Hi Harsh,
On 8/28/06, Harsh Busa harsh.busa@gmail.com wrote:
DNA / fingerrprinting /retina scan etc are not very practical for several reasons . eg to let issue me a drivers license it will be quite expensive and time consuming to get a dna rep. other two can go bad
Yes. you are bang of target. Make it too expensive/time consuming and no one will be interested.
barcodes / rfids etc are just machine readable representation of numbers.
Yes. We can use human and machine readable cards either using bar code/RFID which ever is simpler and cheap. ;-)
we need to design an algorithm to define each human being based on some person and demographical information.
This is what I proposed in my other mail. The demographic info that is public enough and easily recordable.
i agree i have experrienced this several times no matter how good your technology is and how well can you automate things some people just prefer to do things by hand :)
That's why we should use the KISS principle. We also have to remember the low literacy rates as of now.
Thx any way for your valuable inputs. With regards,