[Gllug] NHS opt out

[Nix]

On 26 Jan 2007, Richard Jones spake thusly:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 07:36:56PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>> If you find a biometric that works and has affordable and convenient
>> readers and doesn't have too many FPs and doesn't vary too much over
>> time and doesn't get confused by rare things like identical twins,
>> pregnant women, or children, you could become very rich, because none
>> currently exists. (Nor can I see any way to implement one.)
>
> Or, as I think they're called, "chimera".

Chimerae, yes, and microchimerae (that is to say, all of us, especially
women with children).

> Just in case anyone was going to mention DNA-based systems.

To add more peculiarity to this, *every* woman is a chimera in a sense,
and some proposed systems which match regions on the X chromosome have
been thrown off by this (you'd think no such systems would be designed
without anyone thinking `hang on, Barr bodies', but no...)

-- 
`The serial comma, however, is correct and proper, and abandoning it will
surely lead to chaos, anarchy, rioting in the streets, the Terrorists
taking over, and possibly the complete collapse of Human Civilization.'
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