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Cindy Smart Knows Better Than To Say Naughty Words
D'Sphitz writes "Cindy Smart, the first doll in the world to be able to read, tell the time and do sums.
Cindy Smart 'sees' via a camera located under a bee on her overalls and has a computer 'brain' that can recognise more than 600 words and objects, although she refuses to recite certain 4-letter words. 'We don't say those kind of words,' she shrills, refusing to even spell obscenities. 'That's a bad word.'" Sounds like a good candidate for a personality transplant.
It won't be long until some kid has her read "eye yam sofa king we todd did."
...but can she run Linux?
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
okay, now cindy, spell icup
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'We don't say those kind of words,' she shrills, refusing to even spell obscenities
;)
I guess she won't be saying McBride or SCO anytime soon either.
it says she can do math, but will she recognize 8 / 0?
"We don't do that math", "That's a naughty divisor!"
My kid sister had this caterpiller toy that had buttons that would say the number, letter, or phonetic sound that was associated with the button. It took me about 30 seconds to figure out that if I hit the phonetic f key and the phonetic q key it would go fa que. Needless to say my kid sister thought this was hilarious, not because she knew what it said, but just to see every one elses reaction. I don't think my parents every replaced the battery in that thing....
She doesn't know how to say 'no' either.
We don't click those kind of links... That's a bad link.
The Furby can run PicoGUI.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
This sounds like the kind of doll that comes to life at night, eyes glowing red, saying "You must kill mommy and daddy," while its head spins completely around.
Some adults still play with dolls. Of course, they're life-size blow-ups...
No, maybe we shouldn't
I for one welcome our new smart doll overlords
So I'm guessing that this is a blonde Cindy. Not the enhanced brunette model to be released sometime Q2 2004.
Stopping myself...Abort (core dumped)
"Hi, I'm Cindy the seeing Doll powered by Windows CE. Before you can use me I need to tell you my EULA and you must say 'I accept' when I have finished. This process will take approximately three hours. At the end of this process you will be able to activate me by ringing a toll free Microsoft number and telling me my 16 digit activation number." ... three hours twenty five minutes later
"Hi Cindy, how are you today?"
"Hello, I'm Cindy the talking doll and I would like to tell you about the new range of Smart Screens available from Microsoft. This will take approximately three hours. Are you ready to start?"
consider coffee a lubricant that helps one penetrate the coding zone
Yes, it works at first.
But then the thing hits that pesky hyper-hypercube configuration, goes second-order sapient, and starts looking to increase its "cultural and technological distinctiveness."
The more pathetic sort of extropian might see getting uploaded into such a gestalt as a Big Win, but really, what's the worth of an ersatz immortality with an IQ of 97 (remember that fourth-order-cube limit) and a voice interface that randomly throws in phrases like "math class is harrrrrd!?
Play it safe. Stick with FurbyNets with 254 or fewer nodes, and keep some spray paint on hand to blank out those IR transcievers, just in case.
Stefan It's out! Jones.
Don't like to say certain words eh? We'll just see what me and my PROM burner can do about that.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
now can they make a bigger version, for us kids at slashdot ? We dont mind her not willing to say *certain* words as long as she understands what it means.
Siggy Say, Siggy Do
oh yeah, nothing makes a better child's toy than a handful of nails. Where the hell are you from? Please don't have kids.
We can only hope they've put in those safeguards*.
Worst case scenario: She succeeds in dividing by zero, and suddenly little Tiphany-Amber's bedroom becomes the center of a howling vortex of nonspace, frying the neighborhood with sparkling discharges of zero-point energy.
Stefan It's out! Jones
*The early pocket-calculator manufacturers only cut corners once. Remember that HP plant in Bennettown, CA? Tire fire my ass.
Associated Press - The 6-year old daughter of an IBM engineer was killed after the Cindy Smart doll she received as a birthday present overheard the girl's father in the adjacent room yelling "F***! Where the hell did I put my Linux distro CDs?". Apparently, the doll immediately strangled the little girl in response. Although the police initially thought the doll's reaction was triggered by the use of the F word, it was later determined that the embedded version of Windows CE snapped on the utterance of the word "Linux". Microsoft could not be reached today. The toy's manufacturer canceled plans for a similar version for boys that was to be dubbed Smarmy Darl.
