jwz - I, for one, welcome our new Tom Ridgebot masters: "One of 115 life-like androids fashioned in the image of Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge watches as a foreign visitor gets fingerprinted and photographed at a US-VISIT station at Atlanta's airport. These 'Ridgebots' are expected to be deployed to 115 U.S. airports that handle international flights and 14 major seaports within the month.

'The Ridgebot is the most reliable computer ever made,' said the android. 'We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.' "