The future is a dangerous place

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Beware the robot vacuum cleaner. It's out to get you.

Woman attacked by robot vacuum

Feb 10, 2015 10:23AMELON Musk and Stephen Hawking both warned us that artificial intelligence would be what ends humanity. Last week a South Korean woman was attacked by her robot vacuum cleaner, does this spell the beginning of the end?

The innocent woman unsuspectingly purchased her robot vacuum to relieve her daily stresses and not have to worry about vacuuming her floors. But instead, the 52 year old’s robot servant turned on her while she was taking a nap.

The woman, whose name can’t be revealed, presumably for her own safety, was unable to free herself from the machine after it sucked up and trapped her hair.

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<img src="http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2015/02/10/1227214/286627-5fea3a5a-b0ad-11e4-a60e-64ee9e292a6c.jpg" alt="It may look innocent, but it could turn on you at any moment. " width="650" height="366" />It may look innocent, but it could turn on you at any moment. Source: Supplied


The attack lasted several minutes before she was able to stop it. The woman immediately phoned the local emergency services, with the fire department soon showing up to complete a daring, desperate rescue. Paramedics were also involved in the operation, helping to remove the evil robot from the woman’s head.

She was lucky to escape any serious injury, however the fate of her previously faithful machine is unknown.
Korean Biz Wire noted that in cultures like South Korea it is common for people to take naps on the floor, leaving them more vulnerable to vicious robot vacuum cleaners like this.

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If you only knew.
"The FBI will not have to bug your living room; you will do it yourself."
So says Michael Price of Salon.com, the nervous new owner of a "smart" TV - a web-connected telly that recognises his face, listens to his voice, and could send that information (and more, including emails he receives) to a third party.
"Got that? Don't say personal or sensitive stuff in front of the TV," writes Price.
"I do not doubt that this data is important to providing customised content and convenience, but it is also incredibly personal, constitutionally protected information that should not be for sale to advertisers and should require a warrant for law enforcement to access."
The Daily Mail reports British IT consultant Jason Huntley found his LG smart TV had sent his children's names, unencrypted, over the internet "because he had watched a family video on his set".
Price explains current laws offer very little privacy protection to the "third party records", including data stored in the cloud (although one federal court of appeals has found this rule unconstitutional with respect to email).
Speaking about web-based "smart" devices, retired General David Petraeus, former head of the CIA, said in 2012 that "Items of interest will be located, identified, monitor, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers and energy harvester." That means, Price argues, as the "Internet of Things" matures, household appliances - even your socks - may be wired to interact online.
Of course, it is possible to disable data collection, but that immobilises many of the high-tech functions.
"This leaves consumers with an unacceptable choice between keeping up with technology and retaining their personal privacy… We should not have to channel surf worried that the TV is recording our behaviour for the benefit of advertisers and police. Companies need to become more mindful of consumer privacy when deciding whether to collect personal data."
 
If you get a min. Check out the locations of the new NSA center, Adobes, and Oracles new data centers. The Ceo of oracle, relation as a corporate sponsor to Obama, and if your really interested get the building permit copies of the optical fibers layer in that area.
 
I liked the story I read the other day about a Robot vacuum. This person left it going while she was gone and the cat pooped on the floor. Guess what she came home to spread everywhere?.....
 
And now your TV may be listening to your conversations and forwarding them to data centers according to a report about some new Samsung TVs!
 
Don't be too sure. It could be listening to you as you listen to it, so you better be careful of what you are saying or doing while sitting in front of the tube, and you might also want to be fully clothed just in case it is also watching you...:D
 
I can't quite feel sorry for someone who starts a robotic vacuum, and then lays down on the same floor that is being cleaned by the robotic vacuum.

Common sense isn't all that common.
 
My son's cat likes the roomba too and can turn it on herself and jump on for a ride.

Sleeping on the floor while it is going or even vacuuming your head with your regular vacuum cleaner - not a good idea.
 

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