X-Google-Thread: f996b,772d88a2cb044c38 X-Google-Thread: 102524,772d88a2cb044c38 X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,772d88a2cb044c38 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,gid102524,gid109d8a,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!69.16.177.246.MISMATCH!cyclone03.ams.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf02.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe29.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID: <48984494.4CCC0C3E@tesco.net> From: Frederick Williams X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.math,sci.math Subject: Re: abstraction = compression References: <107cc$489839c8$3ec23315$29800@news.chello.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.0.100.88 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe29.ams2 1217938614 80.0.100.88 (Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:16:54 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:16:54 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:16:20 +0100 Xref: g2news1.google.com alt.ascii-art:210 alt.math:681 sci.math:20399 jer0en wrote: > positively identify people's every characteristics like finger prints, iris > scans and now also photographs by abstracting these to so compact a data Are you equating every characteristic with very limited characteristics such as finger prints and iris scans? Also, note that when the police (spit) match finger prints, they do not match entire finger prints but just a small number of features--a fact that has led to miscarriages of justice. Is there any reason to suppose that no two people have the same finger print, ditto iris scan? No. -- He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.