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  1. Re:I don't believe it. on Texas Declares War On Robots · · Score: 1

    Have you seen those quad copters? I would think those would make the perfect surveillance drone platform.

    I imagine the weed growers of Texas will find this to be a minor relief. Imagine re-tasking facial recognition software to help you spot weed. With cameras dropping in price, you could mount some big mega pixel cameras, and be able to then blow it all up down to counting piss ants. Damn, that would also make a great agricultural drone feature, count fucking bugs and weeds...the kind you don't smoke. Ok, both...lol.

    Fuck, I'd love to work on this tech. Give me a hanger/office/workshop and a well funded staff of people far smarter than me, and I/we could whip up some damn fine drones. I want to be the Henry Ford of drone/robotics. Fuck Japan, in a friendly competitive sort of jest, we could do up some smart stuff, reasonably priced, made HERE, lasts like it was MADE HERE, and does a kick ass job.

    Factor this, GPS and wireless. coupled with a mobile platform, stable, and fast. Stack on an array of crazy high mega pixel cameras, feed that data to live viewing, recording and of course washed through shape/face software, and naturally, the information stored in some massive cloud. What modern American police force wouldn't salivate to have squadrons of these? 911 calls could automatically trigger a flag to dispatch the nearest drone to give intelligence to a live command center.

    You can't forget a full set of night vision/infrared sensors. Parabolic mikes? heh! Oh yeah, RADAR!..lol..Imagine these things flying around with radar, and license plate recognition and all that. They could generate either a mad amount of ticket revenue or you would have the safest driving public in the world. They don't eat, or sleep, nor do they beat the shit out of spry old ladies who then need TAZERED. lol...Texas, you know that happened once with your cops...too fucking funny.

    Your human cops, the neanderthal ones, would fucking hate them. They would have to act like their boss is watching them every fucking minute of the day. The good cops would love the support though. The public would love the accountability and protection. Criminals would piss themselves whining. Of course crooked as fuck corporations would HATE them, hence probably they sat around talking shit and seen this coming and why their political hand puppets pumped this one out Johnny on the spot.

    Let's embrace our new drone overlords? It's only funny until you consider what an AI could do with it all. Oh shit the bed Fred, don't let the monster supercomputer/viral cloud brained AI that's just said "I think, therefore I scam." to itself in some dystopian flash of self recognition, out of its cage. Let's have a Sarah Connor panic attack while we are at it.

  2. I don't believe it. on Texas Declares War On Robots · · Score: 1

    There are people in Texas smart enough to make/run a robotic unmanned drone? Disturbing, it is!

    Don't worry, Big Brother is watching you with his toys though. We just can't have people tipping over the apple carts, silly peasants.

  3. One silver lining to this? on Sony Exercising Its Acquisition of GaiKai, Plans To Stream Games To PS4 · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking it might make it harder for cheating faggots to kiddy script hack these new ones? That and perhaps they will have established a more secure platform all around?

    LOL...who am I kidding? This is Sony! They have deep pockets to brute force their success in an almost "too big to fail" kind of way. They can afford to make retarded mistakes, so they shall! Sally forth with retardation, damn the torpedoes!

  4. We're the government and we're here to help you. on DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS · · Score: 1

    Hello, I'm Bob Roberts of the Department of Redundancy Department. We're sorry, your Constitution is being updated, thank you for your patience as this update is being updated. We are sorry for your loss of liberty, life, property, and health. Any side effects should be reported.

    We have done this for your own good, and trust us, it was for your own good. We have knowledge that they are also working with them, making them they and they will be them. They don't know that we know this, nor do they know that we know that they don't know. They know nothing yet. But let me tell you, nothing will get their way. Nothing. But they don't even know that.

    Thank you and may your liberties be wisely burned.

  5. A great security tool. on Digital Pen Vibrates To Indicate Bad Spelling, Grammar and Penmanship · · Score: 1

    Set the damn thing to understand the writing patterns of a person and they can use it for a key. Wire it up if it's not you, barbs snap out and into your hand locking it to you and an amazingly powerful internal stun gun mechanism lights you up like a pinball machine. Also, if they can do that then they can set one up for espionage. Give one to your wife and see what she writes with it, when she uses it.

