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Re:Amazon Echo by lsaferite on Thursday November 06, 2014 @02:28PM (#8569146)
Following that logic, you CAN turn off the echo, it's got what looks like mute and power buttons right on top.
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Re:Amazon Echo by JadeNB on Thursday November 06, 2014 @02:37PM (#8569216)
The question for the paranoid is whether it (the Echo) is useful enough while not connected to the Internet. (I think it's too much to expect any device to be particularly useful while off. :-) ) At least some commenters seem to think so—https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568572, for example.

(Also, to be fair to chatmasta (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568265), I think that s/he was suggesting that the Internet connection / voice-recording function is on whenever the device is, not that the device itself can never be turned off.)

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Re:Amazon Echo by teddyh on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:46PM (#8570000)
“Edison, an off switch!”

“She’ll get years for that. Off switches are illegal.”

— Max Headroom, season 1, episode 6: “The Blanks”, 1987

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Re:Amazon Echo by sib on Friday November 07, 2014 @01:08AM (#8571390)
It has a mic mute button, but not a power switch.
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Re:Amazon Echo by lsaferite on Friday November 07, 2014 @08:22AM (#8572357)
So what's the second button then?
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