[fordgtlover]

^

Maybe they could build in an off switch.

 

[Edwood]

We will surrender our flesh. They demand it.

-Ed

 

[vcoheda]

Quote:

Originally Posted by electrathecat /img/forum/go_quote.gif "The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug." Just a little later than expected.

love T2. that movie rocks.

 

[philodox]

Strange, my robot cannon has always been very well mannered.

 

[mjg]

i saw the code for the robot... it's pretty decent actually.

int main (char * args)
{
while (true) KillEverything();
}

 

[Hi-Finthen]

Feeling safer by the day with these security improvements without accountability.

Just a mistake, mam...

 

[uzziah]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quaddy /img/forum/go_quote.gif "you have ten seconds to comply" Gee Whizz GAD, activate skynet quick...

get in the bunker!

 

[yage]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trippytiger /img/forum/go_quote.gif I know that this is a pretty tragic incident, but I can't help but think that that is the coolest headline I've ever read. You should read the article - this cannon was operating completely autonomously.

*I* should read the article? Maybe *you* should read the details:

Quote:

He further explained the guns could be set on either "manual or electric firing mode". On the day, they had all been set on manual. This meant they were sighted on the target, and the barrel then clamped into position "so that the barrel should not move from side to side"

So they weren't firing autonomously. Like Jim O'Halloran from Jane's states later in the article...

Quote:

"If a shell was jammed in the breech and the cordite then fired, it could set off the ammunition in the canisters," says O'Halloran. The force of that explosion could easily spin the turret around, he notes. "It's a very tragic accident, but it is not a robot gone out of control."

 

[Trippytiger]

I stand corrected.

I'm also very disappointed.

 

[eyeresist]

CURSE YOU BILL GATES!!!!!!

 

[electrathecat]

Wait, so the robotic cannon was smart enough to frame humans to take the blame? Impressive . . .

 

[threEchelon]

Looks like the upgrade to Vista didn't go so smoothly.