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Topic: Science > Physics
User: "Habshi"
Date: 25 Apr 2004 06:23:48 PM
Object: Thoughts of criminals can now be read by new machine
Its time to prevent crime by stopping these thoughts before
they arise . It may well be found that certain religions promote
criminal thoughts like stoning women and should be banned.
observer.co.uk
It's the thought that counts for the guilty
Robin McKie, science editor
Sunday April 25, 2004
The Observer
You have just been arrested for robbing a shop with a shotgun and
dragged to the local police station. A sergeant takes a cloth helmet
bristling with electrodes and pulls it over your head. Pictures of the
crime scene are flashed before you on a computer screen: an image of
the shopkeeper victim; a picture of a man standing in the store; a
photo of the gun used in the hold-up.
You remain silent - but to no avail, for your brain has already
revealed your complicity by emitting tiny electrical signals as each
image matches your own memories of the robbery that you recently
committed.
It sounds fantastic. Nevertheless, such scenes have already been
played out in lawyers' offices and police stations in America as the
fledgling technique of brain fingerprinting has been introduced to
solve crimes. Success suggests that in the near future criminals may
betray their guilt - not through physical evidence but through their
own unconscious thoughts.
'People remember the major events in their life, even a serial
killer,' said Lawrence Farwell, the inventor of brain fingerprinting.
'That tends to have a solid record in the brain.'
Unlike discredited lie-detecting techniques, which measure changes in
breathing, heart rate and other variables to determine if suspects are
trying to deceive their interrogators, brain fingerprinting is
designed to discover if specific information is stored in a person's
brain. The technique exploits the fact that the brain emits an
electrical signal known as a P300 exactly 300 milliseconds after it is
confronted with a stimulus that has special significance to that
individual - for example, a victim's face.
'The fundamental difference between the perpetrator of a crime and an
innocent person is that the former has the details of it stored in his
brain,' added Farwell. 'The innocent suspect does not.'
Thus a robber will inadvertently emit a P300 signal - which can be
picked up using electrodes fitted to his skull - when shown an image
of his victim or the gun he used to rob him. An innocent person who
has never met the victim or used a gun will not emit such signal.
Farwell told The Observer he had already used the technique with total
success in mock crimes created using FBI agents in order to reveal
those who possessed knowledge hidden from others. He believes the
technique could have vital criminal and security uses. A terrorist
attempting to hijack and crash a jumbo jet would reveal his intent
through his reactions to photographs of aircraft cockpits, for
example.
Farwell - who has received substantial US government backing - has now
set up his own company, Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, to market
the technique, though his technology is not without critics.
Prof Peter Rosenfeld, of Northwestern University in Evanston,
Illinois, believes that not enough attention has been paid to factors
that could distort the outcomes of brain fingerprint profiles.
Memories change over time, as he points out. And it could be
discovered that psychopaths have very different responses than others.
'It will take a substantial amount of research before this is ready,'
Rosenfeld told the journal Nature.
Nevertheless, brain fingerprinting has already claimed several legal
successes, including the case
A new blockbuster claims the world is going to freeze, not boil.
That's nonsense, say experts
Juliette Jowit and Robin McKie
Sunday April 25, 2004
The Observer
Snowstorms sweep New Delhi. Hailstones the size of grapefruit batter
Tokyo. Plunging temperatures bring chaos to Britain. Manhattan is
submerged by a tidal wave. The new ice age has begun.
This, according to the new Hollywood blockbuster The Day After
Tomorrow, is the shape of things to come. Our world is going to
freeze, not boil. It may sound like science fiction, but the producers
of the $125m film claim their chilling vision is factual.
They are up against a number of leading climate researchers contacted
by The Observer, who described the movie's premise as dangerous
nonsense. 'It is highly misleading to suggest we are going to freeze
in future,' said climatologist Dr Doug Benn, of St Andrews University.
'Global warming is likely to continue. We should be focusing on real
environmental problems, not worrying about sensational disaster
stories.'
The science behind The Day After Tomorrow is based on the idea that
greenhouse warming - triggered by rising levels of industrial gases in
the atmosphere - could disrupt the ocean currents that bring warm,
salty water from the tropics to eastern America and western Europe.
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User: "tech27"

Title: Re: Thoughts of criminals can now be read by new machine 25 Apr 2004 07:19:33 PM
"Habshi" <habshi@anony.com> wrote in message
news:408c4548.724311@news.clara.net...


