On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:06:44PM -0400, Mueller, David wrote: > Florida has a better system for driver's license numbers.. The first part > is the first letter of your last name followed by 3 digits based on the > consonant patter of the rest of your last name. The next 3 digits are based > on the consonant pattern of your first name. The next 2 digits are the > birth year. The final 4 digits are a tie-breaker, with 1/2 the range > indicating male and the other 1/2 the range indicating female. This allows > some cross-verification and may make forgery detection somewhat easier.
Minnesota used to use a similar system, but they've gotten away from it - it's too easy to go from name to DL number and back again. They went to a randomized number of the same format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
