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Submission + - Proposed ICE Shock Gloves are purely Torture Devices

An anonymous reader writes: Wired Reports on how the shock gloves sought by ICE actually work, and they are not in fact intended for pacifying subjects, but specifically for causing them pain:

Classified as a CD3 (conductive distraction and de-escalation device), the gloves don't work like stun guns or Tasers, which shoot out probes or use high voltages to cause neuromuscular incapacitation that overrides the central nervous system. Instead, the GLOVE works using neuro-peripheral interference, essentially shocking the skin to bombard the sensory nerves and temporarily short-circuit the brain's focus.

The latest ("Gen 5") model is capable of delivering 90 total minutes of pain shocks between charges. On just one charge, you can torture a person for an hour and a half.

Comment Re:Possibly a strategic move (Score 1) 74

Give the government plausible deniability in case another nation states points fingers.

False. It very obviously does the exact opposite. If these letters of marque exist at all then anyone can claim they have one and nobody knows whether it's true or not because NSLs also exist.

Comment Grades don't say what people want them to (Score 1) 122

Grades don't tell you how well someone is going to work in the real world, only how they worked in an educational environment, and even then they only tell you how they did in that snapshot of time. Someone might do better or worse in that environment or at that moment. Someone might be good at memorizing and taking tests, and the course might be poorly designed so that is sufficient. And it can happen at famous schools just as easily as anywhere else.

UC Santa Cruz didn't have grades until 2000 and was despite this famous in several disciplines including its CS program. They only really stopped under pressure from educators who complained that increased class sizes made it difficult to actually know all of the students as individuals. From this we can see that the only reason to use grades is to do a shit job.

Comment Re: Good, Bad, and Ugly (Score 1) 43

Private care is so spectacularly bad that VA health care can be very bad and still be better.

I can't remember the last time I witnessed a hospital demonstrating general competence. Usually there are only a few people who can even do their jobs correctly and management is clinically worthless.

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