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Old May 31, 2011 | 10:39 am
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Originally Posted by VegasCableGuy
Honestly, I think this program would be quite worthless in detecting someone that has already made peace with their god and/or themselves and is walking towards their death. Psychopaths express no feelings of guilt or fear and are quite happy to harm others without a second thought.
Or mentally disabled people, who have been unknowingly used as suicide bombers to spectacular effect.

Seriously, given how tense people are at the airport anyway, it seems particularly stupid to deploy it there. I am guessing the the number of false positives will quickly overwhelm any utility from such a device.
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