http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3201279/Watch-Google-s-terrifying-humanoid-robot-running-forest-firm-pledges-soon-agile-humans.html

What's next, Skynet ..... ?
the next delivery system for Jihadists?
With the latest Iran deal, they could probably afford to BUY a couple of these - for peaceful uses, of course!

Is there a remote OFF switch for these self-driving cars & soon to be autonomous robots that will stop a terrorist from packing one of these vehicles with a dirty bomb and directing it into New York or another major city?

Just wondering ...
 

Trade your 9mm for a 50 cal.

Yeah!

We got to shoot one of the "studio guns" that was made for Robocop 2 - very nice gas operated, semi-auto, ported (a little differently than the stuff out there today, a real dust-kicker-upper).  At $2.50 a shot, the enjoyment was short lived, but memorable - and the recoil was move of a "irresitable shove" than a "kick"...   It came with 2 barrels, one for the sudio, plugged and with 6 ports for effect, and a longer "real" barrel.  The guy got it CHEAP, it's worth a small fortune now.

"Terrifying?"

It walks like I do when I'm zipping to the latrine, about to blow out my underwear with diarrhea.

Google-cars 'freeze-up' at 4-way stop intersections, because we humans tend to roll ever-so-slightly when we approach the signs.  G-cars are programmed to go when everybody actually stops. 

I'm sure their other devices will have similar glitches when it comes to dealing with human behavior.

Quote from: kit saginaw on September 02, 2015, 03:11:37 PM
Google-cars 'freeze-up' at 4-way stop intersections, because we humans tend to roll ever-so-slightly when we approach the signs.  G-cars are programmed to go when everybody actually stops. 

I'm sure their other devices will have similar glitches when it comes to dealing with human behavior.

My good wife tell me her computer she use once a month or so will not do what she thinks it should do.   I have learned two things in my life time that you do not say to a woman.

1.  Harpoon that Whale when she 9 months along. (at 6 months it's ok)

2.  You have to be smarter then the computer for it to work. They do not make them to read your mind yet that I can get for you.  (I do have to show her how to bring up the net about every two months.  )   

Quote from: walkstall on September 02, 2015, 04:10:36 PM
My good wife tell me her computer she use once a month or so will not do what she thinks it should do.   I have learned two things in my life time that you do not say to a woman.

1.  Harpoon that Whale when she 9 months along. (at 6 months it's ok)

2.  You have to be smarter then the computer for it to work. They do not make them to read your mind yet that I can get for you.  (I do have to show her how to bring up the net about every two months.  )

  She's approaching computering from the way we were originally told the future would be... no internet.  Everything would be computer-to-computer.  If I called your house, you'd be on-screen, then we'd talk. 

I think the 1964 World Fair in Seattle was when Bell Telephone had a demonstration-kitchen, with a home-internet. 

And women are liable to say anything at any time in any tone...  Somebody should invent a short-range female mood internet-device you can wear around your neck.

These stories keep popping up.
http://time.com/4078877/darpa-the-pentagons-brain/

Trying to figure out everything from how eyes work to cognitive thinking.

Must be a slow news day at Time, it would seem like the same stuff is being recycled.

Quote from: walkstall on September 02, 2015, 04:10:36 PM
My good wife tell me her computer she use once a month or so will not do what she thinks it should do.   I have learned two things in my life time that you do not say to a woman.

1.  Harpoon that Whale when she 9 months along. (at 6 months it's ok)

2.  You have to be smarter then the computer for it to work. They do not make them to read your mind yet that I can get for you.  (I do have to show her how to bring up the net about every two months.  )   

I have to write step-by-step instructions for the wife on how to use a universal remote and our ROKU. 

Quote from: walkstall on September 02, 2015, 04:10:36 PM
2.  You have to be smarter then the computer for it to work. They do not make them to read your mind yet that I can get for you.  (I do have to show her how to bring up the net about every two months.  )

LOL...she sounds like my sister.  She won't even learn to text. 

Quote from: tac on October 27, 2015, 05:08:14 PM
I have to write step-by-step instructions for the wife on how to use a universal remote and our ROKU. 

I won't even go in remotes.   

Quote from: Dori on October 27, 2015, 05:16:02 PM
LOL...she sounds like my sister.  She won't even learn to text.

I have been working with her just to use the phone part of the cell now for two year.  I am not going through texting.  As we have been married way too long, and she has her money for a divorce I gave her 48 years ago.        

Quote from: Dori on October 27, 2015, 05:16:02 PM
LOL...she sounds like my sister.  She won't even learn to text.

DON'T TEACH HER!
I know those types - they're like a Parrot that won't shut up!
Everything they "discover" on the Internet, from jokes to pictures, they send your way (like a bored parrot)
And when you try to tell them nicely, "thanks, but you're filling my In-box faster than AOL SPAM... "  they get offended, and back stab you to your other siblings.

Yep, I got a couple of them in my family too!
The only BAD thing about the Internet, IT'S NOT LONG DISTANCE to bug you!