So you'll take a handout, but you'd call a government "facist" that supplied one? You're slaying me here, man, that's funny as hell!
If businesses/industry do not exist to serve the needs of the socio-cultural matrix that allows them to exist, what are they for? Is the existence of widgets of inherent value aside from the generation of taxes and payroll checks during their production? Perhaps all the Happy Meal toys are really Objectivist Holy Relics?
Now I'm cracking myself up. I'm easily amused today.
I'd still be more inclined to trust a scientist that said "these meteorites are -believed- to be from such and such a place" or "evidence -points to- such and such an origin for this rock".
It's sort of like referring to someone accused of a crime as a "suspect" rather than a "criminal" - the distinction is very important for clear thinking.
As you say, the origin is "all but certain" - which is fundamentally different from "known" in a logical, scientific sense.
Incidentally, I noted your use of the phrase "so-called" which delineates you quite nicely from those I've been mocking. Keep up the good work; I'd mod your post up if I had any points!
Dad: Why do elephants paint their toenails red? Me: I dunno. Dad: So they can hide in cherry trees. Me: Uh, I've never seen an elephant in a tree. Dad: You see how well it works!
Dmitry... made it possible for millions of copywritten works which make up for some people's livleyhoods, to be exploited without proper compensation by 10's of millions of people.
Clearly, no one person made this possible - but if you want to finger somebody, you should either be looking for the morons at Adobe who used ROT13 encryption (which even I can break) or for those guys at Intel and IBM who put the requisite power on the desktop.
Blaming Dmitry is pure scapegoating - he had remarkably little to do with the extremely few illegal actions that have been committed with his code.
This further quote from your post is apropos:
...this sort of gross exageration does not fool anyone and really does more harm than good.
Oooh, this chunk of rock came from Mars! This one's from Mercury! Hey, this one's from the planet KRYPTON! (is it green or red I wonder?)
All this stuff seems to be based on what Frazer called "the magical laws of similarity and contagion" rather than real science. I tried to link Frazer's magnum opus The Golden Bough here but/. wouldn't take the huge bn.com link.
It's a logical fallacy to assume that object A was once a part of object B simply because they share the same composition; in fact it's a bad idea to blindly assume object A came from B even if A is identical to an object you know came from object B!
Pseudo-scientific psychobabble by fuzzy thinkers in search of grant money? Or just bad reporting?
Doesn't anyone think these claims are bogus?
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Oooh, this chunk of rock came from Mars! This one's from Mercury! Hey, this one's from the planet KRYPTON! (is it green or red I wonder?)
All this stuff seems to be based on what Frazer called "the magical laws of similarity and contagion" rather than real science. I tried to link Frazer's magnum opus The Golden Bough here but/. wouldn't take the huge bn.com link.
It's a logical fallacy to assume that object A was once a part of object B simply because they share the same composition; in fact it's a bad idea to blindly assume object A came from B even if A is identical to an object you know came from object B!
Pseudo-scientific psychobabble by fuzzy thinkers in search of grant money? Or just bad reporting?
It's at a university - maybe they blackballed your subnet at their firewall because some loser tried cracking their systems from your site? I dunno. Maybe your browser is just busted, I'm using Mozilla 1.0 and it works fine for me.
I was always amused at how a unibus PDP-11 with 512K of main memory could beat the snot out of a 386 at real-world tasks. I/O is critical for so many applications...
However, don't write off clusters yet; have you looked at The AGGREGATE? The link points to Klat2 (Gort, klaatu barada nikto! Sorry) which is a very photogenic aggregate-based machine. The techniques these guys are developing may bring high I/O throughput into clustering at mainframe levels eventually.
why not just use the traditional answer of NFS+automount+NIS?
Because NFS has to be constantly patched (weekly if you are using HP-UX) to make it have some semblance of stability, reliability, or security.
Because NIS is inherently subject to denial of service.
Because every automounter I ever used was bug-riddled (again, exceptionally so in that monstrosity HP-UX; version 11.00 shipped two automounters which were both buggy). I understand Sun's stuff is better, but I don't use it so I wouldn't know.
..and finally, because a half-assed solution doesn't become adequate just by becoming a de-facto standard.
You may be right, but I personally feel the biggest effect is the increase in species extinction rates. Reproductive problems in amphibians, particularly, can be attributed to changes in weather patterns.
