For banking, ecommerce, and airports you are absolutely correct, but there are a lot of situations where an iris scan is the easiest way to protect something that isn't worth the effort to steal.
Remember: if the cost to steal something is greater than the cost of that which is being stolen, it is safe, and vice versa.
Just because you can use a technology in dangerous way doesn't mean the technology itself can't also be used for good. Cf scissors and nail clippers in airports.
Why would your no fly status propagate to anything else? That is like saying that if your no fly status is associated with your name, then anyone you tell your name to will automatically find out that you are on the no fly list. You criticize the government for convicting without trial, but then you turn around and convict the companies running the service without a trial. Granted I'm not a huge fan of iris scans being used in this way, but I think that you hold a double standard which is inherently unfair.
Correct, you can defeat it if you specially make contact lenses for the purpose. However your everyday over the counter prescriptions won't nullify your identity and turn you into a ghost agent living off the grid. Compared to other forms of biometrics, faking irises is medium difficulty and medium cost. Not great for banking and airport security, but very good for some other purposes.
Only if the company involved was seriously incompetent. If you are using my product (we don't have venture capital yet, so no company name), feel free to run with scissors.
UPDATE: I just talked to my parents, it was actually the small battery that died and not the big one. Apparently they don't make the small batteries anymore so they had to install a kit to mount a bigger one inside the car. Sorry for the confusion, two people already emailed me saying that had never heard of the battery failing before so I wanted to post an update so as not to give a needlessly bad impression of the car.
Iris Scans, like any technology, can be used for both good and evil. I know because I am starting a business using iris scans in a way that will actually increase privacy of users. Perhaps someday you will even see our technology on Slashdot, birthplace of the tinfoil hat.
Remember, when video cameras were first invented only banks and the like could afford them, leading to them being widely distrusted by privacy advocates. But then they got cheap and now they are used for good as well as amoral purposes. As iris scans get cheaper you will see the same thing happen. They will be used to keep your data private, as well as to aggregate data about you. They will be used to let you create your own identity, in addition to be used by corporations to create an identity for you.
Well if the battery costs 2,000 dollars when installed by the dealer then the value of the car would have to be less than that to be not worth replacing. However I am willing to bet that you can order the battery for half the price and install it yourself. Or alternatively a lot of people will be totaling their Prius's, like any other car, so you can maybe salvage a functional battery for cheap from an otherwise dead car.
Our family owns a first generation Prius, and a couple weeks ago we ordered a second generation one to replace it (better crash test rating). It costs me less than 20 bucks to fill up the tank, whereas a comparable volvo would cost 45 bucks. When our battery eventually died after three years, Toyota replaced it for free under their good will program. When you combine the 50% gas savings with the tax rebate you get for buying it, this thing has saved us several thousand dollars.
One of the women who works there lives a couple doors down from me in CT. A bunch of years ago some of the Amish came over to her house to do build an addition, and they basically did it barn-raising style. Cool stuff. This has definitely been going on for 10+ years though.
There is an entire book called "How Would You Move Mount Fuji?" about Microsoft style interviews. It even gives a list of their favorite questions, and is a must read for anyone who intends to interview there.
Providing you actually have a URL, this may be slightly better than the existing typekey technology. However, only 1 in 14 internet users has their own blog or website. The more options the better I suppose, but this is really an evolutionary step rather than a revolutionary one.
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Excellent point, I forgot completely about that aspect.
For banking, ecommerce, and airports you are absolutely correct, but there are a lot of situations where an iris scan is the easiest way to protect something that isn't worth the effort to steal.
Remember: if the cost to steal something is greater than the cost of that which is being stolen, it is safe, and vice versa.
Just because you can use a technology in dangerous way doesn't mean the technology itself can't also be used for good. Cf scissors and nail clippers in airports.
Why would your no fly status propagate to anything else? That is like saying that if your no fly status is associated with your name, then anyone you tell your name to will automatically find out that you are on the no fly list. You criticize the government for convicting without trial, but then you turn around and convict the companies running the service without a trial. Granted I'm not a huge fan of iris scans being used in this way, but I think that you hold a double standard which is inherently unfair.
FYI that is from the movie Kinsey.
Correct, you can defeat it if you specially make contact lenses for the purpose. However your everyday over the counter prescriptions won't nullify your identity and turn you into a ghost agent living off the grid. Compared to other forms of biometrics, faking irises is medium difficulty and medium cost. Not great for banking and airport security, but very good for some other purposes.
Only if the company involved was seriously incompetent. If you are using my product (we don't have venture capital yet, so no company name), feel free to run with scissors.
UPDATE: I just talked to my parents, it was actually the small battery that died and not the big one. Apparently they don't make the small batteries anymore so they had to install a kit to mount a bigger one inside the car. Sorry for the confusion, two people already emailed me saying that had never heard of the battery failing before so I wanted to post an update so as not to give a needlessly bad impression of the car.
No, contact lenses don't defeat it. Cf John Daugman's homepage, the inventor of the iris scan recognition algorithm.
Remember, when video cameras were first invented only banks and the like could afford them, leading to them being widely distrusted by privacy advocates. But then they got cheap and now they are used for good as well as amoral purposes. As iris scans get cheaper you will see the same thing happen. They will be used to keep your data private, as well as to aggregate data about you. They will be used to let you create your own identity, in addition to be used by corporations to create an identity for you.
Well if the battery costs 2,000 dollars when installed by the dealer then the value of the car would have to be less than that to be not worth replacing. However I am willing to bet that you can order the battery for half the price and install it yourself. Or alternatively a lot of people will be totaling their Prius's, like any other car, so you can maybe salvage a functional battery for cheap from an otherwise dead car.
Our family owns a first generation Prius, and a couple weeks ago we ordered a second generation one to replace it (better crash test rating). It costs me less than 20 bucks to fill up the tank, whereas a comparable volvo would cost 45 bucks. When our battery eventually died after three years, Toyota replaced it for free under their good will program. When you combine the 50% gas savings with the tax rebate you get for buying it, this thing has saved us several thousand dollars.
One of the women who works there lives a couple doors down from me in CT. A bunch of years ago some of the Amish came over to her house to do build an addition, and they basically did it barn-raising style. Cool stuff. This has definitely been going on for 10+ years though.
And getting caught in the rain?
If I wanted to move mount Fuji I'd read it a sad poem. Do I win?
The link to the announcement looks just like my EE final. Ah memories.
There is an entire book called "How Would You Move Mount Fuji?" about Microsoft style interviews. It even gives a list of their favorite questions, and is a must read for anyone who intends to interview there.
Providing you actually have a URL, this may be slightly better than the existing typekey technology. However, only 1 in 14 internet users has their own blog or website. The more options the better I suppose, but this is really an evolutionary step rather than a revolutionary one.
They really should have tried to let Longhorn get infected by XP viruses to sees if Longhorn is actually secure or not.
I agree completely. I wrote the same thing in this essay on Kuro5hin.
It feels way snappier than the last release.
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I'm guessing Cringely has made a prediction
Aren't phone companies also information carriers?
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Getting your own thread on Fark with pictures of Darwin after you starve to death clutching your $150 keyboard -- priceless
PS top floor of the NASA building was ranked as one of the top ten places to have sex in public on Cornell campus. Not that I'd know or anything.