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A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale
WheezyJoe writes "A story on NPR reports that the TrackingPoint rifle went on sale today, and can enable a 'novice' to hit a target 500 yards away on the first try. The rifle's scope features a sophisticated color graphics display (video). The shooter locks a laser on the target by pushing a small button by the trigger... But here's where it's different: You pull the trigger but the gun decides when to shoot. It fires only when the weapon has been pointed in exactly the right place, taking into account dozens of variables, including wind, shake and distance to the target. The rifle has a built-in laser range finder, a ballistics computer and a Wi-Fi transmitter to stream live video and audio to a nearby iPad. Every shot is recorded so it can be replayed, or posted to YouTube or Facebook."
A gun with an internet-connected onboard computer. Malware for it could be deadly.
Absolutely!
That same malware would MAKE the shooter point the gun at people and KILL them! Why who knows what the malware would do to the SHOOTER - maybe make him NOT pull the magazine out! Or NOT point the thing at the ground or...
I give up. Who is the idiot who mod'ed the parent up.
Really people?!
Right above this, I posted something that was really funny - at least _I_ think so and it got mod'ed down for some fucking reason - maybe because I typed 'pussy' or some such fucking thing.
Being mod'ed +5 - anything - means you appeal to stupid people.
Think about that.
Nobody but military buys a gun and says "I'm buying this to use it in anger". Yet thousands upon thousands of deaths later, men, woman and children are killed in anger.
Your response? Reclassify anger as a mental illness?
The gun is a killing machine, if it shot paint pellets or light beams or simulated on a computer, it would be about the aiming and shooting, but it doesn't it shoots lead and its about the killing.
I view the gun lobby as delusional. The only way to stop a good man with a gun on a bad day, is to take away his gun.
Spoken like a true US-American! We want it, we take it and to hell with the damage!
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.