Of course, some scientists claim we were already well into the biggest extinction event since the Cretaceous before we even started the "Industrial Revolution".
OK, it's offtopic, but I noticed one of the quoted officials is blessed with the name "Butterworth-Hayes".
One assumes that Miss Hayes insisted on compounding their names so that she would not become MRS. BUTTERWORTH, full of buttery maple-flavored goodness.
Oh, it's worse than that. My employer has a direct link to Experian (IP over Frame Relay into their ridiculously poorly managed mainframe).
*** Before anyone asks *** No I won't sell you access, or even information, and no you can't backtrack my IP source and find my employer because I'm SSH tunneled through my basement server at home. **** back to regularly scheduled rant ***
Anyway, they are not only judging you based on people who lived at addresses you've already moved away from, they are also judging you based on the loser who married your ex-wife. And the loser who married your former brother-in-law.
No, I'm not kidding, those are two specific, real examples that we got when some co-workers and I ran our own names through the Experian interface.
Years ago I had the opportunity to talk to the scientist who coined the term "global warming".
He sincerely regrets that moniker, and (correctly) blames much of the current obstructionism for the misunderstanding that the term has created.
The real problem is that modification of the earth's albedo and atmospheric composition changes the way that energy from the sun is absorbed. If you can't understand that, go out in the parking lot on a sunny day and check out the difference in surface temperature on differently colored cars. Kapisch? If you put more carbon in the atmosphere, it absorbs more energy, and blocks some from directly reaching the ground. The differential between heat absorbed directly by the Earth's surface from solar irradiation and that absorbed indirectly from the atmosphere has been changed. If you strip out ozone from the upper atmosphere, you change the frequencies of light that are reaching the surface, with similar (but not entirely opposite) effects.
If you are saying to yourself right now, "this is horseshit with no basis in reality" you can stop reading soon - God wants you to go up to the roof and jump off. Really, don't worry, your faith will take you directly to heaven. Honest, I'm a Republican preacher so you know you can trust me. Go do it now, Jesus is waiting for you!
Now that we've weeded out the know-nothings and wishful thinkers, back to the subject: If you change the environment in this way, the easiest way to measure the progress of the changes (NOT the most accurate way, but the easiest way) is to look at global average temperature. This DOES NOT mean that your neighborhood gets warmer - in fact, your neighborhood may get significantly colder!! What this means is that the total energy absorbed by the Earth, rather than reflected, has increased. This gives us a crude measure of how rapidly we are fucking up the weather patterns by feeding more energy into an already chaotic system.
So the next time some idiot (such as those already referenced above) tells you that "global warming isn't happening" you know they are morons with no understanding of the issue - or they wouldn't even use the term "global warming" as a basis for argument. If some other needledick tells you that "global warming isn't a problem, because we'll be able to grow more wheat in Canada and only the equatorial nations will get screwed" you'll know they are a bugfucker because global warming does not mean predictable increases in temperature in any specific area.
One thing we can definitely expect: As we continue to modify our atmosphere, we will cause more violent weather due to more energy entering the system, and we will cause more species to go extinct as their operating parameters are exceeded. That's science and not wishful thinking by politically motivated pinheads.
Flame away, Reaganistas!
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I spent a few minutes on the phone, but it was obvious they weren't going to let me terminate service without hours of pain, so I hung up.
Then I sent a notarized and dated letter to each, telling them I had no further need of their services and that I would tender no further payment after the current month. I enclosed a check for the current month's service.
Then I called my bank and told them to refuse all requests for payment from both services.
Unsuprisingly, *both* services tried to bill me again (Compuserve several times). But, since they'd both cashed my checks, they couldn't say they hadn't received my letters.
Worked like a charm, and all told I spent less than two hours on the deal. Of course, both services let me sign up in less than ten minutes, but that's the reality of Corporate Amerika these days.
My friend Red says the secret to happiness is lowered expectations. In this case he's probably right. At least it doesn't matter if I'm "white" or not, they screw everybody equally!
1) You can't be a top-notch system administrator until you are a decent programmer. (Ad Hominem: Those people who disagree are typically non-programmers.) Optimizing a system requires deep understanding of code structures that is only found in programmers.
2) You have to finesse the personnel department's morons before you can get a good sysadmin job, or a raise for that matter. A sheepskin will blind them while you pass by unmolested.
3) Chicks who dig geeks are easier to find in college than anywhere else (although the Deer Park Tavern in Newark, Delaware is also a good place to hang out looking nerdly).
