Comments on: Comments on 5504

Post number 5504

gluechunk — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:55:26 -0800

Whitehouse staffers des- er, I meant Kids love biometrics!

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:30:55 -0800

So... the law can't use this to identify kids becoz the only record is a unique mathematical identifier? Heheh.

By: teradome

teradome — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:56:09 -0800

Yeah, I guess they figure the law can't afford to buy one for themselves...

By: Razzle Bathbone

Razzle Bathbone — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:08:33 -0800

Oh great. The law may not be able to use, but I bet Hostess will love to know just how many Twinkies little Johnny has consumed this school year.

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:28:33 -0800

"...could soon make school lunch money and lunch-line bullies a thing of the past." Or maybe we'll just have bullies taking kids' index fingers instead of their lunch money... In terms of fingerprints in general, isn't it relatively trivial to fake someone else's? Not that elementary school kids will be doing it, but it doesn't seem like a very secure method of identification.

By: pikachulolita

pikachulolita — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:38:57 -0800

i can just picture little timmy, hungry for a limp chicken sandwich, staging a gattaca-style scheme in order to finagle some food. isn't this a little expensive for a lunch line strategy? how many teachers do you think were fired to finance this? it's not like most school districts have $5,000 just lying around for lunch-identification expenditures.

By: youhas

youhas — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:09:27 -0800

Could be a part of asinine stipulations on funding sources or something. My area had school bond measure with a provision that the money could only be used towards building improvements - sure, we were still using beat-to-hell Spanish textbooks, but the place certainly looked nice. :-p

By: dagnyscott

dagnyscott — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:08:04 -0800

what's wrong with giving them meal cards they scan? a lot easier...