Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-14 Thread Martin Lewis
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:35:07 -0500, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barcodes have '666' built right in. The two thin bars are a six and normal barcodes have 6-some numbers-6-more numbers-6. That's an urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/barcode.asp Take a

Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-14 Thread The Fool
From: Martin Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:35:07 -0500, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barcodes have '666' built right in. The two thin bars are a six and normal barcodes have 6-some numbers-6-more numbers-6. That's an urban legend:

Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-14 Thread The Fool
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: From: Martin Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:35:07 -0500, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barcodes have '666' built right in. The two thin bars are a six and normal barcodes have 6-some

Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-13 Thread Martin Lewis
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:31:01 -0500, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone seen a website with this sort of sentiment? I'd be interested in reading what someone has written about it, instead of someone's vague misgivings. I'd be better equipped for a civil argument on the

Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-13 Thread Dave Land
On Oct 13, 2004, at 5:32 AM, Martin Lewis wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:31:01 -0500, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone seen a website with this sort of sentiment? I'd be interested in reading what someone has written about it, instead of someone's vague misgivings. I'd be better

Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-12 Thread Alberto Monteiro
The Fool wrote: Barcodes have '666' built right in. The two thin bars are a six and normal barcodes have 6-some numbers-6-more numbers-6. I imagine that they did that on purpose, to get free publicity, like those heavy metal bands that started to add satanic verses _after_ some nutty

Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-11 Thread The Fool
From: The Fool http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65243,00.html RFID Driver's Licenses Debated By Mark Baard 09:50 AM Oct. 06, 2004 PT Some federal and state government officials want to make state driver's licenses harder to counterfeit or steal, by adding computer

Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-11 Thread The Fool
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've heard a few people comparing the reading of biometrics to be equivalent to the mark of the Beast. Has anyone seen a website with this sort of sentiment? I'd be interested in reading what someone has written about it, instead of someone's vague