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Sign Your Name Online With A Mouse

Posted by simoniker on from the signing-mickey-mouse-frowned-upon dept.

icke writes "Soon, the way you use your mouse could help prove who you are. According to a BBC News article, scientists have found a way for people to sign their name online using a mouse instead of a pen. The technology, based on the research from Queen Mary College, University of London by Peter McOwan, 'uses a neural network to pick out the unique features of the way that someone uses a mouse.'"

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  1. How hard do you have to squeeze by egg+troll · · Score: 4, Funny

    To get ink from a mouse? Yeesh.

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    1. Re:How hard do you have to squeeze by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I keep trying to write with a mouse, but the ink seems to keep coming out in little pellets... maybe it's time to replace the mouse balls?

    2. Re:How hard do you have to squeeze by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Funny

      I tried and the fscking thing bit me!

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  2. Warning: by Exiler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vertical motions detected. Credit authorization failed.

    Thank you for shopping at Victoria Secret.

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  3. How About... by Suhas · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...I know all the kbd shortcuts and rarely use my mouse....err... ...You Insensitive CLOD!

  4. Great by Crashmarik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just what I need. Computers to tell me I'm not me when I sign my name. At least with people I could make a convincing argument.

  5. dudes, they're lying by bongobongo · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's just ms paint with a web front end and a bunch of offshore labourers visually verifying each one !!!! ! !!

    it's 99% accurate because of carelessness and post-lunchbreak bloat factor

  6. Re:This would be easy to fake by localghost · · Score: 5, Funny

    And pens won't work either, because you can easily photocopy a signature and trace over it. Oh well, back to the drawing board...

  7. Bullshit alert by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 3, Funny

    +5, uses neural network technology
    +2, academic researcher
    +2, academic researcher studying biologically inspired hardware and software
    +1, biometrics
    +1, researcher teaches multimedia
    +2, researcher teaches computers in society
    +2, no history of employment in real world
    -1, degree in physics
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    +14, almost certainly bullshit

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  8. Now I'm Confused by the_mad_poster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Christ... first thing I did when I read that was stop moving my mouse.. then the thought crossed my mind that by doing that, I was just setting up a new signature, so I started moving the mouse. Then, I started to think that maybe I was moving the mouse in my own special way, so I tried to make something up.

    Then it occurred to me that I'm using lynx.

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  9. Re:This would be easy to fake by E_elven · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because we all know that *actual* signatures cannot be forged and the clerks at stores are really hawk-eyed when it comes to making sure the customer is who they say they are.

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  10. John Handcock by shigelojoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    He was probably talking about the pornstar. And if there isn't a pornstar named John Handcock, there damn well needs to be one.

    A lack of John Handcock is un-American(TM), dammit.