Can robot hookers be far behind?

Everything will be all right. You are in my hands. I am here to protect you. You have nowhere to go. You have nowhere to go.

I wonder if they get more than 20 seconds to comply?

Eat recycled food it's good for the environment and ok for you.

They're either a benefit or a hazard.

If Hollywood is accurate in everything they do, I'll have to relearn Greek mythology now that I've seen immortals

Approves

They best beware of rock stars making escape attempts.

ThisNameSux: Can robot hookers be far behind?

Exactly what I was thinking, been waiting for 30 minutes for my $200/hr Craigslist hooker and damned if I don't want an "upgrade" wink wink nudge nudge. If the robot hooker is cheaper, more reliable, less maintenance, then I say I am all for it. Come on you Tokyo nerds, get to work.

Yeah, but do they have the advanced Newt - Bot 5000 ?
It will break you criminal ass.

We don't really need to worry until one is manning a sniper rifle in a guard tower.

JasonOfOrillia: Everything will be all right. You are in my hands. I am here to protect you. You have nowhere to go. You have nowhere to go.


These guys, right?

FTFA I don't know about prisoners in South Korea, but when I see a robot like that, all I see is a potential weapon. With nothing but time and for some people, little to lose, someone's going to figure out how to hijack one of those for their own purpose.

Really? REALLY? Is he looking at the same robot in the picture? Cause that doesn't have weapons...or arms...or even farking sharp corners. What is it gonna do, poke you with its camera?

FTA, regarding the reaction of inmates:

"That's a concern. But the robots are not terminators. Their job is not cracking down on violent prisoners. They are helpers. When an inmate is in a life-threatening situation or seriously ill, he or she can reach out for help quickly," he said.

How reassuring. They aren't terminators! Really! You can trust us.

That robot would make it a week in Chino before it became someone's biatch.

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Yeah, but do they have the advanced Newt - Bot 5000 ?

Nope, just old-and-busted Pelosi bot.

Mind you, prisoners are different in South Korea.

Cutest prison guard evar.

It's even smiling.

Does it have the capability to pick up the soap for me in the shower?

Is it shiv-able?

Does it have a fleshlight attachment?

/So many questions

Asimotherfarker.

If they detect sudden or unusual activity such as violent behavior they alert human guards.

"Unlike CCTV that just monitors cells through screens, the robots are programmed to analyze various activities of those in prison and identify abnormal behavior,"

Wouldn't it be cheaper to put the intelligence on a laptop and hook it to the existing CCTVs? This looks like an answer to the question "how can we use robots?" rather than one about improving quality or reducing costs.

According to Mr. Lee, prison officers have welcomed the idea because the robots can potentially reduce their workload, particularly at night.

Apparently the Koreans haven't got the hang of public-sector unions.

traylor: Mind you, prisoners are different in South Korea.


I've never seen an actual Korean prison, but I lived in Seoul for a couple of years and I've heard things...

Koreans use the Confucian approach to society, and as I understand it, criminals don't have many rights at all. They aren't people like you and me. They're different (sociologically speaking), and they simply don't get the same rights as people do because they aren't really people. They're criminals.

Rumor had it that that meant a steady diet of crappy kimchi and beatings. Don't bother appealing to anyone about the way you're being treated, because it just isn't proper. Your family is shamed by you. You're being punished and what you'll do is man up and repent. Perhaps, one day, you might manage to become a person again. Until then, you're a criminal, and you'll have to learn to live as one.

Again, I don't know if it's true. I do know that crime in Seoul (15 million strong when I was there) was very, very low. You could walk the darkest neighborhoods at the earliest hours and only have the AK's (American Killers) to worry about. None of this applied to myself or any of the Americans I knew because we all had SOFA cards that meant the KP would have to call the MP's before detaining you.

What's more, that was the Seoul of 1985, and things have changed a lot since then. Back in the good ol' days the joke was that students of Dongguk University had to have at least 3 demonstrations to graduate, and the "Darth Vaders" (KP Riot squad, so named for their armor) would just show up in buses launching tear gas in every direction through rapid-fire launcher turrets on the buses and make no attempt to disperse the crowd, but use the CS clouds as a smokescreen so they could wade in and start literally cracking skulls.