Glad to hear PuTTY is doing well; I've always liked the attitude of the creator (as expressed by his commentary - I don't know the guy). But I don't think Teraterm has lost much ground yet.
Teraterm is completely scriptable and has an embedded language for doing so. Putty doesn't. Teraterm has an extension interface (which is how SSH is supported) rather than being a code monolith (granted, with Teraterm's weird license and Putty's "fully open" source, this is not a big deal). Teraterm scripting is fairly well entrenched in many corporations and universities.
And as for you comments in RE: SSH v1 security I think you need to do a little more research; O'Callahan's SSH extension specifically disables those portions of SSH v1 that are known to be crackable, and in any case to state "SSH v1 is about as secure as telnet" is grossly incorrect - you can pick up telnet passwords with a packet sniffer, while hacking SSH is quite challenging.
Nonetheless I hope PuTTY continues to improve and eventually gets all the capabilities of TeraTerm. It's just not quite there yet.
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Teraterm is an excellent open-source terminal emulator for Windows machines, which Robert O'Callahan has extended to incorporate SSH.
The two problems with TeraTerm are:
1) the weird license prohibits distributing any fixes to the core code (you can only distribute add-ons, which it supports). Luckily the core is not buggy, it's just got some areas where improvements could be made.
2) it reportedly compiles best under Watcom C/C++, which was (until now) a rare beasty.
Oddly enough, I myself have had an eye gouged out. It feels pretty much like you'd expect.
The eyeball is retained in its orbit partly by the lids and related muscular tissues surrounding it, and partly by the optic nerve. The eyeball is squishy and compressible, though, and the tethering nervous connection is somewhat elastic, so you can pop the eyeball out and (assuming you don't overstretch the tether) it will pop back in without much trouble.
When my eye got gouged out, it popped right back in as soon as the thumb was removed from the socket. I was unable to see or to control the eye for five minutes or so, then it got better. There was very little pain (but that may have been masked by the overwhelming rage the incident provoked in me).
The white of my eye was pure red for a couple of weeks, and green slime continuously dripped from the socket for several days.
The nastiest part of the whole incident was that I lost a contact lens in the tussle (got an earring ripped through my earlobe, too) and the doctor had to pull my eyball out again too see if the contact was trapped behind it.
If you run a sendmail server, you can block anyone / anything you want, and you can use some pretty strong authentication methods - strong enough to be sure you know who you're talking to.
Unfortunately, that's not the whole solution to the problem; while it works fine for businesses, it doesn't scale to large ISPs that have the moral fiber of two-dollar whores. Telestra is not alone in being willing to do anything for a couple bucks, and how would an ISP know who you want (or don't want) to talk to anyway?
It's OK. Bruce likes a good argument.
However, your point is excellent; to put it another way, the BSD allows people to steal code while the LGPL only allows people to use code.
If Transgaming wants to add a copy protection scheme, the more fools they. Such things are always a waste of effort.
BSD licensing gave Microsoft the ability to drop Internet connectivity into their products - so easily that they could use their resources to "embrace and extend" the Internet's standard protocols instead of having to build their own damn IP stack.
If somebody wanted to use your identity in the past, they'd steal your credit cards, or get an ID issued with a stolen copy of your birth certificate.
But with biometrics, some thug might now try chopping your finger off (don't laugh too loud, I met a guy who got his finger chopped off in Bogota because the mugger couldn't get his wedding ring off) or gouging our your eyeball.
Retina scanners won't work on a dried-up old eyball, but they'd have a hard time detecting a fresh drippy one - and fooling a fingerprint scanner into thinking a dead finger is still kickin' is probably not too difficult. Matsumoto did it with his synthetic gelatin fingers, after all (read the article).
Even if the biometrics people manage to find foolproof ways to detect freshly amputated tissues (fat chance) there's still plenty of time-honored blackmail and kidnapping ruses - instead of "give me your wallet or I'll kill you" maybe it'll be "go get me a six-pack and a cheeseburger - your kid will wait here with me until you come back".
So, do you really want your identity irrevocably wedded to a body part?
Professor Rodger Thompson, of the University of Arizona, US, has been observing the Eagle Nebula using the Nicmos (Near-infrared camera and multi-object spectrometer) on the Hubble Space Telescope.
