Then just demand a photo ID and have the people at the front desk eyeball the person as he/she also lets the barcode scanner confirm membership. Like everyone on this list, I'm a huge fan of science and tech making life easier, but I'm also a big fan of not letting it do our jobs for us, making us lazy, or take information from us needlessly. Besides, any system can be beaten. There are ways to fool a fingerprint scanner if one is so inclined
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 7, 2010 9:58:50 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Welcome to the future... I was thinking that maybe folks were sharing id badges or using fake id badges to go to the gym. They were just using a barcode system check in originally and checking the expiration date. So maybe people were sneaking in for a workout? On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Martin Baxter < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > wrote: Wouldn't surprise me in the least. Even nine years post-9/11, paranoia's still out there. On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Mr. Worf < hellomahog...@gmail.com > wrote: I walked into my local gym the other night and noticed that there was a bunch of biometric scanners and keypads sitting on the reception desk. They had implemented a new security system where you had to enter your telephone number and a finger print (they took a scan of my left and right index fingers) to enter the gym! I'm still trying to digest this much security for a gym! Is this our future? Will dna samples be next like the movie Gataca? -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
