On 15/11/18, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: >I recently had to renew my (British) passport. Not only was I able to submit >my photograph as a digital image - the passport itself also contains an >encoded >form of the image, readable electronically. And apparently at some UK >airports >I could just walk up with the passport in hand, place it on the desk, and look >into a camera. My digital image from the camera would be checked against the >biometric data encoded in the pasport, and if everything checked out I would >be able to proceed through the gate. I'm sure there would be somebody present >to supervise things, but the whole verification process would be done >digitally.
That's all true. Except when I tried it, I placed my passport on the scanner, looked into the camera, and a door opened on the machine, a large hand shot out and slapped my face. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) | Live Broadcast News ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
