Posted on 03/02/2014 5:35:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Geez,RR Holdings are huge on the market.
Make sure that the DeathBot Os is constantly updated.
There will always be a war with hackers.
But I can guarantee you that automobiles, trucks, airplanes, farm equipment and ships are going to follow this path.
The cost savings will drive the technology.
I think it’s a great idea. Sure it has its technical issues, every non-trivial endeavor does, but they will be addressed. I have faith in Rolls-Royce.
Yes, there are a couple of hoops. A vessel at sea that is abandoned is up for salvage grabs. You’d probably want to close that little loophole first.
The future is really there for us to grab if we want it. Amazing technology is available. The only impediment is government. They, along with their lawyers slow everything to a crawl until they can sufficiently rig the game to skim the profits.
A real paradise for a control freak government.
Not the ones from “The phantom menace”. They were hapless in the extreme. Now, automated defenses such as tasers and anasthetic gas would be more effective.
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I am glad that you have faith in Rolls-Royce. I place mine elsewhere.
A couple of guards with weapons?
Actually it’s piracy made impossible, with no form of onboard control sure the pirates can get on the boat but they can’t do anything with it, and there’s no hostages.
Seems like the answer to piracy would be to have a rapid response security team that would fly in and kick butt whenever a piracy attempt was detected.
cargo ships have been sailing the seas with automatic pilot for years and many a smaller craft has been struck and sunk as they had no one awake to see aboard the cargo ship.
“It could even be a video game: control a RL machine gun on the deck of a RR-run ship. Each pirate gets you $100...”
I agree. I just watched the movie, “Captain Phillips”, on DVD this afternoon. I was appalled by the lack of defense capability of the ship and it’s crew. Not even a single handgun. If they had blown the pirates’ small attack boat out of the water before it even got close, there would have been far fewer lives put at risk. Political correctness gets people killed.
I made no mention of boarding parties; you assumed them.
Just because that it is computer controlled does not make it undefeatable.
Target credit card readers got hacked, but e-commerce goes on.
This trend isn't going away in my view.
A recent experiment (ships crew knew it was going to happen)was made where a ship operating in the automated (e-navigation) mode was electronically hijacked by an outside source without the crew knowing when it happened.
Security of the data stream can be done very easily. Just because a few companies fail doesn’t mean everything with a computer is instantly hacked. This ends piracy, they can’t be taken physically and they’ll make the computer secure, heck the computer ALREADY is secure, they’re mostly operated by computer now.
Bad ole DOS is still possible, jam the transmissions.
That may be, but I’m not changing my opinion of where all this is going.
Automobiles, trucks, ships, farm equipment, etc.
It’s gonna happen.
Despite all the hacking, e-commerce is accelerating not decreasing.
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