He told BBC News Online: "They look like very dark, dense columns of gas and dust. But when you view them in the infrared, you get a different picture."
The infrared images show that the Pillars of Creation do not contain a lot of material and that star formation is coming to an end. The only place where stars are being born is at the very tips of the pillars.
Oh, golly, there are only billions of metric tonnes of material there, and stars are only being formed in an unbelievably huge area! I'm so disappointed, let's get rid of that lying Hubble device and go back to Mt. Palomar!
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So you'll take a handout, but you'd call a government "facist" that supplied one? You're slaying me here, man, that's funny as hell!
If businesses/industry do not exist to serve the needs of the socio-cultural matrix that allows them to exist, what are they for? Is the existence of widgets of inherent value aside from the generation of taxes and payroll checks during their production? Perhaps all the Happy Meal toys are really Objectivist Holy Relics?
Now I'm cracking myself up. I'm easily amused today.
I'd still be more inclined to trust a scientist that said "these meteorites are -believed- to be from such and such a place" or "evidence -points to- such and such an origin for this rock".
It's sort of like referring to someone accused of a crime as a "suspect" rather than a "criminal" - the distinction is very important for clear thinking.
As you say, the origin is "all but certain" - which is fundamentally different from "known" in a logical, scientific sense.
Incidentally, I noted your use of the phrase "so-called" which delineates you quite nicely from those I've been mocking. Keep up the good work; I'd mod your post up if I had any points!
Dad: Why do elephants paint their toenails red?
Me: I dunno.
Dad: So they can hide in cherry trees.
Me: Uh, I've never seen an elephant in a tree.
Dad: You see how well it works!
Blaming Dmitry is pure scapegoating - he had remarkably little to do with the extremely few illegal actions that have been committed with his code.
This further quote from your post is apropos:
Oooh, this chunk of rock came from Mars! This one's from Mercury! Hey, this one's from the planet KRYPTON! (is it green or red I wonder?)
/. wouldn't take the huge bn.com link.
All this stuff seems to be based on what Frazer called "the magical laws of similarity and contagion" rather than real science. I tried to link Frazer's magnum opus The Golden Bough here but
It's a logical fallacy to assume that object A was once a part of object B simply because they share the same composition; in fact it's a bad idea to blindly assume object A came from B even if A is identical to an object you know came from object B!
Pseudo-scientific psychobabble by fuzzy thinkers in search of grant money? Or just bad reporting?
Oooh, this chunk of rock came from Mars! This one's from Mercury! Hey, this one's from the planet KRYPTON! (is it green or red I wonder?)
/. wouldn't take the huge bn.com link.
All this stuff seems to be based on what Frazer called "the magical laws of similarity and contagion" rather than real science. I tried to link Frazer's magnum opus The Golden Bough here but
It's a logical fallacy to assume that object A was once a part of object B simply because they share the same composition; in fact it's a bad idea to blindly assume object A came from B even if A is identical to an object you know came from object B!
Pseudo-scientific psychobabble by fuzzy thinkers in search of grant money? Or just bad reporting?
I don't think there is anything special about my IP address... just tried it from two different netblocks and I can get these links just fine:
Genetic Algorithm CGI
Main Site
It's at a university - maybe they blackballed your subnet at their firewall because some loser tried cracking their systems from your site? I dunno. Maybe your browser is just busted, I'm using Mozilla 1.0 and it works fine for me.
I was always amused at how a unibus PDP-11 with 512K of main memory could beat the snot out of a 386 at real-world tasks. I/O is critical for so many applications...
However, don't write off clusters yet; have you looked at The AGGREGATE? The link points to Klat2 (Gort, klaatu barada nikto! Sorry) which is a very photogenic aggregate-based machine. The techniques these guys are developing may bring high I/O throughput into clustering at mainframe levels eventually.
Because NIS is inherently subject to denial of service.
Because every automounter I ever used was bug-riddled (again, exceptionally so in that monstrosity HP-UX; version 11.00 shipped two automounters which were both buggy). I understand Sun's stuff is better, but I don't use it so I wouldn't know.
..and finally, because a half-assed solution doesn't become adequate just by becoming a de-facto standard.
You may be right, but I personally feel the biggest effect is the increase in species extinction rates. Reproductive problems in amphibians, particularly, can be attributed to changes in weather patterns.
Of course, some scientists claim we were already well into the biggest extinction event since the Cretaceous before we even started the "Industrial Revolution".