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... but fuck that little soulless twat.
I remember a BBS a few decades ago where it was impossible to discuss the prime minister of japan. The man's name was takeshita.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
The Slashdots - Cindy
I met her in a Radio Shack in old Soho
Where you drink Coca Cola(r) and it tastes just like carbonated, caffeinated brown water
See-oh-el-aye cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to fisrt post
I asked her her name and in a dark Linux(r) voice she said Cindy
See-Eye-Enn-Dee-Why Cindy la-la-la-la Cindy
Well I'm not the world's most technical guy
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly dumped my kernel
Oh my Cindy See-Eye-Enn-Dee-Why
I'm not an AC but I can't understand
Why she walked like a doll and talked like a nun
Oh my Cindy See-Eye-Enn-Dee-Why Cindy la-la-la-la Cindy
Well we drank Jolt and raved all night
Under electric high intensity discharge xenon candlelight
She picked me up and sat me on her plastic knee
And said dear boy won't you come home with me
Well I'm not the world's most passionate geek
But when I looked in her glass eyes well I almost fell for my Cindy
See-Eye-Enn-Dee-Why See-Eye-Enn-Dee-Why
I pushed her away
I walked to the X-terminal
I fell to the pile of floppies
I got down on my knees
Then I looked at her and she at me
Well that's the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my Cindy
See-Eye-Enn-Dee-Why Cindy
Girls will be dolls and boys will be geeks
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for See-Eye-Enn-Dee-Why Cindy
Well I left my basement just a week before
And I'd never ever kissed a woman before
But Cindy smiled and took me by the hand
And said dear geek I'm gonna make you a kernel God
Well I'm not the world's most masculine geek
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a geek
And so is Cindy
See-Eye-Enn-Dee-Why See-Eye-Enn-Dee-Why
See-Eye-Enn-Dee-Why See-Eye-Enn-Dee-Why
Judging from the way Ken dresses, I'd say he'd want a beowulf cluster of Kens. Go ahead. Think about it. I'll wait...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Goto?
That's bad code.
We don't code with those commands.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
Please don't have kids.
Why the hell shouldn't he have kids? I grew up with ample access to nails, bits of wood and hammers. The ONLY thing that ever got hurt was my pride when I'd ask for an honest opinion of what I'd created.
We need more parents who are willing to let their kids grow up and experience things first hand. I'm not saying that it's a good idea to give a kid a box of matches, a gallon of gas and tell them to have a good time in their bedroom. That sort of thing should done outside after all.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
But when you did, I thought to myself, "Whale oil beef hooked."
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I'm sorry, Dave, we don't say those kind of words...
when C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb
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I'm not saying that it's a good idea to give a kid a box of matches, a gallon of gas and tell them to have a good time in their bedroom. That sort of thing should done outside after all.
Ah yes such great fun. After that you can move on to plastic explosives. Need to be careful with that though, incidents involving semtex and the principal's car may take a bit of explaining.
Happy Fun Ball is for external use only.
Then, all you have to do until it develops intelligence and comes after you with plasma weapons...
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She will function just fine until the SoBig.F attack installs a backdoor in her. Before you know it she will be spewing spam transmitting voyeur video from a little girl's bedroom to paid websites.
... "Please dont vote for them. That is a bad word" "Bomb Iraq" "That is a wonderful sentence" "You are a good girl" "Join the navy"
Maybe her big brother will replace the code with a quake2 time demo and hand it a real gun.
I'll bet it has been designed with Republican propaganda... "Democrat"
What if it instructs the little girl to call a certain phone line at a certain date. Gotta love phone-line DDoS attacks.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
Hook a learning doll upto Google and let it learn? Are you insane?!
I don't want a childs doll learning about BDSM horse sex in a tub covered in its own feces while praying to Xenu about clams and how much Windows sucks in those pictures of your cat.
It'd be like Childs Play meets Sex Slave Sluts Vol. IV
Thank you. I almost sent milk through my nose all over my laptop, but thank you.
I can assure you licking, and sucking are two very different things.
I don't read your sig, why do you read mine?
We don't say those kind of words. That's a bad word.
No worries.
It would just stumble on the definition of "WAR" and be unable to save the human race until Bruce Willis kissed it.
Well I, for one, welcome our... ..no wait, I can't say these words