The Death of Aibo, the Birth of Softbank's Child-Robot

New submitter pubwvj writes: Sony is killing off their robot Aibo, stranding the 150,000 or so owners with no support, repairs or parts other than cannibalism. Now we have another Japanese company, SoftBank, releasing a robotic 'child.' Eventually, they too will discontinue the production of parts and support, beginning the process of killing off all those 'children' that are spawned. As robotics become (far) more advanced at what point will it be murder for a company to discontinue a product line?

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Re: Seriously?

[antiperimetaparalogo]

A one minute video, the first result after i search for "abortion" in Youtube (note: what has been seen can not be unseen)

No my friend, i never seen the fetus room at "Body Worlds" (it come to Greece, i wanted to go, but i was busy unfortunatly) - but why i should "fuck off" when we can see babies from abortions in Youtube?

Re: Seriously?

[antiperimetaparalogo]

Fine; numbanus it is (you know, what with you being "Greek" and all. ;)

Your English is clearly fantastic; infinitely better than my Francais (five years) and my Nihongo (ten years);

I was ready to call you an asshole (you know, after that numbanus and all!) but after complimenting me for my English the situation changed Sir! By the way: Nihongo - i have 2 (Greek) lady friends styding the language (one needs it for -maritime- business reasons, and the other even stayed for some time in Japan)... not much progress for both!

the problem is your inability to grasp an incredibly complex issue in anything but the simplest, emotionally-loaded terms. So no, I don't want to see only politicians' daughters able to murder their unborn children (I won't lower myself to phrasing it any other way) without having to resort to a rusty back-alley coat hanger...

O.K., i respect the way you phrasing it - let me defend myself for the "inability to grasp an incredibly complex issue...": i don't feel so insulted by you criticism... it may be correct, but coming from a (fellow) Slashdoter after my first comment you replied to modded down (by other -fellow- Slashdoters) as "Score: -1, Offtopic"... it just makes me think that this "note before down-mod" that i wrote was a prophesy, and i am a prophet!