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Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5
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*   Worried citizens will be advised that the new legislation is designed to
*   "protect them" from savage acts by international and domestic terrorists,
*   such as occurred in the Oklahoma City and New York's World Trade Center
*   bombings. They will also try to con the public into thinking that a
*   National ID Card is for your own good, and that anyone who says otherwise
*   is either a conspiracy nut or a dangerous, anti-government protester.

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What is 'machine vision'?

Remember President Bush (who was also the head of the CIA) during his failed
re-election bid against Clinton? How they played over and over his amazement
at a demonstration of a supermarket scanner...how out of touch it meant he
was with the real-life of us little people who shop for ourselves?

That is machine vision, using a laser scanner.

It is quite sophisticated these days.

*   "BANKS WILL SOON SEE POSITIVE EYE-D", The New York Post, May 20, 1996
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*   Two New York Banks are considering using retina-scanning technology
*   to allow customer access to their ATMs. The scanning occurs automatically
*   when the customer gets within three feet of the ATM.

#   "Eye To Eye: Contact!", Information Week magazine, June 3 1996
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#   Computer passwords may be a thing of the past using a scanner that maps
#   over 400 identifying features of your iris. The system will be tested at
#   ATMs in Columbus, Ohio later this year. The company has been inundated
#   with calls from other industries interested in using the technology.

And what about head shots of people...any 'machine vision' deals there?

*  "New System Lets Computer Identify Pictures and