re: risks of personalized guns The article talks about fingerprint recognition, etc. At that point we're getting into fairly sophisticated computer processing, and have to deal with false positives and false negatives. I.e. failing by allowing someone else to fire the gun, and failing to fire for the owner. There seems to be an indication that neither will happen - yet these are common computer problems.
Problems of convincing a gun to fire in a crisis, even if one is wearing gloves or has dirty hands (e.g. with blood and mud on them) are not easy to solve. What if the battery runs down? Difficulties such as these, and more, have made police object to having this technology required for their use. E.g. see http://www.etherzone.com/2003/lang051203.shtml For a more far-out presentation of the undesireability of complicated gun interfaces, see: http://www.angelfire.com/comics/pinton/gun.html :-) --henry schaffer _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
