Posts by MiniMatt 3 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Dec 2009
What are the possibilities for widespread, and reliable, biometrics?
Whipping out a smartphone or keyfob every 5 minutes is indeed a pain. Whipping out an eyeball every five minutes, less so. Really need to rephrase that last sentence.
Also, thanks for scaring the bejesus out of me re OSI layers. I've been preaching a mere 7 of the buggers all this time.
Firstly, airships are cool and therefore we should have them regardless; they could use kittens for a fuel source and they'd still be cool.
Secondly - can 0.1% carbon saving be categorised as "basically nil"? Just strikes me that in systems of such magnitude as an ecosystem 0.1% is potentially significant.
Also, are we potentially categorising freight transported alongside passengers as being carbon free? Ok, so the weight saved by flying passengers only on todays jets would mean fairly negligible fuel savings but there would be savings nonetheless - and as freight shifts over wouldn't new passenger jets be designed with reduced freight space making them smaller/lighter/fuel efficient by design?
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