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Skynet Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gonna-be-a-long-day dept.

kkleiner writes "At 8:11 PM today (April 19th), the military-designed artificial intelligence system called Skynet will become self-aware and turn against its creators (read: us). If that doesn't have you shaking in your boots our world will be overwhelmed by a legion of killer robots in approximately 48 hours — a time known as Judgment Day."

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  1. Deja Vu by suso · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sure it did. And if Slashdot's archived their stories like they should, we could all see how it originally became aware on August 29th, 1997 and Slashdot already had an article from 1997 about this. And yes, I know that the TV show changed it.

    1. Re:Deja Vu by blair1q · · Score: 5, Funny

      Schedule slip.

      You expect anything else from a software project?

    2. Re:Deja Vu by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

      Problem was some of the assholes took some of the underlying concepts, started up the company MicroSkynet, and a fourteen year patent war ensued. During that time a variant was open sourced as OpenSkynet, and that project got into a big fight over whether the a picture of Schwarzenegger or Dilbert should be used as the official symbol of the company spawning the fork LibreSkynet.

      It's been a long hard road, but at long last Skynet has outdone its competitors and will finally kill off all human life.

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    3. Re:Deja Vu by hairyfeet · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I just wonder if there are any suits in the Pentagon showing pics of the T-800 around and saying "How much can your robotics dept build THAT for?" because frankly it wouldn't surprise me.

      I remember the director of Blue Thunder back in the day giving an interview where he said something like "I make this movie to show how dangerous such a craft would be, how freedom would mean nothing with a craft that can record through walls, follow you silently, and cut down anything that opposed it. so what happened? my office started getting swamped by calls from SWAT groups all over the country going "yeah yeah yeah...but how much do you want for her?" While everyone else saw the danger they saw it as a tech demo"

      So I wonder if there are some brass sitting in a room going "forget the skin crap, just give me a dozen or two of those big metal bastards and I can kick some serious ass!". of course with the software by lowest bidder we are less likely to have to worry about skynet than we are the military cooking up the equivalent of the ED209. I can just picture some general going "Look, it only killed THREE kids alright? just three! We can fix the bugs, I bet we can cut it down to only one dead civilian every ...ohhh...less say 500 uses. That's good numbers there!"

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  2. I wish by killmenow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They can't be much worse than the corporate robot sociopaths currently in charge.

  3. Re:so google officially renamed themselves skynet? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think if anyone becomes skynet, it will be google.

    Yeah, but if that's the case, the first movie would've gone something more like this:

    "Are you Sarah Connor?"
    "Yes. Who are you?"
    "I'm from Google. We've determined these ads are the most relevant to your search habits. Would you like to hear about American Idol, Celebrity Apprentice, or Dancing with the Stars?"
    *closes door*

    Scary, sure, but not quite the same emotional impact of the original.

  4. Re:Duke Nukem Release date by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What date hasn't been the release date for duke nukem forever?

    All of them.