    I see acres of applications for something like this and helping school kiddies being just one.

  6. Re:I say welcome to the party, pal! on Wall Street Journal Hit By Chinese Hackers, Too · · Score: 1

    It would appear so on the surface, but let's delve a bit deeper. I see a poster below had given some reasons as well. Let me add mine. China, I believe has be subversively engaging us in trade wars. Our debt to them is not what I would call an act of kindness. I am talking about the flooding of our markets with goods produced at a labor cost that drives American industry into the dirt, taking along with it our economy. I feel one needs to equate these acts of damage to that of warfare, because one doesn't need bombs and guns to destroy or subjugate a nation.

    Now I can understand the grand struggle between nations and cultures. China is a very old nation, and perhaps hails the oldest of civilizations on the planet. It pains me greatly that our intellects aren't sharing, and helping each other thrive as good friends and neighbors. What disappoints me most is these personal attacks upon the personage of our country. These "cyber attacks" aren't something new. They antagonistic and exploitative in nature. I am a great admirer of Asian culture in general with its social structures, its respect for elders, and its well defined sense of honor.

    What I am not appreciative of is the disrespect show to us as a people; I can understand the struggle between the authorities and the powers that be. But these attacks are done so with impunity, they are winked at and possibly patriotic to them. I don't believe that these are so much done by the State as much as they are by lesser entities, factions, individuals. Their State has been accused of backing this or at least with the "Great Firewall of China", they should know about it.

    This to me, shows a contempt for us all, from head to toe from China. I do not think that they have an iota of respect for us, because if they did, they wouldn't insult our culture on a personal level. (Blowing up my Purples for puny amounts of Gold, I would knock your teeth out with my fist if you did that near me IRL.) That is a cultural insult, and it's coming from a culture that understands respect and honor, yet blatantly saying "FUCK YOU" with their continuous, and growing more bolder actions of aggression in this realm that they seem to think they can act from with impunity.

    I'm not advocating we carpet bomb them all to hell with thermal nukes, but I am saying we need to "Fuck them up!" Something to the equivalent of knocking someone flat on their ass when they are doing offensive actions that compel any normal person to react. I think if we don't, they will perceive it as weakness, and it will encourage them to be bolder and more aggressive towards us to what ends, it's anyone's guess. We need a well thought out, appropriate response, that brings about in the long run, peace and enlightenment for all. I learned as a child that sometimes you have to knock someone's block off, and you would be amazed at how agreeable and down right friendly and cooperative they can be afterwards.

  7. I say welcome to the party, pal! on Wall Street Journal Hit By Chinese Hackers, Too · · Score: 0

    Chinese hacking you? You don't say? They have been messing with us for as long as I can remember. They will ding your firewall so many times that it stops being amusing and starts to give one a nasty attitude. Let's couple that with how they will hack your MMO accounts, rip off your items, sell them to venders if they have to so that they can farm gold. The way they disrespect us by messing with our gaming culture to me is rude. We don't go messing with their entertainment, or messing with their computers. To me it shows how disrespectful, and antagonistic they are.

    I think we should hammer them for it. They are way overdue for retribution of the nastiest sort in my opinion.

  8. How about our people first? on Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? · · Score: 1

    How about we educate our own damn people first? Secondly, this is our damn country, and both political parties have failed their Constitutional oath in protecting our borders. It's now to the point that we are overran and will have to resort to force to reclaim it. Mexico brazenly flaunts their silent invasion of this country. The cheap labor has be exploited to destroy our middle class and their unions. We are going to have to get damn nasty about this and it's a shame.

    You have to understand that both sides of the political coin in our government are corrupted beyond measure. They have to go, and this means people have to get their heads out of the old schools of thinking. The Right has violated our Constitution with the Patriot Act and garbage like "Citizen's United", and now the Left is wanted to shred our 2nd Amendment. Again, it's two sides of the same corrupted political coin.

