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U.S. Will Use Robots to Patrol Water Supply

Posted by michael on from the drink-me dept.

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."

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  1. Don't forget... by SCO$699FeeTroll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.

    1. Re:Don't forget... by delus10n0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Can someone from /. ban this guy? I mean, come on. Every post is the same thing, and he posts on every article!

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  2. Didn't they learn anything? by Power+Everywhere · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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  3. aah by Coneasfast · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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"

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  4. Don't forget... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to kiss Darl McBride's ass on your way out you tea-smoking cock bagger.

  5. Re:EDITOR ABUSE by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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  6. Re:Obligatory Simpsons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you are such a karma-whoring turd.

  7. Re:Obligatory Simpsons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why thank you... fuck head. Fart nugget. Smeg munching munchkin. Too scared to use his real nick to call other people names. You fucking pussy.

  8. Re:EDITOR ABUSE by nukem1999 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're talking to someone with a name of "EDITOR ABUSE" and a fresh user ID. He did just sign up for another one :)

  9. Re:EDITOR ABUSE by timlee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All posts start at 0. Your Slashdot settings assign specific weights to people with good/bad karma. You can change this in your user profile.

    So it went something like this:
    1. Troll posted
    2. You loaded the page and your settings showed the 0 post at -1 due to parent's bad karma.
    3. A moderator modded it down to "-1 offtopic".
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    5. Profit

  10. Re:EDITOR ABUSE by Shut+the+fuck+up! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wrong. This post starts at -1.

    From the FAQ: "Users with very low karma might lose the +1 associated with being a logged-in user. Extremely bad users might even be penalized to a -1."

  11. Re:EDITOR ABUSE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Erm, it's off-topic because it's off-topic. It doesn't matter what level the post started at, if it's off-topic, it's off-topic. *nod*

  12. Re:Obligatory Simpsons by cshark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What?

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