OT: bitter, cynical political rant (was: Re: Biometrics)

[Bill Vermillion]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 01:38:14PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth thus spoke:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:34:55AM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:45:52PM -0500, Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services thus spoke:
> > > > >
> > > > > How do you think the FBI does things?
> > 
> > > > Sloppily, and incredibly inaccurately.

> > >  Witness the U.S. attorney who was recently (hopefully falsely)
> > > linked to the bombing in Spain based on a partial fingerprint.
> > > There's not much doubt that he wasn't involved in it, but he's
> > > still considered under suspicion.

> > Well it was a partial print.

> Gee, then why did the FBI say it was "a guaranteed, 100% accurate
> match"?

Probably the PR department.  I bet that if you talked with the
person who did the exact match on a partial - depending off course
and just how partial it was - they may not have given a "a
guaranteed 100% accurate match".  

The best rule to follow is never trust anything that is "100%
guaranteed" "will never fail"  or uses the words "always" or
"never"

The only thing you can amost always be 100% sure of is that what
you are told is not 100% accurate.

Bill

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com