Hardware That Recognizes You 472
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."
...That Recognizes YOU (Score:1, Funny)
In Soviet Russia... (Score:4, Funny)
In Soviet Russia... (Score:1, Funny)
And when you're carjacked (Score:5, Funny)
Re:...That Recognizes YOU (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The problem with biometrics (Score:4, Funny)
People: did we learn nothing from the Judge Dredd film!
Cool! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Bring on the Clones... (Score:3, Funny)
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Self-cloning Instructions (Pat. pending)
Go fuck yourself.
Re:Calling all readers with mod points (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Next James Bond plot... (Score:3, Funny)
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
Re:In Soviet Russia (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The problem with biometrics (Score:3, Funny)
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
Is this a potential image problem for NJIT? (Score:3, Funny)
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
"It appears you are trying to shoot an intruder... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Over-engineered solution to a non-problem (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What if... (Score:5, Funny)
These days, that's called Fox News...
Already exists - old news... (Score:5, Funny)
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