Its a US requirement and the deadline set by the Bush administration was years ago but many (most?) countries cannot afford to do it. I never figured out how they thought that if you were smart enough to do these horrible things you would have a "real" chip in your passport. This stuff is like squeezing a balloon as when you press in one area it pops out in a different one. Unfortunately though the world runs on money and all the money goes thru SWIFT.
Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Judy Perry <jper...@ecs.fullerton.edu>wrote: > The Brits beat us to it on that one; it's a UK requirement AFAIK to have > the biometric chip. But I'm reasonably certain that the US is rather > enthusiastically jumping down that same stupid rabbit-hole. > > Judy > > > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > > On 08/02/2010 18:45, Jim Kanter wrote: >> >>> Hmmm.... >>> >>> "Che Garzia." >>> >>> Has a familiar ring to it... >>> >>> >> Time to buy a beret and head for the hills. >> >> Personally I am cheesed-off that my current British passport >> will not let me into the USA because it does not have a CHIP >> with all sorts of 'I don't know what information' embedded >> in it. >> >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Next thing you know we will all have to have micro-chips >> in our necks so we can be monitored by satellite . . . :( >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> use-revolution@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> >> _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution