Comments on: Drone OS Ramps Up

By: Neggerbaby

Neggerbaby — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:55:45 +0000

I wonder when the first 12 year old hacker will be able to write a virus for those plains :D
“Military drones stopped attaking and started playing Twister! 12 year old arrested!”

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:19:46 +0000

I’ve read about ADA, and sure, it sounds neat, but the problem is that no one was teaching it in universities. Also, the constant push towards COTS and industry standards really kind of took the fire out of this language that was only really used by DoD.

By: Vlad Zvorak

Vlad Zvorak — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:48:33 +0000

Welcome, oh masters of the sky, we bid you our servitude. Please look over us with impunity and wisdom.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:05:10 +0000

Why do we need armed drones for border patrol?
Matt is right. I dont think we should rush into developing these kinds of weapons. There has never been a perfect operating system or even one good enough to trust with weapons.

By: anthony bauwens

anthony bauwens — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:58:11 +0000

I think you guys are diong a good job.Thes drones are very good also in INS.Border Patrol as proven.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:43:31 +0000

I would like to be the first to welcome our new autonymous drone overlords.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:14:34 +0000

Jake:
“Ever hear of deterrence. One of the goals of this equipment is to make us so powerful, we will not have to use it.“
Those where the same goals for developing weapons of mass destruction, and the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction and none of those has made us the least bit safer. In fact it is easily argued that they have made us much less safe.
Robotics and computers have always followed Moores Law about computer power and increasing and cost decreasing applies to this too. This will make war too easy to start for the United States. Deterrence should apply to those with the power as well.

By: SwissFreek

SwissFreek — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:11:32 +0000

But then you can just build robot protestors, and you won’t have anything to lose either.

By: Dude

Dude — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:34:50 +0000

Yeah right jake, like those crazy-ass camel jockeys wont fight against us cuz R2D2 is on our side.….
Man, it your enemy has nothing to lose it wont matter if you have antimatter bombs or plasma guns, they‘ll do whatever they can to try kill you, no matter what happens to them.
And ryan is right. Plus think about this:first drone soldiers, then anti-protest drones. You wont be able to protest against your crappy wage without getting zapped by a robot running COS

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 21:30:24 +0000

All this does is lower the cost of war. When lives are not at risk it will be even easier to start un-ending war. It is the shock at losing life that ends wars. Remove that and war becomes too easy for the President and Congress to wage.