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Armed Robot Guards - Sorta
jshirk writes "The Bankok Post is reporting that the Thailand Research Fund has unveiled the world's first armed robotic guard. The best part: it can be ordered to fire remotely over the Internet. Now, postal carriers have a lot more to worry about than the dog."
http://www.bangkokpost.net/170 800/170800_News03.html
You're being deliberately misleading about the facts of the case. In fact, I would call you a fucking liar. Just because you're a gun nut doesn't justify twisting the truth to suit your own ends.
.44 Magnum revolver and yelled "FREEZE!" (which Hattori didn't understand - it's another one of those "local customs" to point handguns at people while screaming "freeze", I guess); Hattori probably didn't realize it was genuine (Japan's a basically gunless society) and took a few more steps forward (still smiling), at which point the husband blew him away.
The "kid" was teenager from Japan. He was about maximum-violence "gangsta" age.
As are all the kids I know of that age... (well, DUH!) And when's the last time you saw a Japanese gangsta?
He was an exchange student, so he was moderately clueless about the local customs.
Yeah, local customs like shooting people for knocking on your door.
Like many teenagers in/from Japan at the time he had a bad habit: He would suddenly run at people, yelling and making threatening gestures, then take a picture of their expressions of fear. (A disarmed society is NOT a polite society!)
This is such complete bullshit. Get off the crack, buddy.
It was Halloween. It was after dark.
It was Halloween. It was before dark (late afternoon).
The "kid" and another teenage boy from his host's household showed up on the doorstep of a house and tried the door. When confronted, they claimed they were trying to find a party and gave a different address. They were told they were at the wrong address and to go away.
A few minutes later the householder was disturbed again: They were back, trying the door of the garage. The wife, understandably agitated, called the husband, who confronted them again.
I'm not sure why you put quotation marks around the word "kid". He WAS a kid. And the rest of your bullshit is just total fantasy. They knocked on the door, the wife came out, she panicked (well, they were wearing Halloween costumes, something which must be a real rarity on Halloween) and screamed, and the boy (whose name was Hattori, BTW) tried to calm her by taking a few steps (NOT running) towards her while smiling with his EMPTY hands outspread.
Then the woman's husband came charging out of the house brandishing a
They started to go again. But after a few steps the Japanese student suddenly turned, brandished a small black object, and ran roaring at the householder.
This is a total fabrication. Like I said, get off the crack, asshole.
The killer (NOT murderer!) did indeed get off scott free (and rightly so.) Except, of course, for the expense and risk and stress of the trial. And the stress, for himself and his family, of having killed the "kid". And the stress from the liberal press having a field day with him.
Yeah, real stressful. Still better than being dead, though.
Not to mention the orchestrated letter campaign from people in Japan, calling for the US to ban guns. (I wonder what they'd think of an orchestrated letter campaign in the US calling for Japan to ban knives - especially deadly assault katanas?)
Where are you getting this crap from? What fucking "deadly assault katanas"? You really need to get a grip on reality.
You've got to be careful doing that type of shit though. A few years back here in Ontario there were a COUPLE incidents of swat teams getting the wrong address and going in for bear.
Happens here, too.
Hope it happens to you, so you can feel the effects of living in a gun-ridden society at first hand.
I feel sorry for the guy who has to supervise these things; You just -know- your going to get some call at 4 in the morning from a bettle bot requesting permission to open fire on a fallen lamp shade.
http://www.bangkokpost.net/17080 0/170800_News03.html I think it was moved due to the time change there.
The missing photo caption on the working page is, "and this distance represents the time it will take before these things go completely apeshit on us."
Um... As if you don't have enough to worry about with people cracking your desktop and getting at your data and mounting DDOS's from your machine. Now you have to worry about them cracking your robot and shooting you in your own home! Oh, great fscking invention, guys!
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I don't know about Bangkok but would this be legal in the US? Can you fire at someone when your life or another life is not in danger? The "guard" isn't alive. So can it use deadly force to protect itself (property)?
And if it is shooting in auto mode who is at fault? The programer? The owner of the machine?
Can't wait for the legal fun this is going to cause.
Wouldn't a guard robot that obeyed Asimov's Laws of Robotics be completely useless?
Robot: Halt. No authorized person may enter.
Robber: I order you to let me enter. Heck, while you're at it, help carry the money to my car.
Robot: I have a more sophisticated method for discriminating between comflicting orders than mere chronology. Your orders will not be followed where they conflict with my previous order to guard this building.
Robber: (Placing gun to own head) But you cannot allow a human to come to harm through any inaction. If you do not follow the following instructions completely, I will shoot myself. Open the safe and carry the money to my car. When you're done, bash in your head so you can't identify me.
Robot: Yes, sir.