Ok, when I first saw this story, I thought someone at the Register was spending way too much time in the john smoking something he shouldn't. But I followed a few of the links and it keeps getting stranger and weirder! Click on the article title for the complete story, here is a portion of the story:
Following the announcement of the new Flying-HK-style "Reaper" death machines for the British forces, the prophetic nature of the Terminator movies has been further confirmed.
Not only will the UK MoD deploy airborne cyber-gunships remarkably similar to those in the films, the flying robot assassins will be controlled by an IT project named "Skynet". This latest case of life imitating art comes with the news that the first of the Skynet 5 satellites has gone operational and is now successfully carrying data to and from British forces fighting in Southwest Asia.
Oh there is more! No I am not in fear of terminators arising and killing all humans...however you have to wonder at the sanity of of putting a system like this together, automating it and then blatently calling it Skynet! I don't know about you, but it seems to me to be a big FU in the face of the general public by whatever English governmental agency that is in control of this deal. Unreal!
submitted by Shaun A. Saunders
2 comments:
I agree with your initial scpeticism - if it had been April 1st...to use the same names..mmm...
exactly...which tells you something about the mindset of the braintrust that is close enough to whats going on and then being left with the responsibility of a name....So they know what it can do...and what they hope it will be able to do in the future. They already see similarities and instead of trying to mediate a negative response, they foster one? MORONS
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