Awesomo loves you!

Unless this "robot" is a block of cheese, it's probably going to be fairly animate.

The teddy bear sitting in the corner of the child's room might look normal, until his head starts following the kid around using a face recognition program

Does anyone else think that this could be the scariest thing ever? Especially if they make a clown version?

I give it two months before someone can boot Linux on it, and in 6 months they could do it without needing to solder...

KILL ALL HUMANS!!

Do you think Bill Gates will keep a universal robot remote control in her bra like Mom?

Robot with Clippy's voice:

"Hi kid! It looks like you are peeing, do you want me to help?"

Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids!

You've obviously never hired a teenage babysitter...

"My experience is that XP itself is incredibly stable.

Congratulations on getting a post that included this sentence to be modded "Informative" :-)

1) A robot may not use a non-Microsoft product or through inaction, allow a human being to use a non-Microsoft product.

2) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Hehe....

'Can't sleep, clown will eat me....!'

Michael Jackson announces a sudden decision to become a cyborg.

That job would belong to television thank you very much. Why every one of my 9 kids here in the trailor park wuz done raised good on TV. How many slashdotters remember the jingle sung by a cowboy on CBS, "After the messegez, weee'll be rigghhht back"... Inanimate objects have been raising our kids for 50 years.. and it shows.

Are You Sarah Conner
Well Im here to babysit your child.
you can Download driver updates at MSky.net
Thank you for updating The babysiters web browser Please reboot me
Ill be back

Then you, sir, are using the wrong Screensaver [sysinternals.com].

We've been waiting 20 years for the 2005 equivilant of Teddy Ruxpin, who scared the shit out of kids everywhere back in the 80s. The day has finally come!

I give it two months before someone can boot Linux on it [. . .]

So not only will the child have dependencies on her teddy bear, but the teddy bear will have dependencies of its own?

...At least this robot might create the opportunity to go play outside...

yeah. What you going to do? chain your kid to the robot and spring for the extra nice mag wheels to drag the little fecker into the "big blue room" on command?

Why are there always the inevitable jokes about BSODs?

That's what inevitable means.

I thought he already was one.

I've NEVER seen 2000 or XP produce a blue screen of death EVER...
Because Microsoft replaced the technology on win 2k and xp with Gray Screen of Shutdown.

New source of child porn? >.>

perhaps also allowing a parent talk to the child through a special phone, or monitor the child via a camera and wireless Internet connection.

And at 2am the child wakes up screaming, after someone hacked into the robot and played a recording of Chucky?

"Hi kid! It looks like you are peeing, do you want me to help?"

yeah, give it Michael Jackson's voice instead,
that'll really freak the parents out.

"Except for any refund elected by Microsoft, YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, if the Robot wrecks everything you own and KILLS YOUR FREAKIN' KID."

the second cousin twice removed on his father's side of Snagglepus [google.com]

Heavens to mergatroyd!

No, I'd bet Microsoft would give five bucks!

has anyone ever seen XP or 2000 SP3 actually BSOD on a regular basis.

yes.

My experience is that XP itself is incredibly stable. Infinitely more so than 95 or 98.

A three legged stool with one leg missing and a bad woodworm infestation standing on the back of an enraged bull being sodomised with a cheese grater in an earthquake zone is more stable than 98 or 95.

Microsoft Parent 2086?

Just imagine the Slashdot posts by then:

"Thats what happens when you deregulate the robotics market. The fact they license by number of children is unfair!! What if one of my kids is a clone!?!? I want my kids to be raised by an open source father."

4. Classified.

(Remember that Robocop boots in DOS.)

A friend of mine got a Teddy Ruxpin for his birthday. He didn't like it. Of course it was his 16th birthday... Yay clueless aunt.

You just don't get blue humor.

Ha ... and I wonder how many of them have "only told their teddy bears" where the bodies are?

Everybody knows all robots from Momcorp run on alcohol.

Can I beat it with a stick?

Do you have stairs in your house?

I am protected

Since when is the BSOD a dead horse? Its a evil satanic horse, but a living one, with glowing red eyes, just waiting to eat your data.

In Soviet Russia, children play with toys!

Can't sleep, clown will eat me...

Can't sleep, clown will eat me...

I thought is was:

1) A robot may not use a non-Microsoft product or through inaction, allow a human being to use a non-Microsoft product.

2) ????

3) PROFIT!

It doesn't work man! I did the registry entries, rebooted and I am pressing ctrl. Then I tap ScrLk once, then t[NO CARRIER]

All your child are belong to us.

But your parent is an anonymous coward!

"It looks like you are trying to go to the bathroom. Would you like help with that?"

1. Start regedit. (If you are unfamiliar with regedit, please refer to this FAQ)
2. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\S ervic es\i8042prt\Parameters
3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnCtrlScroll

I have an idea!

3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnRMouseClick

That should make the end users run for the hills. Geeks would never know!

MICROSOFT ROBOT ATTACKS FIREFOX USER

(ap) A brief but violent incident between a new Microsoft 'nanny' robot and an Internet user was reported today.

"I had just activated the nanny robot and placed it next to my keyboard when I tried to access the Internet for further instructons" said the victim. "Suddenly the robot attacked me, biting my hands and trying to chew off my fingers. I just barely escaped. I had to beat the robot to death with my baseball bat. The only thing I can imagine why it attacked was because I was using the Firefox browser, and not Internet Explorer."

The visibly-shaken victim's injuries were treated at a local hospital, and he was released. Microsoft had no comment, other than to say there will be a patch issued soon.

--30--

The child has performed an illegal operation and will be terminated.

"It looks like you are trying to go to the bathroom. Would you like help with that?"

"You're reading a Slashdot article about how to hack me and turn me into a sex-slave. Please stop your activities."

You had a ROCK? Lucky bastard! I had to walk up hill, both ways, through the snow to get snow, and it melted before I could pretend it was a truck, and I LIKED IT!

No I am not!

Oh, wait

Danger Will Gates, Danger DANGER!