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A monitor could be input or output. Nowadays, it could be input in the form of touch screen.

@anon55391: to make it easier to understand. input is when you do something to get something (output) like talking in the microphone (input) to produce sound in the speakers(output) typing in the keyboard(input) where you see the result in the monitor(output). it really depends on the function of the device.

another example is you scan the pictures through a scanner (input) to view in the monitor(output) or print it using the printer (output).

China has built the world's fastest super computer: "Tianhe-1A." It has 1.4 times the horsepower of the current top computer "Cray Jaguar", which is at a national laboratory in Tennessee, US. And, it is 30 percent faster than the US super computer.

the keyboard is the input device and the monitor is the output device.

input means that gives instructions by us i.e., keyboard, mouse, scanner, etc.

output means that we get results, like listening to music, monitor that displays our inputs, etc.

tell me all about computer input and output devices.

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The state's planned new super crime computer the centerpiece of criminal-justice reform in Connecticut is in danger of bogging down over FBI rules on who can see the expanded offender data that would be instantly available to anyone with access to the new system.

Thursday, in their first meeting since a state audit blasted the long-delayed project on several fronts, some of the heavy-hitters on an oversight board filled with top criminal-justice officials expressed frustration over months of failed attempts to have the state police agree on a set of data controls.

An office within the state police acts as the FBI's representative in Connecticut on federal rules governing criminal-justice information sharing systems. The FBI makes sensitive criminal data available to law-enforcement across the country, and there are limits on who has access to that information.

In Connecticut, some non-law enforcement agencies will eventually be in the network. The board voted Thursday to move ahead only with criminal justice agencies and wait to include the public defenders office and department of motor vehicles.

Other states with information-sharing networks have reached compliance agreements with the FBI.

"We can't go on this way,'' said Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane. At Kane's urging, the top members of the project team will make another concerted effort to work out the parameters with the state police.

The new super computer approved after the triple murder and home invasion in Cheshire in 2007 exposed deep chasms between criminal-justice agencies would for the first time link police, courts, prosecutors, public defenders, corrections, probation, and parole together in a record-sharing network.

The project has a price tag of at least $24 million, and would require the hiring of at least 19 new state employees with specialized technical knowledge. Last year, after State Attorney General George Jepson received a whistleblower's complaint, state auditors John Geragosian and Robert Ward found that communication break-downs between the project team and the oversight board threatened to drive up costs by millions of dollars and put the the project at the risk of failure.

Since Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has repeatedly said he is fully committed to the project, the problems have been bewildering to some legislators and even members of the oversight board.

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A Denver Broncos vs. Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl has been hyped since mid-season and oddsmakers made that potential matchup the most likely scenario on their wagering menus before the NFL playoffs began.

Now the Odds Shark prediction computer is on record with picking the same, as it projects the Seahawks will defeat the San Francisco 49ers 30-27 and it likes the Broncos to defeat the New England Patriots 37-33.

Oddsmakers and computers have these games just about the same as both games would fall right on the number, said Jack Randall in an interview from OddsShark.com on Thursday. Denver was favored by four points while the host Seahawks were favored by three at most shops monitored by the odds aggregation site.

The computer was 4-0 against the spread on Wild Card Weekend and 4-0 straight up in the divisional playoff round. Last week, the machine was just 2-2 ATS while picking the winners in all four games.

On the season, the computer remains below 50 percent at 122-133-7 ATS. It is more respectable picking winners straight up, with a 164-99 overall mark.

The Seattle pick supports a recent trend that has seen the Seahawks win six straight playoff home games. Seattle is also 8-2 ATS in its past 10 at home against San Francisco and 21-3 straight up in their past 24 games as favorites.

The Denver prediction follows a pattern where the home team has won and covered all three playoff meetings of these teams. The Broncos are also on an 8-3 ATS streak in 11 recent games, while the Patriots have slumped to a 2-7 ATS record in their past nine road games overall.

