Jan 17 2001

Hmm, this NATIONAL POST ONLINE News story has got me thinking. How is this really a privacy issue? We are talking about people out in public, showing their faces in public, in areas that are known to use video surviellence. I don’t see the problem with digitizing the faces and comparing them to a mugshot data base. It does cause one to think of other applications. One could compare the faces of customers of retail shops to those of known shoplifters.

Jan 17 2001

What is he thinking! Judge Jackson’s Remarks (washingtonpost.com) are sure to cause some backlash on the appeals. While I’m not a fan of MS I can’t be happy that anyone has to face an openly bias judge.

Jan 17 2001

According to Brian’s Belly - The Belly News, the habanero pepper has been dethroned as the world’s hottest pepper.

Jan 17 2001

Something is disturbing about this article about “Food-eating robot is born“. Is it really a good idea to build a robot that could consider us a fuel source?