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[rone]

The [Naperville Public Library System] this week signed a $40,646 contract with a local company, U.S. Biometrics Corp., to install fingerprint scanners on 130 computers with Internet access or a time limit on usage. [...] Library officials say the added security is necessary to ensure people who are using the computers are who they say they are.  Officials promise to protect the confidentiality of the fingerprint records.

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Three emergency-room doctors called Friday for long, pointed kitchen knives to be banned in a bid to reduce the number of stabbings in Britain. [...] The doctors argued that the use of dagger-type pointed knives rather than the blunt-tipped variety owed more to tradition than culinary necessity.

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After scoring this goal two years ago, Andrew Goldstein decided to come out of the closet to his team and everyone.  More proof that goalies rule.

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Tom DeLay gets zinged on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and get his panties in a twist.

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Lastly, fuck American Idol and every other "reality" TV show.

Comments

[mskala.livejournal.com]

In the third of your links on Goldstein, (second page of the article) they appear to have blipped out the word "bigoted". WTF?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I believe it's actually "bullshit".

[mskala.livejournal.com]

Ah! That makes sense. I was looking for it to be an adjective, but of course, with this kind of word, the grammar is negotiable.

[matrushkaka.livejournal.com]

There's so many things wrong with this post. I don't know where to begin.

[crankysysadmin.livejournal.com]

Here's (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0505200366may20,1,5394598.story) a link to the Chicago Trib article about the fucking fingerprint scanners that's not behind a pay wall, at least as of me posting it here right now.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

It's not a pay wall... just use BugMeNot (http://bugmenot.com/).

[frosch.livejournal.com]

hmm. $40k should get you about 1000 fingerprint scanners (http://www.samsclub.com/eclub/main_shopping.jsp?coe=0&oidPath=0%3a-23542%3a-23589%3a-43881%3a-43889%3a-45224&mt=a&n=0&BV_SessionID=_SC_0062960582.1117244482_CS_&BV_EngineID=ccdfaddejkhmdgdcfkfcfkjdgoodfkg.0), at current prices.

I wrote a fingerprint camera demo app eight years ago for my first client after I came to Tennessee, back when the technology was still somewhat novel. There's a good reason (http://cryptome.org/gummy.htm) why they haven't been overwhelmingly adopted.

[samantha2074.livejournal.com]

It's nice to stumble across an unexpected reference to your college, especially a positive one.