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Re:The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is Ter... by sarcasmatwork on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:57PM (#20842650)
This is scary and dumb with so many false positives.

Every single instance the police were called, FBI notified, many red flags on social media yet everyone screams that THERE IS NO WAY TO STOP them. People/Police/Govt ignoring the data, while trying to push for gun control, gun confiscation etc. How about we enforce existing laws??? Murder is against the law, yet it still happens everyday. It's hard to figure out the root cause, but blaming an object is easier than trying to solve the bigger picture with mental health, social media etc. We dont blame cars when people are killed in an accident, we blame the driver. Emotional-knee jerk reactions that do not have a place in this discussion.</rant>

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Re:The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is Ter... by imglorp on Saturday August 31, 2019 @12:54PM (#20847435)
Polygraph. Phrenology. Aggression detectors. E-meters.

All designed by people in power to bamboozle gullible public into fearing some manufactured authority. Deployment of bogus tech indicates the group in power needs more compliance of some sort and lacks the public support to do so.

1. https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-te...

2. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/E-Meter/

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Re:The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is Ter... by 100100010001 on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:53PM (#20843777)
Cars have a purpose besides destruction. Guns don’t, and give individuals unproportionate power.
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Re:The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is Ter... by rowanG077 on Friday August 30, 2019 @08:38PM (#20843947)
Guns primary purpose in a civilian setting isn't destruction it's intimidation.
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Re:The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is Ter... by 100100010001 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @06:27PM (#20871893)
1. That is your unthoughtful opinion not a fact. The intended purpose of a gun is destruction. That is a fact.

2. Did you notice you had to change the parameters? I was talking about the general purpose, but you didn’t like what I said and you couldn’t contradict it. So you changed the argument, but that failed too.

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Re:The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is Ter... by karmakaze on Saturday August 31, 2019 @07:35PM (#20849480)
That's interesting. In that case we should make it much harder and really expensive to get ammo. When facing a gun, you can't be sure it's not loaded, but the number of shots fired especially without specific intended targets will drop drastically.
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Re:The Plan to Use Fitbit Data to Stop Mass Shootings Is Ter... by tkifnn on Saturday August 31, 2019 @02:18PM (#20847936)
No, guns primary purpose is entertainment.
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