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Microsoft Robots to Watch Kids

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-I-sleep-the-robot-will-get-me dept.

Archangel Michael writes "Microsoft announced today that is testing a new toy / robot to watch over kids. My question is, if the toy BSOD does it take the kid with it? Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids! When will it end?"

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  1. Sorry Microsoft by bpb213 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But its been done before:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/

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  2. Re:k, gotta be useful here by ecotax · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why oh why do the moderators only seem to read at a level of +3?

    I was reading at -1, but:
    a) I can't both reply to question *and* moderate;
    b) I can't moderate as 'cute'.

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  3. Re:k, gotta be useful here by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My daughter followed the script til she was 17. Then she quit math, got a boyfriend who was depressed unless he took meds, and started disobeying very reasonable parenting which had always worked previously and finally moved out with her mom the last summer so she could do whatever she wanted to. A few years later she has lost the loser boyfriend and gotten someone decent but she no longer plays sports and has never returned to math which she was good at. You just can't know. You can not know what you are going to be like yourself in 20 years. How could you hope to know what another person is going to be like?

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  4. We are the space robots by generationxyu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pak Chooie Unf
    We are the space robots.
    We are here to protect you.
    We are here to protect you from the terrible secret of space.
    I am the pusher robot.
    I shove around the blind people.
    I am the shover robot.
    I push bread down their throats.

    Pushing is the answer.
    Pushing will protect you from the terrible secret of space.
    Do not trust the pusher robot.
    Shoving is the answer.
    Shoveing will protect you from the terrible secret of space.

    Do you have stairs in your house?
    Please go to the top of the stairs so I can protect you.

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  5. Re:k, gotta be useful here by geomon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Poop is brown.

    Not when infants have the flu.

    It turns green and has a mucus-like coating.

    And it stinks like 10,000 cat boxes.

    Really - it has a fantastically obnoxious odor.

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  6. Re:k, gotta be useful here by mooingyak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nothing in the world stinks more than a diaper full of diarrhea (sp?).

    Having changed so many of their diapers, I can now recognize which of my daughters farted by scent alone. Or, by process of elimination, if it was my wife.

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