On Monday 28 November 2011 22:13:06 Rony wrote:
On 11/28/2011 12:23 AM, jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Sunday 27 November 2011 23:34:27 Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
Now you will start factoring in the probability of a failure. At which point, after investigating the geological and other factors, you will hopefully realize the killer legacy our current incumbent in the PMO is hell bent on leaving for our children.
Well said.
There was a similiar strawman argument "more people die of shark bites than nuclear accidents''. Ofcourse ofcourse. BUT the death rate is near 100% when your boat meets with an accident in shark infested waters. And more importantly it stops with you. You see, your wife on the beach does not get killed 30 years later automagically.
Unfortunately one has to deal with these type of factually wrong statements all the while.
Accept the fact that Nuclear technology is here to stay. Now you have two options.
One, be extreme in your views and actions and be cut off from any chances of using your knowledge to shape Govt. policies and actions.
Two, follow the middle path to let projects happen but keeping in mind all safety and humanitarian aspects that will arise from them, make the Govt. comply to these first.
By the way, how many nay sayers of UID on this list have actually met NN of Infosys and held long discussions on this UID matter? Has he responded negatively?
HE has NEVER EVER met one single person who was opposed to his pet gratification. He (and other UIDAI officials) have been invited innumerable number of times. Even in their own press cons, they keep mouthing the same old lies which have been proved false. I had demoed that spoof and made a presentation of the lie that is biometrics to the IAS official incharge of the UID in K'tka. He almost immediately became defensive and refused to believe that he UID scanners were "cheap". The chai - a very well known and respected name - had to put him in his place. I had asked for a meeting with UiDAI officials and UIDAI scanners to demo the shortcomings and vulnerabilities. The official promised one shortly. 1 year later not only has no such meeting happened, UIDAI officials have never attended another public meet organised by opposers. Indeed the UIDAI thinks all those research papers and opposition views are extreme and we should roll over and believe in he UIDAI "cause".
No research supporting their claims, no research refuting our presented data, just rollover and bootlick. Replies to RTI actually prove that deduplication is a total farce and there is no way of verifying a false accept or a false reject. Other RTIs reveal a total lack of the most cursory due diligence in innumerable matters.
The rate of deduplication and issue has to be 1 UIN per .385 secs for a population of 1.2^9. This rate will continue to climb. The UIDAI was several orders of magnitude below this rate requirement. So they find shortcuts. They start to use demographic data alongwith biometrics. Now this whole exercise rest on the use of biometrics to remove ambiguities in demographic data. Instead they rip up their own underlying principle. The answer to your "stuck with false identity" mail, apart from my tech explanation, can be refuted more simply by this new shortcut.