According to your generalization, parent poster, any research would be worthless
Well, yes, if anything faith-based could not be science, then there would be no point in researching anything that was currently based on faith, and we would miss out on thousands of important discoveries. Every science started out having as little known evidence as pseudo-sciences like ESP have today.
However, the difference is that pseudo-sciences like ESP have gone all those centuries without gaining any credible evidence, while real sciences have gathered plenty.
The card could carry an electronic hash code that gets sent to a central database to retrieve data, so any really important data, such as SSN, wouldn't be stored directly on the card itself. For added security in some scenarios (like banking), biometric data of some sort could be stored in the central database as well. The central database could be cut off from any network to eliminate (or minimize) hacking and it could occasionally be connected to a shadow database with a down stream only connection. The shadow database would be the one actually accessed for data requests and it would be auto-updated multiple times a day, so even if it were hacked somehow it would be corrected automatically and any changes could be reported.
You're expecting a lot of tech-savviness from the government that didn't even think of buying www.whitehouse.com and www.whitehouse.org until they'd already been bought and turned into a porn site and an anti-Bush site.
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When this is in schools, Not Looking at the Ads will be punishable by a trip to the principal's office and possibly a two-day suspension.
According to your generalization, parent poster, any research would be worthless Well, yes, if anything faith-based could not be science, then there would be no point in researching anything that was currently based on faith, and we would miss out on thousands of important discoveries. Every science started out having as little known evidence as pseudo-sciences like ESP have today. However, the difference is that pseudo-sciences like ESP have gone all those centuries without gaining any credible evidence, while real sciences have gathered plenty.
The card could carry an electronic hash code that gets sent to a central database to retrieve data, so any really important data, such as SSN, wouldn't be stored directly on the card itself. For added security in some scenarios (like banking), biometric data of some sort could be stored in the central database as well. The central database could be cut off from any network to eliminate (or minimize) hacking and it could occasionally be connected to a shadow database with a down stream only connection. The shadow database would be the one actually accessed for data requests and it would be auto-updated multiple times a day, so even if it were hacked somehow it would be corrected automatically and any changes could be reported.
You're expecting a lot of tech-savviness from the government that didn't even think of buying www.whitehouse.com and www.whitehouse.org until they'd already been bought and turned into a porn site and an anti-Bush site.
Not to mention the passports with unencrypted RFID chips.
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