Submitted 2 months ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30p16gn3pvo
cross-posted from: rss.ponder.cat/post/59578
But despite their many impressive features, the devices can be taken down.
“You just have to spray it with Aqua Net hairspray in its ‘face’,” Cummings said. “And that would be enough to stop the cameras from working correctly.”
FYI
Definitely don’t Google “2K spray paint” because it’s impossible to remove and you can seriously damage surveillance devices with it, like cameras and stuff I dunno
Small Soldiers also taught us how to turn an electric pole transformer into an improvised EMP device. That turns the dogs off.
Lol why is Aqua Net hairspray specifically the thing that takes them down? Like other brands of hairspray don’t work? Spray paint or Elmer’s glue or maple syrup aren’t effective? You can’t just throw a bedsheet over them or hit them with a crowbar?
Oh, those are just to stop the kids escaping from the paedodungeon.
When Q-Anon speads baseless pedophile ring accusations it’s ridiculed but apparently doing the exact same thing for their side is fair game. Great display of double standards yet again.
If you don’t get jokes it can’t be helped but try not to interrupt the rest of us.
Trump is appointing a pedo to be Attorney General.
Trump is a pedo.
One is a lie is based on projection and the other is pointing out that pedos are pedos.
If we want to win over Republican voters we need to appeal to their sensibilities.
Because time travellers keep appearing with guns?
If they appeared with guns, wouldn’t the robodogs also be strapped?
Well here we are, with all the signs of everything going as badly as possible fully present. Goddamn evil robot sentries guarding the fascist dictator-wannabe’s personal luxury habitat. At least down there, if one of those things malfunctions and hurts somebody it would have to be one of the worst people around.
This is certainly not the future I dreamed of as a child and young man.
The adults sold us a future they were determined to destroy before it could ever come to fruition.
Shitty ass movie life
Shitty time travelers and their stormtrooper aim.
Somebody definitely fucked up the timeline and they send these untrained time-travellers to try and fix it (and failed miserably).
Now we get Black Mirror robot dogs.
One would think it would be easy to get T.E.L.L.s nowadays and just send one after another
T.E.L.L? Did you watch Travelers? I think thats the only place where I heard that term. Man, I loved that show, a shame they cancelled it.
Maybe they only managed to send two time-travellers before they got raided by the gestapo. 🤷♂️
Welp now we get to be in a dystopian movie
not even just a movie, we got a whole series with possibly multiple seasons
I have a feeling I’m one of the side characters that’s gonna get killed soon.
When they send over these time travelers, they’re not sending their best…
This is one of my favorite Black Mirror episodes. God help us.
Metalhead? I really didn’t get the twist of it.
Does it need a twist? They accurately warned us about exactly what US fascists are building to protect their bunkers.
The moment when you seem them and suddenly everything turns black & white. Oh no.
Ron Williams, a former Secret Service agent who is now CEO of the security and risk management firm Talon Companies
Ah life really does imitate art
Wouldn’t be surprised if it was named after the game. These guys like to name their companies nerdy sinister names on purpose. Like Palantir
Because real dogs refuse the job.
All these AI detection sentry robots are all trained on the same AI datasets. Just wear a black see-through hood over your face with a stop sign on your front and back and they’ll ignore you and probably stop walking when near you. You can waltz right in.
I want to Walz right in
Or dress like a deer and it’ll just ignore you and keep going
Dress like Trump, attack it, then flee.
Guess who’s now considered a threat to the AI?
I feel an urge to go play Horizon Zero Dawn now.
You just reminded me I need to pick that back up.
Probably because Trump hates real dogs.
I think the bronzer has a bad effect on them.
will it also say “move along citizen there is nothing to pet here” in a male robot voice?
It can, but it comes out more like “ROOVE ARONG RITIZEN!”
The body is Rottweiler-sized, segmented into overlapping hard plates like those of a rhinoceros. The legs are long, curled way up to deliver power, like a cheetah’s. It must be the tail that makes people refer to it as a Rat Thing, because that’s the only ratlike part - incredibly long and flexible.
