Ray Rivera and Al Baker, To Prevent Escapes, Police Start Scanning Irises of Suspects; Privacy worries over a program instituted after two embarrassing cases. New York Times, Nov. 16, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/nyregion/16retinas.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=iris%20scan&st=cse
Quote:
"With the new system, the authorities are using a hand-held scanning device that can check a prisoner’s identity in seconds
"The technology uses high-resolution images to identify unique patterns in the iris, the colored part of the eye. It is considered less intrusive than retinal scanning, which looks at patterns in the blood vessels in the back of the eye and can reveal information about a person’s health, raising privacy concerns.
My comment:
(a) iris recognition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_recognition
(section 1 Visible Wavelength (VW) vs Near Infrared (NIR) Imaging)
(2) Joe Sharkey, Screening Protests Grow as Holiday Crunch Looms. New York Times, Nov. 16, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/business/16road.html?scp=1&sq=iris%20scan&st=cse
Quote:
"some airline pilots are engaged in their own protests against the body imagers * * * [whose] union’s main concern is the potential cumulative effects of repeated exposures to radiation.
"The pilots are being heard. [Transportation Security Administration] would meet Tuesday with pilots’ representatives and airline security officers to discuss new procedures that could allow pilots to avoid the intensive screening that passengers receive. Doing that would require a pilot to have a foolproof form of identification like cards encoded with their fingerprints and iris scan.
Note:
(a) 日本宇航局 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
(b) 隼 Hayabusa (peregrine falcon in English)
(3) 丝川 in simplified Chinese/ 糸川 in Japanese Kanji: Itokawa (an asteroid)
(2) TSMC
(a) Ken Liu, AMD Contracts TSMC to Build Two New APUs. CENS (Taipei), Nov. 16, 2010.
http://news.cens.com/cens/html/en/news/news_inner_34382.html
My comment:
(a) If the rumor is true, thatTSMC has a poor track record on 40nm process, how come AMD trust it with such a variety of chips?
(b) Krishna (literally "black , dark , dark-blue") is a Hindu deity. Wikipedia.
(c) Antilles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles
(section 1 Background)
(d) Cayman Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayman_Islands
(a British Overseas Territory; sighted by Christopher Columbus, on 10 May 1503 on his fourth and final voyage to the New World; The first recorded English visitor to the islands was Sir Francis Drake, who landed there in 1586 and named them the Cayman Islands after caiman, the Neo-Taino nations' term for alligator)
(e) Turks and Caicos Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands
(a British Overseas Territory; The Turks and Caicos Islands are named after the indigenous Turk's Head "fez" cactus (Melocactus communis), and the Lucayan term "caya hico", meaning string of islands.)
* Turk's Head is the name of this cactus, which has a red crown.
Melocactus communis
http://www.gardening.eu/plants/Succulent-Plants/Melocactus-communis/2880/