And so it begins

adjectivemarcus pointed out this news article to me:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1808000/1808187.stm

Heathrow Airport is to test a new hi-tech identity system which examines a passenger's eye, rather than their passport as they go through immigration control.

Heathrow is the first UK airport to carry out a large-scale trial of the iris recognition technology.

The aim is to speed up the movement of passengers through the terminal.

A total of 2,000 passengers who frequently fly from North America to Heathrow on Virgin and British Airways flights are taking part in the five-month trial.

I've written about this before: see

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=11363679
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=11402972

If you enjoyed those, you might also enjoy:

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=11755499
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=11773811
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=11848043

Censorship of research papers

If this bill goes through, I'll have to give the Government my papers to read before I can publish them.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/exportbill.html

Back on Y!M

Fetched the very latest GAIM from CVS. Yahoo works again. Yay!