On why I think it is too early for biometric identification

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Passwords have be­come ob­solete’ was what IBM Speech CTO, David Nahamoo, said–at least effectively–in IBM’s Research News blog. His main point was that our cur­rent use of iden­ti­fic­a­tion and se­curity, our trusty pass­words, were a) really in­suf­fi­cient se­curity b) hard to re­member. (Incidentally, I sus­pect Mr Nahamoo has over 50 log-ins to re­member.) IBM 5 in 5 Security […]

On why a rotating ceiling fan gathers dust

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Why does a con­stantly ro­tating ceiling fan gather more dust than a sta­tionary fan? I was reading today’s paper when I came across this ques­tion some­body had asked in the readers’ column.  It was, at least, some­thing along those lines. Now I do not really know why I wanted to read the an­swer con­sid­ering I knew it already, but I did and what […]

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