Wait, Don't Shoot! I Forgot My Password!

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Another brilliant plan to prevent evil guns from shooting people all by themselves.

The way to make firearms really safe, says Hebert Meyerle of Germany, is to password-protect the ammunition itself.

Meyerle is patenting a design for a modified cartridge that would be fired by a burst of high-frequency radio energy. But the energy would only ignite the charge if a solid-state switch within the cartridge had been activated. This would only happen if a password entered into the gun using a tiny keypad matched one stored in the cartridge.

The best part of this article is the comment section. Looks like most geeks are pro-gun!

What a great idea! We could also use this technology on Rosie O’Donnell’s fork, Jimmy Swaggart’s Bible, Ozzie’s liquor bottles, Ted Kennedy’s cars, Dick Cheney’s shotguns, … We can finally eradicate stupidity and dysfunction without any twinge of personal responsibility. Sound familiar?