OK, it's offtopic, but I noticed one of the quoted officials is blessed with the name "Butterworth-Hayes".
One assumes that Miss Hayes insisted on compounding their names so that she would not become MRS. BUTTERWORTH, full of buttery maple-flavored goodness.
Aiiight, I'll go soak my head now.
Oh, it's worse than that. My employer has a direct link to Experian (IP over Frame Relay into their ridiculously poorly managed mainframe).
*** Before anyone asks ***
No I won't sell you access, or even information, and no you can't backtrack my IP source and find my employer because I'm SSH tunneled through my basement server at home.
**** back to regularly scheduled rant ***
Anyway, they are not only judging you based on people who lived at addresses you've already moved away from, they are also judging you based on the loser who married your ex-wife. And the loser who married your former brother-in-law.
No, I'm not kidding, those are two specific, real examples that we got when some co-workers and I ran our own names through the Experian interface.
Years ago I had the opportunity to talk to the scientist who coined the term "global warming".
He sincerely regrets that moniker, and (correctly) blames much of the current obstructionism for the misunderstanding that the term has created.
The real problem is that modification of the earth's albedo and atmospheric composition changes the way that energy from the sun is absorbed. If you can't understand that, go out in the parking lot on a sunny day and check out the difference in surface temperature on differently colored cars. Kapisch? If you put more carbon in the atmosphere, it absorbs more energy, and blocks some from directly reaching the ground. The differential between heat absorbed directly by the Earth's surface from solar irradiation and that absorbed indirectly from the atmosphere has been changed. If you strip out ozone from the upper atmosphere, you change the frequencies of light that are reaching the surface, with similar (but not entirely opposite) effects.
If you are saying to yourself right now, "this is horseshit with no basis in reality" you can stop reading soon - God wants you to go up to the roof and jump off. Really, don't worry, your faith will take you directly to heaven. Honest, I'm a Republican preacher so you know you can trust me. Go do it now, Jesus is waiting for you!
Now that we've weeded out the know-nothings and wishful thinkers, back to the subject: If you change the environment in this way, the easiest way to measure the progress of the changes (NOT the most accurate way, but the easiest way) is to look at global average temperature. This DOES NOT mean that your neighborhood gets warmer - in fact, your neighborhood may get significantly colder!! What this means is that the total energy absorbed by the Earth, rather than reflected, has increased. This gives us a crude measure of how rapidly we are fucking up the weather patterns by feeding more energy into an already chaotic system.
So the next time some idiot (such as those already referenced above) tells you that "global warming isn't happening" you know they are morons with no understanding of the issue - or they wouldn't even use the term "global warming" as a basis for argument. If some other needledick tells you that "global warming isn't a problem, because we'll be able to grow more wheat in Canada and only the equatorial nations will get screwed" you'll know they are a bugfucker because global warming does not mean predictable increases in temperature in any specific area.
One thing we can definitely expect: As we continue to modify our atmosphere, we will cause more violent weather due to more energy entering the system, and we will cause more species to go extinct as their operating parameters are exceeded. That's science and not wishful thinking by politically motivated pinheads.
Flame away, Reaganistas!
I spent a few minutes on the phone, but it was obvious they weren't going to let me terminate service without hours of pain, so I hung up.
Then I sent a notarized and dated letter to each, telling them I had no further need of their services and that I would tender no further payment after the current month. I enclosed a check for the current month's service.
Then I called my bank and told them to refuse all requests for payment from both services.
Unsuprisingly, *both* services tried to bill me again (Compuserve several times). But, since they'd both cashed my checks, they couldn't say they hadn't received my letters.
Worked like a charm, and all told I spent less than two hours on the deal. Of course, both services let me sign up in less than ten minutes, but that's the reality of Corporate Amerika these days.
My friend Red says the secret to happiness is lowered expectations. In this case he's probably right. At least it doesn't matter if I'm "white" or not, they screw everybody equally!
That's right, he doesn't *really* know what he wants. But you do, obviously. I envy your omniscience; are you a God?
Because:
1) You can't be a top-notch system administrator until you are a decent programmer. (Ad Hominem: Those people who disagree are typically non-programmers.) Optimizing a system requires deep understanding of code structures that is only found in programmers.
2) You have to finesse the personnel department's morons before you can get a good sysadmin job, or a raise for that matter. A sheepskin will blind them while you pass by unmolested.
