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Hardware That Recognizes You
Amit Upadhyay writes "Gizmodo is reporting about extra funding for smart guns at NJIT. Few have qualms about it, mostly on the line of: would optical sensor for finger prints work when the hand is soaked with blood? Would you get time to enter the override code in an emergency? But if we remove speculative emergency situations, the technology seems to be interesting. While checking out Fingkey Hamster what struck me was, this is one passkey I will not mind publishing on my webpage, and it can't be cracked, unless hardware tampering takes place. Kind of thing that you can put in all the car ignitions and lockers where password entry using keyboard can become too obtrusive."
Where's the soviet russia joke? I know some troll wants to post one!
hardware reocgnizes YO--oh, crap
...nah, I can't bring myself to do it!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
You don't get thrown out into the cold night. At least not all of you.
People: did we learn nothing from the Judge Dredd film!
Well, we need fuckable hooker robots, too, but, hey, they're just around the corner.
Or they would be if the techno-wizzes of the world would stop mucking about with tablet computers and first-person shooter game engines, and deliver to the world what it really wants.
--- Ban humanity.
My (patented) self-cloning kit (instructions below) will break this security system in no time. In fact, I suspect MS are already flagging it on their all-new security alert system.
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Self-cloning Instructions (Pat. pending)
Go fuck yourself.
Did he inhale?
In muslim iraq, redneck invades YOU
No, it will be more like the only gun he has access to is the one that is keyed to the 7 foot tall guy that kills people by twisting their heads off. While Bond is fighting this guy a security detail is coming to finish off Bond even if the big guy doesn't.
With seconds to spare, Bond knocks out the big guy, cuts off his hand and uses it with the gun to shoot the detail that has come to finish him off.
At the end of the movie, the big guy comes back with some wicked looking prothesis that is designed with the single purpose of eviserating Bond.
Hmmm... Maybe I've watched too many movies.
myke
Mimetics Inc. Twitter
Article overuses joke!!
They seem to be much more advanced than you think...
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from the Gizmodo article
"including [...] the pommels of swords and stuff."
See...
They can make an electronic system that stops me from using my +5 against orcs broadsword, turning it into a -2 agains cops, unsharpened steel stick !
If they can unsharpen my broadsword in mid strike, they must have solved the puny details already 8)
And they said I should stop playing AD&D
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
For years I've heard stories about how New Jersey is trying to clean up its image as a mob run, violent state and here's the New Jersey Institute of Technology working at improving hand gun technology?
My first thought on seeing this news item is that I didn't even know there was a New Jersey Institute of Technology, but if anybody would be doing research into hand guns, this would be the outfit. It just seems like an easy topic for a Leno/Letterman monolog ("Why did they choose the New Jersey Institute of Technology for designing the gun? Because of the opportunities for real world testing! Because shipping costs would be so low!").
myke
Mimetics Inc. Twitter
The following wizard will assist you:
:-}
1) Enter BPA (Bullet Product Activatin) code.
2) Verify that this person is really an intruder.
3) Aim weapon.
4) Pull trigger.
Did gun fire? Yes/No
No.
5) Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete while depressing trigger.
6) Did gun fire? Yes/No
No.
7) Are you still alive? Yes/No
This is probably why Smith & Wesson and Microsoft shouldn't merge.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
"Your gun has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
I'm a dreamer, the world is my playpen. But hey, I'm a serious person, I can't dream all the time.
These days, that's called Fox News...
These things are actually dimly sentient, and cantankerous to boot. I swear they know when you're under pressure from an immoveable deadline. That's when they chose to break down/clog heads/eat your last sheets of glossy presentation material at 5am / have the driver b0rk...
It's the reason we call them plotters