The headline is "New Weapon In War On Terror - Hand-held Lie Detector", but I could think of many other uses for this device. We could use them on political candidates to see it they are telling the truth or lying. Or maybe spouses could use them on each other. How about teachers using them on students. I could also see how these lie-detectors would be useful for attorney's interviewing clients or whether witnesses are telling the truth at a trial. Wow. By stock in this company, heh.
The Pentagon will issue hand-held lie detectors this month to U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan, pushing to the battlefront a century-old debate over the accuracy of the polygraph.
The Defense Department says the portable 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. The device has already been tried in Iraq and is expected to be deployed there as well. “We’re not promising perfection — we’ve been very careful in that,” said Donald Krapohl, special assistant to the director at the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment, the midwife for the new device. “What we are promising is that, if it’s properly used, it will improve over what they are currently doing. (MSNBC)
Also of interest, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approves emergency alert text-messaging system -- Cell phone users will get text message alerts of emergencies under a new nationwide alert system approved late Wednesday. But here's the clincher -- Under the plan, the FCC will appoint a federal agency to create the messages and pass them on to cell phone companies that choose to participate, (CNN)
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