Google.com/killer-robots.txt

https://www.google.com/killer-robots.txt

by config_yml • 12 years ago

41 32 12 years ago

I wonder how long this has been there.

chton3• 12 years ago

Last-Modified: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 22:03:05 GMT according to the headers. It probably hasn't been up for much longer than that, or it would have been found already.

sschueller2• 12 years ago

Funny but also a bit scary to think that Google now owns some of the most advanced 'killer' robots. Is Google going to continue providing robots to the DoD or are they going to let those contracts expire?

There was even a protester at Google I/O.

Petman[1] vs. T-800[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFrjrgBV8K0 [2] http://www.cinemaquette.com/sites/default/files/image_galler...

Kudos• 12 years ago

Did they ever provide "'killer' robots" to the military?

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/185570-google-finally-pro...

jimmaswell3• 12 years ago

Sending robots into combat is better than sending humans I suppose

tokenizerrr2• 12 years ago

Only for the country employing them... What if the Americans will have "freedom robots" who will "liberate" those poor middle eastern countries, who will never be able to afford something like that? Will there still be a reason to back down when there are no American soldier's lifes at stake?

ddebernardy• 12 years ago

Or not. Try to picture yourself minding your own business, and then the next thing you know your neighborhood is stormed by soulless metallic murderers striking from the air and on land.

bhickey• 12 years ago

    Google executives said the company would honor existing
    military contracts, but that it did not plan to move
    toward becoming a military contractor on its own.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/technology/google-adds-to-...

dm22• 12 years ago

They are not going to renew any military robots contracts through Boston Dynamics.

I think it's unfortunate since Google could provide some great software to the DoD if they wanted to. The US military WILL have robots, it's all about from who and how competent they are. The BigDog robot was already being tested by the USMC and robots is becoming a major asset in the US arsenal to make combat operations easier and safer.

enneff• 12 years ago

Safer for whom? Christ.

MattBearman• 12 years ago

Am I going nuts, or was this on the front page of HN only a couple of days ago?

beltex2• 12 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7979909

chton3• 12 years ago

Maybe it would be a good idea for HN to chop off the protocol when comparing to old posts?

pajju• 12 years ago

For those who missed this story:

Its the 20 year anniversary of the robots.txt file.

The new Google Easter Egg robots.txt was uploaded recently, on the anniversary of the Robots.txt file.

You can access the new Robots file at google.com/killer-robots.txt.

The new File Reads as:

User-Agent: T-1000

User-Agent: T-800

Disallow: /+LarryPage

Disallow: /+SergeyBrin

T-1000 and T-800 are the different versions of Terminators for the movie series, The Terminator. Here its telling these two killer robots to not kill the Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Pun Intended.

Now Larry & Sergey are safe enough.

sschueller2• 12 years ago

February 1994[1], so the 20 year anniversary of the robots.txt file.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard

wetmore• 12 years ago

There's more to it. At Google I/O a protestor interrupted a presentation to yell that Google made killer robots. There have been a lot of jokes internally about it. This is probably playing on that as well.

Kliment• 12 years ago

There's Google being evil again! Why not disallow * and be done with it?

kozhevnikov• 12 years ago

This wildcard would match other killer robots, possibly those with no disallows at all.

billiumx• 12 years ago

No love for +EricSchmidt?

malteo• 12 years ago

  Google is built by a large team of engineers, designers, researchers, robots, and
  others in many different sites across the globe. It is updated continuously,
  and built with more tools and technologies than we can shake a stick at. If
  you'd like to help us out, see google.com/careers.

https://www.google.com/humans.txt

tete• 12 years ago

According to a friend there was someone at the Keynote of Google I/O shouting about how Google builds killer robots. This seems to be the response.

jay_i_palotes• 12 years ago

Funny that they're among the closest to create Skynet:

«sorry, we were just creating a ads targeting system, but we screwed an if condition...»

Or did they already do it, and they're saving their asses?

Google.com/killer-robots.txt

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