geometrik finger print

[Enrique Arredondo]

Better use the following device, saves you printing badges and messing with
fingerprints.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/3056162.stm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "dayone" <dayone at bright.net>
Cc: "Nancy Palmquist" <nlp at vss3.com>; "fp no spam, fplist nospam"
<filepro-list at nospam.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: geometrik finger print


> 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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