National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50

charleste writes "CNN is reporting that the US Homeland Security Department has mandated Real ID for drivers licenses. According to the article, this will not include a 'chip', but a list of options by state. Despite legislation passed in various states and objections by groups such as ACLU, this appears to be a done deal. Without one of the new IDs you will be unable to board a plane after 2014 if you are under 50."

Comments

Re:Papers please

[Shakrai]

Based on reading the article, it looks like most of the changes being made are not changes to the license itself, but to the process of obtaining them.

And I know that I'll sleep much better at night knowing that the terrorist who flew the 747 into the Sears Tower boarded the airplane with a legally issued Governmental ID as opposed to a fake one.

Re:Read it again

[Naughty Bob]

A semantic difference I guess, I'll happily defer to your description of it as an instruction manual (you big, me small etc...).

Really though, as superficially appealing as -1 wrong is, it wouldn't work (don't you think they've thought about it before?). Meta-moderators can fairly quickly figure if something is off-topic, flamebait, trolling, even overrated. Wrong would break the system, it would require too much research. I agree there are legitimate, usually obvious uses for it, but the reality would be endless abuse. The solution is to moderate 'wrong' comments as overrated if you feel that other mods have incorrectly boosted it up. I wish it were otherwise.