Comments on: Lie Detectors Alongside Metal Detectors?

By: Correct me if I'm wrong, but:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but: — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:25:42 +0000

theres a whole parade of problems with this, most of them already stated, but i dont agree that its too personal, i mean, “are you a terrorist planning on killing hundreds of people?” is not a personal question at all. and if I WAS a terrorist i think the airlines should have the right to know. if they made these 100% accurate(impossible i know) and considerably shorter (30 secs a person would add up and you’re already hafta be there like 2 hours before your flight) i wouldnt mind. I got nothing to hide. and besides the guards there already ask far more personal questions, “What is your business in the states?” “Where are you coming from?” “Any livestock in your handheld carry-on?” ect

By: Kao_Valin

Kao_Valin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:40:35 +0000

Yea my intentions are none of their damn business. There purpose is to move me from one place to another. Personally I’d like my security to be my own problem. I dont trust morons to keep me safe. They have proven the really crafty buggers will always slip past them and then its all on me again. Last thing I want is to be stripped down of anything defensively useful just to claim the plane is safe. Hell they should give old lady’s hand guns and little kids a bowie knife just to setup a MAD situation :).

By: scamp

scamp — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:08:26 +0000

Arrgghhh...theres asains on every website isnt there!?!

Cant get away from them

By: elifint

elifint — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:32:07 +0000

12% false positives? So in other words, it's completely useless.

Okay, so on a given day, say 10,000 people come through. The machine will say that 1200 of them, give or take about 40 on any given day (random sampling error) are lying. That's assuming the machine works no worse than advertised.

One day, someone comes through who (1) Is planning something evil and (2) Very stupidly hasn't practiced beating the machine.

Guess what. The machine will say about 1200 +/- 40 people are lying on that day, too.

But I'm sure the federal government will start mandating these things if enough pressure is put on them to make it look like they're actually doing something about security. No doubt the manufacturer would lobby heavily for that outcome.

By: me09

me09 — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:09:57 +0000

Haha loving the picture…the man is gorgeous!

By: nutramistic

nutramistic — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:03:09 +0000

I intend to take out Osama Bin Laden myself! – Geraldo Rivera

By: JJ

JJ — Sun, 14 May 2006 22:49:55 +0000

If this becomes widely used, I’ll probably fly a lot less than I do now. I can’t imagine donning the headset , filled with fleas/lice/etc. as people have said above, just to be asked a question, “Are you a terrorist?”, replying “No” and being told I’m a liar and need to be asked a few more questions. Imagine going on a family trip and you/your brother/mother/father/sister are taken aside and you miss your flight or have to wait because a machine thinks that they are smuggeling or planning on blowing the plane up. Yes I can understand the good points, but everything seems to be working at the moment isn’t it? And I read somewhere before, I think on this site, that you’re not allowed to take nail clippers on board, yet they will allow a heavyset boxer for example, who, if he started drinking, could possible cause more problems? Why are we as a race so stupid sometimes?! In general I mean, not just the clipper/boxer senario.

By: Bryan Lowder

Bryan Lowder — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:58:32 +0000

Hogwash. “Voice Stress Analysis” has existed for years, and is even less accurate than “lie detectors”. Like the polygraph, if they measure anything meaningful at all, it’s only whether or not you’re a BAD liar. Good liars look you in the eye and lie like crazy, without feeling nervous or giving any cues. Bad liars get sweaty palms and quavering voices. I imagine the same thing also happens if one discusses a distressing event, like a recent accident or divorce, or if the subject is nervous for some other reason, like a really attractive interviewer.