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Flee! Flee The Devil Spawn!

My son has just performed his first hack. He can use his laptop to tap into my laptop and make it speak. Of course he has the password -- that's gonna have to change -- but still, it's quite weird. Suddenly my computer is speaking: "Hey, don't be so hard on the mouse." And of course, since we're talking about my son, there are words best not repeated.

As I'm typing this my computer says, "I am like HAL."

Did I mention my son is nine?

“Flee! Flee The Devil Spawn!”

  1. Blogger Richard Lawrence Cohen Says:

    Remind me not to show this to my 10- and 11-yr olds. They do Flash animations, though, complete with Nine Inch Nails soundtracks.

    I just blogrolled you again -- took me a while to get hip to this site after the old one passed on.

  2. Anonymous Anonymous Says:

    This made me laugh until I remembered that my 3 1/2 yo, who doesn't know how to read yet, has already figured out the basics of web surfing. technology favors the young.