2) Biometrics is not authentication, it's identification. Any system pretending otherwise is ripe for abuse.

What if you got really sick?

I call this the 'Hit By A Bus' scenario. If you're hit by a bus in the next five minutes can the business carry on without you? If the answer is no for any reason then the business has major problems.

Greetings. Once upon a time I was fortunate enough to ask you about IPv6, way back in 2002. The phrase '6 by 6' (for IPv6 by 2006) was the goal, but it seems we've missed that target. Do you ever foresee mandatory widespread adoption of IPv6 happening? Should IPv6 have been designed to be interoperable with IPv4?

This already exists to some extent, just working in the other direction.

When you drop a 'physical package' off in the toilet, it's routed to a specific location which in many places is miles away from where it originated. I could see something like this working (and perhaps even utilizing part of the same infrastructure) in many cities in the US.

The DoD has issues with classifying data, yes, but they have to deal with some odd situations. A good example is a well known (publicly) Air Force project that I can't remember the acronym of but someone Googling could find it in a few minutes I'd imagine. This project used a 30 node Teradata system (NCR) with a combined total of 18TB (36TB if you count the mirror). None of the data was even classified as 'sensitive' on it's own, but after several years of gathering data it was decided by an audit that in aggregate the data was Top Secret. This meant physically moving the servers and logically moving the data along with network/load balancers/IDS and combing through Jiggabytes of data and labeling each... and no, only the data owners could do that so just running some SQL queries against it and going away for the weekend wasn't sufficient.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen plenty of WTF issues with data classification and many other OT issues, but the DoD is a big, constantly moving animal and not all of the appendages talk to one another. I've come to accept something Douglas Adams tried to teach me back in 1987 with Bureaucracy: this is how the government works and changing it would only result in more paperwork.

I grew up near there and for awhile there was an area named 'Big Ugly' about an hour away. Not sure why they renamed it.

Fort Gay isn't all that far from Lovely and Beauty, KY either. People magazine did an article on the area back in the 90s and mentioned Fort Gay as well.

Certainly I don't know what Tim Allen was doing. He seemed to be the head of a group of actors and for the life of me I was trying to understand who he was imitating. - William Shatner, on Galaxy Quest

At the 2009 Vegas ST convention Shatner was on stage and fans were asking questions. A fan of the original series went up to the mic and told him how good of an actor he was; he then proceeded to take the next 20 minutes agreeing with her. At some point I said in a low voice 'It's like throwing gasoline on a flame,' (a quote from Galaxy Quest describing the parody character of Kirk at a convention) and the entire section burst out laughing so much he had to stop talking to find out what was going on.

Really? Weird. The only one I use that has any color issues is staring through a glass window. What kind of enclosure are you using?

As a frequent flyer, I love this story. If anything was going to lend credence to the inappropriateness of these scanners in a lawsuit, this is. A TSA supervisor making fun of genitals now a matter of public record? So... much... legal... win...

... to paraphrase a certain someone in the IT industry.

In all seriousnessity, check out the Zonet ZVC7630W if 640x480 meets your needs. It runs an embedded Linux kernel with Busybox, supports LAN/WiFi/USB sticks for recording, MJPEG streaming, and has some nifty motion trigger features.

I use a few of these for security cameras and they're pretty easy to weather proof with some caulk and tupperware. My one big complaint however (which might be a showstopper for many on ./) is the built in web features such as 2-way talk require Internet Exploder. It utilizes an ActiveX applet that I haven't been able to get around.