3) Chicks who dig geeks are easier to find in college than anywhere else (although the Deer Park Tavern in Newark, Delaware is also a good place to hang out looking nerdly).
Glad to hear PuTTY is doing well; I've always liked the attitude of the creator (as expressed by his commentary - I don't know the guy). But I don't think Teraterm has lost much ground yet.
Teraterm is completely scriptable and has an embedded language for doing so. Putty doesn't. Teraterm has an extension interface (which is how SSH is supported) rather than being a code monolith (granted, with Teraterm's weird license and Putty's "fully open" source, this is not a big deal). Teraterm scripting is fairly well entrenched in many corporations and universities.
And as for you comments in RE: SSH v1 security I think you need to do a little more research; O'Callahan's SSH extension specifically disables those portions of SSH v1 that are known to be crackable, and in any case to state "SSH v1 is about as secure as telnet" is grossly incorrect - you can pick up telnet passwords with a packet sniffer, while hacking SSH is quite challenging.
Nonetheless I hope PuTTY continues to improve and eventually gets all the capabilities of TeraTerm. It's just not quite there yet.
Look at this crap these bozos spam me with. I include the headers for your MTA filtering pleasure.
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Teraterm is an excellent open-source terminal emulator for Windows machines, which Robert O'Callahan has extended to incorporate SSH.
The two problems with TeraTerm are:
1) the weird license prohibits distributing any fixes to the core code (you can only distribute add-ons, which it supports). Luckily the core is not buggy, it's just got some areas where improvements could be made.
2) it reportedly compiles best under Watcom C/C++, which was (until now) a rare beasty.
Oddly enough, I myself have had an eye gouged out. It feels pretty much like you'd expect.
The eyeball is retained in its orbit partly by the lids and related muscular tissues surrounding it, and partly by the optic nerve. The eyeball is squishy and compressible, though, and the tethering nervous connection is somewhat elastic, so you can pop the eyeball out and (assuming you don't overstretch the tether) it will pop back in without much trouble.
When my eye got gouged out, it popped right back in as soon as the thumb was removed from the socket. I was unable to see or to control the eye for five minutes or so, then it got better. There was very little pain (but that may have been masked by the overwhelming rage the incident provoked in me).
The white of my eye was pure red for a couple of weeks, and green slime continuously dripped from the socket for several days.
The nastiest part of the whole incident was that I lost a contact lens in the tussle (got an earring ripped through my earlobe, too) and the doctor had to pull my eyball out again too see if the contact was trapped behind it.
If you run a sendmail server, you can block anyone / anything you want, and you can use some pretty strong authentication methods - strong enough to be sure you know who you're talking to.
Unfortunately, that's not the whole solution to the problem; while it works fine for businesses, it doesn't scale to large ISPs that have the moral fiber of two-dollar whores. Telestra is not alone in being willing to do anything for a couple bucks, and how would an ISP know who you want (or don't want) to talk to anyway?
It's OK. Bruce likes a good argument. However, your point is excellent; to put it another way, the BSD allows people to steal code while the LGPL only allows people to use code. If Transgaming wants to add a copy protection scheme, the more fools they. Such things are always a waste of effort. BSD licensing gave Microsoft the ability to drop Internet connectivity into their products - so easily that they could use their resources to "embrace and extend" the Internet's standard protocols instead of having to build their own damn IP stack.
How's this for a problem:
If somebody wanted to use your identity in the past, they'd steal your credit cards, or get an ID issued with a stolen copy of your birth certificate.
But with biometrics, some thug might now try chopping your finger off (don't laugh too loud, I met a guy who got his finger chopped off in Bogota because the mugger couldn't get his wedding ring off) or gouging our your eyeball.
Retina scanners won't work on a dried-up old eyball, but they'd have a hard time detecting a fresh drippy one - and fooling a fingerprint scanner into thinking a dead finger is still kickin' is probably not too difficult. Matsumoto did it with his synthetic gelatin fingers, after all (read the article).
Even if the biometrics people manage to find foolproof ways to detect freshly amputated tissues (fat chance) there's still plenty of time-honored blackmail and kidnapping ruses - instead of "give me your wallet or I'll kill you" maybe it'll be "go get me a six-pack and a cheeseburger - your kid will wait here with me until you come back".
So, do you really want your identity irrevocably wedded to a body part?
Must be a slow news day at the BBC.