At 04:11 PM 4/23/02, you wrote: >The Fool wrote: > > > > > From: jeffrey miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > On Behalf Of The Fool > > > > But interactive television is a perfect example of the way > > > > that new technology is challenging the whole concept of > > > > personally identifiable information. For instance, given just > > > > a birthday and a ZIP code, direct marketers claim they can > > > > match members of the public to existing databases of consumer > > > > information with 97% accuracy. > > > > --- > > > > > > Now that is scary. > > > > Perhaps but then again go into a room with 36 different people in it and > > you are 99% percent probable to have the same birthday as someone. > >Is it that if individual A is put in a room with 35 other people, 1 is >99% likely to have the same birthday as A, or is it that, given 36 >people, it is 99% probable that 2 of them will share a birthday?
#2 >I thought it was the second. My reading of your sentence suggests the >first. > > Julia -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
