blademaster
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The Pentagon will issue hand-held lie detectors this month to U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan, pushing to the battlefront a century-old debate over the accuracy of the polygraph.

The Defense Department says the portable device isn't perfect, but is accurate enough to save American lives by screening local police officers, interpreters and allied forces for access to U.S. military bases, and by helping narrow the list of suspects after a roadside bombing. The device has already been tried in Iraq and is expected to be deployed there as well. “We're not promising perfection — we've been very careful in that,” said Donald Krapohl, special assistant to the director at the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment, the midwife for the new device. “What we are promising is that, if it's properly used, it will improve over what they are currently doing.”

An interpreter will ask a series of 20 or so questions in Persian, Arabic or Pashto: "Do you intend to answer my questions truthfully?" "Are the lights on in this room" "Are you a member of the Taliban?" The operator will punch in each answer and, after a delay of a minute or so for processing, the screen will display the results: "Green," if it thinks the person has told the truth, "Red" for deception, and "Yellow" if it can't decide.

The device cannot be used on U.S. personnel.The Army has bought 94 of the $7,500 PCASS machines, which are sold by Lafayette Instrument Co. of Lafayette, Ind. The algorithm, or computer program that makes the decisions, was written by the Advanced Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University. Besides the Army, other branches of the U.S. military have seen the device and may order their own. The total cost of the project so far is about $2.5 million.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23926278/
GunSlinger OIF II
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no fucking way.  this seriously makes me laugh.  rather not say why.
FatherTed
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Does it still plug into you and shit?
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Major.League.Infidel
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GunSlinger OIF II wrote:

no fucking way.  this seriously makes me laugh.  rather not say why.
Someone's still sore.
FatherTed
xD
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Major.League.Infidel wrote:

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:

no fucking way.  this seriously makes me laugh.  rather not say why.
Someone's still sore.
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FallenMorgan
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FatherTed wrote:

Does it still plug into you and shit?
No, they just call upon Jesus Christ to come down and put a knife to his neck and say "You lyin' you sonabitch?"
Pug
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I really thought the hand-held lie detector was going to be a gun.  I really did.
FEOS
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They should deploy that in the Pentagon during budget drills.
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GunSlinger OIF II
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doesnt have to work to get the job done.
Flaming_Maniac
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I highly doubt its technical effectiveness, but...

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:

doesnt have to work to get the job done.
BN
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i doubt its accuracy. Even a polygraph in a controlled environment has an accuracy rate of 61% and this product is "Less accurate than a polygraph"

Money best spent elsewhere I think.
GunSlinger OIF II
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thats what you think
Morpheus
This shit still going?
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blademaster wrote:

The device cannot be used on U.S. personnel
Umm.... wat?

Oh, and:

blademaster wrote:

and "Yellow" if it can't decide
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unnamednewbie13
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Let's see, five guys loaded to the ears with intimidating gear shove a box in your face and it isn't going to influence test results?
PureFodder
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Delayed april fools joke or insanity? Lie detectory barely work under carefully controlled curcumstances and can easily be fooled. How exactly does anyone propose they'll work in a battlefield?

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