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When you're at a teller's window and you want to get cash back from a deposit, you have to dig out your wallet and present a photo ID to confirm that you are, indeed, you. That seems silly.
Instead, why not mount a small mirror on each teller's wicket? When a customer is asked to identify him- or
herself, they can simply look in the mirror and say, "Yes, that's me."
Sure, we may occasionally find it a bit harder to identify ourselves---say, after night of hard partying, or following cosmetic surgery. At those times, the photo ID would still be available. Usually, though, self-identification is a quick and effortless process that shouldn't have to hold up the queue.
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You're not required to identify yourself unless you give my idea a fishbone. |
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Hmm. Seems to me that there is a security flaw in this idea. |
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There might be some identity theft, whereby the mirror is maliciously replaced with a picture portrait of [DrCurry]. |
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Bank teller: Is this you?
[Ander]: Ye.....er no, that's no me.
Bank teller: Sorry sir, you have failed authorisation. I cannot allow this transaction to continue. Goodbye. |
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Bank teller: Is this you?
[DrCurry]: Why yes. Noone else could be so handsome.
(smug look over at [Ander] being escorted out by security.) |
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That happened to me. I signed both the receipt and the card at a gas station, and the teller then checked them to see if they matched. |
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I'm beginning to think that you guys don't deserve me. |
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//following cosmetic surgery...the photo ID would still be available//
I think that you are arguing against yourself there. |
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