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Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the you-might-be-up-to-something dept.

Vainglorious Coward writes "Reality continues to catch up with Nineteen Eighty-Four with the announcement of the development of a brain scanner that can read a person's intentions. 'It's like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall,' said the leader of the project, Professor John-Dylan Haynes . Demonstrating his own mastery of doublethink, Haynes continued 'We see the danger that this might become compulsory one day, but we have to be aware that if we prohibit it, we are also denying people who aren't going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence.'"

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  1. Pfft. by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not without cracking my DRM, you bastards!

    1. Re:Pfft. by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

      I knew you were going to post that! Ha-ha!

      *disappears in a puff of logic*

  2. Scene: A Police Lab... by SteelCat · · Score: 4, Funny
    Inspector Plod: "So Doctor, what are the miscreant's intentions?"

    Doctor Tinkle: "He intends... 'to get out of this bloody MRI scannner as soon as possible'. Funny, that's exactly what the last twenty seven suspects intended as well."

  3. Re:The quote espouses a fallacy by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a scary, scary device.
    Don't be silly, it can't do anything that a wife can't do. Hmmm, on second thoughts...
    --
    It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.