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user-inactivated  ·  2985 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people

    The kicker: The program has the same name as the killer AI in Terminator.

Having known a few people working on military applications, that was almost certainly on purpose. Those guys know they're building scary stuff, they just either actually believe the military should have that scary stuff or care about having an interesting problem to work on more than how their solution will be used. Either way, they develop a sense of humor about it.





kleinbl00  ·  2985 days ago  ·  link  ·  

509th bomb wing, which flies stealth bombers:

user-inactivated  ·  2985 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I needed to get out the Latin-English dictionary for that one. "Tastes like chicken", for the lazy.