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Interview madness
Post 302522970 by Neo on Tuesday 17th of May 2011 10:57:24 AM
05-17-2011
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I once had an interview with a big consulting firm and was asked what I thought about biometric scanners, in particular retina scanners. The guy interviewing me was a "thought leader" in retina scanning; he was a huge evangelist.
My reply was something like "Well, I always like to look at the unintended consequences of technology. In this case, I pity the poor smuck at the ATM machine when a criminal rips out the victim's eyeball trying to get money out of the ATM!"
The guy interviewing me was really unhappy with my reply and said something to the effect, "Thieves should know that retina scanners don't work when the eye is removed from the socket!"
My reply was something like "Thanks for the interview. There is no way I would ever work for someone who thinks like you!"
... and I walked out of the office and soon boarded a plane back home!
True story
My reply was something like "Well, I always like to look at the unintended consequences of technology. In this case, I pity the poor smuck at the ATM machine when a criminal rips out the victim's eyeball trying to get money out of the ATM!"
The guy interviewing me was really unhappy with my reply and said something to the effect, "Thieves should know that retina scanners don't work when the eye is removed from the socket!"
My reply was something like "Thanks for the interview. There is no way I would ever work for someone who thinks like you!"
... and I walked out of the office and soon boarded a plane back home!
True story
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
sane-sm3600
sane-sm3600(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-sm3600(5) NAME
sane-sm3600 - SANE backend for Microtek scanners with M011 USB chip DESCRIPTION
The sane-sm3600 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that provides access to some Microtek scanners with the Toshiba M011 custom USB chip. This backend should be considered alpha. There are also backends for Microtek scanners with SCSI command set. Refer to sane-microtek(5) and sane-microtek2(5) for details. At present, the following scanners are known positively to work with this backend: Vendor Product id: Remark: -------- -------------- ----------- Microtek ScanMaker 3600 all modes ok Microtek ScanMaker 3700 reported to work Microtek ScanMaker 3750 reported to work If you own a Microtek scanner with the M011 chip other than the ones listed above, it may or may not work with SANE! FRONTEND OPTIONS
This backend dynamically enables the options for the frontend, that are supported by the scanner in dependence of the scanning-mode and other options. Not supported options are disabled. The following options are supported by the Microtek2-driver: Color, grayscale, halftone and lineart scans. contrast, brightness, control, gamma correction. DEVICE NAMES
This backend does not support device names in a standardized form. CONFIGURATION
This backend does not support a configuration file right now. FILES
/usr/lib64/sane/libsane-sm3600.a The static library implementing this backend. /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-sm3600.so The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that support dynamic loading). ENVIRONMENT
SANE_DEBUG_SM3600 If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this environment variable controls the debug level for this backend. E.g., a value of 128 requests all debug output to be printed. Smaller levels reduce verbosity. To see error messages on stderr set SANE_DEBUG_SM3600 to 1. E.g. just say: export SANE_DEBUG_SM3600=5 SEE ALSO
sane-microtek2(5), http://sm3600.sourceforge.net AUTHOR
Marian Eichholz (eichholz@computer.org) Glenn Ramsey (glenn@componic.com) 14 Jul 2008 sane-sm3600(5)