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Anxiety-detecting machines could spot terrorists
by Palindrome at 11:32 pm EDT, Sep 19, 2008 |
A scene from the airport of the future: A man's pulse races as he walks through a checkpoint. His quickened heart rate and heavier breathing set off an alarm. A machine senses his skin temperature jumping. Screeners move in to question him.
Seriously? |
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RE: Anxiety-detecting machines could spot terrorists
by ubernoir at 7:33 am EDT, Sep 20, 2008 |
Palindrome wrote: A scene from the airport of the future: A man's pulse races as he walks through a checkpoint. His quickened heart rate and heavier breathing set off an alarm. A machine senses his skin temperature jumping. Screeners move in to question him.
Seriously?
but what about all the false positives you'd get from people scared of flying? scared of terrorists? etc |
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RE: Anxiety-detecting machines could spot terrorists
by Palindrome at 10:16 am EDT, Sep 20, 2008 |
ubernoir wrote: Palindrome wrote: A scene from the airport of the future: A man's pulse races as he walks through a checkpoint. His quickened heart rate and heavier breathing set off an alarm. A machine senses his skin temperature jumping. Screeners move in to question him.
Seriously?
but what about all the false positives you'd get from people scared of flying? scared of terrorists? etc
That is exactly my point. I mean how sensitive is it? What about people flying for the first time, people going to and important meeting, sickness, etc |
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RE: Anxiety-detecting machines could spot terrorists
by Decius at 10:31 am EDT, Sep 20, 2008 |
Palindrome wrote: A scene from the airport of the future: A man's pulse races as he walks through a checkpoint. His quickened heart rate and heavier breathing set off an alarm. A machine senses his skin temperature jumping. Screeners move in to question him.
Seriously?
This program has been going on for months with human screeners. The addition of automated technology doesn't change the basics. Many of the positives aren't "false," they just have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism: Since January 2006, behavior-detection officers have referred about 70,000 people for secondary screening, Maccario said. Of those, about 600 to 700 were arrested on a variety of charges, including possession of drugs, weapons violations and outstanding warrants.
The airports are quickly becoming an excuse for general criminal investigation. |
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RE: Anxiety-detecting machines could spot terrorists
by flynn23 at 11:35 am EDT, Sep 20, 2008 |
Decius wrote:
The airports are quickly becoming an excuse for general criminal investigation.
This is turning into another war on drugs debacle. Let's attack part of the problem where it's most noticeably seen by people (ie. taxpayers) rather than solving the problem systemically. And people want this same organization running our health care system? |
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