HP Announces National Id System Built on .NET

Anonymous Coward writes "Yahoo is running a story about HP's national ID plan, 'The need to securely identify people moving across national and international borders has never been more important than it is today,' said Jim Ganthier, worldwide leader, Defense, Intelligence and Public Safety, HP. 'HP and Microsoft are working together to provide government agencies the ability to access the integrated data streams needed to securely identify people both in the physical and virtual worlds.'"

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Re:I'm pretty torn about this

[jaavaaguru]

I'd rather read a badly spelled insightful comment than most other comments, but I find the ones with bad grammar very difficult to read. I think bad spelling's easier to deal with because misspelled words at least sound like the word they're meant to be.

Re:I'm pretty torn about this

[BrynM]

This is getting waaayyyy offtopic. I de-bonus-ed this comment so hopefuly it won't show up in the actual thread. If a mod comes by to bless it with an "off-topic" please do so. While I'm at it, I'll reply to the AC as well.

I like to poke at grammar nazis, but pride myself on spelling well. "Asinine" is such a seldomly used word that it's easy to be misspelled by members of the grammar ruling class. It is true that the only "e" in the word is at the end, but you can't believe how many people try to "correct" it. It's there as bait. So far today is the only actual post that's tried to correct it, but soooo many over the shoulder non-posters have let their egos get the best of them. Trying not to give in myself, I am making a point of not correcting them (god it's taking some will though). I do it as a poke, but intend it all in fun.

By the way, my journal entries are where I archive my sigs, so please talk about them there and leave the articles clean.

Re:I'm pretty torn about this

[Master of Transhuman]

Your sentence structure is wrong, too. You put "badly spelled" before "insightful" but "asenine" before "correctly spelled".

That's just warped, man.

Re:I'm pretty torn about this

[f0rt0r]

Cmon, discussing spelling is on-topic in that it provides information useful for understanding the topic in full. Really....I am not kidding you!