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American Passports to Have RFID Chips
pr1000 writes "Wired is reporting that the State Department is planned on adding RFID chips to new American passports, starting with diplomat's passports in January. Those worried about the privacy concerns of RFID should take notice, as this rollout could set a precedent."
drop the extra prices, sitt still in the båt
YOU FAIL IT
YOU FAIL IT TOO
Thank you very much please come again.
Australia - The Clever Country???? I've heard it all now.
Sad news, Britney Spears dead at 22
I just heard some really sad news on Fox - Singer and Popstar Britney Jean Spears was found dead in her Louisana home this morning.
Apparently, the cause of death was excessive bleeding after a sizzling night of hot anal sex with her ex. boyfriend, Justin Timberlake.
"We were just having good sushi, and she asked me if I would please her", said Justin. Although he has since turned gay after his breakup with her, Justin was willing to please Britney as long as she would take it up her ass.
Following a night of sex for 10 hours, Britney sustained an injury in her lower vaginal area and subsequently bled to death. Her husband Kevin Federline, who is at the moment spending time at a federal prison for sexual advances towards Natalie "hot grits" Portman was not available for comment.
However, President George W Bush offered his comments on the incident. "Here is the reason why anal sex is bad and why gays are unAmerican, they kill Americans and American icons", he was quoted as saying.
There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will surely miss her - even if you didn't enjoy her work, there's no denying her contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
*sob*
Hit me baby, one more time. I'll miss you, oh baby baby.
Indeed, Britney. Indeed. Rest in peace, child.
ROFL @ Australia = "the Clever Country"
It is official; Netcraft confirms: music in North America is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered North American music community when IDC confirmed that North American music market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all other entertainment. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that music in North America has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. music in North America is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Pop Star comprehensive stardom contest.
You don't need to be a Slashdotter to predict North America's musical future. The hand writing is on the wall: music in North America faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for music in North America because music in North America is dying. Things are looking very bad for music in North America. As many of us are already aware, music in North America continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Pop Music is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its sexy singers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Pop Stars Britney Ugly Spears and Christina Fuck-Me Aguilera only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Pop Music is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Pop star Ho-Nate states that there are merely 7000 listeners of Pop. How many users of Rock are there? Let's see. The number of Rock versus Pop songs on the radio is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 listeners of Rock. Other genre songs on KaZaa are about half of the volume of Rock songs. Therefore there are about 700 listeners of alternative music. A recent article put North American chick flick Pop at about 80 percent of the music in the North American market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 music listeners. This is consistent with the number of songs on the radio.
Due to the troubles at Washington, War on Terror, political instability, abysmal sales and so on, Pop Music went out of business and was taken over by eminent rappers such as the linguistically talented Mr. Marshall Mathers, who tries to sell what is called "american rap trash". Now American Rap is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that music in North America has steadily declined in market share. music in North America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If music in North America is to survive at all it will be among dilettante entertainment dabblers. Music in North America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, music in North America is dead.
Fact: music in North America is dying.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
She's American, but she also has dual Irish nationality inherited from her grandmother. She's always said that if she's ever on a plane that gets hijacked, she'll be safe if the terrorists demand to see the passengers' passports as she could just wave her Irish one (after all, everyone loves the Irish). Now all they'll need to do is use a RFID scanner...
Read Intel's website. LCOS was to be used for front or rear projection. No flat (i.e. thin) panels here.
British buttocks are growing rapidly and should overtake the size of American buttocks by 2015...
"Bang there threw."
Oh please.
Bang they're through.
*Sigh* OK. I'm done.
This should be modded up.
Armani: Tinfoil Collection
"Isn't it time you treated yourself to a Lexus, John Anderton?"
and get in view of security cameras. No tinfoil hat is going to protect against that.
My Klu-Klux-Klan style tinfoil hat protect
Last time I was in London I kept heading over to Piccadilly Circus. Why? Because of the (strangely space themed) Burger King.
Other than that... never had such bland food in my life, and this coming from someone who lives in an area dominated by Germans and Scandinavians (mmm, lefse!).
I've just signed legislation that'll outlaw Russia forever. We'll begin bombing in five minutes.
Thanks for the idea!!
ssn=xxx-xx-xxxx (Secret Service Number)
The government which is strong enough to protect you from everything is strong enough to take everything from you.
So point cameras at them...
Last I checked there's a dictator in the White House his name is George W. Bush and while dictator-elect Kerry is there the US will not be a democratic nation. I am American, BTW.
test am I still blacklisted????
just a test
help me