The UK has already trained more than 1,400 Iraqi security forces personnel, including 150 counter-IED specialists, and gifted the Iraqi government 1,000 IED detectors.
It's as though every factory in our society had an advanced fire safety system – smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, sprinklers, high pressure hoses, fancy fire extinguishers – while everybody's home had nothing.
Some have installed metal detectors, while others have expanded school resource officers to secure not only high schools but also middle and elementary schools.
Mandates were put in place after 9/11 that have greatly increased the percentage of bags that are run through high-tech detectors, with a goal of screening all of them.
These measures must be implemented before most illegal immigrants can earn a permanent reprieve.America's border with Mexico is already bristling with motion detectors, floodlights, cameras and barricades of different sorts.
Whether they are tiny thermometers, miniature microphones, electronic noses, location detectors or motion sensors, all of them provide ever more information about the physical world, meaning that firms can add ever more cells to their corporate spreadsheets.
This is because, during the original scan, the detectors pick up such a large amount of information that a re-scan need provide only part of the speckle pattern for a reliable comparison to be made.
Ultrasonic detectors provide more accurate mapping of the surroundings at short range, for example when parking.
On the other side of the ocean, Japan has a chain of 14 tsunami detectors off its coasts.Tsunamis are fairly common in the Pacific, whereas in the Indian Ocean they occur perhaps once in a century, which is why there have been no serious efforts to create a warning system, until now.
Investors have given Silicon Valley's reigning royalty carte blanche this year to buy tangentially related firms witness Apple's purchase of Beats, a headphones maker, Facebook's deal for a messaging service, WhatsApp, and Google's acquisition of Nest Labs, which sells thermostats and smoke detectors.
Every hotel had X-ray machines and metal detectors at its entrance, manned by guards in keffiyehs.The Americans went further.
