[Vo]:Skynet Advances - Autonomous Drone

2012-01-28 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-auto-drone-20120126,0,740306.story New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who's accountable? The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human

RE: [Vo]:Skynet Advances - Autonomous Drone

2012-01-28 Thread Jones Beene
Even worse, Terry - imagine when someone is arguably accountable (in the military sense) ... such as in the widespread practice of putting a PFC in places where he/she should never have been assigned without intense supervision. Does the name Bradley Manning come to mind in this context? (BTW this

Re: [Vo]:Skynet Advances - Autonomous Drone

2012-01-28 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Instead, the designated scapegoat will mostly likely be a console jockey on the control deck of a billion dollar vessel, staffed mostly by high-school dropouts - with joy-stick in hand. Yeah, but this is even mo-better.

RE: [Vo]:Skynet Advances - Autonomous Drone

2012-01-28 Thread Robert Leguillon
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Skynet Advances - Autonomous Drone From: hohlr...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Instead, the designated scapegoat will mostly likely be a console jockey on the control deck of a billion dollar