samfbiddle
Re:Oakland cops hope to arm robots with lethal shotguns
on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:13PM (#33235651)
I encourage you to look up the word "exigency"
Re:Oakland cops hope to arm robots with lethal shotguns
on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:11PM (#33235629)
It's considered a robot by its manufacturer (https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/releases/northrop-grum...), the police who own it, and California state law, so I am confident in my choice of terms here.
Re:Oakland cops hope to arm robots with lethal shotguns
on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:53AM (#33235314)
It wasn't suggested, it was explicitly stated in the meetings and in the proposed authorized use language, both of which you will conveniently find quoted in the article.
Re:Oakland cops hope to arm robots with lethal shotguns
on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:52AM (#33235292)
I both named the exact model of the robot (Northrop Grumman Remotec Andros Mark 5-A1) and specify that it's operated via remote control.
Re:Oakland cops hope to arm robots with lethal shotguns
on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:41AM (#33235111)
Hi, author of the article here. I don't care if you read my story or don't, but if you're going to accuse me of "clickbait," I'd encourage you to actually read it. The plan here is to literally load live 12 gauge shells into the robot's PAN disrupter device, which typically only takes blank rounds, in order to shoot and kill people under special emergency circumstances. It's a shotgun. But don't take it from me, take it from the cop who proposed the plan!
“Yeah, physically a live round can go in,” Daza-Quiroz answered. “Absolutely. And you’d be getting a shotgun round.”
Re:Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting
on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:40PM (#21404222)
What resources?
Re:Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting
on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:38PM (#21404206)
This is completely wrong. Gawker Media was a profitable, growing company until Peter Thiel wrecked it and its subsidiary sites were sold to a series of increasingly incompetent owners. Deadspin's "non-sports" articles were regularly among its most widely read.
In fact, here's a person whose job it was to sell ads for Deadspin explaining that you are incorrect: https://twitter.com/jillian_schulz/status/118967386127042969...
Re:Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share wit...
on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @05:27PM (#18869630)
This is a neat idea but I don't think I'd use it unless I had some assurance that my videos would be deleted at some point after they're viewed.
Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer
on Friday May 12, 2017 @10:56AM (#14324476)
I specifically added a paragraph stating, explicitly, that RSA per se is not under threat. Please don't conflate misreading with "malpractice."
Re:Heritage Foundation leaks email archive
on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @06:25PM (#10156218)
Do you still have a copy of this?