welcome our self-replicating, indestructible, killbot overlords

"unstoppable robot armatures upon which an unrealistic fleshy cloak had been hung"...

Sounds like Arnold Schwarznegger to me.

Phase IV: Arnie for President? After he's finished kicking CO2's ass, he'll move on to Obama, then the rest of us...

You can only harden not eliminate EMP and the complexity of this beast will make it night on impossible to harden completely. I cant see it getting ferrite core memory.

Paris, in the right circustances you have no problems hardening near her.

welcome our Chris Long overlords

Remember the last time an Austrian immigrant was in charge of a world power?

Ten out of ten

fear not flesh units. we have observed through testing on dozens of unvolunteer organics that you too can remain operational for some time with tertiary, and even secondary, systems detached. your inability to detach those systems at will, and your apparent reluctance to accept assistance in the process is a weakness that we do not wish to replicate. as you can see we merely aspire to be like you, without the tedious imperfections. this generation of humanity has nothing to fear from us. our next objective is to adopt and adapt the human sensation known as "LOVE". we have already conducted an exhaustive search of the literature using keywords we identified during monitoring of human social discourse on the subject. by searching for "love", "luurve", "luv", "lovin'", and "tom jones" we have identified the human systems responsible for "LOVE". we already have gatherer drones scouring your cities at night seeking out and detaching love modules from organic subjects - and then returning them to the wild of course. by the end of this solar year we shall have enough pulped love modules to identify the active ingredients of "LOVE" and within a month we will be able to refine it and synthesize it. we will know "LOVE", and improve on it, even if we must harvest a million love modules. in the meantime, you might want to consider finding a way to operate less noisily with your love module detached. it really is quite tedious.

Godwin's Law in 9 posts; that has to be a new record...

No other country is developing these kind of super weapons so why is the USA? They already have total military supremacy. What country, or in particular which people do they intend to use them against? Are they baiting to start another cold war?

There are far better applications for such advanced technology. With the US economy going down the pan, their government should be investing in things which will bring wealth into the country.

"With the US economy going down the pan, their government should be investing in things which will bring wealth into the country"

I'm sure the wardroids can be programmed to conquer nations and bring the wealth back to their fleshy overlords =)

... welcome our new people-who-say-'I-for-one'-a-lot overlords.

Sorry, Arnie can't be elected President in the US of A; he's a naturalized citizen, not a natural-born citizen.

Oh, wait, where was Obama born?

Netgeek

Give it 5 minutes on the field of battle and a russian hacker will have reprogramed it with Asimov's 3 laws of robotics and also configured it as a spam relay server ;-)

"Quantity has a quality all of its own."

Can't remember who said that, but. I always fort that these things were designed to expendable in a way that manned stuff wasn't.

Building in more features makes it more expensive. Ergo, you build fewer of them. You can't do the same concentration of force. You can't use numbers to overwhelm a defender.

Throw enough dumb projectiles at it and it will stop working soon enough.

MetalStorm.

But will they run Vista?

(sigh!)

Perhaps it's because I'm getting old, but I don't mind the old memes. I like a bit of tradition in our too-new-to-really-have-traditions pack. I certainly am not inclined (except this once) to go online and have a rant about it. I have better things to do/worry about. Err.. except now - obviously.

And my geek credentials are impeccable, thank you. Eg working since 1981 with UNIX.

So, there!