[1397] in Central_America
New quotes for Tue Apr 4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 4 01:38:41 1989
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 01:41:05 EDT
From: Initializer.SysDaemon <root@CHARON.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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elsj (John E Elsbree):
Final decision: Microsoft
Seattle, here I come!
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tron (Andrew H Cytron):
8
And look -a thousand Blossoms with the Day
Woke -and a thousand scatter'd into Clay;
And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose
Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
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But come with old Khayyam, and leave the Lot
Of Kaikobad and Kaikhosru forgot:
Let Rustum lay about him as he will,
Or Hatim Tai cry Supper -heed them not.
10
With me along some Strip of Herbage strown
That just divides the desert from the sown,
Where name of Slave and Sultan scarce is known,
And pity Sultan Mahmud on his Throne.
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Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bought,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse -and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wolderness-
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
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tytso (Theodore Y. Ts'o):
Risks Digest, 8-48
>But on a more important topic, is there any empirical
>evidence to suggest that credit card fraud could be significantly reduced by
>facial images, either true photographs or digitized images?
Several years ago I was told by the late Charles Read, who at the time was
Director of the Inter-Bank Research Organisation, here in the UK, that they had
run an experiment on the use of photographs on credit cards, as an aid to
reducing fraud. He told me that: "We sent out a dozen people, each with a
credit card bearing the same photograph of the same gorilla, and on average
they succeeded in passing the card eight times!"
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wesommer (Bill Sommerfeld):
There's a weapon which is quite common in the United States.
It is very easy to learn to use, and quite effective against unarmed
people.
It kills tens of thousands per year, and maims or critically injures a
still larger sum.
And yet a significant fraction of the American people claim that the
primary purpose of this weapon is for utility, recreation, or sport,
not for killing people. But the statistics clearly show otherwise.
Write to your congressman, and urge that he propose a bill to ban the
posession, sale, and importation of these deadly weapons, sometimes
referred to as automobiles.
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