On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 Jay_Thomas@ustrustboston.com wrote:
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> >Subject: IP: United States Patent 5,878,155: Method for verifying human
> > identity during electronic sale transactions
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> >Abstract
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> >A method is presented for facilitating sales transactions by
> >electronic media. A bar code or a design
> >is tattooed on an individual. Before the sales transaction
> >can be consummated, the tattoo is scanned
> >with a scanner. Characteristics about the scanned tattoo are
> >compared to characteristics about other
> >tattoos stored on a computer database in order to verify the
> >identity of the buyer. Once verified, the
> >seller may be authorized to debit the buyer's electronic
> >bank account in order to consummate the
> >transaction. The seller's electronic bank account may be
> >similarly updated.
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> ---Gee, thanks Ro. I'm not already paranoid enough about the end of the
> world as we know it, holed up here in my bunker in New Hampshire. Now I
> know that "the beast" has a patent.
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> Revelation 13:16-18
> 16And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
> to receive a mark in their right hand,
> or in their foreheads:
> 17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name
> of the beast, or the number of his
> name.
> 18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
> beast: for it is the number of a man;
> and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
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> --- Jay (stocking-piling more ammo)
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