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Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled 845

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @01:37AM from the stop-or-my-robosapien-will-shoot dept.

mpthompson writes "Samsung has partnered with a Korean university to develop a robotic sentry equipped with a 5.5mm machine gun. Meant for deployment along the DMZ between North and South Korea, the $200,000 robot employs sophisticated pattern recognition software for targeting humans. No three laws here, but the robot does include a speaker that can be used to politely issue a warning before taking the target out. The promotional video is both scary and funny at the same time."

Enigma-Cracking Bombe Recreated 131

Posted by kdawson on Thursday September 07, 2006 @01:10PM from the we-shall-never-surrender dept.

toxcspdrmn writes "Volunteers at Bletchley Park have recreated a working replica of the electromechanical bombe used to crack the Germans' Enigma encryption. The bombe was designed by Polish cryptologists and refined by Alan Turing and colleagues at Bletchley Park. The replica joins a recreated electronic Colossus — generally considered the first electronic computer. Impressive work when you consider that Winston Churchill ordered the originals to be completely destroyed at the end of WWII."

Comment Re:Good code examples (Score 1) 99

by schweikh on Wednesday February 05, 2003 @02:44PM (#5232786) Attached to: 16th IOCCC Winners Released

#ifdef SHAMELESS_SELF_PROMOTION_PLUG

Yes, one of them has made it into a quite useful system utility. Look at http://ioccc.org/years.html#1998_schweikh3
The real world version of this is available as a FreeBSD port in sysutils/samefile or as a

./configure;make;make install

application from this comment author's homepage :-) See URL above. Don't forget to check out this year's one liner.

Comment Re:3rd world countries. (Score 1) 1717

by cbr372 on Friday July 05, 2002 @12:47PM (#3828088) Attached to: Isn't it Time for Metric Time?

Ok serious answer...

Membership in the UN Security Council

Membership in the G7

Not all 1st world countries have these. Try again, please.

Now stop trolling.

I asked a question to which I have still to hear an adequate answer. That is all. Have a nice day.

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