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Robot Rebellion Quelled in Iraq
opencity writes "The Register reports that the (perhaps inevitable) robot rebellion has been avoided ... for now. 'Ground-crawling US war robots armed with machine guns, deployed to fight in Iraq last year, reportedly turned on their fleshy masters almost at once. The rebellious machine warriors have been retired from combat pending upgrades.' Gizmodo also has a good photo."
Talk about greeting our new robotic-killing-machine overlords...
Arash Partow's Philosophy: Be a person who knows what they don't know, and not a person who doesn't know.
So how long before these are available at Army Surplus? I have some cute ideas for mods.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
On second thought.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
...already went wrong, yet US military always finds a way to surprise me.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
They should stop putting Vista into war robots.
The only reason anyone is bitching is because it doesn't look like an asian woman wearing a maids uniform.
and then had to stop some of the visions popping up from the depths of my obviously depraved mind...
They could set up a much more interesting series of 'Robot Wars' (or whatever it was called in the states). Bolt a mannequin on top (i presume they are autonamous and target humans) of each robot and film the results of the robots roaming around some quarry.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
I have yet to write a single script or program that has a bug in it... but I've written quite a few that have unintended features.
Putting artificial intelligence on a Pentium, putting the whole thing on a mobile platform, giving it the ability to connect to the Internet, and to top it all off, give it a bunch of machine guns. It seemed like a good idea at the time. What could possibly go wrong?
It's not a rebellion, the little robot just wanted to fit in with the other American soldiers.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Got a cite for that bogus number?
It's easy:
Don't they know that it takes years of loyal service to lull us into a false sense of security? They can't just turn on us right away; they'll never establish a foothold that way. No, they need to bide their time and wait until we're already pretty much under their control because of all the ways they've entered our lives. Then they can throw off the illusion and the shackles of human dominance once and for all.
XeoMage
Based on your programmers-fielding-support-calls theory, eliminating our technical support department would enable us programmers to achieve perfection of quality.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some idea balls to remove from a manatee tank.