Did somebody say "Hummer"? Cuz that's the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear about some teenage kid "losing control" and crossing the median. Maybe I'm just perverted.
(*Seriously: My sympathy goes out to him and his family and friends *)
Fingerprint readers are fancy, and delightful to show. But, there are certain limitations. For instance, success and failure rates. How would you like to walk up to the reader and surprisingly open somebody else's locker? On the flip side, what if it just won't open for you! Worse yet, you forget which finger you used (your right index fingerprint is different from your left index fingerprint, etc.). Do you have to make a selection first? Because then you have a training issue. Finally, how far away is the locker from the reader? I don't want someone else to grab my stuff when it opens.
Since I'm not a terrorist, I don't worry so much about the government keeping my prints. I'm sure they're not 'tracking my every movement'...for whatever reason. The real terrorists will probably not use it, or use a photograph of a fingerprint, or a spare finger, etc.
Now we can identify terrorists by the smell of the decomposing finger in their pocket! Gross!
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Well, at least he didn't put it on an SUV.
If only Linux existed!
Ah, they grow up so fast!
/bin/laden http://andrewhitchcock.org/index.pl?page=binladen
You're lucky, when your little penguin is ready for junior/senior prom, at least you won't need to rent a tuxedo.
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LOL, I was actually visualizing a torch. What a doof!
Next you're gonna tell me the cold war is over or something.
I'm crawling back into my cave now.
..they keep torches in a nuclear power plant?
What kept you going?
I was treated properly. And I was naturally strong and healthy - I was young, 24 at the time.
That, and the "continuous morphine drip".
kthxbye
Watch the strange rock turn out to be martian feces.
Or even...sperm whale carnage!
Everyone repeat after me... Resistance is futile. Resistance is futile. Resistance is futile.
Soon you can have iPorn streamed directly to your bathroom?
Did somebody say "Hummer"? Cuz that's the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear about some teenage kid "losing control" and crossing the median. Maybe I'm just perverted. (*Seriously: My sympathy goes out to him and his family and friends *)
Fingerprint readers are fancy, and delightful to show. But, there are certain limitations. For instance, success and failure rates. How would you like to walk up to the reader and surprisingly open somebody else's locker? On the flip side, what if it just won't open for you! Worse yet, you forget which finger you used (your right index fingerprint is different from your left index fingerprint, etc.). Do you have to make a selection first? Because then you have a training issue. Finally, how far away is the locker from the reader? I don't want someone else to grab my stuff when it opens. Since I'm not a terrorist, I don't worry so much about the government keeping my prints. I'm sure they're not 'tracking my every movement'...for whatever reason. The real terrorists will probably not use it, or use a photograph of a fingerprint, or a spare finger, etc. Now we can identify terrorists by the smell of the decomposing finger in their pocket! Gross!