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To: James Overko who wrote (5522)	12/4/1997 11:21:00 AM
From: flaget	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26039

Seeing the talk about competing facial/retinal scans presents a few questions. While I may become comfortable with the ATM machine scanning my face or eyeballs, I wonder how that device would work in another setting. For example, if I took that same plastic into Joe's Cafe just how would my waitress verify my card? Would she roll some Rube Goldberg device to my table while trailing a power cord behind her across the floor? It seems there are logistical issues here. The fixed ATM machine might be very handy in some places but in many retail venues eyeball/facial scanning seems off-putting somehow. I'd much rather quietly press my finger on a button than be made a spectacle in a restaurant/bar. Or at K-Mart for Heaven's Sake. Further, suppose while at Joe's Cafe I may have had "one too many". Would the device pick-up that fact in my blood patterns and clang TILT? Would Joe like his customers so abused? I think not. If the answer to these probs is to have two cards, one for facial and one for fingers, then what's the point?? Just a few random thoughts. flaget