• felixwhynot@lemmy.world
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    But despite their many impressive features, the devices can be taken down.

    “You just have to spray it with Aqua Net hairspray in its ‘face’,” Cummings said. “And that would be enough to stop the cameras from working correctly.”

    FYI

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    Well here we are, with all the signs of everything going as badly as possible fully present. Goddamn evil robot sentries guarding the fascist dictator-wannabe’s personal luxury habitat. At least down there, if one of those things malfunctions and hurts somebody it would have to be one of the worst people around.

    This is certainly not the future I dreamed of as a child and young man.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Shitty time travelers and their stormtrooper aim.

    Somebody definitely fucked up the timeline and they send these untrained time-travellers to try and fix it (and failed miserably).

    Now we get Black Mirror robot dogs.

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    Ron Williams, a former Secret Service agent who is now CEO of the security and risk management firm Talon Companies

    Ah life really does imitate art

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      Wouldn’t be surprised if it was named after the game. These guys like to name their companies nerdy sinister names on purpose. Like Palantir

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    All these AI detection sentry robots are all trained on the same AI datasets. Just wear a black see-through hood over your face with a stop sign on your front and back and they’ll ignore you and probably stop walking when near you. You can waltz right in.

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    The body is Rottweiler-sized, segmented into overlapping hard plates like those of a rhinoceros. The legs are long, curled way up to deliver power, like a cheetah’s. It must be the tail that makes people refer to it as a Rat Thing, because that’s the only ratlike part - incredibly long and flexible.

    The grass under the Rat Thing is beginning to smoke.

    “Careful. Supposedly they have really nasty isotopes inside,” Hiro says behind her… “A radioactive substance that makes heat. That’s its energy source.”

    “How do you turn it off?”

    “You don’t. It keeps making heat until it melts.”

    The body converges to a sharp nose. In the front it bends down sharply, and there is a black canopy, raked sharply like the windshield of a fighter plane. If the Rat Thing has eyes, this is where it looks out.

    As part of Mr. Lee’s good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido’s in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

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    will it also say “move along citizen there is nothing to pet here” in a male robot voice?

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    Isn’t this a perfect foreign adversary opportunity for spying on U.S. political figures?

    Just integrate your own robot dog, or compromise an existing one. And surveillance away.

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      Foreign adversaries already had Trump installed. Why would they need to go through extra work.

      Hell - the new Director of Intelligence is a Russian asset.

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      Level 3000 hack: compromise security with drone fleas that jump onto drone dogs.

      Level 9000 hack: join the pack with a drone attack dog.

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        I’m sure the secret service is absolutely thrilled complicit with his horseshit

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          Probably.

          I have zero faith in our institutions. They’ll quietly do their jobs until the dictator has them purged.

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            And that, your statement, is russia’s actual victory prior to trump even being sworn in.

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              Russia may enjoy how the chips landed. But the wound is entirely self inflicted. 50 years since the US govt gave up all pretense of giving a fuck about anyone worth less than 8 figures. Stagnant wages. The opposition to Republican bullshit is center-right plutocrats with their heads so far up their own asses they cocked up a 2nd layup election against an insane serial criminal reality TV host by running to the right. Best we can do on Healthcare is fucking Romneycare. And the idea of opposing a for real no shit in living color full 3d genocide is met with cries of antisemitism and being told to get over it.

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      These things are communicating by radio. Whether it’s wifi or 4G/5G modem, either can be disabled easily with a raspberry pi and some software.

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        That is correct and not relevant. Being an ignorant twit that is pretty much the first lady and has likely always wanted robot guard dogs, and so suggested them to trump…is kinda on brand though.