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McNealy Calls for National ID Card Too

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sun-monitors-actually-telescreens dept.

Syre writes: "Well McNealy's at it again calling for a national ID card (a smart card powered by Java, anyone?)." So let's get this straight: Oracle wants a national ID card powered by Oracle. Sun wants a national ID card powered by Java. (Even though the U.S. already has a national ID card, since the states are in the process of linking their driver's license databases together.) Is there any company that doesn't want to exploit a tragedy for financial gain? And didn't each and every one of the hijackers present valid ID?

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  1. Now it becomes clear by alen · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They want an ID card with Oracle databases being run on Solaris servers.

  2. Re:IDs at airline checkin not for security by hoggoth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > they should stamp that bar code on everybody

    Even better, they should tatoo a registration number on everybody's arm. And to make identification easier, perhaps all Muslims would wear a symbol patch in a visible place on their clothes. Then if we ever needed to "round up" any 'enemies of the state' (or of whatever civil service clerk was having a bad day) we could easily do that.
    I woulnd't mind this scenario because *I'm* not the person they want to track.

    Today.

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