Iris codes from three feet

OKI TESTS IRIS IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
January 14, 1998

Using a standard video camera, Oki's iris identification system automatically obtains a photographic image of a human iris at a distance of up to three feet.

http://www.oki.co.jp/OKI/Home/English/New/OKI-News/1998/z9772e.html

I got this from the informative home page of the inventor:
Webpage for JOHN DAUGMAN, Ph.D., O.B.E.

Disadvantages of the Iris for Identification

* Illumination should not be visible or bright

* Some negative (Orwellian) connotations

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/

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Bah! Only 70%?

Friends list numbers

Number of people on my lj friends list: 52
...who are actually real people: 46 (excluding myself)
...whom I've met in person: 43
...whom I've met in person more than once: 43
...whose house I've been to: 14
...who have been to my house: 13
...whose precise geographic location I know offhand: (city/state?): 41
...whose full names I know offhand: 30
...whom I've followed/been in touch with for more than 3 years: 20 I think
...who live outside my country: 6 (surprisingly few)
...whose journal I consider myself "addicted" to: 0 (grief!)
...whom I've lived with: 1
...whose ex I slept with: does not compute
...who I've done: 16
...who I've done recently and will probably do again soon: 10
...who I'd do (and haven't yet): 5 at least.