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$17,000 Linux- powered rifle brings “auto-aim” to the real world
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/ ... eal-world/

Uhhh Ohhh next will be the hunter-prey robots and Skynet And Plasma Rifles in the 40 Kilo-Watt range

We're already almost there Voice controlled military robot dog:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNUeSUXOc-w... All it needs is an auto aiming gun on its back ... oh ... wait ... we're so doomed.

Yep remember reading that. And just Waiting for Police and such to release those creepy Spider Drones into my apartment building like in minority report.
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a small Austin company called TrackingPoint announces the release of a $17,000 Linux-powered rifle at http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/ ... red-rifle/

This is not what Linux is for guys

Yep posted about that awhile back.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... lit=+rifle
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Brahim wrote:...This is not what Linux is for guys

Yeah, my first thought too. It's the flip-side of freedom.

Ah. So freedom is about only doing things that align with your political views, is it?

The setup is nice enough... but honestly equivalent hardware (minus the electronic trigger and with a conventional scope) can be purchased for about 1/4 (or less) of that much $$$... and that difference in $$$ could pay for a *lot* of practice time. Which one would still need, because it can't (yet) measure the varying wind speeds down range. Calculate, yes. Measure, no. That still either takes a Mk 1 Mod 0 eyeball and a fair amount experience, or a laser anemometer (which last I checked aren't exactly man-portable as of yet).