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Here is another one, a bit older though.

Doctors:

• The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
• Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
• Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%.

(Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services)

Now think about this:

Guns:

• The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.
  (Yes, that’s 80 million.)
• (B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
• (C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.001875%.

(Statistics courtesy of FBI)

So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

Remember, “Guns don’t kill people, doctors do.”

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!! Out of concern for the public at large, I have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention from a physician.

As computers become more predominant and people get more into them, there are going to be more and more passwords. They always tell you to use more than just one password. Even for me with my excellent memory, I occasionally forget one and have to go through all the trouble of getting it reset.

Then comes along reasonable fingerprint readers. I own 2, the first from APC ($39), the second from Microsoft ($49).

First off, they were both easy to install, the software was fairly simple to figure out. There were wizards that assisted in helping you register your main “login” finger and so on.

To register a finger in the software wizard, you touch the reader anywhere from 4 times with the Microsoft to 7 times with the APC. I think the APC requires more touches because the reading surface area is substantially smaller than Microsoft’s. APC has just a small, what looks like .5 inch, square that reads your finger where as Microsoft has a nice large, laser illuminated oval which looks just a little over an inch in length.

The software for the APC seems a little more robust, but not as integrated into the OS as Microsoft’s (of course). The APC also had a cool file encryption scheme that uses your fingerprint as the key for the encryption. The only thing Microsoft’s software seems to do is allow you to only log into places.

When it comes to using the software to login through other programs, it they both work about the same except for Microsoft not wanting to bring up the wizard for Mozilla’s browser (of course), but worked fine under IE.

Overall, I personally like the Microsoft one much more and will probably buy 5-6 more to install one on each of my servers.