What Are You Looking At?

Posted by michael on Friday July 30, 2004 @03:46AM from the mirror-into-the-soul dept.

Ensign Stinky writes "The NYTimes has a story, with some spooky-cool pictures, about software to extract exactly what image a person is seeing with their eyes, just from the reflection on their cornea. You can see even a wider image than the subject and tell what they're specifically focusing on. It's too bad the coolest tech is immediately subverted for evil. The possible applications listed include 'surveillance cameras that spot suspicious behavior.' Remind anyone of that scene in the movie 'Wild Wild West' where they extract the last thing the dead guy saw?"

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Re:Thoughtcrime by bitrott · 2004-07-30 05:49 · Score: 0, Troll

The belief that 'hate crimes' are indistinguishable from 'ordinary crime' is predicated on a lack of common fucking sense. Yes, It's possible to commit a crime independant of racial motivation. But it's almost always obvious when race is a motivation. It's like porn. You know it when you see it. It's not just a 'thought' crime.

Yours is likely a reaction to percieved (and imagined) injustices wroght by "political correctness run amok" and NOT actual case examples, legal theory, or sound common sense.