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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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haveblue posted:

my knowledge of russia comes from yakov smirnoff

same but smirnoff ice

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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

yeah i'm guessing the idea is that other robots will aim for that and just punch through and fall out of the arena like idiots. assuming those robots aren't just remote controlled

apparently some are and some aren't

i just assumed they were all autonomous but

Croccers posted:

Depends.
They have radio controlled and autonomous fights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6fPGwGJ0ls&t=520s

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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NoneMoreNegative posted:

lol in any cyberpunk future she would have been brainfried from black ICE or rolled into spare parts in a body clinic long ago.

yeah they hit her old school with that isolation

no you can't have clothes you could hang yourself

no you can't have a blanket you could hang yourself

no this guy will not talk to you ever you could put some kind of logic bomb in his head

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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*opens up sony md player*

*puts in tooth guard*

*slots lady gaga's the fame*


p-p-p-poooooooker faaaaace


aaaaaaaah!

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Sagebrush posted:

just so everyone's clear, this is a confirmation that the same software or something superior is running on your own phone right now

i remember a wired article, before smart phones even, that listed the phones nsa back-doored

at that time it was public knowledge that if your phone was a) on or b) off but with a charge it could listen to your private convos



unless i'm wrong (and i'm never wrong) things have advanced since this?

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Cocoa Crispies posted:

yes, now you can no longer remove the battery from your phone to foil surveillance, but putting your phone in an unplugged microwave or refrigerator is an accepted thing to do to prevent surveillance

http://imgur.com/gallery/hxFwA

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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SpaceAceJase posted:

That keypad looks so satisfying to touch. I miss buttons :(

it was a sweet phone

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Cocoa Crispies posted:

i specified "unplugged microwave" because sometimes a reporter is just interviewing snowden or manning and wants to be able to use their phone again when they're done

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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qirex posted:

you've said too much

it's just the things they say

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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communism bitch posted:

Anybody got a writeup on this? It's interesting.
Common sense says if the device doesn't have a power supply it can't do anything that draws power. I've not yet seen a smartphone you can't pop the battery out of, so what's the other piece of the puzzle? They come with backup integral batteries, or what?

i think the NSA has been taking a fish/barrel policy for a long time now

they're also pretty interested in just where a person is and what cell towers and hotspots they're hitting vs. trying to figure out your hosed up texts

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Agile Vector posted:

if they can monitor towers and approximate location then they can grab other people in that range and that metadata paints an interesting picture, so yeah those texts are just a nice detail in the story

the real benefit of spying and monitoring is all the detail abstracted general data can provide. search history, location data, and some logging can tell a whole story that a few vague messages miss. lol when people think theyre immune and have been leaking that stuff everywhere

kind of a hosed up and cyberpunky time :hehe:

i used to feel like a useful idiot just copy pasting the search terms most likely to turn up but yeah it's more than just what you say

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i love max headroom



i confused him with burt gummer of tremors fame but completely different guy

both lawn mower films (there may be a 3rd but i ain't looking) just befuddled the OP though

that's what made them so great

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVRqPWZ_ni4

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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i will take my lawn mower payments in lemonade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlrAdvGjtlc

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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in the sense that 2 seconds into that video i wished monomolecular wire existed

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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wikipedia posted:

Frank Herbert later described shigawire in his Dune novels. First making its appearance in Dune (1965), shigawire is a metallic extrusion produced naturally from a ground vine found on the planets Salusa Secundus and III Delta Kaising. It varies in diameter from approximately 1.5 cm down to monomolecular (micronic) diameters, and is notable for its incredible tensile and mechanical strength. Shigawire is able to cut through almost any material cleanly, possessing edges that are incredibly sharp. It is a weapon of choice for assassins.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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molly millions origin story was that she won @ maccy's monopoly

boardwalk on her cup and park place on her john's

poor rube never saw it coming as she'd replaced his with a baltic avenue from the kid at the next table by the time he got back from the can

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Sagebrush posted:

is that dyed hair or a wig?

not even remotely possible that grew out of her head

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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SO DEMANDING posted:

they're called mentats

It is by the Mountain Dew Code Red that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Sagebrush posted:

There is literally a real company named cyberdyne

They make a powered robotic exoskeleton called HAL

No I am not joking

the uk had a satellite network (now defunct, iirc) called skynet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Boiled Water posted:

lol the company used a menacing structure for their ads seen here:



oh no sharp edges this looks bad rear end



it's a beach park in denmark and looks like this:



something is rotten in the state of brutalism

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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FMguru posted:

this is the same line of robots that was aggressively crushing toddlers at stanford shopping center last year

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/11/report-security-robot-at-stanford-shopping-center-runs-over-toddler/

:five:

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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infernal machines posted:

yes, that's basically the premise of black mirror

david cameron never had a glowing blue rod of that size

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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lancemantis posted:

beyond contracts for equipment to straight up contracts for soldiers

is blackwater even called blackwater anymore?

and as far as outsourcing land that us troops died for china's rights to minerals in afghanistan are pretty impressive

considering they never showed up

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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infernal machines posted:

no they've rebranded a few times since then, they're Academi now. executive outcomes was another good one.

and Xe

they're totally inert

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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haveblue posted:

all those dumb cartoons about a sick computer in bed with a thermometer will prove strangely prescient

the episode of star trek voyager where neelix's space cheese got bacteria in the bio-neural gel packs

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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NoneMoreNegative posted:


/claw gets a weak, feeble grip and slips off


drat it does anyone have another quarter!?

get someone limber to just stick their hand in

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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lancemantis posted:

we already do a good job with drones

when i first saw the thumbnail of the acro-bot i was just finished watching that ironman style jetpack guy and thinking they could really shave a lot of weight off the legs and torso of an android that just used jets to get around

like half an x-men sentinel or something, a drone/android hybrid

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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come to think of it, being an onstar csr you're basically meat siri

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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was stebe microdosing or just frying constantly?

always wondered what that'd be like long-term

i tend to edge towards paranoia and psychosis so i'd probably burn out and become a street preacher*




*terminology for the purposes ott

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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lancemantis posted:

*spends all their time optimizing the appearance of their site in the search results and advertising offerings of a small group of behemoths*

*makes blog post about what if att only let you use one of those things*

tfw when you have to choose to spend your internet fun bucks on MySpace or friendster

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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oh iranian hacker you summer child

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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dang these are good

you make them yourself?

https://i.imgur.com/6TT7uaR.mp4

only ahnuld can pull off duel-wielding hand portable rail guns though

syscall girl fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Nov 29, 2017

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Shaggar posted:

they're still selling skyrims so why do new stuff?


lancemantis posted:

ah

Bethesda: we’re too busy becoming valve 2 to make elder scrolls games, guess we’ll just rerelease this one

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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FMguru posted:

brazil: great movie or greatest movie?

greatest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyl0YotL-7Q

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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infernal machines posted:

the characters are the same for kanji/hanzi, but whatever, don't let me get in the way of a good spergoff

this is a slight against nippon and will not stand

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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FMguru posted:

remember to sigh when you draw your hanzo steel

i do, and i have my little brother to remind me it's tape

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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case is one of my logons

you can also reach me at 8jean tessier-ashpool c/o wintermute

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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communism bitch posted:

I wanna put it on my pubes + butt hair

i would like to subscribe to your newsletter

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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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George posted:

what could be more sub than yospos

never speak of it but there is a sub of yospos called yosisg (your operating system is super great)

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