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Out of the Blue
[Oct 03, 2001, 08:48 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Some movement in the background here, as today's Tech Bits features some contributions from someone who may be helping expand our coverage in that area as we go forward... we may even see the return of PM Tech Bits (as heady as that may sound). Also, we were able to revert the server back to its native Eastern Time yesterday, after running on Greenwich Mean Time for a few days there, the only side effect of this was how messageboard posts started showing up out of order until the four hour time difference was accounted for.

Link of the Day: Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Lego. A link we've been sent at least a hundred times, but this time it actually worked when I checked it. Thanks EvilToast (and the other 99 of you).
Story of the Day: Romania has no stake in Dracula. "The discovery means Romanians will have to pay royalties to Universal Studios for creating a Dracula theme park." Thanks dukui-san.
Media of the Day: The Top 10 Ugliest Couches in America. Thanks Ant.
Wild Science: Identifying terrorists before they strike. "Brain fingerprinting"? Thanks Nick Hiltner.
Wild Science II: No hiding place for anyone. On a note related to the above. Thanks [MP] Wolverine [MP].

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Re: Brain fingerprinting.
Oct 3, 2001, 15:44

KaRRiLLioN

Re: Brain fingerprinting. Oct 3, 2001, 15:44

Oct 3, 2001, 15:44

KaRRiLLioN

The government wouldn't know where you were and couldn't track you so long as you didn't associate your ID with it, although it's much easier to simply track anyone now simply by seeing their credit card purchases/check purchases, etc. If only your iris were associated with it then it would be a completely anonymous relational database that simply says, this person has x security risk profile.
Heck something like this might even prevent things such as Colombine from happening if you identified high-risk students. I am interested in learning a lot more about how this works. Some ppl like gun hobbyists might show a higher risk factor, wouldn't they?

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