A Seattle-Denver Super Bowl would pay out at +130 if that matchup materializes after Sunday. A San Francisco-Denver matchup is a second choice as a +275 proposition.

A Seattle-New England championship game is the next most likely scenario according to oddsmakers at +325, while the 49ers versus the Patriots is +500.

AFC Championship Game pick - 37-33 Denver

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - The game plan for security at this year's Super Bowl will include deployment of nearly 4,000 local police and private security officers, airport-style screening for those entering MetLife Stadium and a host of other measures visible and invisible to the average fan, law enforcement officials said at a briefing on Wednesday at the stadium.

The plan has been in the works for more than two years and relies in part on lessons learned at past Super Bowls, including the power outage at the 2013 game in New Orleans.

"That's one of the things we took a hard look at," said Col. Rick Fuentes, superintendent of the New Jersey State Police.

This year, officials are working closely with utility companies to ensure there's ample backup power. Sanitation agencies also are in the mix, with the plan calling for 900 snow plows to be on standby if needed to keep the roads open on game day, Feb. 2.

Up to 700 state troopers will be on patrol in and around the stadium on Super Bowl Sunday, Fuentes said. The National Football League is providing 3,000 private officers to bolster security.

The officers have rehearsed during the past year "for all kinds of types of situations, whether crime was afoot or the weather went off the rails," Fuentes said.

Behind the scenes, FBI analysts manning a command center with surveillance camera feeds and computer data will work around the clock on the week of the game to monitor potential terror threats, said Aaron Ford, head of the FBI's Newark office. Heavily armed tactical teams, bomb squads and hostage negotiators will be ready to respond if necessary, he added.

The FBI and other agencies have "prepared for just about every contingency we can possibly think of to ensure this is a safe and secure event," he said. "Much of the work will go unnoticed."

In New York City, there will be beefed-up security at several pre-Super Bowl parties and other events. The New York Police Department will deploy extra patrols, bomb-sniffing dogs and helicopters to secure "Super Bowl Boulevard," a three-day NFL extravaganza in Manhattan on Broadway between 47th and 34th streets, NYPD Bureau Chief James Waters said.

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And it wasn't easy, even though your iPhone is ten times faster than the machines that used to be model nuclear weapons.

There was a time when the word "supercomputer" inspired the same sort of giddy awe that infuses Superman or Superconducting Supercollider. A supercomputer could leap tall buildings in a single bound and peer into the secrets of the universe.

And chief among this race of almost mythical machines was the Cray. Seymour Cray's first computer, the Cray 1, debuted in 1976, and was the embodiment of all the power that crackled around the supercomputer. It weighed 10,500 pounds. Thirty humans were necessary to help install it. And its first users built nuclear weapons: Model No. 1 went to Los Alamos National Laboratory. Eventually Cray sold 80.

I love this description of its capabilities and style from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (which got Cray's third machine):

With the help of newly designed integrated silicon chips, the Cray-1 boasted more memory (one megabyte) and more speed (80 million computations per second) than any other computer in the world. The Crays bold look also set the machine apart. Its orange-and-black tower, curved to maximize cooling, was surrounded by a semicircle of padded seatsdubbed an "inverse conversation pit" by one observerthat hid the computers power supplies.

One megabyte of memory! 80 million computations per second! Current smartphones blow away that kind of performance.

But still, there's something to the Cray.

And so, as GigaOm reports, two hobbyists, Chris FentonandAndras Tantos,decided to try to recreate the machine,but at desktop scale.

The physical form was relatively easy to put together. They used a CNC machine, painted the wood model, and covered the "semicircle" with pleather. The hardware was easy to get a hold of, too.

"It wasnt difficult to find a boardoption that could handle emulating the original Cray computational architecture. Fenton settled on the$225 Spartan 3E-1600, which is tiny enough to fit in a drawer built into the bench," GigaOm writes. "Considering the first Crays cost between $5 and 8 million, thats a pretty impressive bargain."

