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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 04:05 pm

"Trying to recognize terrorists and other criminals through fingerprinting, facial-recognition technology, and scanning the retinas of the eye has limitations."  Which is why a scientist at Wright State Research Institute is proposing putting scanners all over the place to recognize terrorists, child molesters, and other criminals by their skeletons.  Because just everyone has a handy database of terrorists' and criminals' skeletons.  Right?

...What's that you say?  You don't have one?  Funny, neither do I.  In fact, neither does anyone else.

Depending on the selected technology, a skeletal scan would only expose a person to radiation that is the approximate equivalent of taking one cross-country airline flight.

Yeah ... every person, on the "list" or not, adult or child, old, young, pregnant, every time they pass a scanner.

What a STUPID idea.

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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 01:41 am (UTC)
This nanny-state mentality of trying to protect everyone from everything at all times - it needs to end. What we really need is for people to wake up to the fact that the only protection they can expect and rely on is the protection they provide for themselves.