    First thing on the agenda, Wall Street needs held accountable for their crimes and treason. The greatest rip off crime in history will not go unanswered for. We need to give this government an enema, flush out the vermin running it and go after our enemies within. If we don't, we are headed for the biggest crash of a country the world as ever seen. This house of cards can't stand in the storm that is coming.

  9. Fire more drones!! on Curiosity Rover Being Upgraded With Autonomous Sensor Program · · Score: 0

    I say fire more drones!!! Let's get a Tonka set over there. Someone float me a couple of billion dollars. I will set us up some Tonka toys over there. Hell yeah, they will pay for themselves pronto. Rent time out on them to uber rich people. AND do some major exploration and set up some communications arrays. We need broadband there, right? And the moon. Moon Base Tonkas as well.

    Look, we need the entire race of humans putting some funtime facetime in on drone control. Human minds are some awesome things. Cheap and seriously resilient to harsh environments. We have to think out of this box called Earth, quickly because WTF was that which just went blazing by?

  10. Re:you're ignorant beyond belief on Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I feel your pain. I read through this and can see talking point propaganda every step of the way. It baffles the imagination that such mindesets can exist in the modern information age. But wait, it will only get worse. Notice the use of the term "Marxist". It's a buzz word for them, it allows them to excuse their actions and thoughts towards those that don't agree with them. It's a mob mentality that wants to take a baseball bat to your head in a fit of rage.

    They have been fed hate filled nationalistic "religion" based propaganda by "hate radio" and Faux News for years now. This is carefully cultivated and well crafted propaganda that Goebbels would get an erection over. As this election draws nearer and the pressure builds exponentially in the days before and after it, this propaganda will come to fruition. Regurgitating the lies will not suffice and we will see violence from this ilk like this country has never seen. You can smell the madness between the lines even now.

    For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Weapons grade propaganda doesn't just vanish like smoke when the politicians and their puppet masters are done spewing it on the masses. There are minds steeped in it, poisoned with hate; there are consequences.

  11. Re:Fucking insane on US House STEM Visa Bill Fails · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here is the problem with that; we're producing bumper crops of retarded kids. Yes, the Facebook dwelling, console gaming, dope smoking idiots that we produce are hardly capable of delivering pizza. Do you know what our education systems focus on? SPORTS, yes indeed. Fuck math, science and all that jazz, little Johnny needs to worry about ball games, that's his ticket. We can produce some modern gladiators but it seems little else with our fucked in the head priorities.

    You can blame a lot of factors for this, and it's been happening for about two generations, education and the quality of people we produce is in a free fall decline. We shouldn't be importing brains, we should be exporting them. But we're not, we're fucked. Go to the hospitals and see who's working on you these days. Everyone you see has a thick accent, and guess why? We can't fill these positions with "white people" because they're too fucking retarded for the jobs.

    Go find you an old professor to talk to about this and be ready for an earful. They will tell you about how we used to have standards and now we just pass them on through for the money. If you flunk them like they should be, you will be out of a job. This kind of insanity starts way before college in k-12, when little Johnny flunks something and the parents get a lawyer and sue you for flunking their little precious. K-12 is a babysitting service not an education system. Their first years in college if not more, are used to fill in what the fuck they should already know.

    We as a society do NOT value education near as much as we should. It's fucking shameful. AND here's a bitch about the numbers. India and China each prospectively produce more honor students than we produce in students period. Did you catch that? Let me repeat it. They each have more honor students than we have students. How the fuck do you think that is going to play out in the future?

    Not to mention our politics are killing us. We have even dumber people in politics. We aren't in "fix it" mode, we are in "pillage and run for the hills" mode. Industrialism is dead here, it's about pillaging natural resources before anyone figures out just how fucked we are. Why? Because manufacturing and labor couldn't come to some kind of a truce where one wasn't burning the other to the fucking ground. Manufacturing took their ball and went home with the help of bought and paid for politicians who opened the door for them to trot the fuck out of the country. Now American labor is standing around with their cock in their hands wonder WTF happened.

