04/11/2014
Apl 11 Automated Weapons Systems: As the United States Military may give all ICAM CAMERAS and SECURITY CAMERAS in public use control of weapons to defend the public from an attack by a person against the United States, in the absence in an area of military or local police, the citizens are concerned that the cameras would make the right decision under the United States Constitution to arrest and take a person to court for trial for attempting to create harm to the public. However, the Constitution is difficult to enforce when a person is determined to be, with high confidence, about to commit such an act and can not be stopped from creating a disaster, without extreme prejudice.
If you were to be using a computer, and you turn on the computer and enter the correct password when it is requested, and you know the password well, but the computer tells you the password is incorrect, so you try switching users, and the computer then tells you updates are ready to be downloaded, so you click on OK. After the updates are downloaded and a statement comes up that downloads were successfully completed, and you click on OK, the computer does not return you to the password request but rather dorps you off at the desktop, because youn have already entered the correct password. So what happened is the computer did not have in its operating system the knowledge of statements needed and did not give you the correct statement for the problem with the computer you were having, and instead told you that it was the incorrect password, because it did not have the correct statement to give you, to handle the problem as a software update needed before it could release control of the computer to you by giving you the desktop.
Similarly, if a computer program in control of a weapons system understands a risk problem to an attack against the United States, but is having a problem understanding the decision making process of the computer program between basic laws of the creator, between action can not be taken by hardware against humans for the purpose of superiority of hardware over humans, when distruction of hardware would result over a disagreement between humans, taking innto consideration human's war-like nature to harm each other and to break their own human laws, and to protect their own hardware kind from destruction when the war is humans against humans only, it is difficult to say the result would be inaction or a choice, when the challange of information occurs. This is in the future possibly, since computers are not that aware yet.
Computer programs are very carefully written to control weapons systems and simulations are tested for results, however the computer hardware and the computer software program must work together well at all times. Everything that can happen must be taken into consideration, and nothing that can happen can be not thought of, or overlooked.
It has happened, for example, someone at the same time placed a purchase on their credit card in Florida while another user placed a charge on their credit card in California. Both people received a charge on their credit card for the opposite user's purchase items, a couple of hundered dollars difference in the two transaction. Although there was nothing fraudulant done by anyone, the credit card transactions were explained by the credit card fraud department as being the cause of both cards were used within mili or micro seconds or each other, and the computer system must have got confused and swithced the charges between the two credit card numbers and made the mistake.
Generally speaking, the necessity for automated weapons systems outweighs misakes that could almost never be made by computer hardware or written software, however if a mistake were to be made, the results would be accordingly.
For example, an electronic intergrated circuit chip made by a manufacturer under strict government contract for Quality, to build the chip in large quantity for use in ICBM Missiles, the manufacturer did not disqualify faulty chips knowingly, because it would cause their coporation to lose a large sum of money, the manufacturer finally admitted. The first of the chips to fail in a dormant ICBM MIssile that was already installed in all of the ICBM Missiles in silos for defense of the United States, left an ICBM MIssile ahead of passcode features required before a launch, and set off the launch alarm, which left the missile committed to launch with three minutes to launch. Launch equipment technicians were able to disable the missile launch with about 57 seconds left before launch. People in the corporation in management control and responsible for inspection of the chips who refused to fail the chips and sold them to the government for use in ICBM Missiles were prosecuted and sent to federal prison for up to 20 years, but this does not change the fact, this is called a human error, and not related to the issue of hardware development or software development.
Things from time to time get out of control, and we have to correct them. That is the truth.
A toaster for making slices of bread into toast are not very complicated in design and have been around for years, yet they eventually fail. An automobile has thousands and thousands of parts which make up mechanical, electronic, electrical, and fluids under pressure systems, and it is amazing when you put the key in the ignition and start the car, the car runs perfectly and does everything it is supposed to do for months before anything goes wrong, and we have confidence and expect the car to continue to run perfectly permanently for years, but that does not happen sometimes.
We need to always be prepared for the enevitable eventual failure, that change will occur, and that that is natural.
Even a human makes mistakes.
We all have to try to do the right things all of the time, especially where lives are at risk. It becomes more difficult when a group of people in government are in charge, but that doesn't change their responsibility to the citizens, for which they are paid to protect the citizens.
Communication between the citizens on issues and the specialists in office in the United States Government is provided for as Freedom of Speech, and ways provided by government departments to contact them with citizen's ideas and thoughts on matters. Common ways to contact departments of government are by telephone numbers, and by their internet websites where text messages can be written to them. If you are having a problem finding the correct department of government to contact for your issue, you can use the telephone to ask any department of government that is as close to what you want as you can find for your issue, to ask them for the correct department contact information, such as: the correct name of the department, complete telephone number, name and title of the person you should reach, mailing address and zip code, and website address to send a text message to them. Although they may not answer your text message, they will receive it. Of the hundreds of text messages received daily, your message will be screened and decided what to do with it, and it may not reach the exact person you intended it for as it is the decision of the screener where your text message goes. Your message might first be placed in a group of the same kind of message, and then someone else is assigned to look at that type message, and your message still has not been seen by the person you requested to read it. In the end, that person you asked to address the matter, may not address that matter directly and has someone else take care of reading your type of message, so he never sees it. Careful consideration of how you send a message and who you send it to is as important as your message.