"Tom Burton" wrote in message
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"W14_Fishbourne" wrote in message
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Of course, the most practical solution might be to have a chip
embedded in your arm, as they do with many pets these days. Then, not
only is there no chance of you losing your ticket or leaving it at
home, but you also cannot fraudulently transfer it to anyone else.
Furthermore, if you ever got lost and insensible, they would know
where to return you. It could also be updated while you were having a
bath by passing the signal down the water pipe.

I thought that they were trying out fingerprint technology. It would
indeed be interesting to walk through gates or onto a bus and only touch
a read pad as you go through with your thumb.

I sliced my thumb today whilst peeling the spuds and currently have a
plaster on it and a bit of a scab on my thumb print. How would i get
around that?

You have both your thumbs (or the full set) scanned at the time of
registration to get around this.
Where I work we have an turnstile entry gate where you swipe your staffcard
and put an index finger (either hand) on a reader to gain access to the
building. This takes a few seconds to activate but it is an old setup. Once
inside your card opens any electronically locked doors to rooms which you
have permission to enter.
Not suggesting that people should be locked out of trains because they don't
have a ticket or, as happens sometimes, the door reader won't recognise a
valid card...
I can easily imagine the scenes at Waterloo in the evening rush hour!

We have a clock-in system that reads your right hand after you enter your
employee number. Didn't help my colleague when she had her arm wrapped up in
plaster and our boss had to manually enter her details onto the pay system
every day for a month.

Nick



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