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Iris scanners have lower false positive rejection rates and are more accurate than Retina scanners, which do exist. Retinas can become damaged and change with time, unlike the human iris which does not under normal circumstances change during lifetimes.

Iris scanners considered the best biometric authentication, they are also typically the most expensive (look up the LG scanner pricing).

http://www.lgiris.com/ps/products/previousmodels/irisaccess2200.htm

http://web2.utc.edu/~Li-Yang/cpsc4600/6-Iris-DNA/IRIS-Retina.ppt has some good info on the differences.

I will be getting my PhD in Computational Engineering in August, and as a former university, high school and middle school math teacher, there are things that can be applied to teaching young students about CFD without them having all the mathematics background they need. I am the STEM outreach coordinator at the SimCenter, and I have a website http://www2.utc.edu/ which includes an Euler solver on a NACA 0012 airfoil with changeable parameters for students to study the various solutions based on mach, angle of attack, etc. It also does grid adaptation. There is a graduate student tutorial and a high school student activity. I have used it with precalc, calc, and physics students at local high schools. Please feel free to contact me at vincent-betro@utc.edu for anything else I can help with. Vince P.S. Another good (and longer running) package can be obtained from NASA Lewis and can be run on any platform: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/foil2.html. Good luck!

Here, I can attest that this routine was what worked while I was with the Marines; there's no reason you couldn't do most of it indoors. Find a doorway in your home where you can hang a pull-up bar. Do the pushups and crunches at the recommended intervals and train up. You might even work in reverse crunches while laying facedown halfway off the bed with your feet secured by a friend.

  The only thing you might have to do in public is running. For me, there's no better exercise than running.

http://oneweb.utc.edu/~semperfi/physical.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theor em
http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0409c&L= hp3000-l&D=1&T=0&P=14723
I can't find the original but Bob Newhart postulated that if someone tried the experiment, then you would need people to check the results. Imagine the tedium of wandering up and down the rows of monkeys looking for something brilliant. "Hey Bill, I think we've got something here. Yes ... To be or not to be, that is the ... gesnorenplatz."

I remember one of the software magazines (Windows Sources, perhaps) complaining in an editorial during the months leading up to the release along the lines of "Will everybody stop calling it Chicago now -- we all know it will be called Windows 4.0". About a month or two later Microsoft announced the product name, "Windows 95", but not after this magazine (and maybe one or two others) had used it prominently on their covers. Ah well, they wouldn't be the last people to fall for faulty intelligence.

This is a chatlog featuring some idiot. The reason this is not funny is simple: there are a million of this guy, and we've all seen it before.

New recruits have been getting sent out for things like left-handed smoke shifters, buckets of prop wash, pieces of shore line, and similar fool's errands for as long as there have been armies. Gofer jokes and snipe hunts are old as the hills, but it's still funny when you find someone clueless enough to fall for one.

Pranking clueless newbies is a time-honored tradition, and is a necessary rite of passage for the prankee.

To add to SmallFurryCreature's great response, I'd say that as a person with family in India I'd love to see an economically successful Pakistan, not an economically/socially dependent Pakistan. Why? Because a) the average poor Pakistani would be much less likely to be swayed by Jihad-mongering terrorists and their promises of virgins in paradise if he had good jobs and access to a decent lifestyle and b) Pakistani generals would be much more wary of nuclear posturing and aiding the Taliban when their business community would tell them to back off. (This already happened in India when the country's IT biz told the govt to tone down war rhetoric because their customers were getting upset -- Friedman had a great piece on it in the NYT (paid-for link) called India, Pakistan and GE (free copy))

The same is true for the Arab world vis-a-vis the West btw.

Oddly enough, in my apartment at UTC, we have a double outlet on its own 20 amp circuit, and three other outlets on a second 20 amp circuit in each bedroom, plus a 100 mb lan and a telephone plug in each room.

Only bad thing is there's only one cable TV jack, and it's in the living room. Easily solved with about 50 feet of coax and plenty of splitters...

The "Cosmac 1802" was a wonderful little machine which was very unfairly panned by the technical press of the day. Too difficult to program they said. What rot. They must have been absolutly dumboes. I made a 64 channel 8 bit telemetry system based on it during the late '70's early '80's. It worked well for many years monitoring a local authority's water supply tanks an pipelines. I used 3 of the registers and about 30 or 40 bytes of ROM to implement a FORTH machine inner intrepreter. Only one byte of program code to jump subroutine! The whole kit drew about 20 mA, if that, when in standby. Most of that was used by the EPROM. The project did not warrent the more expensive C-MOS ones. A complete telemetry computer in only 2 kilo-bytes ROM and 256 bytes RAM powered by Solar cells. Try to do that with the fancy chips availalable today.

Whether you know it or not, this man was responsible for starting a company which, to this day, gives case-modders wet dreams...
Case in point.

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