And then all that CS would drift over Yongsan post, blinding and choking everyone unfortunate enough to be caught outside.....

Ah Korea. Happy memories indeed.

What can possibly go wrong?

...go wrong?

...go wrong?

frak21: traylor: Mind you, prisoners are different in South Korea.


I've never seen an actual Korean prison, but I lived in Seoul for a couple of years and I've heard things...

Koreans use the Confucian approach to society, and as I understand it, criminals don't have many rights at all. They aren't people like you and me. They're different (sociologically speaking), and they simply don't get the same rights as people do because they aren't really people. They're criminals.

Rumor had it that that meant a steady diet of crappy kimchi and beatings. Don't bother appealing to anyone about the way you're being treated, because it just isn't proper. Your family is shamed by you. You're being punished and what you'll do is man up and repent. Perhaps, one day, you might manage to become a person again. Until then, you're a criminal, and you'll have to learn to live as one.

Again, I don't know if it's true. I do know that crime in Seoul (15 million strong when I was there) was very, very low. You could walk the darkest neighborhoods at the earliest hours and only have the AK's (American Killers) to worry about. None of this applied to myself or any of the Americans I knew because we all had SOFA cards that meant the KP would have to call the MP's before detaining you.

What's more, that was the Seoul of 1985, and things have changed a lot since then. Back in the good ol' days the joke was that students of Dongguk University had to have at least 3 demonstrations to graduate, and the "Darth Vaders" (KP Riot squad, so named for their armor) would just show up in buses launching tear gas in every direction through rapid-fire launcher turrets on the buses and make no attempt to disperse the crowd, but use the CS clouds as a smokescreen so they could wade in and start literally cracking skulls.

And then all that CS would drift over Yongsan post, blinding and choking everyone unfortunate enough to be caught outside.....

Ah Korea. Happy memories indeed.

Holy moley, the memories. I lived on Yongsan in 72 when Park dissolved the then-constitution. I was a kid at the time but I remember that way at the ass-end of the base behind the officers' housing there was a huge wall - it had to be 30 feet - that was at ground level on the Korea side. That was where we interacted with the Korean kids, mostly by throwing shait at each other (but in a friendly "catch this" way, not a "eff you" way). But yeah, when the kids weren't there and the adults were, those were some tense times.

I wAnNa talk to my Robo-Lawyer bout this !

BTW: APL was almost used by courts as an easier language by which to express laws / legal documents.. They didn't even consider BASIC or some sort of APL-BASIC mush.. this just proves they wanted to gAIN more credibility from the programmers (or public) eye !! (joking here, BASIC humor)
(APL in courts wud have made the courts "virtually" non-existent in the near future (nowdays) ).

I hate stupid ppl. hate. Can has AINow ?

Emposter: FTFA I don't know about prisoners in South Korea, but when I see a robot like that, all I see is a potential weapon. With nothing but time and for some people, little to lose, someone's going to figure out how to hijack one of those for their own purpose.

Really? REALLY? Is he looking at the same robot in the picture? Cause that doesn't have weapons...or arms...or even farking sharp corners. What is it gonna do, poke you with its camera?

Have you never seen a robot movie? There is a 95% chance that chest plate opens up to reveal some kind of gatling laser. There is a 5% chance it's a flamethrower instead.

frak21: You could walk the darkest neighborhoods at the earliest hours and only have the AK's (American Killers) to worry about.

Just curious, does that term translate to 'people who kill only Americans', or 'killers who are from America'?

I keep up with Chosunilbo and a few other SK outlets (as well as the occasional giggle at news of the Dear Leader on KCNA), so I am aware of a lot of anti-American sentiment among the younger crowd, but I didn't realize it had risen to murder-level.

"Hey. Watch me disable this thing."

[unzips pants and starts peeing on robot, which shorts out]

Would you put your brain in a robot body?

TreeHugger: Would you put your brain in a robot body?

