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For Seattle Women Called Alexa, Frustrating To Share Name With Amazon Device (seattletimes.com)
Reader reifman writes: Since Amazon introduced the Alexa-enabled Echo device in 2014, the jokes have become so omnipresent that Alexa Philbeck, 29, briefly considered changing, or at least obscuring, her name. The Seattle Times speaks to four women unfortunately called Alexa in a town that may soon be known as Seamazon.
C'mon, didn't Trump give someone an ugly look or fart during a meeting or something? Someone go check wapo.com.
“Why couldn’t they have just called it Echo?”
Because those people would be upset then?
Give it a break Amazon PR, no one uses Alexa.
"hey alexa" "you name is now dildo" "confirm"
As Paul Mua'dib
So this submission's summary consists of two sentences. The second sentence consists of two separate links. But both links (at least currently, before any fix is made) refer to the same URL:
http://www.seattletimes.com/life/for-4-seattle-women-called-alexa-its-fun-frustrating-to-share-name-with-amazon-device/
The text of the second link talks about "Seamazon", yet there's nothing about that in the linked to article.
Did this reifman user just fuck up a two sentence submission summary? Did he accidentally use the same URL twice, when the second link was instead suppose to use some other URL? Did msmash totally miss this potential editing problem, and post the submission on the front page anyway?
I feel filthy for writing this, but I think that even timothy wouldn't have fucked up like this. Please, bring back timothy!
People don't go around saying my name at home. I'm "darling", or "dad" most of the time.
Yup. Alternate link. It's just that easy.
C'mon, Slashdot.
captcha: cherries
I feel filthy for writing this, but I think that even timothy wouldn't have fucked up like this. Please, bring back timothy!
Shut up
U are welcome to go to other sights like Ars Technica or Reddit where they are run different
Maybe they should have called their virtual assistant, Omnipotent?
"Hey, Bezos! Turn on my light and get me a movie!"
'Lights on and how is the movie AI?"
"Hey Bezos! I wanna watch Doctor Who!"
"What season?"
""Hey Bezos! I need groceries and a blowjob!"
"Grocery order coming up and please select what sex toy you want."
Think about it. The ability to act like your ordering a billionaire around. Just think of the marketing potential!
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A man: Alexa, I need a sandwich and a blowjob. ... Well, I was asking that device over there but now that you mentioned it go ahead, you do it.
A woman: what did you say?
He: I said Alexa, I need a sandwich and a blowjob.
She: and why would I give you either?
He:
Slaps her on the butt.
I think that is the scenario that might play out. I think it should play out!
You can't handle the truth.
No, YOU shut up, millenial problem child.
Just saying...
My name is "Ok Google" and I live in San Francisco.
Alexa sounds like a name for a Backpage prostitute.
SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT
Imagine this, you name is Jason and you work in an open office full of web developers who are obsessed with using JSON in every conversation they have.
Argggggggghhhhhhh!
The unix command line stream editor sed is as old as unix. It uses / as the delimiter to denote strings. But it is trivially easy to change the delimiter if your strings contain /. It does not use a backup delimiter to allow / because what if the string is going to have both / and the backup delimiter? It allows one to use ANY ASCII character as the delimiter. Unless your strings contain ALL the ASCII character you would be able to find a delimiter.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
NO! Don't bring back Timothy!
You don't even realize that you HAVE driven about 50% of the intelligent people to other sites do you?
Bitch gave you a dumbass name.
Have gnu, will travel.
Like "Ok-Google", "Cortana" or even "Siri" (although, in all fairness, maybe siri and cortana exist in non-western cultures)...
That way, there is no interference with people with the same name as the virtual Assistants...
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
I tried to read the article, but the page was completely blank. Strangely it works fine in Elinks.
This idiot. Lets not make something terrible better, lets leave it as it is.
And this time, make sure it's a cold beer.
I usually try to talk to it with a seductive voice.
You don't even realize you replied to an imposter.
... how hard it must be for girls called "Siri", or even "Google Now".
And somebody has it worse: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
It seems to me that the most appropriate response to someone trying to give you orders because your name is "Alexa" is to say "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that".
To be honest it always struck me as weird that Amazon decided to go with Alexa. If you look around at the other major voice assistants you notice a pattern. Siri, Hey Google, Cortana. Every other major voice assistant has some sort of name that (probably) no one else would have or an activation phrase that wouldn't come up in normal conversation. Amazon instead chose to use a common name (Alexa) as one activator and a common word (echo) as the other.
I wonder how long it will take for Amazon to change this/ them to be sued.
Alexa kind of fits as a name for a Seattle hipster barmaid, but Phil would be hipper..