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Scarlett Johansson has won rave reviews for her starring role as a voice - the computer voice with which Joaquin Phoenix falls in love - and only a voice in the critically acclaimed Spike Jonze film "Her."

It's a strange place for the actress to find herself considering she couldn't get a commercial job, she says, as a child actress because of her voice.

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That makes it all the stranger that Johansson, 29, will be starring in the Super Bowl of commercials, literally, when this year's Super Bowl XLVIII kicks off Feb. 2.

"It's funny," Johansson told ABC News' Bianna Golodryga of being hired by SodaStream International Ltd., as the first-ever Global Brand Ambassador for its home soda-brewing system and kicking it off with a Super Bowl commercial.

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"I could never book anything because of my voice as a kid, as far as commercials went, because I just didn't have that real bubbly and, you know, that little kid voice that sells products and toys and all that stuff," Johansson said.

Also adding to the irony of her own Super Bowl commercial is that Johansson, a Broadway actress in addition to a Hollywood movie star, admits that she just recently started paying attention to football.

"I haven't understood the rules of football up until a couple of years ago when finally somebody sat me down [and] they were like, 'OK, we're going to explain this to you,'" she said. "Because I just thought, 'Why are they all running? They're all running after it at the same time. There's no rules.'"

Johansson has a good excuse for her lack of American football knowledge, considering that she has been spending a lot of her time in France, the home country of her new fianc, journalist Romain Dauriac.

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Football fans that won't be near a TV when the Super Bowl airs have something to be thankful for. Fox has announced that it will live stream the Super Bowl for free on the web reports Variety. That means you will be able to watch the big game from anywhere you can get a web connection and power for your computer.

The Super Bowl will be live streamed on February 2 and the 2014 game will mark the third year it has been streamed for free. Oddly, while Fox is letting anyone watch the Super Bowl for free, it is hiding certain post season games in the playoffs behind a pay wall.

Some of the post season games will only be available on the web to people that subscribe to cable TV companies that are participating. Some of those participating cable providers include Comcast. AT&T U-verse, and Cablevision Systems. The streaming coverage of the game will begin at 6:30 pm Eastern on Sunday February 2.

Football fans will be able to see streaming coverage of the AFC playoffs on CBSsports.com at no cost. CBS will be offering key playoff games free online for the first time ever.

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Anyone with old cellphones, iPods, laptops and other electronic devices can recycle their electronic waste at a Super Bowl event in Fair Lawn today.

The National Football League has organized the event as part of its pre-Super Bowl activities, said Jack Groh, the NFL's environmental program director. The NFL has held a number of environment-related events leading up to this year's Super Bowl, scheduled for Feb. 2 at MetLife Stadium.

Football fans and anyone else can bring electronic waste to the Fair Lawn headquarters of AnythingIT, a recycling company located at 17-09 Zink Place, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. today. Cellphones, laptops, computer towers and monitors, and game consoles will be accepted. Televisions and household appliances will not be accepted.

A similar event is scheduled for Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Manhattan at Duffy Square in Times Square, off Seventh Avenue between 46th and 47th streets.

"Collecting e-waste is a new project for the NFL," Groh said in a statement. He said it adds "one more element to the overall 'greening' of the Super Bowl."

The NFL and the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee are partnering with Verizon and the Broadway Green Alliance to sponsor the two recycling events. Verizon will restore old cellphones and donate them to shelters in the region, and the Broadway Green Alliance will distribute collected iPods to nursing home residents.

The United States generated about 3.4 million tons of electronic waste in 2011, up from 2.5 million tons in 2010, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. About 25 percent of the electronic waste in 2011 was recycled, up from 20 percent in 2010.

The EPA estimates that recycling 1 million cellphones can recover 50 pounds of gold, 550 pounds of silver, 20 pounds of palladium and 20,000 pounds of copper. Recycling e-waste uses less energy than mining new metals.

New Jersey is one of 25 states that have some form of an electronics recycling law. New Jersey's law, which took effect in 2011, prohibits televisions from being thrown into the general waste stream. The law requires television manufacturers to collect the old sets by establishing their own drop-off points or contracting with retailers or local governments to do it.

