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i can see it now, in 2024 The Defcon MurderRobot Village will be wild when a 12 year old remotely strolls right through any security controls, takes it over, an
by toofy 4y ago
i can see it now, in 2024 The Defcon MurderRobot Village will be wild when a 12 year old remotely strolls right through any security controls, takes it over, and sends it chasing after the spotted feds.
when the most well funded and most sophisticated companies in the world are compromised on a fairly regular basis, who tf thinks this is a good idea?
if the engineers who built this aren’t actively speaking out on what a terrible idea this is, then we immediately know either their judgement is entirely flawed with hubris or they just plain can’t be trusted.
- ilyt 4y agoI wanted to say "you can just make it cable controlled", but then I guess you can always hack into machine controlling it...
- pjc50 4y agoThe cable-controlled bomb disposal robot, sometimes armed with shotgun, was a common feature in Northern Ireland at least 30 years ago. In that situation it's a much simpler technology.
- ben_w 4y agoHuh, I never knew they sometimes had shotguns.
- goodcanadian 4y agoYes, it is a sort of shotgun . . . the idea is to mess up the bomb enough that it will no longer explode (i.e. destroy any timer or other trigger mechanism). It is a very crude, brute force method, but it will generally work, and if all the people have been moved away, it is relatively low risk.