Word: scanner
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...luggage scanner, at $800,000-plus, is L-3's hottest item. It uses C.T.-scan technology, similar to that used in medicine, to compare the density of luggage contents with those of various kinds of explosives. L-3 has installed the scanner at more than 100 U.S. airports and in Austria, Ireland, Italy and Sweden. The company has contracts to supply at least 450 of the estimated 2,000 machines needed to equip U.S. commercial airports...
...states, the FBI is offering free software and training. "Any modern computer that will run Windows and Adobe Photoshop will run this software," says FBI assistant director Mike Kirkpatrick. But in the current state budget crunch, many departments can't even spring for a $2,500 desktop and scanner...
...Duke of Dubuque and the Pasha of Oshkosh who butted in front of me at the airport put their stuff on the conveyor and walked through the scanner, and something on the Pasha's person set off the alarm. A security guy set about frisking him with a wand, which irked His Eminence, as did the request to remove the royal shoes. They were put through the scanner, and his briefcase was searched, and His Eminence started to give off anger fumes. He sighed deeply and shook his head at the insanity of it all. But the woman scanning...
...tours (but if asked politely, I gladly give directions). Had I worked in a glass office, there would not be much to see. About four weeks were continuously spent being very angry with my computer, which crashed incessantly. Another week or so was spent being quite frustrated with the scanner, which made Julia look more like a grayish blob with curly hair than a pioneering television chef. But now that the design phase of the exhibition is complete (and my computer is officially dead, blinking disk and all, for the second time this summer), as an exhibition design intern...
Unless your laptop comes with Windows XP, which automatically detects and logs you onto any wireless network, you will need detection software. Wardriving.com has one-stop downloading for the most popular free programs: Net Stumbler or Aerosol for PCs, AP Scanner for Macintosh. You don't need street addresses with these; just drive around a busy part of town, and networks will pop up on the screen. A lock symbol means a network is encrypted and its owner is not feeling neighborly. Tapping into it could get you in big trouble...