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- Another setback for biometrics - in real world testing, Visionics' system was 51% accurate, far below the purported 75-99.3% accuracy, and Iridian's claimed 99.5% turned into an actual 94%. Even the hyped 99.5% would be far too low for a facility with a few thousand people - any system which generates multiple misidentifications each day would quickly be ignored. |
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Sheba redux (Jun 30 2002 16:13 GMT) - It seems that British Museum has opened a new exhibition on the Queen of Sheba. |
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- The latest bedside readings have been both related to the Mediterranean area; two very interesting little books: Libraries in the |
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- I've lately been thinking (trying to recollect and rethink) the reasons and ideas of why did I end up in |
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- Elaine happened upon an article which is basically a warp-speed version of The Road To Ubar of which I raved |
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- Stop wallowing in sin and talking about "gigabytes": IEC has solved the problem that has allowed hard disk vendors for |
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- I'm certain this is a boooringly old joke for the London.pm crowd...but I still find it amusing. |
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- Have you ever considered that somewhere in Japan there must a machine that is dedicated to spewing out all that |
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- I finally finished the book I mentioned earlier,and I wasn't disappointed. Nicholas Clapp saunters around in the deserts of Southern |
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- The Bulwer-Lytton results of 2001! |
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- It has been long since I've experienced genuine sense of wonder. What I mean by this is some kind of |
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- Neatness! The CIA World Factbook is available as a single downloadable zip archive, inside which is the factbook as it |
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- I'm probably more than anything a history/geography buff-- I find the subjects to be so linked that I don't know |
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