geometrik finger print

[Kenneth Brody]

dayone wrote:
[...]
> >The device is a Biometric device not a geometrik device.
> >
> >I know it is still new but you are getting it very wrong.
[...]
> Yes, but,
> 
> it reads a geometrik pattern of the print.
> 
> A local bank is advertising and telling customers that its new hand reading
> device is a "geometric" reading device to avoid using the words
> "fingerprint" or "hand print" which seems to scare some people.  They are
> not referring to it as a geometric hand/finger print reading device.
> 
> In showing it to two different people (not at same time) I have explained
> that it is a bio-metric sketch of their fingerprint NOT the actual finger
> print.  They did not comprehend and did not want me to have their
> fingerprint in my computer.  When I described  it as a geometric pattern of
> their fingerprint, they were OK with that idea.
> 
> Just a variation that may be required when demonstrating the system.
[...]

Well, "geometric" is still the wrong term.

Also, it's not a "biometric sketch of their fingerprint", but rather a
biometric description of the features of their fingerprint, and not the
print itself.  The fingerprint image itself is not stored anywhere.

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