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Comment Re:That's Pre-Homeland Security (Score 1) 446

by trippeh on Thursday July 12, 2007 @01:21AM (#19834805) Attached to: Latest Revelations on the FBI's Data Mining of America

I'm still waiting for a visit from the blacksuits, after one of my ridiculously worded emails melts one of their mail filters. It's not that I don't trust my noisemaker, it's that I don't trust the ability of the powers that be to recognise and dismiss my Internet Noizer traffic as chatter, rather than as a deep threat to security.

Submission + - Soliders Bond With Bots, Take Them Fishing

Submitted by HarryCaul on Monday May 07, 2007 @10:04PM

HarryCaul writes: Soldiers are finding themselves becoming more and more attached to their robotic helpers. During one test of a mine clearing robot, "every time it found a mine, blew it up and lost a limb, it picked itself up and readjusted to move forward on its remaining legs, continuing to clear a path through the minefield." The man in charge halted the test, though- "He just could not stand the pathos of watching the burned, scarred and crippled machine drag itself forward on its last leg. This test, he charged, was inhumane." Sometimes the soldiers even take their metallic companions fishing. Is there more sympathy for Robot Rights than previously suspected?

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