[the]

This pretty much jives with other reports on the current "Not Ready for Prime Time" status of biometrics systems.

[the]

Yet another failed system.

[Joe Brower]

Best news I've heard all day.

[Paul Atreides]

I knew they shouldn't have let Janet Reno be the first to try it out.

[LostTribe]

>fifty people would be falsely pegged at a security

Sounds like 50 new lawsuits/day.

[Eugene Tackleberry]

The airport Public Information Officer apparently cannot spell the word "fourth."

[Drammach]

Isn't this the same system recently touted by the media and government as having been installed at the Statue of Liberty?

How is it that a system that has shown itself to be a failure is being adopted by a federal agency for security?
Maybe "feel good" public relations?
All show and no substance?
That would jibe with most of the "security measures" taken so far by the feds.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Eyeglasses gave the system a great deal of difficulty, in spite of copious Visionics marketing hype denying this particular glitch.

I don't know why I know this....but when I first read about this system I had a mental image of the recognition software being distorted by bottlecap eyeware.