U.S. Biometric Passports By Late 2004

truthsearch writes "The Register is reporting 'Current plans call for the new passport books to include a contactless smart chip based on the 14443 standard, with a minimum of 32 Kbytes of EEPROM storage. The chip will contain a compressed full-face image for use as a biometric. European biometric passports, by contrast, are planned to feature both retinal and fingerprint recognition biometrics on their smart cards.' How they tie this to '9/11 fears' is curious considering the hijackers had valid paperwork."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[isotope23]

Ah the Irony!

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Cutie Pi]

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Re:YOU FAIL IT! DEATH TO SADDAM!

[waitigetit]

and there is no I in team either
or something

Re:YOU FAIL IT! DEATH TO SADDAM!

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:They did same sort of thing after TWA 800

[BitGeek]

And you can see that once again, slashdot moderators moderate based on how they feel about a post, not based on its content.

Poor moderation is why slashdot sucks. Its political correctness to a fine degree-- if someone expresses an opinion that goes against the hive mind, they are bashed down and nobody has to be bothered by the politically incorrect.

Metamoderation shoudl be catching these false troll posts, but then, metamoderation is done by the same people who do moderation.

Even worse-- once you complain about moderation, you are banned from ever being a moderator!