt to get developers to work on independent software for Aibo and generate more interest in the products.' This from the same company that used the DMCA as reported here on slashdot last fall to shutdown one fan/hack site."

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  1. Bit of a repeat... by WEFUNK · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good to see the fact that they are opening up their architecture reported in a mainstream story, but this is really a repeat of an earlier posting that had some really good links to the developer site and some of the hacker sites:

    Teach An Old Aibo New Tricks

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  2. Aibo Virus by mr_gerbik · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to write an Aibo virus that should prove quite profitable... here is a brief rundown of the algorithm for those interested.

    1) Direct Aibo to pick up its things (manuals, charger, etc)

    2) Walk Aibo from owners house to my house carrying its things.

    3) Take picture of itself and post a listing on ebay.

    4) Wait for auction ending and payment.

    5) Walk to new owners house.

    6) Repeat.

  3. reformed????? by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Are they really reformed? Or did they find lacking interest and think we may be able to develop interest in it for them by writting some neat stuff for it.


    How do we know that they won't try to shut down someone doing something that they don't expect or like later?


    Fool me once, shame on you....Fool me twice, shame on me.

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