...like a real boy?

It refuses even to discuss which wood to use to make your own black powder, where everything is out there already.

IOW, it's recording everything that is said around it, can identify people by their voice, who needs smart glasses.

Did some reading off the back of your comment and yep - I now remember the fuss when that happened. Had totally forgotten it, Slashdot even did an article at the time. I'd so associated them with Nintendo that I got it mixed up.

"Our agents discovered, on their own initiative, insecure websites where terrorists could have exchanged messages, thus making the world more secure."

"You are welcome".

Yes, from as thin as possible for YEARS, now it's double thickness that's all the rage.

"They're in a reading club, but still can't pick what they want to read, why? "

The spinster prof doesn't want to discuss 'Lolita' with teen brats.

So if you utter 'Motherfucker' a lot in your living-room, the TV plays a Tarantino movie?

I remember the very first big box game in the UK. It was Sabre Wulf, from Ultimate Play The Game. At the time, games were around £5.99 to £7.99 - Sabre Wulf was the first £9.99 game in the UK and they part justified it by having a bigger box.

Since everything at that point came on cassette, this was annoying as hell because you couldn't fit it into your cassette holders that you definitely, definitely had as an 8 bit gamer in the UK. No stranger to later price gouging, Ultimate became Rare and was bought by Nintendo. I still think Nintendo is lord of the overpricing, at least these days (in ye olden times there was the NeoGeo charging £300 for a game back in the early 1980s. I think PC Engine charged a fortune too. But absolutely nobody had these in the UK).

>You can't use the TV without accepting

You have to accept the top two, but it is perfectly usable without clicking accept on the bottom three. The top two I don't believe (though I haven't double checked) do anything malicious. The bottom ones do.

I'm British, and have been following this from the other side of the story. In the UK it's more fragmented - this year England is up, but Scotland and Wales are down and in some cases quite significantly. Wales seems to have taken a hell of a hit in reading for instance.

It's better news in maths and science but we're still behind where we were five-seven years ago except for science. Definitely a mixed bag, though all improvements are welcome of course.

... did Slashdot become a god damned commie circle jerk?

You know that Africa is a continent with dozens of countries, also it's 3 times bigger than the US.

Africans have been managing their money with their cellphones for over a decade, while SOME countries still write checks.

They would have killed the US trucks.