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U.S. Will Use Robots to Patrol Water Supply
bl8n8r writes "By the summer of 2005, the United States will have an underwater network of robots monitoring the nations fresh water supply. Realtime environmental details will be used to help safeguard the nations drinking water. The robots would take on the painstaking, time consuming, and sometimes dangerous, task of collecting water samples which is currently being done by carbon based lifeforms."
I hope they run FreeBSD in lieu of Windows NT. We've only had about four stalled destroyers due to that operating system. They'll probably end up running something like QNX or VxWorks, though, which are realtime operating systems. Still much better choices than Windows NT/2K/XP.
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we can't give them the leverage of controlling our water supply. i can just imagine them saying:
"all your water are belong to us. har har har"
Marge, get me your address book, 4 beers, and my conversation hat.
Apparently, they are afraid to outright ban someone due to their twisted views of censorship.
Or possibly because they know if they outright ban the account, he'll just sign up for another one. Or maybe buy one on Ebay.
LK
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You're talking to someone with a name of "EDITOR ABUSE" and a fresh user ID. He did just sign up for another one :)
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5. Profit
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