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Smart Gun with Minicam and Biometric Access

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the saturday-night-special dept.

StrawberryFrog writes "Ya well no fine, those crazy South Africans are at it again, this time with a "intelligent firearm". You may have heard of guns with fingerprint recognition before, but this also uses a laser to ignite the propellant, has multiple barrels and incorporates a minicam to record as evidence what you are shooting at. It's a very different gun design, and one that depends on electronics to make it work."

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  1. Re:ya well no fine by CaseyB · · Score: 3, Informative

    This says it's South African for "I'm bored".

  2. Re:ya well no fine by Nurf · · Score: 4, Informative

    Heh. Actually, it is spelt "Ja well no fine". It has a bunch of uses, and is a sort of catchall phase for some people.

    It can be used to indicate agreement about something that will soon be done. "Ja well no fine, let's go sort it out" would be a classic use.

    It is a sort of shorthand. "Ja" = "Yes". "Well" is used as in English meaning as a scatting word "welllll", or to mean that things (or you) are well. "No" indicates that nothing is wrong (as if the other person had asked if there was a problem), and the "fine" is to back this up.

    "Ja well no fine" = "Yes all is well, no really, it's fine"

    or

    "Ja well no fine" = "Yes! ummmm... no, definitely, it's fine!".

    The second use would be when you have made a strong decision.

    It's hard to pin down, but I think that will do as a start. The link some other guy posted about it meaning "I'm bored" is just wrong, in my opinion.

    There. I bet you wished you never asked. :-)

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