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2008-01-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel Eyes Thinking Machines to Fight 'Doomsday' Missile Strikes

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Posted by lotp 2008-01-22 16:42|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 "Skynet" doesn't really translate into Hebrew.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-01-22 16:56|| 2008-01-22 16:56|| Front Page Top

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Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-01-22 17:07|| 2008-01-22 17:07|| Front Page Top

#3 mojo, but EVERYONE knows software works the way it's intended.

Pretty regularly.

Most of the time.

Posted by lotp 2008-01-22 17:09|| 2008-01-22 17:09|| Front Page Top

#4 #1 I was going to post JEWISH/KOSHER SKYNET? but I like yours better.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-01-22 17:39|| 2008-01-22 17:39|| Front Page Top

#5 "I'm sorry, Dave, I cannot do that."

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-01-22 17:44|| 2008-01-22 17:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Lsraeli BMD would have to be "genius", extensive, hyper-integrated and bureaucratized upon deployment, ergo by definition COSTS-PROHIBITIVE. $$$ > PRAGMATIC REASONS FOR TEL AVIV TO SUPPO DEMO "REGIME CHANGE" ANDOR MIL CONQUEST, exclusive of also asking to be part of NATO [1980's].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-01-22 17:48|| 2008-01-22 17:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, they DO expect to have Man in the Loop under nearly all circumstances.

But this is a warning to Iran and the mullah's rocket boys. Because what can handle anti-missile defense can also handle offensive missile launches.

Posted by lotp 2008-01-22 18:24|| 2008-01-22 18:24|| Front Page Top

#8 I was going to post JEWISH/KOSHER SKYNET? but I like yours better.

Consider a robotic buldozer, Joe (but don't call it berserkerstein).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-01-22 18:39|| 2008-01-22 18:39|| Front Page Top

#9 #1 And I was about to write "So, what's Hebrew for Skynet?"

Great minds, etc.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-22 19:21|| 2008-01-22 19:21|| Front Page Top

#10 What's Hebrew for "internet"---internet

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-01-22 19:42|| 2008-01-22 19:42|| Front Page Top

#11 BOLO, (Hell yes)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-22 19:56|| 2008-01-22 19:56|| Front Page Top

#12 One Iran, one BOLO?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-01-22 20:15|| 2008-01-22 20:15|| Front Page Top

#13 I hope they don't give it the ability to game various scenarios. If they do, the damned thing will launch on its own, realizing that Iran won't be stopped, and that the world's better off without them.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-01-22 20:39|| 2008-01-22 20:39|| Front Page Top

#14 #13 Rob - what's the downside?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-22 21:33|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-01-22 21:33|| Front Page Top

#15 The best defense is offense. Period.
The moment something has a lift off from Iranian territory and it can be extrapolated that the target is in Israel, the green-glass-makers have to fly. Of course, the incoming has to be intercepted sooner than later. I'll be even as bold as preventing anything flying from Iranian territory in the first place, but that's me.

Posted by twobyfour 2008-01-22 22:13|| 2008-01-22 22:13|| Front Page Top

#16 Mojo - you left out the last line: "STOP 0x0000001e KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED in win32k.sys".

Posted by DMFD 2008-01-22 22:48|| 2008-01-22 22:48|| Front Page Top

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