I would never use GPS, and I am very careful of my cellphone, which sends out a GPS signal when it is turned ON or OFF.

Fiber optics were developed by the beings who crashed in AREA 15. I have no use for it.

And by the way, the modern internet is so far advanced beyond ARPANET. Ever see the movie "WAR GAMES"? that's what the military were using, big mainframes with limited capacity and a non-user-friendly format.

Old Glory Insurance, for when the metal ones come for you... and they will.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vi...

They don't see that in the real world, labels are irrelevant.

The action/dynamic is the only thing that matters. Remember, their's is a black or white,either or, Euclidean world.

we really seemed to be determined to wipe ourselves out. the nukes didnt do it, the bioweapons didnt do it, maybe the machines will do it...

Yes, we are blindly marching forward toward self-destruction.

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

Albert Einstein

Yes, it has crossed great minds, but few people are listening.

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

Albert Einstein

My favorite science fiction stories tend to deal with that idea: what if?

http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technolog...

who do you think put up the 1,000,000 prize money.. none other than our department of defense......

Rebellion perhaps?

:o/

Unfortunately, however, they are very creative.

Yes, indeed, when it comes to killing others, the human imagination is limitless. I don't want to give any ideas to terrorists, but even I could come up with a few effective methods. However, why expand any efforts on finding new ways when there are tried and true methods, like the smallpox infected blankets given to Native tribes by the British.

http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lo...

Yes, that's the trouble with genies. They like freedom too much and have minds of their own.

Foe does not.......

What ever happened to the three laws of robotics?

and we will probably have terminator style :)

i donno ifi will be alive...

"Typical of the military industrial complex and the RAND corporation. The "robot gap" is being milked just like the phony "missile gap" of years ago, and the "race for space". All these lies were used to extort money from Congress and to frighten American civilians."

Just listen to these hypocrites, their lies betray them every time.

If you have SUCH a problem with the "military industrial complex" why are you using the results of that "military industrial complex"

Your using a computer. Computers were developed for military fire control.

Your using the Internet. ARPANET (internet) IS a military "thing"

Do you use a cell phone? GPS for anything? A microwave oven?

How bout fiber optics? EFI in you car? Flying on jet aircraft?

Honestly you got a lot a dame gall to be calling anyone a "hypocrite"

Would you prefer we go back to carpet bombing of WW2?

The government issue stuff is often little different than what the hobbyist troops are coming up with.

The military versions are more expensive because they have to be built so that any soldier can quickly figure out how to use them.

That takes a lot of effort, and runs the costs up.

But for units that have some RC hobbyists in the ranks, you can make your own, crude but effective, recon UAVs for under a thousand dollars. The official versions cost $20,000 or more.

Impressive for a bunch of guy Sen. Kerry thinks are idiots

Troops Build Their Own UAVs

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/141423...

"So the troops have been improvising. Radio controlled (RC) cars and aircraft are readily available from hobby stores"

The high end RC trucks cost several hundred dollars, but can be controlled from as far away as 200 meters.

These are often carried by troops on convoy duty, for checking out items on, or alongside, the road that might be bombs.

Just shooting at these objects doesn't always set them off. But run an RC car up to it, and ram the object, and you quickly know if it is heavy (and possibly a bomb), or light (and likely just some garbage.)

KarimiCjoy

BTW does this help explain why the Feds go nuts when someone is buying a large quantity of cell phones?

* Airframe: Hobbico SuperStar (49" wingspan, $109)

* Autopilot: HP iPaq 6515 Window Mobile smartphone (GPS, 1.2 megapixel camera, discontinued but widely available for less than $200 on eBay.)

* Stabilization: FMA Direct FS8 Co-Pilot (infrared sensors, $115)

* Interface: Rentron serial-to-servo board ($77)

* iPaq to serial cable ($20)

* Custom software: VB.net code running on Windows

This is true. The main thing needed is a cell phone with GPS, and camera.

This is much easier than you think. Program a R/C plan on a one way trip,a flying bxxb.

Here's a link on how to do it,Oh and they got a bunch of them.

http://diydrones.com/

GeoCrawler 2 (Cellphone autopilot)

Description: This platform was inspired by the realization that almost all the hardware you need for a functioning UAV is contained in the high-end cellphone in your pocket: GPS, camera, two-way long-distance wireless data communications, onboard computing and storage. Why do the tricky hardware integration when some cellphone maker has done it better themselves? By using a Windows Mobile phone, a UAV becomes a software, not a hardware, project. (You can see the phone strapped to the bottom of the plane in the image above; the sensor to the rear of it is for the FMA co-pilot.)

People hunting mini bots also leave infrastructure intact and non radioactive!

God, I can hear the salesmen now.

If you ask me; we're in trouble.

The imagination's the limit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaRV559qtxU

Geez. There are so many ways to kill people that are so much less complicated that this is just part of the puzzle.

Choices, people, choices. Fear of killer robots, anthrax, terrorism of all kinds or hope to try and make a better world?

I guess fear sells more papers than hope.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to poison our food and water?

Better yet, poison Budweiser and Coors.

Just listen to these hypocrites, their lies betray them every time.

If it can be done, it will be used.

Radio Controlled helicopter: $250

1 pound of C4: $1200

Remote detonator: $50

Flying it into a crowded market and detonating it: SHAMELESS!!!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/...

But seriously, is this just the tip of another arms race? Machines that kill on a mission that their controller has programmed will not be able to distinguish friend from foe.

Certainly not ones that are, in effect, small helicopter-like devices. These could be manufactured cheaply and be extremely deadly. The Soviets came up with poisons so strong a mere grain was enough to kill a man. Imagine a fleet of 5,000 sparrow sized helicopter robots equipped with poison darts and programmed to fire on any recognized human shape. It could be done today for a fraction of the cost of one stealth bomber.

The next step would be to miniaturize them to the size of mosquitoes, a brave new world of assassination awaits us.

"How long is it going to be before the terrorists get in on the act? With the current prices of robot construction falling dramatically and the availability of ready-made components for the amateur market, it wouldn't require a lot of skill to make autonomous robot weapons."