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From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk
In article <4e474cb302john@cartmell.demon.co.uk>, John Cartmell
writes
>In article ,
> banana wrote:
>> FURY erupted yesterday after it emerged an estimated 700,000 children
>> are being fingerprinted at school.
>
>Fury did not erupt yesterday. Some media-based blockhead thought that they had
>come up with an idea that would sell more advertising. In that they are
>probably true. The content is a load of bollocks - as usual.
I've snipped the advertising from your sig.
Manufacturers MLS say, on the record, that 2500+ schools in the UK have
installed their 'Identikit' fingerprinting technology. ('Identikit' is a
'module' that goes together with their library management software. It
uses fingerprinting. Other modules don't). There are other manufacturers
too, selling schools fingerprinting technology for non-library uses -
e.g. Anteon.
I'm told that Bob Roberts got the 3500 figure from the manufacturers. I
think this is probably true, given that MLS alone account for the larger
part of that figure. Installation, however, is different from sale; so
is delivery.
I am doing various things to chase the figures.
Give him his due - he sources the 700,000 figure to (reasonable)
speculation by No2ID. 700,000 = 3500 x 200.
If you know of a school that has or hasn't installed fingerprinting
technology, and could name them, I'd be interested.
That tabloid articles are written in a tabloid style seems to me to be
irrelevant here.
--
banana "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you
give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to
Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the
rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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