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A Japanese city has introduced a novel way to keep track of senior citizens with dementia who are prone to getting lost -- tagging their fingers and toes with scan-able barcodes.
A company in Iruma, north of Tokyo, developed tiny nail stickers, each of which carries a unique identity number to help concerned families find missing loved ones, according to the city's social welfare office.
The adhesive QR-coded seals for nails -- part of a free service launched this month and a first in Japan -- measure just one centimetre (0.4 inches) in size.
"Being able to attach the seals on nails is a great advantage," a city worker told AFP."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lost-found-japan-tags-dementia-sufferers-barcodes-093502777.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20161208171158/https://www.yahoo.com/news/lost-found-japan-tags-dementia-sufferers-barcodes-093502777.html
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @05:04AM
Body cam rollout is still a county by county developing news story. It would take years to roll out this kind of system in the U.S.
The type of cop you have to worry about isn't going to use the kook scanner 10 years from now. It is the same cop that has the mysteriously malfunctioning bodycam or tends to shoot first and get paid leave later. Your best chance at keeping your son alive would be to relocate him to some nice quiet town in Europe.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Francis on Saturday December 10 2016, @05:23AM
Like this is a normal everyday problem. You make it sound like this is a common problem. It's not a common problem, it happens from time to time, but people with developmental disabilities being screwed over by caretakers is a much more common problem and one that requires a lot more resources to resolve.
People like you overblowing the situation does nothing to resolve any of these issues. The police do need more training and better equipment, but suggesting that it's a problem that people ought to be worrying about on a daily basis is just plain ridiculous. There's literally millions of people every year that don't get killed by cops, and it's completely dishonest to make it seem like this is a common occurrence. It is and remains a rare occurrence and one that people can usually avoid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @05:37AM
Shut up, Francis! No one cares whether you see this as a common problem or not, because you do not scan! You are missing the bar-code thingy from "Idiocracy"!! Unscanable! Un-scanable!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @05:54AM
> There's literally millions of people every year that don't get killed by cops,
For every person killed by a cop, there are a hundred that are 'merely' injured by a cop.
For example, diabetics get tased [google.com] by cops all the time. They usually live. That does not make it OK.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @06:15AM
It also doesn't mean that it's 1 common or 2 not OK.
Perpetuating the false narrative that this is a common everyday occurrence that you can expect, just leads to more situations where police make mistakes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @07:08AM
> It also doesn't mean that it's 1 common or 2 not OK.
WTF?
Did you just claim that tasering people in diabetic comas is OK?
Because I'm not seeing any other way to read what you just wrote.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @05:39PM
Absolutely. People in that condition definitely have the potential to be extremely dangerous in the same way as those that are mentally ill are.
It's absolutely OK to shoot them if lesser measures haven't worked. It's unfortunate and regrettable, but, let's be honest, we give cops firearms for a reason. And that reason is to shoot people when lesser measures haven't worked. If we're going to require that the cops know that the person isn't dangerous due to a medical condition, then there's no point in even handing them a gun.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:11AM
Seriously? People in comas are "extremely dangerous" and may not only need tasered, but shot as well?
Have I run afoul of Poe's Law?