{"id":184864,"date":"2012-01-01T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/01\/best-siri-prank-of-last-year\/"},"modified":"2012-01-01T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T00:04:00","slug":"best-siri-prank-of-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/01\/best-siri-prank-of-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Siri Prank of Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/4027105\/iPhone-Siri-tells-lad-in-Tesco-Shut-the-f-up.html\">programmed a display model Apple iPhone to cuss out anyone who attempted to talk to it<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>A LAD of 12 who tried out the new iPhone 4S in Tesco was stunned when it told him: &#8220;Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The phone&#8217;s Siri system, which answers spoken questions, came back with the foul-mouthed insult when Charlie Le Quesne asked: &#8220;How many people are there in the world?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charlie&#8217;s horrified mum Kim said: &#8220;The phone was a demo version and was low enough on the shelf for Charlie to have a go with it. He asked it a simple question and we couldn&#8217;t believe the filth it came out with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought I must be hearing things. So we asked again and the same four-letter stuff blared out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked for the manager and after staff heard it they agreed to unplug it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apologetic staff at Tesco in Coventry told Kim pranksters had tampered with the phone&#8217;s set-up instructions.<\/p>\n<p>The Siri system refers to the phone&#8217;s user by name \u2014 using information stored in its contacts system. The jokers had entered the rude seven-word phrase as the user&#8217;s name \u2014 so the phone blurted it out when it answered a question<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone programmed a display model Apple iPhone to cuss out anyone who attempted to talk to it&#8220; A LAD of 12 who tried out the new iPhone 4S in Tesco was stunned when it told him: &#8220;Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***.&#8221; The phone&#8217;s Siri system, which answers spoken questions, came back with the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1100,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-funny","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}