RE: MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing

["Stephen Villano" <stephen.villano () us army mil>]

Those bastards, they rebooted Kenny!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
> Behalf Of Fergie
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:53 PM
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: [funsec] MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing
>
> Via The Onion, America's Finest News Source.  ;-)
>
> [snip]
>
> Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapter of
> the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody today following a
> brutal hazing incident in which one robot remains missing and two others
> are in critical condition with extensive circuitry and servo-motor
> injuries, sources revealed Monday.
>
> The robots, experimental prototypes recently devised at MIT's prestigious
> Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, were participating in an apparent
> initiation exercise that police say involved butyl alcohol and compressed
> air.
>
> According to eyewitnesses, the three robots were ripped from their
> chargers at the Theta Tau chapter house at 3 a.m. Tuesday. One, a
> titanium-alloy hexapod approximately 13 inches in diameter, was reportedly
> forced to climb stairs built at a grade too steep for its small hinged
> legs, causing six of its pneumatic actuators to short out. A second robot,
> a biped from MIT's Leg Laboratory, was allegedly forced to replicate "the
> same humiliating hopping algorithm" 200,000 times, and is currently in
> critical condition in the laboratory's emergency-repair room.
>
> The third robot, a tread-driven 38-inch-tall rover, is feared drowned
> after being forced to consume over 40 terabytes of data and then swim
> across the Charles River with a burning candle stuck in its rear port.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/47207
>
> - ferg
>
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