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London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in
Bismillah writes "Biometrics is hot stuff, not just for Apple but cleaning companies like the UK division of Denmark's IIS which tidies the London Underground railway network. However, the cleaners aren't happy about having to clock in and out with biometric fingerprint sensors, and are taking industrial action to stop the practice."
I wouldn't want to touch anything down there barehanded either.
"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head."
When I worked in a NOC for a major bank, we had full hand scanners, explosives sniffers and video records to endure when we clocked in. That was fifteen years ago.
Just be happy we didn't install exploding sniffers. You know? To increase the efficiency of the firing/dismissal procedure.
FTFY
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
Our employers should trust us enough to do our damn job
you know how i know you'll never be in a position to employ anyone ever?
Their data is obviously 100% secure so I don't really see any problems. Cleaning companies are famous for their rigid IT infrastructure, since their operational margin is huge and they have tons of cash to spend. There is also no market for hundreds (thousands?) of fingerprints with matching names and other personal data on a black market. So what could possibly go wrong?
Uhm, no. This is the Peter Principle:...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
Cute.
He quotes the actual book.
You contradict him citing the Wikipedia article summary about the book.
It is a sad world when people treat Wikipedia (a tertiary source) as more authoritative than the primary source.
//TODO: Think of witty sig statement
If wishes were mod-points, we'd all be +5.
I've really had it with these slavemasters since the era of the IDE hardware bus.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
For reasons that should be blatantly obvious...
Mole-people kidnappings?
That? That was a pigeon.
+5 Insightful?
So then. It is just not you that has no clue what a slave is.
Fry: "You know the worst thing about being a slave? They make you work but they don't pay you or let you go..."
Leela: "That's the only thing about being a slave.
"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert"