Going to Amazon’s website and entering an order is just so much WORK!
Intelligence has been selectively bred out.
And acceptance of snooping plus more than a little indoctrinated exhibitionism in play.
My wife bought me it. I NEVER remember asking for it or saying at all that I wanted it.
Last I checked, my legs and arms were working and though difficult, I’m willing to call the pizzeria myself AND answer the door.
I’m even willing to change the thermostat on my own!! Like the pioneers!
It’s still in the corner. Better to lose 50 bucks than tell her I didn’t want one of her gifts.
The only reason I am going to order the new stick is to get the new firmware, upgraded speed and storage capability of the new stick.
I am hoping I can turn the speech part off.
Read a news article that Ford is going to put it in their vehicles later this year..
You must be old, like me.
...For the life of me, I don’t understand why anybody would want to place a bug into his/her own home....
Ever read 1984?
It’s not just a bug, what if they go Skynet one day?
Not sure I get it. Don’t you need to pay for these doll houses before they ship them? Did they give “Alexa” their credit card data to store for future orders?
My granddaughter thought it would be good for her great grandfather who has recently lost his eyesight and had been using an IPad.
Big Brother is watching you.
And the idiots are inviting him right into their own homes.
Most Smart TVs have voice activated controls, so they too are listening all of the time. It will be hard to get away from this if one really wants to, unless they forgo all technology.
I have an Alexa and love it, and disabled the voice ordering ability after I read about this incident.
I used to laugh when I read Revelations about people choosing to get the Mark of the Beaat. “Nobody would be that stupid!,” I’d remark. “Who couldn’t see that coming?”
Well, today we have an army of nimrods willing to tattoo and pierce even their private parts, open up their personal details on Facebook and put all their transactions on debit cards. And now they can blab into a “personal assistant” that will rat them out to FedGov should it ever be necessary. Their phones get to track their whereabouts 24/7.
Today, Alexa has to be asked to order a dollhouse. Tomorrow, it may be prompted by just a specific audible tone sent by your phone. We are becoming a nation of lemmings.
There’s a Stephen King novel —and movie— in here somewhere.
SKYNET!
SKYNET!
SKYNET!
Am I the only one that thinks this IoT (Internet of Things) is going to be the end of us? It might not be nuclear destruction, but it could be WORSE!