Non-Lethal Sniper Rifle: You're Tagged For Life 121
gbjbaanb writes "Cool new urban battlefield weaponry for the geeks to fear. The
Id Sniper is a nonlethal sniper rifle that fires tiny GPS microchips into the body of the target. The idea is that a rowdy crowd can be tagged for later 'processing' by law enforcement officials.
Apparently the chip hitting you will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second.
Although it looks, and sounds like a cyberpunk weapon, its for real from a Danish company that has already shown it off at a Chinese Police exhibition.
check out the tracking software." Here's hoping this is cautionary artwork.
Re:this is absolutely horrible (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Good aim... (Score:3, Insightful)
There are appropriate times for these weapons, but they are all too often used casually.
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Evan
Mod me down, please! (Score:3, Insightful)
Mod me down... after replying to such a fake, I don't deserve Karma.
Now, what do we do about Timothy [monkey.org], the editor, and gbjbaanb [sourceforge.net], the submitter?
I'm from Denmark (Score:3, Insightful)
I'll try to dig up a link with the real story about this.
Xel'Naga
Re:I'm from Denmark (Score:4, Insightful)
Kunstneren Jacob S. Boeskov, redaktør på 'Answering Machine', rejste i sommer til en våbenmesse i Kina under dække af at være våbenhandler. Med sig havde han billeder af det fiktive våben, ID Sniper. Artiklen om Kina-turen i Black Box beskriver, hvordan Jacob S. Boeskovs fiktive våben tiltrak sig så stor interesse på våbenmessen, at Boeskov til sidst var mere eller mindre ødelagt af frygt for at blive opdaget.
The artist Jacob S. Boeskov, editor at "Answering Machine", this summer travelled to a weapon-con (?) in China, pretending to be armsdealer. He brought pictures of a fake weapon, ID Sniper. The artikle about the trip to China in "Black Box" (Magazine, Xel.) tells who Jacob S. Boeskovs fictious weapon attracted great interest at the weapon-con, untill Boeskov was terrified if he was revealed.
Xel'Naga
Re:I'm from Denmark (Score:3, Insightful)
Click on "My doomsday weapon".
Xel'Naga