[ale] OT: windoze hand guns

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On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:15:13PM -0400, Ray Knight wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:23, Stephen Turner wrote:
> > congrats! your the new proud owner of a Windows CE! powerd hand gun with
> > finger print recognition! FATAL ERROR! in kernell.dll rebooting now! LOL i
> > read and unless im making a bad mistake, that a bill was passed that 3
> > years after the first finger print pistol is mass produced all "dumb" fire
> > arms will be mandatorily destroyed only a few can be kept for sports

One can take a glass handled by someone and create a fake fingerprint in
gelatin that slips over one's own finger that will fool most fingerprint
readers most of the time.  One then uses the gun and eats the gelatin and
pins the crime one someone else.  This takes $80 and a few hours work.

Anyone want to raise a glass with me?  I have a hit list.

> The Bill of Rights tells me they'll get mine when they pry it from my
> cold, dead hand!

Likewise.

> > related issues or such! is this not crap? fingerprints fail 80% of the
> > time at best! thats something you want on your side when someones about to
> > kill you! or if your an officer in the line of fire! seen it in a magazine
> > sorry i dont have the article but im sure it can be googled

Bob Toxen
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