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LAS VEGAS Fans of Netflixs hit series, House of Cards, are about to get an up close and personal look at Kevin Spacey.

Netflix CEO and Silicon Valley bigwig Reed Hastings made a surprise appearance at the popular Consumer Electronics Show here Monday morning to announce plans to film the political drama in 4K, or ultra-high definition.

While might unnerve the South Orange, NJ, native it is good news for TV manufacturers, which have seen sales slip in the last few years and are counting on ultra-HD sets to lift business.

House of Cards will be one of the first major shows available in 4K, Hastings told the packed crowd at the LG Electronics press event in the Mandalay Bay convention center.

LG, meanwhile, will be Hastings partner in the experiment. LG execs announced plans to launch 12 so-called UHDTVs this year, all with Netflix-streaming content.

Skeptics have scoffed at 4K, calling it just another fad, but some experts say prices are eventually expected to drop to HD levels, making it the obvious choice for buyers.

The price for Samsungs 55-inch LED UHDTV, for example, has recently been dropped for a second time to $3,500, down from $4,500 previously and $5,500 before that.

Plus, most of the new UHDTVs are smart TVs that act as computers, complete with apps, web browsers and more.

Indeed, LG announced today that its newly acquired webOS smart TV platform will come with all of its new UHDTVs, which will allow users to treat their TVs like a computer, including tweeting and browsing the Web while watching movies or streaming Netflix.

The TVs also are getting bigger. LG last month unveiled a 105-inch curved UHDTV that is expected to compete with a similar-sized product from Samsung. Samsung is expected to announce its latest gadgets later Monday.

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The National Security Agency wants to build a futuristic super computer that can break most types of encryption, according to documents obtained from Edward Snowden by the Washington Post. No reason to worry yet, however, as the Agency is not even close to figuring out how to build the space-age technology necessary to crack most security procedures.

According to the documents, the computer project is part of a $79.7 million research program, Penetrating Hard Targets, suspected to be under classified contracts in a lab in College Park, Maryland.

Encryption, has, since at least the Ancient Greeks, been a method of scrambling information with the noise of arbitrary character strings; only someone with a rubric could determine what is the noise and what is the message. The more noise, or bits, the more difficult it is to crack the code by trial and error. A 1,024-bit encryption could take years (or much longer) to decode.

Quantum mechanics exploits the rather unintuitive concept that matter can exist in multiple states. Quantum computers could calculate problems where bits are both a 1 and 0, or multiple 1s and 0s, potentially increasing the speed of calculations exponentially.

Potentially then, the NSA could build a computer that could decode the most advanced encryption much faster.

Generally speaking, allowing even one organization to have the capability to break encryption is potentially threatening to all security on the web. Though, advances in quantum computing could also have benefits to science and health. So, at this point, the benefits and harms are pretty theoretical.

Either way, according to The Washington Post, such computers are extremely fragile and the NSA is close to only a few of the basic building blocks. Thats a great step, but its a pretty small step on the road to building a large-scale quantum computer, explained MIT mechanical engineer, Lloyd Seth.

This is why the NSA is also pressuring and paying security experts to create backdoors and exploits.

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Report: NSA Trying To Build A Quantum Computer To Crack Encryption

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On Thursday The Washington Post reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) is now developing a computer that, if successful, could break into nearly every type of encryption that currently exists. This would include encryption programs used to protect banking, medical, business and government records throughout the world.

The Washington Post attributes these findings to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who fled to Russia in June after leaking the classified documents to the media. This latest leak suggests that their effort is to build a cryptologically useful quantum computer or what the Post refers to as a machine exponentially faster than classical computers. This research program, which could cost as much as $79.7 million, is reportedly titled Penetrating Hard Targets.

The work is allegedly being conducted under classified contracts at a laboratory in College Park, Md. the paper added.

