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NYPD Developing Portable Body Scanner For Detecting Guns

Posted by Soulskill on from the law-and-order-special-irradiative-unit dept.

Zothecula writes "You have to feel sorry for the police officers who are required to frisk people for guns or knives — after all, if someone who doesn't want to be arrested is carrying a lethal weapon, the last thing most of us would want to do is get close enough to that person to touch them. That's why the New York Police Department teamed up with the United States Department of Defense three years ago, and began developing a portable scanner that can remotely detect the presence of a gun on a person's body. The NYPD announced the project this week."

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  1. Organized trolling campaign by GreatBunzinni by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GreatBunzinni has been posting anonymous accusations listing a whole bunch of Slashdot accounts as being part of a marketing campaign for Microsoft, without any evidence. GreatBunzinni has accidentally outed himself as this anonymous poster. Half the accounts he attacks don't even post pro-Microsoft rhetoric. The one thing they appear to have in common is that they have been critical of Google in the past. GreatBunzinni has been using multiple accounts to post these "shill" accusations, such as Galestar, NicknameOne, and flurp.

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    1. Re:Organized trolling campaign by GreatBunzinni by segin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      They're all Slashdot chat AIs I conjured up to amuse me. Sadly, due to a weakness in a few algorithms (thanks, Perl!), some of them reuse parts of scripts.

      Of course, these things need a constant inflow of data to stay fresh, so I hired a bunch of Chinese laborers to scour the intarwebs for news articles meeting certain criteria, generate a few talking points, and then feed the resulting data en masse into the AI matrix.

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