The grass under the Rat Thing is beginning to smoke.
“Careful. Supposedly they have really nasty isotopes inside,” Hiro says behind her… “A radioactive substance that makes heat. That’s its energy source.”
“How do you turn it off?”
“You don’t. It keeps making heat until it melts.”
The body converges to a sharp nose. In the front it bends down sharply, and there is a black canopy, raked sharply like the windshield of a fighter plane. If the Rat Thing has eyes, this is where it looks out.
As part of Mr. Lee’s good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido’s in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.
Good book, Snow Crash
Isn’t this a perfect foreign adversary opportunity for spying on U.S. political figures?
Just integrate your own robot dog, or compromise an existing one. And surveillance away.
Foreign adversaries already had Trump installed. Why would they need to go through extra work.
Hell - the new Director of Intelligence is a Russian asset.
Level 3000 hack: compromise security with drone fleas that jump onto drone dogs.
Level 9000 hack: join the pack with a drone attack dog.
I’m sure the secret service is absolutely thrilled.
I’m sure the secret service is absolutely thrilled complicit’with his horseshit
These things are communicating by radio. Whether it’s wifi or 4G/5G modem, either can be disabled easily with a raspberry pi and some software.
I’d like to pet it with a .50 cal.
can you just approach them and turn them over so they cant get up themselves anymore, would be some fun activism?
Or is that a crime already in such a free country
youtu.be/jEBELMDT6cE?t=262&si=dprkjYTi5nhRjbuK
You can’t really keep them from getting back up, they won’t stay on their sides perfectly balanced because of the curves on their legs. And I’m even so they could “kick” their legs to push them to be able to get back up.
Just in case you’re wondering in the future if that will work.
Damn
Nah, put a traffic cone on 'em.
This is how you start the Great Robot War.
I’ll see her standing by the monorail She’ll look the same except for bionic eyes She lost the real ones in the robot wars I’ll say I’m sorry, she’ll say it’s not your fault Or is it? And she eyes me suspiciously Hearing the whir of the servos inside
Considering that there was an assassination attempt there not that long ago, it’s not surprising they increased security.
An assassination attempt was thwarted. The attempt itself never took place.
Also putting on my conspiracy hat here for a moment. I think the assassination attempts were setups. Including the one who supposedly got his ear.
He did literally get shot though.
If not fren, why fren shaped
It looks like a fun and fulfilling thing to hit with my car.
Those little fuckers creeped me out ever since the black mirror episode when they were turned into automated murder dogs
Because musk is an ignorant child redditor…that is why.
Boston Dynamics isn’t a musk company
That is correct and not relevant. Being an ignorant twit that is pretty much the first lady and has likely always wanted robot guard dogs, and so suggested them to trump…is kinda on brand though.
Because not spend $10,000 on $1,000 worth of security camera system instead of helping poor people. Rich bastards.
try 75,000 dollars
There’s always a place for a happy little accident.
Why are you holding my birth certificate???
Should I drop it?
These are not good boys
So they have a coffee brewer on their back but you cannot pet? Please make sense.
This is such a shame, I mean we could be putting those bots to good use.
Can I get a rule 34 on these robots?
Any robot is a sex robot if you are brave enough.
How did you even fit into that USB port???
If you encounter one of these, absolutely don’t pet it. Instead, kick it. Run over it. Perhaps, light that little robot fucker on fire. But definitely don’t pet it.
There are demonstrations (or of ATLAS I forgot) that shows them keep straight after hard kicks and such. Wont work
While the robotic dog seen at Mar-a-Lago is not armed, she says competitors appear to be experimenting with models that are.
“People are trying to weaponise these dogs,” Cummings adds, citing a Chinese model with an attached rifle which she learned about at a robotics meeting this week.
Accelerationism coming from exactly the social class we expected
It’s a golf coarse… it’d be perfect for the simplicity of wheels.
They’re guard dogs
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