Bruce Schneier: Tigers use scent, birds use calls – biometrics are just animal instinct (Guardian Unlimited)
Biometrics may seem new, but they're the oldest form of identification. Tigers recognise each other's scent; penguins recognise calls. Humans recognise each other by sight from across the room, voices on the phone, signatures on contracts and photographs on drivers' licences. Fingerprints have been used to identify people at crime scenes for more than 100 years. What is new about biometrics ... Dying to Head West (Washington Post)
FRONTIER MEDICINE From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941 By David Dary Knopf. 381 pp. $30 Among the first things exchanged by European settlers and Native Americans were diseases and medical treatments. The Europeans gave the natives measles, yellow fever and smallpox; when the Indians tried... The Big Question: Why is Braille under threat, and would it really matter if it died out? (Independent)
S Korean fools finger print system at Japan airport (Gulf Times)
TOKYO: A South Korean woman barred from entering Japan last year passed through its immigration screening system by using tape on her fingers to fool a fingerprint reading machine, reports said yesterday. Soonr cloud-computing Apple iPhone app gets down to business (Macworld UK)
If you'd like to use your iPhone to sync up more than just contacts, calendars, and emails between your mobile device and your computer, Soonr thinks it has the app for you. Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 Exhibitor Profiles (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO----Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 takes place January 5 - 9, 2009 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Diamond anniversary: Bob Fallstrom and the Herald & Review celebrate 60 years together (Herald & Review)
DECATUR - Bob Fallstrom speaks the way he has been writing for more than half a century: Short. To the point. Interesting. Burglary victims sought (Daily Pilot)
Costa Mesa Police are asking victims in a string of residential burglaries on the north side of the city to come forward. Finger scanning to be lunch card of the future (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Shelly Phillips, cafeteria manager at Uthoff Valley Elementary in Fenton, assists Rodrick Knights in scanning his finger, while Isabel Lee (left) and Emily Newman look on. Rockwood students will soon pay for their lunches biometrically, by scanning their fingerprints into a computer. Sylvania Netbook With Ubuntu: A Good Mix (TechNewsWorld.com)
Given the many options out there, someone in the market for a portable computer may have a hard time deciding whether to go with an ultra-small netbook or a small-but-not-THAT-small notebook computer. If you want a netbook, you've got another choice ahead of you: Would you like that with Linux or Windows?
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