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Your Fingerprint Buys Groceries in Seattle
lildogie writes: "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that a Thriftway grocery store is installing fingerprint scanners that they will use to identify customers." Each customer's payment method (credit, debit) is then automatically applied at checkout. Haven't they seen Charlie's Angels?
This will only encourage the act of chopping off fingers. Victims will be out a finger and a few thousand dollars in condoms and baby oil.
hope my future clone won't be taught how to shop...
Robber: This is a stick up! Give me all the cash NOW
Clerk: Ok sir.. But I'll need you to place your finger on the scanner so that the change drawer will open and i can get the money for you..
Robber: Err, umm.. nevermind
To sneak into the supermarket after-hours and replace the fingerprint scanners with those from the movie Men In Black, that will burn your fingerprints off, just like they did to Will Smith. Boy, that would be funny.
...I'm sure the checkout lady won't mind you holding up a drinking glass to the Thriftway fingerprint reader.
Sure you can.
Only 9 times though...
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
Ok.. seriously.. i've seen a few postings on identity thefts, the inherent fallacies of fingerprinting technology, the lack of three dimensional recognition... but what really scares me is...
THESE BASTARDS ARE GONNA AD-TARGET ME!
On a serious note though, I'd be more concerned about targetted marketing and advertising from the supermarket itself than identity theft and mistaken fingerprints.
Think about it.. they'll have your name, your address, and your shopping habits. my gramma asks me to nip down to the grocery store for her.. next thing you know, i'm getting samples of preperation H and Depends shipped right to my door.
That time of the month? Don't worry, we've been tracking that too! This handy dandy sample of Playtex tampons will show up JUST IN TIME! (oh wait.. that one could actually be useful).
Gah. No thanks.. think i'll skip the fingerprinting and keep paying with cash. At least til they come out with a wrist chip implant...
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I can see my credit card bills stating I owe them one finger each. Ouch.
I think everyone would give them the same finger.
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when they take them from my cold, dead hands.
Wait a minute -- this makes credit fraud potentially lethal, instead of just extremely inconvenient!
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The hard part is when they revoke the old ones though...
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Wow, I can't express how flattered I am. Honestly.
/. think of my techno/political agenda and my ability to express it; the latter, it's not hard to blend into the diluted pool of idiocy that is the nerd-trolls.
.. Wow! I figured that by posting mostly inoccuous humour, sly, satirical, sublimely subtle, also as an AC, I would get no more recognition than -1:Troll, or perhaps even be ignored. But to have my post called the unfunniest Slashdot comment of all time, you really made my day, you blew me away. I think -- and I would never have believed this, had you told me in my early days of Slashdotting that I'd achieve this -- that I've actually defeated Slashdot, that I've demolished the editors, the trolls, the posters, the submitters, the polls, the reviews, even motherfucking Rob "Commander Taco" Malda. There's just a level of perfection that dwarfs all the acoomplishments of Slashdot and their open source cronies, something uncommonly divine, in what I've done. I feel like I'm glowing, like I'm in some post-apocalyptic daze where Slashdot is irrelevant, where there's nothing left for me to do.. all that's left is the halcyon calm of a post-Slashdot, post-9/11, yea, even post-JonKatz world, where the past unfolds before me like a caveman's rudimentary stone carvings.. I know all. I am ready to die, and pass on to whatever world follows /.
I've posted on Slashdot with a username and been consistently modded up, I've trolled anonymously and been -1'ed. But neither of these is in any meaningful way flattering: the former, who fucking cares what the lamers on
But wow
Even worse, dose the government sanction the revelation of one of their major secrets? That Los Alamos is located in Nevada instead of New Mexico? I think they'd be most upset about that one.
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
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Hunh... An interesting idea, but what if someone had their fingerprints burned off? I guess we could go to retinal scanners, but I've never liked sticking my eye up to some random machine. DNA scanners would need blood, voice recognition differs too much with attitude and health, and facial recognition is in its infancy.
Maybe, if someone could develop a system with, say, a two by three inch plastic card with someone's name on it, we could circumvent the whole deal. Yeah, it would be great! No more worrying about whether the machine would work, or your fingers were dirty, or someone had your prints - just slide the card and go through. We could even put a strip with bumps or - no, I've got it - a _magnetic strip_ with information identifying that person! As long as you didn't lose it - a far easier eventuality to avoid than, say, accidentally leaving your fingerprints on something - security would be perfect.
You think it'll catch on?
Dude, where's my finger?!??
Petru
Ugh! I am so -stupid-!
I wish I'd thought of forgery. WTF am I going to do with this hand?
-Kevin
Pick your nose in line conspicuously and deposit the gem right in the middle of the pad. When people see/feel the booger, they'll freak out and not use it.