Depends on the type of robot body.

/Also, I'm all for terminator like robots
//As long as we maintain control and don't turn them over to some type of AI

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Heh, one prison brawl and ED-209 reduces the prison population by a third.

/+1

Thosw: "Hey. Watch me disable this thing."

[unzips pants and starts peeing on robot, which shorts out]

Don't forget to toss a logic bomb, too

In a US prison those things would be dismantled and turned into shivs, a still, tattooing equipment, projectile throwers, reverse survellance, and if nothing else thrown at real guards.

Captain Swoop: frak21: You could walk the darkest neighborhoods at the earliest hours and only have the AK's (American Killers) to worry about.

Just curious, does that term translate to 'people who kill only Americans', or 'killers who are from America'?

I keep up with Chosunilbo and a few other SK outlets (as well as the occasional giggle at news of the Dear Leader on KCNA), so I am aware of a lot of anti-American sentiment among the younger crowd, but I didn't realize it had risen to murder-level.


It was an anti-American street gang that focused on attacking westerners. To my knowledge, they didn't actually kill anyone. Shortly before we rotated back out of country the MP's started investigating the attacks (coordinating with the KP of course) and they suddenly stopped. The AK's abruptly disappeared. I don't actually know what happened, but rumor (so many rumors on an Army base) said that the KP's "disappeared" them.

Interestingly, a lot of the anti-Americanism that I saw (the Yankee go home! variety) originated from Amerasians and not the Korea Nationals themselves. There was a current of anti-American sentiment among the students, but it was mostly due to Kwanju. Supposedly, there were NK infiltrators organizing students as well, but you couldn't really believe that because of the sheer levels of propaganda at the time.

Koreans, themselves, couldn't have been friendlier. Most of the older folk remembered the war very well and American soldiers were usually honored guests whenever the opportunity arose. We got lost on a hiking trip and stumbled onto this guy's farm. Not only did he let us use the phone, he practically fell all over himself with the hospitality. It was a little embarrassing at first, but we could see what he was doing, and we each humbly thanked him for his generosity.

But like I said, that was the Korea of 1984 to 1986. I went back in 2007 to visit and hardly recognized a single thing about the place. I couldn't believe all the apparently legitimate western fast-food places. I even saw a 7-Eleven! It was so strange having internet and being in contact with home. They even put this huge hotel up across from my school. It's just not the same Korea I remember.

Manfred J. Hattan: Holy moley, the memories. I lived on Yongsan in 72 when Park dissolved the then-constitution. I was a kid at the time but I remember that way at the ass-end of the base behind the officers' housing there was a huge wall - it had to be 30 feet - that was at ground level on the Korea side. That was where we interacted with the Korean kids, mostly by throwing shait at each other (but in a friendly "catch this" way, not a "eff you" way). But yeah, when the kids weren't there and the adults were, those were some tense times.


Memories indeed.

Gate 19.

Having 21 pairs of genuine Reeboks in the closet because they sold for about $5 to $10 on the street.

Directing the occasional obnoxious tourist towards that one place up on Hooker Hill that we knew illegally served dog meat (Hey! I heard you calling that guy a gook back in the store! You gotta know how to lean on these people if you want them to respect you, sure enough! Where are y'all from? Texas? Awesome! Listen, there's a great restaurant you can take your family to just a few blocks away... I'll show you how to get there. Trust me! I'm an American like you, see?)

Learning what to do when you find a landmine (you stand and holler for someone to get the EOD).

The pungent ambiance of the Han river...

AFKN. All Army, all the time! Nothing but recruiting commercials for two years. Coming home, I wanted to see a McDonalds commercial on TV more than anything. Not actually have McDonalds mind you, but just see the commercial.

Air Raid blackouts (ever see a city of 15 million people go dark?)

The day that Chinese guy defected in his MiG and forgot to tell anyone. They sent up the balloon and scrambled the bombers at Osan. I was in 7th period english at the time when all hell broke loose. Sirens, people with guns running everywhere. I actually thought I was going to die (NEO evac training aside).

And so many more.....