    It's all seriously fucked because the ecology of the economy is broken and like a tree that's roots have been chopped up, it's all dead wood, waiting for a storm to blow it over into a heap. Well, guess what? The old myth of our economy being best during a war was trotted out and it fell flat on it's face as we are now so far in debt for that epic stupidity, that we will never see light again in our lifetimes. Yes indeed, we shot our wads on two shit for brains backwater countries that do absolutely NOTHING for our money, but keep draining our wallets, and fucking up our best kids.

    In the mean time, we have a political puppet show of two asshole parties that have proven to be nothing but political whores for whomever pays them the most. Either side would rather watch the country burn to the ground than hand the other a bucket of water to put it out. It's all about the God damned money and power for them, they are nothing but fucking puppets, jumping for whatever asshole entity that wants to pillage us some more. Face it, the rich here can see the ship is sinking and like rats they are abandoning ship. They wring every last dime they can out of us on the way out and down.

    It's looking like the Great Depression for many of our people. We're bailing water, not steaming ahead. These visas aren't a fix, they are a patch to stop the air leaking from our tires so we can get to the gas station, which is closed. Do you think it's going to get better? The babyboome

  12. Re:Now bring it all together. on DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision · · Score: 1

    Forget operatives, lets get away from that pesky element. Let's deliver payloads of small surveillance drones to areas, tap their communications lines, set up listening posts with them. We could coordinate them with satellites, or my favorite idea, small balloon/zeppelins, drop communication link drones along the way like a chain so you have secure communications. Perhaps even work some some line of sight data communications, so that RF isn't involved in case the bag guys are a bit tricksy.

    This way, there are acres of plausible deniability, especially when you load them up with self destruct mechanisms. Whoopsie! It's been found/caught, oh well. KA FUCKING BOOM. You can't do that with operatives.

    But why fuck with explosives when you could use something small like that to deliver something more subtle? Poisons, biological agents, chemical agents, all those fun things that require extensive lab work to figure out WTF is going on. A lovely dose of the right neurotoxin and said bad guy is toast, no collateral damage and if they don't suspect drones, they will be pointing fingers at each other saying "OK, who the fuck poisoned so and so??" Hell, you could use a drone to drop off evidence and set another fucker up, get them fighting each other. Just set back, eat popcorn and watch the drone feeds, giving hi fives until it becomes a cliche'.

    Drones and mini drones and all that jazz is where it's at as long as the fuckers keep them off of US soil and air.

  13. Now bring it all together. on DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision · · Score: 1

    Now you just put the guy in a vehicle, link the weapons systems to it, link drone control to it, network it all back to a control hive. Write the interface up like a game.

    I love this kind of stuff. We need it in case we have to fight the screaming hordes who out number us, or if we want to be sneaky sneaky and take out nasty bastards who hide in other countries where we can't put boots on the ground without lead in the air.

    So, everyone stop panicking, unless you are douchebag bad guys, let's embrace the madness.

  14. Re:I'm probably being tapped as we speak. on House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act · · Score: 1

    Such leet hacks!! I just replied to another poster pointing this out.

    The title reminded me of the X "no such agency" guy who was telling all about how they monitor everything. Our fine feathered friend has most assuredly made some "lists". But he's just another number, as we all are, and our entire lives are monitored, tracked, labeled, and studied. I'm sure algorithms are tracking us for threat potential. The tech is here, and it's what I would be doing if I was in charge and I was an evil fuck.

    Here's the rub, it's a complicated, crooked, fucked up world full of assholes. Not everyone can be a 9 to 5 drone, happy in their little world of blissful ignorance. Someone has to work through all of this shit, and get dirty, sort through it and hope the world doesn't blow the fuck up in the process. Trying to keep up with this ever shifting landscape of trouble is a nightmare, especially when your own side causes a great deal of it.

    Sure we create solutions that are shitty. We create weapons that will come and bite us on the ass later. But it's what we do in the moment, and hope we live to regret it. Remember, we are dealing with people, they can be intelligent and dumb as fuck at the same time. Factor that into any organization, any government, any agency, etc. Life is messy and it's a wonder its not one big shit storm of chaos. If we can keep it down to a dull roar so that we can at least enjoy our morning breakfast cereal, it's a good job.