Quantum computing is not solely in the domain of the government, and has long been a goal for many throughout the scientific community. Beyond being a tool to break encryption, quantum computing could offer a range of revolutionary uses.

Several organizations including DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and Google have launched their own initiatives. In May the search giant along with NSA joined forces to create a new research laboratory that could use a quantum supercomputer to study artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Last year researchers at UC Santa Barbara also created a new quantum processor that would factor composite numbers in a way that could offer significant progress in the battle against cyber crime by creating more advanced encryption methods.

Now it appears that the NSA is pushing forward with efforts that go even further, and which would enable it to create a machine that could break through most encryption methods.

The Post also reported that computer scientists have speculated that the NSAs efforts could be more advanced than those being conducted in the best civilian labs. However, the leaked documents provided by Snowden suggest that the NSA is no closer to a success than those other efforts.

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Fans of the television series "Lost" are licking their lips in anticipation of a new cyber-themed spy thriller called "Intelligence." The show, which premieres on CBS on Tuesday, stars Josh Holloway, who stole hearts and won accolades for his portrayal of the rakish con man James "Sawyer" Ford on "Lost."

"Lost" intrigued viewers with the ominous mysteries of a mythical island for six seasons, and aired its controversial finale in 2010. After that, Holloway strayed from television in favor of film, appearing in "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol," "Paranoia" and "Battle of the Year." A fourth movie, "Sabotage," with Arnold Schwarzenegger, will be released this spring.

"Intelligence," which was created by Michael Seitzman ("North Country"), represents what fans hope will be Holloway's triumphant return to the small screen.

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He plays Gabriel Vaughn, an American cyber-crime intelligence operative with a super-computer microchip implanted in his brain. This makes him the first human to be connected to the worldwide information grid. He can hack into any computer system and access almost any type of information to help the U.S. government fight its enemies at home and abroad. It's a scenario that would make the current flap over the U.S. government's penchant for spying on foreign governments look downright quaint by comparison.

And although he isn't physically enhanced, Vaughn can also whoop some serious butt.

"I've been doing martial arts all my life, and I grew up with three brothers and James Bond," Holloway says on a recent sunny afternoon at Disney studios in Burbank, where the show films. "We all wanted to be James Bond and we played spy games our whole lives. So with this it was like, this is fun. It's like Disneyland for dudes!"

Dressed in loose Army-green pants and a soft, cream-colored sweater, Holloway is easygoing with a ready smile and laugh crinkles around his bright blue eyes. His voice is low and steady, and he stretches his vowels with a slight Southern drawl. Although he is 44, his mannerisms are boyish, and he becomes particularly excitable when talking about stunt work.

There's lots of running and fighting and rolling over cars, most of which Holloway does himself. He even broke his hand and kept right on fighting. The hours are insane too sometimes 65 or 70 a week. That's a big difference from "Lost," which had 14 cast members and many rotating story lines.

"I had a lot of time off, and I'm living on an island and fishing and I'm like, 'Oh, this is a great job playing Sawyer,' " the actor says of his "Lost" experience. "But this show is no joke."

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New reporting from the Washington Post, based on documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, revealed Thursday that the spy agency has "been racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world."

Critics have blasted the NSA for their obsession with encryption, saying that previously disclosed efforts by the NSA to create so-called "backdoors" into computer security platforms paves the way for additional malicious attacks and weakens the overall structure of the internet. Specifically, the previously secret program according to the Post, is part of a nearly $80 million research project codenamed Penetrating Hard Targets tasked with building what is referred to as a cryptologically useful quantum computer.

Such a machine, faster than classical computer, would theoretically allow the NSA to overpower other computer systems and bypass security measures installed to protect financial, medical, and other highly sensitive pieces of private information.

According to the Post:

The development of a quantum computer has long been a goal of many in the scientific community, with revolutionary implications for fields such as medicine as well as for the NSAs code-breaking mission. With such technology, all current forms of public key encryption would be broken, including those used on many secure Web sites as well as the type used to protect state secrets.

