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Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq
NightFalcon90909 writes "You may have heard that armed robots were yanked from Iraq after a gun started to swivel without it being told to do so. 'A recent news report that armed robots had been pulled out of Iraq is mistaken, according to the company that makes the robot [Foster-Miller] and the Army program manager. 'The whole thing is an urban legend,' says Foster Miller spokesperson Cynthia Black, of the reports about SWORDS moving its gun without a command.'"
Who cares if it works?
Maybe they put the Telencephalic inhibitors back in?
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
The article is worth it just for this quote: "So, now there is now redundant wiring on every circuit."
www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
Like The Terminator, they'll be back.
"It can't shoot anyone [without orders]," Black says. "It's not an autonomous vehicle."
Can we not dream that there are artificially intelligent armed to the teeth robots ready to kill us at a moments notice?! If you take that away, what do we have left?! Do not bring your holier than thou facts to our paranoia party. If we believe hard enough that there are crazed, deadly robots on the loose, maybe... one day our dream might come true! So step off Sgt. Buzzkill.
I got a catholic block.
(Hastily tears down "Hail Robots" sign)
Cover-up! Cover-up! You can be sure something is true if it has been officially denied. Calling this story an urban legend is the falsehood here. These Terminators are going to be the end of us all!
The Uncoveror: It's the real news.
s/Its an urban legend/All witnesses have been silenced/
Given his track record for pointing guns in the wrong direction, perhaps we should start calling the little darlings, "Cheneys".
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Similar to the upcoming US election results
Get your stinking manipulators off me you damn dirty robots!
Klingon programs don't timeshare, they battle for supremacy.
Shouldn't that be, "You can have my soylent green when you make it from my cold, dead hands!"?
You can have my soylent green when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!
You can have my soylent green when you pry it from my cold, dead hands, you damn, dirty ape!
Clippy just got a whole new lease on life...
"It looks like you're trying to shoot an insurgent. Would you like help?"
First rule of trauma: Bleeding always stops.
I think a lot of people will disagree with you here. Maybe not Slashdot members but a lot of people (me included) believe that God really did write the 10 commandments on stone tablets.