Ellison's ID Card Plan Gets More Attention

fredbox writes: "A Mercury News article reports Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and John Ashcroft have been meeting to discuss creation of a national ID database including fingerprints, facial scans, etc. Other supporters include Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy. They claim these cards would be 'voluntary', much as the act of leaving your home or purchasing groceries are voluntary activities." Update: 10/18 01:48 GMT by M : Hah! btempleton writes: "Here is a prototype of Larry Ellison's new national ID card."

Comments

Re:I want it to have my picture!

[ackthpt]

Here's my picture. It's not a picture of me, it's just the picture I'd like on my Oracle© ID card.

ok...it's actually Ponder Stibbons from Terry Pratchett's latest book, The Last Hero, which just came out this week and is profusely illustrated by Paul Kidby and involves Cohen the Barbarian, the wizards, Leonardo da Quirm, Death (briefly) and involves Cohen returning something to the gods. All pretty amusing, and utterly offtopic, but hell, they rejected my story of it so I had to sneak it in somewhere! =)

War on drugs

[Tekgno]

This is a bit OT but, they can help speed
up the war on drugs a bit, they just need to find a good reason of why they should do a large scale
napalm drop on civilian poppy fields.
Something a bit more practical is to figure out where the stockpiles of heroin supposedly worth
$1 * 10^9 are hidden, dump a few bombs on them and then pretend it was a vital military target.

They could just openly say they tried to destroy drug stockpiles but that would just annoy all the useless whacked out communist hippies hanging around.

Once the afgans have run out of drugs, the military only need a good reason to take on the golden triangle in asia and the columbians and the drug problem will almost be totally solved.

IANAP(olitician)