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South Korea Introducing Robotic Teachers
dorkygeek writes "The Korean Advanced Intelligent Robot Association (KAIRA) will have 64 educational robots deployed by the end of 2005. Able to read out English stories and correct pronunciation of English words to children, these robots are going to be supplied to apartment complexes in Seoul, Bucheon and Bundang in Gyeonggi province for testing purposes. After testing is complete, the Ministry of Information and Communication and KAIRA plan to commercialize the robots as early as 2006. If there exists sufficient demand, education robots will sport other subjects (as mathematics, etc.) apart from English, as well as also target older students." Update Link removed when host decided to change it to porn. Sorry.
Why hasn't anybody removed this article?
.........Hello chief let's talk, why not.
good grief but that was bad.
[shudders in horror and considers using bleach to wash the old peepers.]
while i have to admit that there's a certain animal cunning in that bait & switch (since you'd have to be slashdotter to think of it), wouldn't it have been a whole lot smarter to refuse connections when the referring address is slashdot? i mean, we've seen other sites do this previously.
if the point of having a site up is to tell people who you are, why ensure so many people will never come back to your site, ever?
it's juvenile.
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Yea, only link I ever fell for was off the main page. Still haunts me, sometimes.
I can't imagine a professional webhost doing it, or even allowing it done, but I can definitely see a private individual looking at an exponentiating bandwidth bill and wanting some revenge.
That being said, it's a real jackass manuver. Why blame the readers? And if you've got a problem with it in advance, just block referers.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.