Whenever I don't know what else to do, I read travel books. I was reading about the history of fingerprinting in my Michellin guide to DC yesterday. They were first used as evidence by an English enforcement officer in imperialist India. Currently, Judge Pollak is ruling that a portion of fingerprint related evidence not be allowed in a current case because it is hard to state whether the evidence was objectively analyzed. This is a fun epiphany of the obvious. Although he isn't addressing fabrication of evidence, evidence of this type, as requiring lab analysis, and being nearly invisible at a crime scene, such as DNA data, seems easy to fabricate. Or at the least, able to be influenced by favor. From the New York Tomes, "The French, for example, require that two fingerprints match at 16 points before they can be accepted as coming from the same person; the Australians, 12; and the Swedes, 7. The F.B.I. refuses to state a number at all, relying instead on case- by-case judgments."
milky [email] said at 7:28 PM 03-10-2002: What's neat are the prints they take of your fingers, in the chance that you burn off the prints they take at the immediate top of your digits.
And the use of ear prints in trials.
I never got my fingerprinting merit badge. I know I got stuck somewhere at 10 years old doing the requirements...
Daniel said at 7:53 AM 03-11-2002: don't worry, the human implant chip is here: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/14/chipman.idg/
it won't be long before we are all one. perfect harmony.
Shell said at 12:03 PM 03-11-2002: Ostensibly, chips in pets are for identification. If a pet is lost, or runs away, instead of a nasty ol' tag, the pet has a chip implanted. Vets with the proper technology can read the chip and notify the owner.
Maybe, though, it was to accustom us to the idea of information chips implanted in small beings for whom we are responsible. (So when someone suggests implanting chips in children, the public would embrace the idea.)
Courtney [ url ] said at 7:27 PM 03-11-2002: Our pets have been microchipped, and it's proven useful.
I don't know if the public would ever get used to the idea of microchipping children/people. I imagine that there will be a great ruckus if it ever came to be. "it's for animals, not people!"
nathan [email] said at 8:52 PM 03-13-2002: It's hard for me to imagine feeling like they want anything synthetic surgically placed in their body. I'm really no fan of breast implants. I guess it's not really that big of a deal though. I did, in a way, think that the flourescent password microchip device that John Nash believed was in his arm was a fun idea.
nathan [email] said at 8:52 PM 03-13-2002: It's hard for me to imagine feeling like they want anything synthetic surgically placed in their body. I'm really no fan of breast implants. I guess it's not really that big of a deal though. I did, in a way, think that the flourescent password microchip device that John Nash believed was in his arm was a fun idea.
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