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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2234)	10/4/2000 7:25:56 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12245

<font color=DeepPink>Trailer Crashes With Gator Remains. October 4, 2000 Trailer Crashes With Gator Remains By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 5:41 p.m. ET FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A trailer carrying 26 alligator carcasses to a processing plant overturned Wednesday, spilling its cargo onto the highway and closing a lane for an hour. Robert Collins was driving a pickup truck and towing the refrigerated trailer on Interstate 595 when the trailer began to sway and he lost control of it, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Collins drove into the median, where the trailer overturned. The carcasses, which weighed approximately 10,000 pounds, were put on a flatbed truck and taken to All American Alligators Processing in Pembroke Park. Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2234)	10/4/2000 7:27:05 PM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12245

One of the security industry magazines I get had an article recently about the impending transition to using biometrics, specifically fingerprints, for access to everything. So, at the door where there is now a proximity or mag stripe card reader, there will be a reader against which you press your thumb. Put the same reader on the front of your PC and forget about logins and passcodes. Put the same reader on the front of a bank machine or cash register and forget about carrying any plastic. Put one on your CDMA2000 handset and forget about SIMs and all that; if someone borrows your phone, the bill for the call goes to them and not you. Manufacturable technology to do this exists today. Somebody just has to decide to do it.