Mike McNally writes:
MM> jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
If I don't shave over the > weekend will my computer know who I am Monday morning?
Shaving probably will not be a problem, but holding your head at a slightly different angle, or having slightly different lighting, or combing your hair differently will screw up the system totally, unless the system has radically improved since the last time I read up on it.
MM> There are supposedly some new techniques that look at the infrared MM> signature of your face (like, I guess, distribution & position of MM> hot & cold spots), and that's less likely to be fooled by facial MM> hair and other superficial disguises. It's probably a fairly MM> simple technology, and could be applied to the credit card ID MM> problem. So if I'm running a fever, or just been exercising, it wouldn't recognize me, right? Doesn't sound like that would be much better. -- #include <disclaimer.h> /* Sten Drescher */ ObCDABait: For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. [Eze 23:20] Unsolicited email advertisements will be proofread for a US$100/page fee.