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Posted by Edgar on December 4, 2007, 7:47 pm
>
>> HVS wrote:
>>> On 04 Dec 2007, Don wrote
>>>
>>>> "HVS"> wrote
>>>>> On 03 Dec 2007, Don wrote
>>>>>
>>>>>> Been getting a slew of *free* PC mags in the mail lately and
>>>>>> as I'm scanning all the notebook (and some desktops) ads and
>>>>>> reviews its pretty clear that just about all the notebooks on
>>>>>> the market these days have something that wasn't even
>>>>>> available just a little more than a year ago when I bought my
>>>>>> notebook.
>>>>>> A fingerprint scanner.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why are these things all the rage these days?
>>>>> Because it means you don't have to invent/remember/change any
>>>>> of your passwords anymore. I think.
>>>> You mean like if I forget my ID or password over at amazon I can
>>>> scan my finger and it'll tell me what it is?
>>>
>>> I think -- not sure -- that it *replaces* your passwords with the
>>> biometric (rather than acting as a method of protecting or retrieving
>>> alphanumeric passwords).
>>>
>>>> I would imagine it requires the same finger each time, right?
>>>> Wonder what happens if you get a nasty cut, or worse-burn a
>>>> blister on that finger?
>>>
>>> Dunno; how do they handle that problem with other biometric ID systems?
>>
>> Clearly, you need to spend a couple of weeks holed up watching spy movies
>> so you can better understand the technology and how it really doesn't
>> work in real life.
>
> Is that anything like when they cut a *hole* in the glass and pull the
> circle out and go inside?
> In reality you can't pull that hole out, there is too much external
> pressure on the glass.
> And no, one of them suckercups won't do either.
> You have to release the pressure on the *outside* of the cut to get the
> hole to release.
> You do that by intersecting the edge of the hole with a perpendicular cut
> in the glass, and snapping it with a pair of glass pliers.
> They never show that last part in the movies cause in a vertical situation
> the whole thing would come crashing down.
> Plus, plate glass storefronts are almost always either laminated or
> tempered and thats a whole nuther animal.
> (you can cut tempered, and laminated needs to be cut with a razor knife)
> Caught a few mins of Mission Impossible the other night and Cruise was
> crawling through an HVAC duct to his destination and the sheet metal duct
> was not buckling under his weight and apparently it wasn't making all that
> sheet metal noise either.
> They have some amazing building materials and methods in hollyweed.
>
Yeah I love how huge they make some of these HVAC ducts. Especially in
really small buildings, or homes.
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Edgar
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