Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
by oh_sigh on Friday February 22, 2019 @11:24PM
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Boots on the ground actions certainly aren't targeting China and Russia, but what about capability improvements which will pay off if we have to defend ourselves from 'genuine threats'?
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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
by _bxg1 on Friday February 22, 2019 @11:48PM
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The HoloLens case seems pretty boots-on-the-ground to me, and many of the other tech sector contracts you read about have to do with drones/machine learning/image recognition, i.e. taking humans even further out of the equation when it comes to patrolling third-world countries. I won't be a part of that.
Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
by oh_sigh on Saturday February 23, 2019 @12:01AM
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Out of curiosity, how do you view America A-bombing Japan? Do you think that it would have been preferable to go forward with operation downfall? In that case, it was a situation where America weighed massive losses on both sides through brute man-on-man mayhem versus using technology to inflict massive casualties on only one side.