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New Laws of Robotics Proposed for US Kill-Bots
jakosc writes "The Register has a short commentary about a proposed new set of laws of robotics for war robots by John S Canning of the Naval Surface Warfare Centre. Unlike Asimov's three laws of robotics Canning proposes (pdf) that we should 'Let machines target other machines and let men target men.' Although this sounds OK in principle, 'a robot could decide under Mr Canning's rules, to target a weapon system such as an AK47 for destruction on its own initiative, requiring no permission from a human. If the person holding it was thereby killed, that would be collateral damage and the killer droid would be in the clear.'"
You have got to be kidding.
You dont think that some muslim that blows himself up in a car bomb cares about collateral damage? Hell, that is his main intent...
---- Booth was a patriot ----
How does it work with un-uniformed combatants?
Skin color, anything darker then a light cream will be shot and assumed to be a un-uniformed combatant. Sounds fair right?
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Muslims that follow the Koran are definitely enemies of liberty. Yes, their behavior does serve as a premise for OUR battlefield ethics, if they want to pull that shit, we'll pull out the B-52s and carpet bomb large urban areas. I don't know why Tony Blair totally pussied out going up against Iran. A better pretext for a war against Iran has never existed.
The next time they ask for Jihad we should give them one. I'm so tired of this shit. Don't commit the troops commit the air force. We could bring those countries to their knees in a few hours. Ever seen pictures of Europe after the bombing campaigns? Who cares about winning the hearts and minds, just kill them. Agent Orange for the limited crops available, troops to secure the oil fields, tin foil for the power sub-stations, bunker busters for the dams / water reservoirs, and cluster bombs / block busters for the parliament buildings / gov't infrastructure. Put a Phalanx every 2 miles on the pipeline and no more incursions for bombing.
I'd say it would take about 2 weeks to solve the entire middle east problem once and for all.