Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpccc!hp-ses!hpcuhb!hpindda!kmont From: kmont@hpindda.HP.COM (Kevin Montgomery) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: Time to Speech recognition (WAS: One Step... (long!)) Message-ID: <3500006@hpindda.HP.COM> Date: 18 Jan 89 01:13:29 GMT References: <6890@june.cs.washington.edu> Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA Lines: 14 / hpindda:comp.cog-eng / root@radar.UUCP (root) / 5:55 am Jan 16, 1989 / In article <69@poppy.warwick.ac.uk> maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox) writes: > >How about using some kind of DNA finger printing? - take a small sample > >of blood (ouch!) and check on this. This would be almost impossible to fool. > Be serious. Besides the invasiveness of the procedure, it's just too slow and > labor intensive using present technology. (opinion-on) not to mention foolable! You've got to get the sample somehow, and I'd think getting ahold of someone's blood would be a lot easier than a map of their retina. (opinion-off) kev