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Is this where Skynet begins?
« on: February 09, 2011, 09:40:03 am »
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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2011, 09:48:00 am »
Yes.

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2011, 09:56:09 am »
As long as they obey the Three Laws of Robotics I am cool with this.

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2011, 10:10:44 am »
Nothing about security of the system. Validation of the data. Not even any verification on the instructions. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- for brain hackers and terrorists are going to have a ball with this network if the researchers don't have rock solid protections in place.

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2011, 10:48:55 am »
Shouldn't someone actually invent practical robots that do useful things like travel, walk around, or set the table before there is a need for a web page about it?  :dunno

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2011, 10:56:39 am »
I wouldn't panic.  Have you ever watched two companies try to find common ground on ANYTHING?  You think they'll build compatible databases?

Mark my words, my friends, the future will be saved from sentient robots by the mere existence of corporate paranoia.
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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2011, 11:18:02 am »

"You have to do something someone asks you to, don't you?  If you love them?"

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2011, 11:41:21 am »
As long as they obey the Three Laws of Robotics I am cool with this.

Just FYI as soon as Asimov came up with those laws, he wrote dozens of short stories postulating how robots would get around them.  There's also a not-bad Will Smith movie about getting jiggy with those laws.

You win the internet for using the phrase "getting jiggy" post-1998. 

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2011, 11:57:48 am »
So sick of all these robots.  Hey you know what would be sweet?  A robot that makes me breakfast and puts away my clothes.  I could do without a robot that kicks ---my bottom--- at jeopardy, or any or the other million other things they are doing now...

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2011, 12:17:38 pm »
My wife wants one to do the freakin' laundry.

Let's start there.
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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2011, 12:23:28 pm »
Nope, I would rather have a robot that is mediocre at doing laundry then one that rules kicking a soccer ball

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2011, 12:30:19 pm »
You win the internet for using the phrase "getting jiggy" post-1998. 


Still relevant when used in combination with a real Will Smith reference.

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2011, 12:35:09 pm »
its all good as long as it doesnt pull a HAL7600 and starts calling me dave :dunno

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2011, 12:36:42 pm »
its all good as long as it doesnt pull a HAL7600 and starts calling me dave :dunno

wtf is a HAL7600?

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2011, 12:38:06 pm »
9000 I mean..you know..the weird computer from that weird movie lol :cheers:

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2011, 12:41:57 pm »
I know what a HAL 9000 is... I was wondering if HAL 7600 was his retarded cousin or something...

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2011, 01:01:13 pm »
We bought a Hal2600 from Sears. It still played Atari carts, so that was fun.
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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2011, 01:12:11 pm »
I know what a HAL 9000 is... I was wondering if HAL 7600 was his retarded cousin or something...

OCD Alert!

I just watched it (again) like a week ago, lol

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2011, 01:18:20 pm »
I know what a HAL 9000 is... I was wondering if HAL 7600 was his retarded cousin or something...

OCD Alert!

I just watched it (again) like a week ago, lol
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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2011, 01:22:27 pm »

When they finally remake 2001 I will pay $50 to see it if Samuel L Jackson does Hal's voice.

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2011, 01:31:58 pm »
I know what a HAL 9000 is... I was wondering if HAL 7600 was his retarded cousin or something...

OCD Alert!

I just watched it (again) like a week ago, lol
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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #21 on: February 09, 2011, 01:37:34 pm »

When they finally remake 2001 I will pay $50 to see it if Samuel L Jackson does Hal's voice.

Get these snakes off my mother-effing spaceship.

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #22 on: February 09, 2011, 01:55:05 pm »

Binary, ---maternal-smurf---!  Do you speak it?!

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #23 on: February 09, 2011, 01:59:38 pm »


Say 'open the pod bay doors' again. Say 'open the pod bay doors' again, I dare you, I double dare you ---maternal-smurf---, say 'open the pod bay doors' one more ---goshdarn--- time!

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #24 on: February 09, 2011, 02:35:43 pm »
Binary, ---maternal-smurf---!  Do you speak it?!

There's 10 kinds of people that understand binary.



I'll give you to the count of 11 to stop with the binary puns.

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #25 on: February 09, 2011, 04:37:36 pm »
I'm not worried about SkyNet. We'll just get our friendly neighborhood Driver-Man to create a virus for us to defeat it.
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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #26 on: February 09, 2011, 04:40:02 pm »
I'm not worried about SkyNet. We'll just get our friendly neighborhood Driver-Man to create a virus for us to defeat it.

We have to save that for the alien invasion to plant in the mother ship.  Duh.

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #27 on: February 09, 2011, 04:50:42 pm »
Began a while ago actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellites)

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

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« Reply #28 on: February 09, 2011, 09:03:44 pm »
So sick of all these robots.  Hey you know what would be sweet?  A robot that makes me breakfast and puts away my clothes.  I could do without a robot that kicks ---my bottom--- at jeopardy, or any or the other million other things they are doing now...

Jeopardy is probably the easiest of the three for a robot.  A wife would be cheaper.
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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #29 on: February 09, 2011, 10:14:36 pm »
Wife may be cheaper, but a robot would be less maintenance

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #30 on: February 10, 2011, 05:55:34 am »
As long as they obey the Three Laws of Robotics I am cool with this.

That's the 'Three Laws of Robotics' that Asimov wrote about? I suspect no one really cares about them, particularly not the military  ;)



Granted, it's normally controlled by humans, but's it's only a small step away from doing it's own thing...


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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #31 on: February 11, 2011, 12:29:18 am »
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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #32 on: February 11, 2011, 03:28:26 am »
As long as they obey the Three Laws of Robotics I am cool with this.

Just FYI as soon as Asimov came up with those laws, he wrote dozens of short stories postulating how robots would get around them.  There's also a not-bad Will Smith movie about getting jiggy with those laws.





In what world was that movie not bad?  Have you SEEN the list of crap movies you posted in that other thread?
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« Reply #33 on: February 11, 2011, 05:45:43 am »
As long as they obey the Three Laws of Robotics I am cool with this.

Serve the public trust..
Protect the innocent..
Uphold the law..?

Your move... creep.   :P


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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #34 on: February 11, 2011, 08:20:28 am »
As long as they obey the Three Laws of Robotics I am cool with this.

Serve the public trust..
Protect the innocent..
Uphold the law..?

Your move... creep.   :P

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #35 on: February 11, 2011, 09:21:25 am »
In what world was that movie not bad?  Have you SEEN the list of crap movies you posted in that other thread?


I really like I, Robot.

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #36 on: February 11, 2011, 11:19:09 am »
Everything about it was canned and generic.  And most of it was idiotic.  But in any case, it pales in comparison to half the movies on Pinball's list.  Even someone who liked iRobot most likely agrees with that.
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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #37 on: February 11, 2011, 11:29:37 am »
My favorite part was when the nerdy scientist suddenly owned skintight black leather pants.

 :lol


I just sit there wondering how many times Tom Brady hit that while they were filming the movie.

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #38 on: February 11, 2011, 01:01:27 pm »
I usually don't think about guys when there's attractive women walking around in black leather pants.

 :dunno


All I saw was Bridget Moynahan.   :dunno

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Re: Is this where Skynet begins?
« Reply #39 on: February 11, 2011, 05:09:43 pm »
As long as they obey the Three Laws of Robotics I am cool with this.

Serve the public trust..
Protect the innocent..
Uphold the law..?

Your move... creep.   :P



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