You have just been arrested for robbing a shop with a shotgun and
dragged to the local police station. A sergeant takes a cloth helmet
bristling with electrodes and pulls it over your head. Pictures of the
crime scene are flashed before you on a computer screen: an image of
the shopkeeper victim; a picture of a man standing in the store; a
photo of the gun used in the hold-up.
You remain silent - but to no avail, for your brain has already
revealed your complicity by emitting tiny electrical signals as each
image matches your own memories of the robbery that you recently
committed.

It sounds fantastic. Nevertheless, such scenes have already been
played out in

<snip>
......Hollywood movies. You've been watching too many.
.

User: "Old Man"

Title: Re: Thoughts of criminals can now be read by new machine 25 Apr 2004 07:05:48 PM
"Habshi" <habshi@anony.com> wrote in message
news:408c4548.724311@news.clara.net...

Its time to prevent crime by stopping these thoughts before
they arise . It may well be found that certain religions promote
criminal thoughts like stoning women and should be banned. ...

Thought police? But, wouldn't they be able to pre-expose
Habshi for the intellectual fraud that he is? They'd stop
Habshi dead in his tracks every time he thought of touching
a keyboard. No more censorship. At the first bad thought,
cut-off his fingers!!! [Old Man]
.

User: "Uncle Al"

Title: Re: Thoughts of criminals can now be read by new machine 25 Apr 2004 07:19:25 PM
Habshi wrote:


Its time to prevent crime by stopping these thoughts before
they arise . It may well be found that certain religions promote
criminal thoughts like stoning women and should be banned.

[snip]
Idiot wog. We all saw the movie "Minority Report" and read the Philip
K. ***** short story prior. Not you, of course, you are an idiot wog.
Leave it to an idiot wog to ***** and moan about stoning women when its
own idiot culture burns widows alive. Hindus are so much more
advanced - long pig for dinner!
--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/eotvos.htm
(Do something naughty to physics)
.
User: "habshi"

Title: Re: Thoughts of criminals can now be read by new machine 26 Apr 2004 11:15:47 AM
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:19:25 -0700, Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote:

and moan about stoning women when its

own idiot culture burns widows alive. Hindus are so much more
advanced - long pig for dinner<
Every twenty years or so a depressed woman jumps into her husband's funeral pyre , so these
incidents are exceedingly rare but even so even assisting a woman to do that is punishable by death
in India, and burning widows is not advocated in any of the scriptures , contrast this with the
stoning by the state practised in Islamic countries according to the quran and hadiths. Hinduism the
world's oldest living religion is the only one which has elevated women to the godhead , unlike
Xtians who believe in a cruel male non existent God who sends plagues and boils when somebody asks
him a question. BTW I am a Hindu atheist, its the only religion which accepts atheists as it asks
you to make up your own mind.
Who writes the software for Nasa?
daw.com letter
"Wilson had worked his magic with his own subcommittee, and everything seemed on track for him to
make his legislative strike when Doc Long (Chairman, Congressional Appropriation Committee for the
CIA) stumbled across an article recounting the plight of a young, blind, orphaned Pakistani girl who
had been raped.
To the chairman's disgust, the article explained that by Islamic law a rape can be proved only if
there are four witnesses. Since here there was only one, and since the girl admitted that
intercourse had taken place, the Pakistani authorities promptly tried her and threw her in jail for
fornication (Zina).
"All bets were now off. Hair swirling, eyes bugging out in fury, the chairman was suddenly calling
his newfound friend General Zia a barbaric dictator. "Zia is not going to get a dollar of foreign
military aid. Period, screeched Long.
"I want him to know that I control the buck." Long dispatched his aide Jeff Nelson to inform the
Pakistani ambassador that if the girl was not immediately pardoned, put in a home and cared for,
Pakistan would be cut off.
"For a moment, the plight of this unfortunate teenage girl became the most sensitive issue in
US-Pakistan relations. In Wilson's view, Long was just powerful and crazy enough to sabotage the
entire Afghan war effort if Zia did not yield.
"The next day Zia's ambassador General Ajaz Azim appeared in the chairman's office and announced:
'His Excellency the President has asked me to communicate to you that the matter about which you
communicated with him has been resolved in the exact terms which you requested.'
"Doc stared at the ambassador, shouting back at his aide, 'What the hell does that mean?'
"Very quickly, General Azim assured Long that the girl would be taken care of in a private home for
life. The president, he said, wanted the chairman to know that he personally guaranteed this. 'As
far as I'm concerned,' says Nelson, 'the blind girl was the key to everything.'"
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