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

YOU FAIL IT! DEATH TO SADDAM!

[Anonymous Coward]

9/11 Get over it.

[ranolen]

Can Americans ever get over the 9/11 incident??? Let the families try to get over their losses without it constantly coming back in their faces. God knows that in every tv show and movie eg. Law and Order, or the movie Bad Boys 2, they always mention 9/11.

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.