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Comment Re:Let me be the first... (Score 2) 318

First, South Korea also has them Or are these not 'robots' because they are fixed in place.

Second, the summary mixes up things, as robots that detect and/or deactivate/destroy land mines or are not actively used to directly kill people aren't part of the 'killer robot' theme, and are rather irrelevant to the issue of killer robots (and yes, I understand that the land-mine robot could kill someone if they are stupid enough to be standing around when it finds and detonates a mine).

Third, the summary also mixes up the concept of a remotely controlled device (like, say, a predator drone) which is already in widespread use and a device that is programmed to decide without further human intervention as to which people it should fire at.

Comment Re:It looks like (Score 1) 241

They are not actually attacking anything. They don't specifically know anybody here who they have ordered to attack this mall.

This is a "will somebody in America go to the mall of america and do something bad there. please." request.

It may or may not work [to get somebody to actually do it], but they have already succeeded in getting us to cower in fear of the attack. Which is exactly what they want.

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