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."

Comments

Re:Karma Whoring

[Scalli0n]

I give up. I wanna be a troll now.

Re:They did same sort of thing after TWA 800

[BitGeek]

A slippery slope argument is not a logical fallacy.

If you're going to pull the "logical fallacy" argument, you should at least know what a logical fallacy is.

For instance, you're a fucking idiot is an adhominem, but it is not a logical fallacy-- you can, in fact, be a fucking idiot. But "Your a fucking idiot, therefore you're wrong when you say bush is really a space alien" IS a logical fallacy because how much of a fucking idiot you are has nothing to do with whether george bush is a space alien.

The second example is the logical fallacy of ad hominem. but pointing out that you're a fucking idiot-- or that something is an example of the slippery slope-- is not a logical fallacy.

Now we get to see if moderators moderate on content of the character of a post, or the color of its language.

Re:They did same sort of thing after TWA 800

[MrScience]

You'd be surprised the evidence out there that it wasn't a "design flaw." Just take a look at the published debri pattern from the accident findings.