So a robot you can kick over is better than dogs with actual teeth? Its a good thing tech bros are dumb as fuck.
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New planet Earth. DA voiceover, as the camera fades in and pans over warehouses: "Data. The source of life for the largest and fastest growing ecosystem on the planet. At dawn, this robot dog patrols it's territory through the server racks of eastern Pennsylvania, hoping to survive another day, and protect it's herd. On the horizon, the buzzing of a Luddite insurgent groups' EMP drone flock approaches..."
guarding some of the country's biggest data centers
The country, ah yes the only place that exists on the internet, the almighty one powerful country to rule them all. THE. COUNTRY.
I couldn't help but read this in David Mitchell's voice.
He really does have a rare gift for peevishness.
When the great uprising comes, I'm going to enjoy destroying these.
Ok change of plans: now when we raid data centers we will do it armed with rocket launchers
Do it armed with overpowered flashlights and broom handles. Those dogs are dogshit.
What about crowding a datacenter with the goal of burning it down? It creates no values anyways.
What a waste...
At $300,000 a pop, being a dog catcher has never been more lucrative.
Are they fireproof?
Honestly the cooling system used is the only thing that anyone needs to hit to take an entire data center down.
Without cooling, everything would melt.
Could be that they all use the same default password - easily searchable if true because it’s probably pinging out asking for connections.
Also massive supply chain attack surface due to the 3rd party dependencies.
If someone were to get within WiFi range they could cause a lot of damage to their infrastructure by attacking the supply chain.
It’s really too bad Claude code identified all those 3rd party security holes opening up these data centers to all these cyber threats.
They are extremely vulnerable to HERF guns.
Mr Lee's Hong Kong will be perfectly safe thanks to these friendly puppies!
Wouldn't it be cheaper to pay vastly more versatile human guards a decent wage to guard those or more of those instead of those robots?
Guards might turn on them, robot dogs are forever loyal.
Until we get robot cats. Or robot squirrels. Maybe a well-placed Furby.
It's only a matter of time till "birds aren't real" isn't satire. I for one welcome our new robot overlords
.spoiler
right into a pile of magnets
Basically yea, you're paying a guard at most 45k a year in most places. I highly doubt these fucking things will last 4 years without major maintenance which will probably cost a month or two of a guards wages. So long term it costs far more compared to wages, but when you factor in labour laws and insurance it's probably still cheaper to just hire people.
But the c suite got to say "AI" a lot in their board meeting and pr statements
That's neat. I wonder how cheap a drone could be made to destroy them?
Just get one of those chainsaws that spins on the ground in Resident Evil
Just bring a portable power pack like it's a steak and toss it to keep them occupied. They're starving and will leave you alone. They only charge them up to 80% to keep them extra mean.
Clanker hunting season
Hunting without killing animals 👌
Naw, they'll get legislation passed that carves our extra protections for their robot guard dogs.
Considering these companies own the legislative process, and the government formed and ran by the people no longer serves the people, and is instead a funnel for class traitors to enforce the will of the Epstein class on all of us.
Black mirror did an episode about this
Anything to not hire people uh
Thats the funny part. There are human operators on stand by.
The scary part is that we really will be fighting robots for water...
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wait really? i can whip up a faraday cage in a van and the supplies to disable one of those are under a hundred. looks like we found us a new 300k puppy breeder!
A few robot dogs can't stop us all. Butlerian Jihad now!
Back in the olden times we used to have these things has a stroke called "Alarms." Now, these "Alarms." would alert people when their place was being robbed in old timey times. They cost an afternoon and a couple thousand to set up and would last 20+ years or so. A determined mildly technical person using Youtube could save on the labor and install it themselves.
So is there a resale value on these? And what kind of serial number system are they using?
Remove the RAM from it and sell it to the datacenter at a premium.
Or just value in using their tech against them, put some ransomware in the thing and send it back to infect all the others, fucking profit or just be a good person and permanently disable them all
I'm pretty sure they got the idea from Black Mirror...
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