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Autowrench:
Could very well be. Check over here:
yournewreality.blogspot.com...
And, Skynet is a real deal company too.
www.goingfaster.com...
Recent breakthroughs in advanced microchip design and computer processing power were the impetus that led to America’s first military grade neural
net based artificial intelligence, SKYNET. Almost overnight, American computer and electronics technology had taken a leap four generations into the
future and the world wondered how that could be possible. The West wasn't telling and the concern grew among its enemies and to a much lesser degree
its own allies. In the space of three years, from early 1985 to late 1988, America had started developing and deploying cutting edge electronics
which were far smaller and far more powerful than anything its allies (or enemies) had at their disposal. Intelligence forces around the world were
at a loss as to where the Americans had made the breakthrough that gave them an edge several generations ahead of the rest of the world. Rumors and
speculations abounded, some of which even hinted at America having access to salvaged XT technology. Whatever it was that the Americans had
discovered, it had the rest of the world surprised, perplexed and ... above all, wary.
Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style Military-Robot Rebellion
A screen grab of a YouTube video of a multiple-kill-vehicle, an orbital robot designed to shoot down enemy ballistic missiles from space.
Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at
their steely hands.
The stark warning — which includes discussion of a "Terminator"-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters — is part of a hefty
report funded by and prepared for the U.S. Navy's high-tech and secretive Office of Naval Research.
The report, the first serious work of its kind on military robot ethics, envisages a fast-approaching era where robots are smart enough to make
battlefield decisions that are at present the preserve of humans.
Eventually, it notes, robots could come to display significant cognitive advantages over Homo sapiens soldiers.
"There is a common misconception that robots will do only what we have programmed them to do," Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report, said.
"Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when ... programs could be written and understood by a single person."
The reality, Dr. Lin said, was that modern programs included millions of lines of code and were written by teams of programmers, none of whom knew the
entire program.
Accordingly, no individual could accurately predict how the various portions of large programs would interact without extensive testing in the field
— an option that may either be unavailable or deliberately sidestepped by the designers of fighting robots.
www.foxnews.com... 
im in the military id know. all dod computers have a cac card
slot on the keyboard in remote secure areas. or they would have a cac card reader of some kind. these dont. what did you find 
Good catch. 