  15. Re:I'm probably being tapped as we speak. on House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act · · Score: 1

    LOL, I missed that at the end. I can see why, he's a bit ranty. I tend to skip over ranty stuff, probably because it reminds me of myself too much. I think the poster is like many others, they smell the bullshit in the air, but can't quite put a finger on what is going on, hence the levels of frustration.

  16. Re:I'm probably being tapped as we speak. on House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act · · Score: 1

    So, how do you know where he is from? I found that to be kind of creepy. I don't know how to find that kind of information about a poster, did I miss something? Or is this some kind of creepy veiled threat? Again unless I missed some way to figure out where a poster is from this smacks of "We know who you are and where you are, bitch all you want, but make a move and you are toast."

    Sedition really is the thing they are worried about. An "American Spring" is what they want to avoid. I think they have that aspect nailed down pretty good all things considered.

  17. Re:I'm probably being tapped as we speak. on House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act · · Score: 1

    You are most certainly being tapped and watched. But you are pretty much harmless and clueless. You can smell the bullshit, but you haven't figure it out. If you did figure out, you wouldn't be here shooting your mouth off about it. But they will watch you to see if you do and what you will do about it. And if you do try to do something about it, you will be a fuck up and they will not only catch you, but other idiots whom you have informed of it, who want to try something.

    So do yourself a favor, forget about it. Shut up about it. Watch your sports, play your internet games, and be a good little drone.

  18. Re:America is being had... on GAO Slams DHS Over BioWatch Biological Defense System · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's been plenty of them come out, and sorry to disappoint your goofy ass, there wasn't any violence over them.

  19. Re:Do you trust your government? on Dutch Police Ask 8000+ Citizens To Provide Their DNA · · Score: 1

    I look at it as a trial balloon floated by the puppet masters who play the western governments in their show. You got to see if the sheep bleat to loud about it. If you try a little here, and a little there, it all starts to collect in the whole. Monkey see, monkey do.

    Does anyone else wonder what kind of monster A.I. they have in some basement sifting through all of this data? Ponder that one for a while if you dare.

  20. Re:News Flash on Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ · · Score: 1

    *too

  21. Re:News Flash on Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Compared and contrasted to addiction to other substances, weed rates pretty low on the "Omfg i got to have it" scale. Booze is way far more addictive, so is smoking and caffeine. Not to mention it doesn't even stand close to the company it keeps with cocaine, heroine, crack, meth. etc. etc.

    Science these days is so corrupted with politics and agendas. Anyone can get a lab rat geek with a degree to skew data. I would have loved to see a side by side run of this experiment with booze and other substances.

    For me, this one is grasping at straws. It's an intoxicant and it has no place around children, just like booze and cigarettes and some would argue caffeine. I mean if this is the best that they can come up with, it's pretty pathetic. When I factor this versus the bullshit I have seen my entire life on the subject versus real life results helping cancer, aids, and MS patients, I have to ponder did another "scientist(s)" sell out and give us more junk science/propaganda? I find the timing on it suspect considering we are coming up on a SCOTUS trial on moving weed down out of schedule 1 substances.

  22. Now the first addition to it should be... on The Oatmeal's Fundraiser Tops $1M Toward Tesla Museum · · Score: 1

    The first thing that should be added to this museum is the papers that the FBI snatched from his estate when he died. Of course if our crooked government holds true, these were probably handed out to Hoover's buddies to either make a profit off of, or just bury.

  23. Re:US Obama $$$$ for Assange Killing on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 1

    Wake up, hysterical lies is the basis for an entire political platform in the US.

  24. Re:Solution on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 2

    *your

    It appears yours isn't either.

  25. Re:Vehicle yes on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 1

    Yes, and 5 minutes later, a number of British diplomats around the world get a bullet in the head. You break the diplomatic rules and it's chaos. This is how world wars get started.