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Re: (Fwd) British Study Claims That Photo Credit Cards Don't Work
>>>>> Mike McNally writes:
MM> [email protected] 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.
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