This month, though, the skepticism seems to have morphed into fury and resistance, after the TSA instituted a new pat-down policy requiring those who refuse the full-body scan to undergo a fairly-aggressive frisking.
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Computer geeks call it war-driving or Net stumbling: roving around with a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop to scan for nearby Wi-Fi access points, then trying to see if they can use them for free.
It was not easy but he was able to use cutting-edge technologies to scan huge amounts of data as well as parse natural language queries.
They can use scanning tools -- such as the ISS Internet Scanner -- to scan for it.
It will primarily be used to scan objects such as vehicles - but is unable to detect human skin.
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But in many cases, the diagnosis was made on the basis of a single ultrasound scan - which, according to independent doctors, cannot justify a decision to operate.
Being forced to submit to a privacy-rending body scan or pat-down - unpleasant as it may be - is not likely to compare to the trauma that can flow from being forced to submit to showering or sharing a bunkroom with someone who finds you sexually attractive.
With each human being made up of trillions upon trillions of atoms -- 10 to the power of 28 to be precise -- the technology to perform a sufficiently accurate scan to produce even the most basic approximation of a living person does not exist, and probably never will.
But no device is yet certified by governments to scan standard-size cargo pallets and large items.
Music Hub also utilizes scan-and-match technology to decrease upload time and ensure high-quality playback.
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Meanwhile, mission specialist Charlie Camarda and pilot Jim Kelly have been continuing to inspect the shuttle for damage sustained during the climb to orbit, using the shuttle's 15m-long boom to photograph and scan Discovery's port wing.
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It has an innovative feature that allows users to scan their credit cards with their iPhone camera to auto-fill billing information (and thus avoid having to fill in information on such a tiny screen).
Amtrak conductors have been getting schooled on how to use iPhones to scan passenger tickets on select routes since November -- forcing hole punches to collect dust on a lonely shelf at the station.
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He has been released back to his club after a scan revealed he requires a rest period of two-to-four weeks.
When my son and I went to our local home goods chain store, we learned about a new back-to-school purchasing option which allows for people to scan, ship and pay in one seamless process.
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Honda's Collision Mitigation Brake System (CMS), for example, uses a forward-looking millimetre-wave radar to scan the road ahead.
The marker used in the PET scan -- the one that binds to tau -- is called FDDNP.
And any progressive-scan content will also have to be interlaced for viewing on the majority of HDTV sets.
Another drawback is that the ScanJet 6200C's scan bed is limited to letter-size (8.5-by-11.7-inch) materials, unlike the other two corporate scanners on our chart.
Both firms were among the first to use computerized databases to scan the genome-the "map" or blueprint of 25, 000 or so active genes that contain the code for the body's proteins.
Guests can also scan to shop with in-store QR codes, use the interactive gift finder at Target.com, on tablets and mobile devices, and shop Target in a few unexpected places, like high-traffic bus shelters.
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Equipped with a bar-code reader to scan New York registration stickers and synchronized with an atomic clock in Colorado, the devices make it almost impossible for an agent to make the kinds of errors Bolofsky depends on for appeals.
Only Ryan Sidebottom - cleared of a side injury following a scan on Friday evening - will know why he tried to pull a quick delivery that was too close to him and simply lobbed back to India's left-arm paceman in the same over.
Google is also likely to continue long-term bets including driver-less car technology and an effort to scan all the world's books and make them available on the search engine, both of which were pet projects for Mr. Page.
Because it's not limited by a frame, the LSM-100 can scan page sizes up to A3, larger than most conventional portable scanners.
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Cameras mounted in strategic locations zeroed in on his eyes, did a quick retina scan to identify him as John Anderson, and transmitted this information real-time to talking Billboards.
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In January, the head of the French national library system said Google's plans would facilitate the hegemony of the English language since it planned to scan libraries in English-speaking countries first.
Your mail-handling software would scan each message to see if either the sender's name could be found in your personal directory or a magic word could be found in the subject field.
The scanner itself consists of a digital camera with an on-board laser that determines the distance to the object, although it also apparently requires that targets be placed around the scene to properly scan the object -- or person, as the case may be.
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So Norvig's group designs tools to scan the contents of public libraries, crafts translators that convert foreign-language documents and creates ways to store and index e-mails cheaply.
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