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January 20, 2007

You have twenty seconds to comply.

Not content with making consumer electronics, Samsung has teamed up with the University of South Korea to produce a sentry gun.

Completely autonomous. No human required (except as targets). Apparently the system will interrogate the target, who must provide the passphrase. The system will then determine the response from 4 options: No action, Alarm, Fire rubber bullets or fire the 5.56mm machine gun.

ED-209, welcome to the world.

Robot: HALT STATE PASS: YOU HAVE TWENTY SECONDS TO COMPLY.
Human: NoKos are teh suX0r.
Robot: PASS INCORRECT STATE PASS: YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO COMPLY.
Human: Err... All NoKo base are belong to us?
Robot: YOU ARE IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF CODE SECTION 5 A 12. I AM NOW AUTHORIZED TO USE PHYSICAL FORCE

Or it could have a bridge keeper personality...

Robot: STOP. WHO WOULD CROSS THE DMZ MUST ANSWER ME THESE QUESTIONS THREE, ERE THE OTHER SIDE HE SEE. WHAT IS NAME?
Human: Blue!
Robot: WHAT IS QUEST?
Human: To patrol the DMZ!
Robot: WHAT IS AIRSPEED VELOCITY OF SWALLOW?

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at January 20, 2007 12:23 PM

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