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Comment Accelerando (Score 1) 185

by er_head66 on Wednesday April 02, 2008 @07:56AM (#22939210) Attached to: Open Source Patent Donations?

Check out the novel Accelerando.

Discusses this concept precisely...guy goes around dreaming up random ideas, then immediately patenting them and donating to Open Source organisations.

Fun singularity-related read. Creative commons too, so it's free.

First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq 661

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 02, 2007 @08:18PM from the number-johnny-five dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Robots have been roaming Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any war zone — the 'bots are carrying guns. The SWORDS robots, armed with M249 machine guns, "haven't fired their weapons yet," an Army official says. "But that'll be happening soon." The machines have actually been ready for a while, but safety concerns kept them off the battlefield. Now, the robots have kill switches, so "now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy," according to the Army. I feel safer already."

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