ICE could soon deploy Boston Dynamics' robot dogs, a move raising concerns among some activists about surveillance, control and potential misuse.

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago

I am sure it will be used with total restraint just like the shocking gloves they purchase.

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    [–] [S] 68 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Who's surprised: you can't make machines this creepy and sell them to normal human beings with good intentions...

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  • [–] 55 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    Localized EMP devices are illegal, and you should not research them soon

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    My hotspot password is like your username. Didn’t want people to be able to know it just by seeing it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    You don't need high tech, spray paint on the sensors will blind these. Shoot some rock salt into the cameras, hose them down with water.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Spray paint suggests a certain proximity, but paint in water balloons opens up some options

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    I’ve watched Boston Dynamics with trepidation and awe for decades, I always knew this day would come

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    Time to start researching Bola launchers. Gonna Hoth those bastards.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Nobody thought I was serious! Back in zzeddit I had stated again and again, you'll be running away from one of those things one day. It will have a turret on it shooting at you. But nah, oh look, isn't it a marvel? Now here are the consequences.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Honestly might be kind of cool, I bet they're expensive and easy to dismantle. There are already video clips online detailing the location of the battery compartment.

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  • [+] -13 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    And then they are strapped with weapons, getting close to them will be impossible and all those annoying Americans get mowed down.

    #overpopulation

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    The only part of me getting close to them is my black tip 5.56

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Sadly, they have thermal vision and a processor far superior to your brain and it shot you through the wall and your little gun turned out to be useless.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This is how we end RAM crisis, these dogs are full of RAM!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    I'm not for vandalizing, but this is so clearly dystopian and reminiscent of a precise Black Mirror episode I'd want to kick the shit out of them as soon as I saw them.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Flip them over and pull the battery

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    Speak for yourself, why do you think they need AI and robots and all the shit they do? They don't actually have that many goons and their tech is mostly grifts, we outnumber the state forces massively, we just have to fight back.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    We outnumber them, but none of us really get along. We arent together how we should be. They have divided us and can control us

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    I don't know, I don't have that issue, there are many people of different types and groups I talk to and we all seem to agree that the nazis are bad. It's true people aren't exactly cohesive or acting in an organized manner, but the people power is there.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Your fellow Americans will definitely turn on you. The 2nd amendment people will likely join the government's side if shit does go down. That means fighting the government, and the crazy militia people, and your loyalist neighbors, and possibly even friends, and family that turn on you.

    I think you are the most accurate here even if the truth is unpopular.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Even the people that wouldn't turn, or are on our side. We are too divided. Our groups are too small, we can make fun of proud boys, but wtf do we got that equals that? Most democrats i know that hate Trump are still racist too so I dont fully trust them.

    If people want to admit it or not, the right is much much further ahead of us in this fight.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Hey look, it's what happens when you give unqualified racist chodes unlimited funding.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago*

    Benn Jordan did a video on potential robo dog security concerns in case anybody is interested

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    Just a fucking matter of time. Abolish ICE and start the ICE trials. It’s time to put these nazis back in the facist Neo confederate hole they oozed out off.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I'm going to be getting a new bra for this. A trap for boobies is what I mean. It would be this long corridor entrance to my house with automatic doors on either end. If you are expected you open the door and come in. Otherwise if you're a robot, as soon as you enter, both doors close and there will be a laser grid traveling from side to side chopping everything into little cubes. Or a large flame. Or maybe pointy rods shoot from bottom, top and sides and then retract.

    Or maybe I would just have a 2X4 on the ready. I'm pretty sure those things can be wacked with a 2X4 easily.

    Whichever is cheaper.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Don't James Bond what you can MacGuiver.

    The Boston Dynamics dogs have a number of failsafe stop modes. One of which is loss of controller connection. Which can be made from some shit from the hardware store and a circuit board you can order online.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I'll just accumulate a big pile of bent up paperclips and when the robot crosses my gate, I'll dump it all on it. Then as the robot waddles around, I'll use a big magnet to clam him down while I go looking for the shutoff switch.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Will the robots comprise the most despicable, twisted, and unskilled units in robot society who can’t contribute anything worthwhile to the collective benefit of its peers? Will the robots be wearing masks?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Going to replace the brown shirts with S.S robots.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I heard a podcast where they were discussing the recent apocolyptic warnings about AI possibily ending humanity. The interviewer was asking how this was supposed to happen. Various ideas were bandied about, such as AI making a virus and the like.

    But maybe it was just killer robot dogs:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    AI making a virus

    A computer program cannot "make" anything. AI will not clear your toilets.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You can order custom DNA sequences from automated labs.

    Search for "custom dna synthesis" and you'll find dozens of companies doing this. An AI could easily order a virus.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Okay, so I'll say this. The doggies with guns/etc have been extensively prototyped, you don't hear much about it because it happens in other countries. The only reason I know is because of friends that I've worked with. Boston Dynamics, as they said they will never put weapons on them, well that doesn't mean another company won't buy them and put them on. Get your green tips while you can.

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