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Wednesday, May 22
I'll get that glass
A Portland company is building a system for point-of-sale payments using fingerprint scanners: The privately held Oakland company, which has spent the last six years quietly developing an electronic payment system that uses fingerprint scans, is moving slowly into the limelight as a select group of retailers begin tests of the system this year.Some people might think this is a bad thing, with privacy implications and all, but I feel differently. I think this is fantastic news. It might make me move to Portland to be one of the first people to actively use it. Especially since it only takes a bit of cleverness and some jello to fool a fingerprint scanner. I'll just hang out at an upscale bar, and lift prints from the glasses of the rich and famous. A new career is born! (Both juicy links from Boing Boing, about a week apart, interestingly enough.) '; } else { if(stristr($filename,"archive")) { $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $template='_01_archive.html'; $tail=strlen($template); $thisArchive=$filename; //$files=scandir($dir); $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { $files[] = $filename; } sort($files); $earlyarch=""; $laterarch=""; $prevarch=""; $next=0; foreach($files as $file) { if (substr($file,-$tail)==$template) { if ($next==1) { $laterarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; $next=0; } if ($file==$thisArchive) { $next=1; } else { $prevarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; } } } $link=''; $divider=''; if(file_exists($earlyarch)) { $link='< Earlier Archive'; $divider=" | "; } if(file_exists($laterarch)) { $link=$link.$divider.'Later Archive >'; } $link=$link.' '; } } echo($link); ?> |