Comments on: Blue-sky bioengineering on the DARPA drawing-board http://futurismic.com/2010/02/08/blue-sky-bioengineering-on-the-darpa-drawing-board/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Babylon http://futurismic.com/2010/02/08/blue-sky-bioengineering-on-the-darpa-drawing-board/comment-page-1/#comment-73894 Babylon Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:51:30 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=10415#comment-73894 I see several problems with this. One, the kill switch is an easily exploitable back door that renders them militarially useless. (easy in that it kills them, there will undoubtedly be a lot of security on the switch itself, but that sort of security is made to be broken, and the harder it is to get ahold of the less effective the kill switch is at it's original purpose). Another is genetic loyalty, this isn't even a concept that makes much sense, we don't have the genetic know how to program that sort of thing and we don't even know if it is actually possible. I see several problems with this. One, the kill switch is an easily exploitable back door that renders them militarially useless. (easy in that it kills them, there will undoubtedly be a lot of security on the switch itself, but that sort of security is made to be broken, and the harder it is to get ahold of the less effective the kill switch is at it’s original purpose).

Another is genetic loyalty, this isn’t even a concept that makes much sense, we don’t have the genetic know how to program that sort of thing and we don’t even know if it is actually possible.

]]> By: Gerry Allen http://futurismic.com/2010/02/08/blue-sky-bioengineering-on-the-darpa-drawing-board/comment-page-1/#comment-73862 Gerry Allen Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:20:53 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=10415#comment-73862 Actually, all military spending is "bat-shit" in any context. But DARPA did invent the Internet, GPS, the computer mouse and stealth technology. So, one of your preferred communication methods owes its existence to DARPA. Actually, all military spending is “bat-shit” in any context. But DARPA did invent the Internet, GPS, the computer mouse and stealth technology. So, one of your preferred communication methods owes its existence to DARPA.

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