[Year 12 IT Apps] Biometrics article

[Mark KELLY]

Oops.  One in *ten* thousand crims, not one in a thousand.

For an IT teacher, my arithmetic has always been woeful.

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>wrote:

> It's the "less than .01 per cent error rate" that worries me a bit.
>
> Does that mean one in a thousand crims will get loose?  How much is  a
> government prepared to spend for a one-in-a-*million* error rate?
>
> It would be interesting to know what the current error rate is using
> carbon-based life-form security agents.
>
> ;-)
>
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:38 PM, PIKE Philip <PIKEP at bmg.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/348102/sa_prisons_get_biometrics_systems/?eid=-255
>>
>>
>> Philip Pike
>> Director of ICT
>> Bacchus Marsh Grammar
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Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
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School Phone +613 8520 9000
School Fax +613 9578 9253
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Korma: the philosophy that what you get out of a curry depends on what you
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