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offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-11-14 04:40 [#02001806]
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Yikes

I know they aren't the same company, but you'd think they
would wait until they could iron the bugs out of XP and
other PC operating systems before they make a robot that is
capable of intelligently targetting and killing people.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2006-11-14 04:48 [#02001807]
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We've had drone guns for years. This one is pretty cool
though. Normally the military (for weapons systems) run
quite old hardware and proprietory OSes to ensure they are
free of bugs/security exploits that could be dangerous. For
example, some AA guns run on 386s!


 

offline Ezkerraldean from the lowest common denominator (United Kingdom) on 2006-11-14 05:03 [#02001810]
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scary shit. if they were used in urban warfare, how could
they recognise civilians?


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2006-11-14 05:25 [#02001817]
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They wouldn't. That's why you're only supposed to use them
in warzones or on borders.

Target identification is the biggest problem with drone
guns. I've heard of industrial processes where an acceptable
success rate of optical recognition by a machine is as low
as 60%! Obviously when the machine shoots bullets, anything
less than 99% isn't on. Some of the current ones work on a
"whitelist" principle. Everyone allowed near them has a
wireless networked tag that stops the gun shooting at them.
The guns shoot at everything else that moves. The problem
is:
a) if the wireless network fails, it has to stop working
till the network is re-established (IE it failsafes). This
is all well and good, but it's not too clever if one of the
tags stops working (but the rest of the network is fine).
b) any baddies within a couple of metres of a friendly is
safe

Other ones just have a forward facing arc in which they
operate and can only be turned off from behind (so you would
put a ring of them around your position and anyone
approaching would be shot).



 

offline Ezkerraldean from the lowest common denominator (United Kingdom) on 2006-11-14 05:29 [#02001820]
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if they were remote controlled it would be a lot safer than
if they were driven by an AI.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2006-11-14 05:31 [#02001821]
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the problem is that a warzone is where the war is, and that
doesn't exclude neither cities nor any other place where
civilians may be hanging around.


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2006-11-14 05:31 [#02001822]
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I dont approve as it denies people the joy of killing


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2006-11-14 05:32 [#02001824]
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i was thinking about this a couple of days ago, while
watching black hawk and thinking about war evolution in
history... curious that now its real...

It has a sophisticated pattern recognition which can
detect the difference between humans and trees
...

well, we will kill ourselves, but at least the trees will
survive... thats good news...


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2006-11-14 05:43 [#02001828]
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True. You would hope they'd only be deployed in theatres
where the civilian population was almost non existant.
You'll always have the chance of some lone yak farmer
wandering into the area, but at the risk sounding blase, we
already have that to a worse degree with landmines and
indeed, jumpy human soliders shooting at anything that isn't
an obvious friendly (and even then the yanks will shoot at
them).


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2006-11-14 10:52 [#02002023]
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lol, "My robot just shot your robot, HA HA!!!"


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2006-11-14 10:59 [#02002029]
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i want one of those for my garden


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2006-11-14 11:46 [#02002051]
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That's interesting.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2006-11-14 11:47 [#02002053]
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Thanks for the link.


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-11-14 11:49 [#02002055]
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oh, w m w, your single lined posts today are amazing


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-11-14 11:49 [#02002056]
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offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-11-14 11:49 [#02002057]
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offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-11-14 11:49 [#02002058]
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offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-11-14 11:49 [#02002059]
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oh, w m w, your single lined posts today are amazing


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-11-14 11:49 [#02002060]
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oh, w m w, your single lined posts today are amazing


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-11-14 11:49 [#02002061]
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oh, w m w, your single lined posts today are amazing


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-11-14 12:02 [#02002069]
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Whoa, that was about 6 to many.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-11-15 04:39 [#02002413]
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I think the biggest problem is the precident that it sets.
Sending an armed mobile and intelligent automatic weapon
into an area to patrol on its own... it leaves less for
other countries to justify. Say south korea manufactures
these, then north korea needs to follow suit. Then the US
has to develop similar technology for use in case north
korea sets them in action. Then everybody else does.


 

offline unabomber from Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on 2006-11-15 04:47 [#02002417]
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...and then SKYNET...


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2006-11-15 04:51 [#02002423]
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The video on the site is hilarious!!!


 

offline Rostasky from United States on 2006-11-15 09:43 [#02002621]
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I'd love to hear what the speaker says:
"Don't move or I will shoot you in the head."


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2006-11-15 10:17 [#02002648]
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Please God just make some humanoid bi-pedal things, not
these boring glorified rolling turrets.


 

offline LuminousAphid from home (United States) on 2006-11-15 12:07 [#02002713]
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i enjoy the pirates of the caribbean theme they used


 

offline OK on 2006-11-15 23:35 [#02002935]
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I like the terminator like music in the video. well, it's
not really terminator like but i wanted to make a terminator
reference.

Now they'r gonna recruit gamers to handle this things yay


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2006-11-16 03:00 [#02003012]
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best possible result: machines break machines

worst possible result: no-one feels the weight of a life on
their trigger


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2006-11-16 03:03 [#02003015]
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Looks like I have a future in the business of killing, then.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2006-11-16 03:10 [#02003020]
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revolting.


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2006-11-16 03:27 [#02003023]
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that's a good way to keep n-korean refugees out


 


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