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My Pal Mickey -- Interactive Theme Park Doll
Dan Howland writes "Big Ruxpin is Watching You: Once again, The Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus proves itself to be the science-fiction story where the most stuff came true. If you recall, a hacker named Clem traveled through the Future Fair, followed by computer generated Holy-Grams who popped up and said things like, 'Why not try [WALL OF SCIENCE], 'cause it's my favorite!' Leave it to Disney to perfect that spooky technology with My Pal Mickey, an interactive talking plush doll that knows where it is inside Walt Disney World, and tells you trivia as you move through the park. Ah ha, but even better (at least from Disney's standpoint) is that, just like the Holy-Grams, My Pal Mickey feeds the info back into the central computer system, so Doctor Memory can track people's movements through the park in realtime. (Of course, these data will be skewed because they only track people who buy the dolls...) Here is another link, with the interesting, Asimov-like sentence: 'He has a strong sense of self-preservation, and reminds you to put him some place safe when you get near water play areas, or on wet rides.'"
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Why do I get the feeling that Disney's been watching re-runs of "The Simpsons" and have decided that the best episode involves "Itchy And Scratchy Land"???
Color me scared,
Zip
"The answers are always inside the problem, not outside"- Marshall McLuhan
They need to team up with Real Dolls. I'd go to Disney World for that.
I think I'll pass for now, but give me a call when these come equipped with Genuine People Personalities.
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
some hax0r figures out how to send his own messages to the dolls?
Little boy: I want to go see Mickey Mouse!
Doll: MICKEY MOUSE IS A FAG!
No, but he screams in terror as he plummets to the ground...
Trouble making decisions? Just flip for it.
Frink: You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.
Seriously, don't these give you the willies?
"Defenestration" is to throw out of a window; what's a word for throwing 'Windows' out of something?
Bart: Cool...personalized plates! Barclay... Barry... Bert... Bort? Aw, come on. Bort?
...and later on...
some kid: Mommy, mommy! Buy me a license plate.
kid's mom: No. Come along, Bort.
random guy: Are you talking to me?
kid's mom: No, my son is also named Bort.
We need more "Bort" license plates in the gift shop. I repeat, we are sold out of "Bort" license plates.
SecondPageMedia - Wha
Slipped you a Mickey?
ha ha HA! Hi boys and girls!
You are not the customer.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
Some nerd round here tries to port Linux to it?
AT&ROFLMAO
A robot may not infringe Disney's intellectual property, or, through inaction, allow a human being to infringe Disney's intellectual property.
A robot must obey the orders given it by affiliated marketing partners except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
I don't see what's evil about wanting to know what people find interesting or not in your own themepark though, but I agree there's a lot of ways this technology can be abused.
Oh yeah, especially when black hat finds out how to hack one of these things.
Upset mom: I'd like to see someone in charge! This monster Mickey is telling dirty jokes, spouting profanities, and telling my son cigarettes and beer does a body good!
Help Desk Guy: I sympathize with your problem maam, but are you sure it was our Mickey that did this? We've tested them...
Mickey: Yeah, you're at the damn help desk manned by our finest PR school dropouts. While you're here, ask Pete about that dead hooker they found around the corner from his apartment building!
Help Desk Guy: Oh crap.
Hi. I'm Marvin. I'm the world's most intelligent doorstop. If you run with me through the spray of that fountain, the percent chance that you'll short out my circuits is 84.217996310477714010040222, to an approximation, anyhow.
Considering by the length of time you took to roll your eyes, you might just prefer to drop meinto the pond. Science will be none the wiser.
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
I've seen passion on these boards that can rival and often surpass those of many Evangelicals I know. Why are we not mobilizing to inform the public at large and/or get things changed?
:) Here, let me get you another beer and more shotgun shells.
OH
MY
GOD
That has got to be one of the most horrifying concepts I have ever heard. As if evangelical Jehova whitnesses knocking at the door isn't bad enough, can you imagine the reaction if evangelical GEEKS started knocking at people's doors?
Jane Q. Redneck: Honey? Who was at the door?
John Q. Redneck: Some 40 year old greasy haired freak in a star trek uniform babbling about copyright.
Jane Q. Redneck: Ewwwwwwwww! Gross! But what was that "BANG" I heard?
John Q. Redneck: I shot him.
Jane Q. Redneck: Oh, good
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Pal Clippy: Hey, Tony! You appear to be trying to write a letter!
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
And using the word "fuck" as the third word he typed is an indication that he didn't last long there.
"You have violated Robots Rules of Order, and will be asked to leave the future immediately."
My other car is a 1984 Nark Avenger.