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Indian Woman Convicted of Murder By Brain Scan
Kaseijin writes "Neuroscientist Champadi Raman Mukundan claims his Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature test is so accurate, it can tell whether a person committed or only witnessed an act. In June, an Indian judge agreed, using BEOS to find a woman guilty of killing her former fiancé. Scientific experts are calling the decision 'ridiculous' and 'unconscionable,' protesting that Mukundan's work has not even been peer reviewed. How reliable should a test have to be, when eyewitnesses are notoriously fallible? Does a person have a right to privacy over their own memories, or should society's interest in holding criminals accountable come first?"
... they can reliably read someone's mind to determine whether they committed a crime?
That is mental.
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Dang and I thought the DRM in Vista was bad. I had no idea that BEOS could determine if I witnessed a crime.
I knew that it was ahead of it's time but Geesh! Does anyone know what version he is using?
Just goes to show, there is no security by obscurity! Hopefully those Haiku guys will get it up and running soon!
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..BEOS has always been way ahead of the competition!
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
I hear the judge has ordered that she be imprisoned inside a giant NeXTcube.
Yeah. I was hoping to read about how if you put a brain scan machine up to 11 the person's head explodes. But no.
With an undocumented feature like that, I'm surprised BeOS isn't still around.
That's right. And if you want to stand up for women's rights vote McCain Palin 2008! Palin - Because women are always the victim (tm).
Ah. So it's a machine to determine if she's made of wood?
You will be a terrorist supporter and friend to the paedophiles. Don't even think of preventing use of this weapon against perverts and terrorists.
Think of the Children (but not in that way... we will know).
Murder by brain scan?! And they tell us these tests are safe...
Am I the only one who rad the headline and thought: "Also, I can kill you with my brain."
psychics are real despite what the blowhard freak James Randi would have you believe.
Ok, I will grant that psychics are real. It's just their supernatural abilities that are fake.
No, it determines if she weighs the same as a duck.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
That if you want true accuracy, you have to go for the Vulcan mind meld. No one's going to argue about the validity of Vulcan logic.
What does the study of the size of Walt's asshole have to do with this? From "Men at Work."
"We, the jury, find the defendant guilty turning the brain of John Doe into a Cheeto(tm) by way of MRI."
And to think I can hardly get my video driver loaded in it...
What if James Randi has a psychic power of neutralizing other para guys?
Then he catches them in an alley and sucks their brain out.
No wonder they don't dare to fight him.
Ooops, sounds like i watched too much Heroes...
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Maybe the dog is just a good listener.
You seem to believe that people should be imprisoned for being attracted to children. Around 25-33% of men are aroused by children*; who is going to pay for that level of imprisonment?
That is not a problem for America. You just lack a positive attitude, over here we're AmeriCAN not AmeriCAN'T.
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