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UK To Start Biometric Passport Trials
pearljam145 writes that the "UK is planning to test biometric passports that will include face and iris or fingerprint recording and recognition for a 6 month period on 10000 volunteers. Read here for more details. A face recognition chip is going to be the primary biometric and iris or fingerprint scanning will be use as a secondary biometric. However face recognition might not be the perfectly viable solution since it has produced too many false positives in the past. Face recogntion to this date is not robust enough to support real time recognition in a crowd (more failures?). Only with cooperation of the subject does this system produce good results. So will face recognition join fingerprint and iris recognition in a long list of obtrusive recognition techniques?"
I am feeling particularly offtopic today. Sorry for my stupid rant.
Some folks say that Willie Greene,
Was the baddest muthafucka the world has ever seen.
But I want ya to light you up a joint and take a real good shit and screw your wig on tight
And let me tell ya about the little baaaaaad muthafucka called Dolemite.
Now Dolemite was from San Anton'
A ramblin, scamblin, gamblin little young muthafucka from the day he was born.
Why the day he was dropped from his Mammy's ass, He slapped his Pappy's face
And said, "From now on, cocksucka, I'm running this place."
At the age of one he was drinkin whiskey and gin.
At the age of two he was eating the bottles it came in.
Now Dolemite had an Uncle called "Sudden Death".
Killed a dozen bad men from the smell of his breath.
When his Unc' heard how Dolemite was treatin his own Maw and Paw,
He said, "Let me go check this little bad rascal before he go too far."
Now one coooooold, dark December night,
His Uncle broke in on Dolemite.
Now Dolemite wasn't no more than three or fo'
When his Uncle come breakin through the do'.
His unc' said, "Dolemite,
I want you to straighten up and treat your brother right,
Cuz if you keep on with your dirty mistreatin,
I'm gonna whoop yo ass till your heart stop beatin"
Dolemite sittin in the middle of the floor playin,
He said, "I see yo lips quivering Unc', but I don't hear a cocksuckin word your sayin."
This made his uncle mad. He let off with a right that made lightin flash!
But Dolemite tore his leg off. He was that damn fast.
Now all the men in San Anton' gathered around that night.
To see if they could do something about the little bad rascal called Dolemite.
It took a hundred of the baddest, the boldest, the ugliest men in town,
Finally rode Dolemite's ass down.
Put him in jail, held him without bail.
If you think his Mammy was happy You shoulda seen his Pappy.
Now it's been eight long years since Dolemite's been fed.
The average muthafucka woulda long looong been dead.
Now the warden called Dolemite. Said, "Dolemite, I'm gonna tell you what we gonna do
Now we gonna give you a dollar and a half and a damn good meal
If you promise to leave us alone And get your badass outta San Anton'."
Dolemite took the dollar and a half and the damn good meal.
And said, 'I'm gonna tell you old, jive, molded, ancient, decreppid, muthafuckas how I feel."
Said, "Ya'll can suck my dick, nuts, and ass down to the muthafuckin bone!
Because I ain't never comin back to San Anton'."
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First post!!!!
Imagine one communications satellite between Canada and Britain that
connects both countries with lasers that are so small that the lasers could
be the size and voltage of a laser found in a portable compact disc player.
The lasers transmit a digital signal from a satellite that is received,
analyzed and understood after being viewed by a telescope on Earth. The
reverse process could happen (with a telescope receiver in space) and would
lead to extremely fast, multiple direction data communications in space to
interconnect Earth to space and space to Earth. The ideal process would be
to have a transmitter and receiver on the same satellite and to have a
transmitter and receiver at each terrestrial base station to save space.
This communications technology would work excellent to interconnect
communications satellites in space at the speed of light. Data
communications between satellites in space would be flawless in both
transmitting and receiving modes. Problems could occur for information
transmission to and from Earth. For instance: if there was cloud cover, the
satellites and ground stations would have to route information to different
locations for quality information transmission. The beam of light would not
be seen by the naked eye on earth and would not produce light pollution.
This mode of communications is faster than all current satellites that use
radio frequencies to transmit signals which is much slower than the speed of
light. This method of data transmission is faster than fiber optic networks
on Earth that use relays and repeaters which slow data transmission times
down and create latency. This technology was invented by Shampoo.
There is a fruitful idea that I have invented which is an Internet sperm
bank auction where people can see a photograph of the sperm seller as well
as a photograph or possibly even several photographs of the offspring from
the sperm provider (if he has any offspring). The client could then select
and place a bid on any available sperm from any specific seller to receive a
child that will look similar to what the sperm provider looks like and what
the female purchaser looks like. This idea was invented by Shampoo.
I have invented superior data compression that is vastly superior to any
other data compression available on Earth. This data compression algorithm
uses word or data set matching and backwards word or data set matching and
much more: such as diagonal, forward and reverse word or data set matching -
much like a crossword puzzle. This idea was invented by Shampoo.
I have invented a combined chess and checkers board. This board will allow
the playing of both games within the same board. This idea was invented by
Shampoo.
I have invented the concept of a multicast device (all information sent is
the same for all people receiving it) that allows everyone on Earth with a
receiving station to receive the same information digitally. The same
information is downloaded to all receiving stations on a hard disk and then
can be selectively viewed. Information could be the latest news that is
available and could be viewed, reviewed or not viewed under a user-based
selection system similar to the way you would view cnn.com on the internet.
After a period of 1 hour, all news and information is updated on the device
that is receiving the signal. This device would be democratically
administrated so that people could vote on what they wanted to see most or
least on these information receiving devices. Information on these devices
could be music, video, images, text and would most likely be a combination
of all of these. The receiving device would be comparatively like seeing the
news on television while being able to replay it anywhere in the broadcast
for up to 1 hour. You could read the latest sports scores, review the
weather and much more. This device is controlled by the population that
votes. It will be
That is because Canada doesn't care about security.
Hell reports say Canada will lose 2 of its military branches in the 2008-2013 timeframe. And, Canada was usually the way Chinese spies got into the US. (Go to BC. Get status in Canada. Come into US on valid and authorized Canadian documents.)
Basically, Canada can be lax because they are worthless. They have no economy and no population. As a result of having no hard power and trivial amounts of soft power, no one listens to Canada. Even Europe, which Canada plays sycophant to, doesn't care or think about Canada. Good grief, they can't even keep hockey in Canada. Either the teams are going broke or they move to the American southwest. Their soft lumber industry has real problems. And, more importantly, the US will never allow Canada to be invaded. (And don't give me that "US may invade" silliness. The Republicans certainly wouldn't want any province but Alberta. And, the Democrats would rather surrender the US to Canada.)
Canada has failed to even defend its own sovereignty and democratic rights. The Parliament has essentially allowed the judiciary to pass whatever laws the Courts want. Even going so far as to "read in" rights the Parliament explicitly excluded from the laws. The Liberal's failure to use the Not-Withstanding clause is amazing. Democracy has died in Canada and the rule of a judicial monarchy has taken its place.
These failures to solve their own problems has turned Canada into the Fredo Corleone of the Anglo-sphere, a self-perceived loser with such an inferiority complex and desire for respect that they are willing betray their protector and closest-ally in order to feel more powerful and a little bit of respect. We have all seen how the Liberal government behaves. They go out of their way to annoy the US at every turn, even if it flies in the face of Canadian self-interest. They try to cut off their own noses to spite their face. They complain about the US not because the US is wrong, but imply because Canada resents that they are not the US. This is the legacy of Chretien, and I fail to see this changing under Martin.
In your face anti-liberation cowards! How do you feel now when your hero has been brought to justice?!