On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:11:08 -0500, Richard Todd
<rmtodd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(William December Starr) writes:
>
>> <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23926278>
>>
>> New anti-terror weapon: Hand-held lie detector
>> U.S. troops in Afghanistan first to get new device; `red'
>> means you're lying
>>
>> The Pentagon will issue hand-held lie detectors this month to
>> U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan, pu****ng to the battlefront a
>> century-old debate over the accuracy of the polygraph.
>>
>> The Defense Department says the ****table device isn't perfect,
>> but is accurate enough to save American lives by screening
>> local police officers, interpreters and allied forces for
>> access to U.S. military bases, and by helping narrow the list
>> of suspects after a roadside bombing.
>>
>> (Not that anybody who was just near a roadside bombing is going to be
>> stressed out of their minds or anything...)
>>
>> ObSF: Was this sort of thing 'predicted' in any stories, particularly
>> in the field of mil-sf?
>
>Hmmm. They had "veridicators" in Piper's Terran Federation stories (and
IIRC
>did use them in military settings on captured prisoners in _Space
Viking_),
>but they weren't handheld, but more sort of a giant-chair thingy, so of
>limited ****tability.
That crystalline lenticular object usually worn as a bracelet by hominids
was pretty ****table.
--
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
(Bene Gesserit)
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