Physicists and computer scientists have long speculated about whether the NSAs efforts are more advanced than those of the best civilian labs. Although the full extent of the agencys research remains unknown, the documents provided by Snowden suggest that the NSA is no closer to success than others in the scientific community.

Critics have blasted the NSA for their obsession with encryption, saying that previously disclosed efforts by the NSA to create so-called "backdoors" into computer security platforms paves the way for additional malicious attacks and weakens the overall structure of the internet.

A separate portion of the story also mentions the existence of a project called "Owning The Net." The article does not go into details about the program but the name suggests much about its possible purpose.

The Post article describes how the NSA is in seeming competition to build a workable quantum computer against some of the most advanced public and private research institutes in the world. How far along they are in actually achieving a workable model remains unclear. According to the Post:

Quantum computers have many applications for todays scientific community, including the creation of artificial intelligence. But the NSA fears the implications for national security.

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Whether youre in it for the thrill of the game or the impressive display of commercials and half time shows, Super Bowl 48 is upon us. This year though, youll be able to watch it wherever you want for free.

If you can say 2013 was a big year for anything, it was surely streaming video. Everything with a screen and WiFi can stream Netflix, with mobile browsers and apps growing exponentially more powerful as smartphones move closer and closer to being the only computer we really need to get through the day.

Just about everything can be streamed, and there are plenty of people out there willing to dump cable television and live in an all streaming world. As the largest television event in the US draws closer, Fox Sports has announced that the Super Bowl will be streamed on their website for free.

Fox hasnt announced any restrictions to viewing the Super Bowl livestream, or their NFC streams that start this Sunday, but that doesnt mean there wont be. Weve seen limiters in the past that require you somehow prove you have cable service in order to access these streams. While we dont know either way, theres plenty of good reasons to let the stream be free for all. The big money maker for these events are the commercials, and especially when it comes to the Super Bowl there can be no greater reason to want eyeballs more than subscriptions.

Over the past two years there has been no shortage of alternate services to stream parts of Super Bowl content, but Fox Sports has the ability here to offer the whole package and keep people streaming for hours. This includes people on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and more who would be in places where they cant just sit in front of a television. A stream like this could really set the tone for large televised events for the rest of the year, so it will be interesting to see how this gets handled.

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Even if Super Bowl XLVIII isnt blasted by a blizzard, you probably wont recognize MetLife Stadium come the night of Feb. 2.

Though every stadium that hosts the Big Game gets a makeover, the first 47 likely will pale in comparison to the transformation the NFL has in mind some of it out of necessity for the first Super Bowl to be held outdoors in the Northeast.

How big? It will require more than 10,000 workers starting a full month in advance and potentially battling the elements to get the 82,500-seat stadium ready for its much-anticipated close-up.

Its clearly going to be a historic occasion, said Frank Supovitz, who oversees the Super Bowl as the NFLs senior vice president of events. Theres a first time for everything, and you only have one chance to get it right the first time. Thats why were all so incredibly focused on every last detail we see coming.

The Giants and Jets pain both host teams ended up missing the postseason will be the NFLs gain, at least in terms of getting the four-year-old stadium ready for the Super Bowl.

With no local playoff games to get in the way, the overhaul of the building and the massive perimeter required by the Department of Homeland Security for a Level 1 national security event was set to begin Thursday, just four days after the Giants ended their season at home against the Redskins.

The perimeter, which must be a minimum of 300 feet from the stadium, is the main reason the NFL needs so much construction lead time.

The perimeter will be 2 / miles of chain-link fence ranging from six to eight feet high, with welcome pavilions containing 130 metal detectors that will be constructed just outside those fences where fans will have their tickets scanned and go through security on game day.

Security outside the Superdome in New Orleans, the site of Super Bowl XXXVI .Photo: AP

The league also will have vehicle inspection areas constructed inside the perimeter to make sure everything and they do mean everything, in light of the Boston Marathon bombings delivered to the stadium gets a computer screening.

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