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    il 2013-01-21 08:57:55.0 alle 2013-01-21 08:57:55.0
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    Voila`, l'Ident-I-Fic...
    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414482,00.as...

    Descritto da qualche parte del ciclo della Guida Galattica per Autostoppisti, mi pare in "Addio, e grazie per tutto il pesce", come "la piu` grande vittoria della scienza su se` stessa e sul buon senso". A bocca aperta

    There are so many different ways in which you are required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life can easily become extremely tiresome just from that fact alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an ambiguous universe.

    Just look at cashpoint machines, for instance.

    Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant genetic analysis.

    Hence the Ident-I-Eze.

    This encodes every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you can carry around in your wallet, thereby representing technology’s greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.


    - http://grumpygoat.blogspot.it/2008_10_01_archive.h...

    edit:
    ah no, era in Mostly Harmless ("Praticamente innocuo").

    **Modificato dall'autore il 21.01.2013 09:08**
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      il 2013-01-22 01:36:22.0 alle 2013-01-22 01:36:22.0
      Re: Voila`, l'Ident-I-Fic...
      > There are so many different ways in which you are required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life can easily become extremely tiresome just from that fact alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an ambiguous universe.
      >
      > Just look at cashpoint machines, for instance.
      >
      > Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant genetic analysis.
      >
      > Hence the Ident-I-Eze.
      >
      > This encodes every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you can carry around in your wallet, thereby representing technology’s greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.

      >
      > - http://grumpygoat.blogspot.it/2008_10_01_archive.h...
      >
      > edit:
      > ah no, era in Mostly Harmless ("Praticamente innocuo").
      >
      > **Modificato dall'autore il 21.01.2013 09:08**

      A bocca storta
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        Re: Voila`, l'Ident-I-Fic...
        > > There are so many different ways in which you are required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life can easily become extremely tiresome just from that fact alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an ambiguous universe.
        > >
        > > Just look at cashpoint machines, for instance.
        > >
        > > Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant genetic analysis.
        > >
        > > Hence the Ident-I-Eze.
        > >
        > > This encodes every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you can carry around in your wallet, thereby representing technology’s greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.

        > >
        > > - http://grumpygoat.blogspot.it/2008_10_01_archive.h...
        > >
        > > edit:
        > > ah no, era in Mostly Harmless ("Praticamente innocuo").
        > >
        > > **Modificato dall'autore il 21.01.2013 09:08**
        >
        > A bocca storta

        Perche` quella faccia? E` vero: prima inventiamo le passwords, che non si possono rubare dato che e` previsto tenerle in mente, poi arriva qualcuno, come la MS anni fa con il lettore di schede, e propone un oggetto asportabile, e quindi che si puo` sia perdere che rubare, a rimpiazzare le passwords. La definizione di Mostly Harmless era perfetta.
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