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To: Ben Wa who wrote (8406)	10/10/2001 6:58:16 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10293

Ben, you protest too much... Read the article: google.com ----->Does not work! Recent tests by the Pentagon show the controversial face- scanning computer program police are trying in Ybor City works only erratically outside of ideal laboratory settings. The tests were conducted in a highly controlled environment, with good lighting and camera angles. But variations in either quickly confused the computer, the testers found. Experts familiar with the tests say a partly lit and crowded street at night in Ybor City presents obstacles far beyond what researchers have even tried to measure, and the results so far show that the technology is not nearly advanced enough to succeed consistently under those conditions. What about the short sale restricion "yesterday"? Effin' stubbid. Cheers, chump.

To: Ben Wa who wrote (8406)	11/21/2001 1:58:40 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10293

msnbc.com DOES THE TECHNOLOGY WORK? What’s more, there is the unsettling question of whether InVision’s luggage screening technology, which basically boils down to CAT-scanners for suitcases, can reliably detect explosives in luggage. In 1998 the FAA pronounced the company’s machines “virtually foolproof.” But a test of the equipment at San Francisco International Airport by United Airlines found that the devices set off false alarms 30 percent of the time, and actually mistook sneakers and sausages for explosives. Problems with the equipment persisted as recently as last November. In a test conducted by the New York Port Authority at JFK International Airport, pieces of luggage laden with C-4 explosives had to be run through the InVision scanners four times before they actually set off any alarms.