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Library to Require Fingerprint to Use PCs

Posted by Zonk on from the who-doesn't-like-to-be-tracked? dept.

FearUncertaintyDoubt writes "Three libraries in Naperville, IL, soon will start requiring patrons who use the library's PCs to provide a fingerprint scan. The article says, ' Library officials say the added security is necessary to ensure people who are using the computers are who they say they are. Officials promise to protect the confidentiality of the fingerprint records.'"

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  1. In Soviet Illinois... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    the public library checks YOU out!

    (sorry, couldn't resist)

  2. Re:Oh, Naperville. Why can't you leave me alone? by DarkHand · · Score: 0, Troll

    I live 10 minutes from the town, folks. The parent poster is not exagurating.

  3. Re:Insensitive clods by gosand · · Score: 0, Troll
    It is stupid posts like yours why the real veterans are no longer respected. With people like you making this type of sick joke, it is no wonder our civilisation is on the fast track to the gutter. You are part of the problem, not the solution.

    No, the real reason that veterans aren't getting respect is because they aren't fighting respectable battles anymore. They are sent to battle over a personal vendetta that our under-educated, egomaniacal leader had with another leader over something that happened to his daddy. They should not be the targets of disrespect, yet every day I see stickers on cars that say "support our troops" and "Bush 04". THAT is disrespectful of our troops. They should only be sent into harms way for a good cause, and how many have died now in Iraq? Forget the smokescreens that the Bush administration has put up over that war, and ask why they were sent there. Ask why they are STILL there. There are no good reasons. How about a bumper sticker that says "Bring our troops home, assface". If our civilization is on the fast track to the gutter, it is because of ex-smackhead drunks who send in kids to be killed, yet preaches family values. It is because our leader has done things that our children and grandchildren will be paying for. It will take generations to repair what he has f'd up. That is disgusting to me.

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