OT: FYI - fingerprint biometrics

[Walter Vaughan]

Ted Dodd wrote:

> http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0719/tec-fingerprint-07-19-04.asp

The engineer in me get *very* queasy when I see the word "accurate" 
tossed about. I'd *MUCH* rather see terms like precision. I can 
understand precision. Precision is good. It's okay to wrong, but always 
be wrong the same amount... That I can deal with.

I have precise computers. I don't want accurate computers.
I don't want anything accurate. Accurate is useless.

98% accurate also means that there is a statisically significant number 
of times it will read positive vs. negative.

When I test something I want it to fail or succeed everytime the same.

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Walter