An interesting article about identity cards, and identity theft. I remember only a few days before I flew to the States we received an email from BA asking for all sorts of information or else we weren't going anywhere. Right now the Government here in the UK is trying to introduce ID cards, even though the cost will amount to about �100 for each person in the UK (according to one estimate). They've yet to explain how ID cards would stop four guys with backpacks getting on the Tube, however, and when pressed on the subject witter on at length about how they'll help prevent identity theft and fraud.
But over the past nine years "New" Labour has been plagued with disastrous large IT government projects, often delivered years late and massively overbudget - if they're delivered at all - which often don't work. Even now they continue to pursue their dream of a centralised NHS database. To these ends billions have been thrown the way of their preferred suppliers, EDS and Capita (the latter of which has had one of its senior members involved in the cash-for-peerages scandal).
The chances of a viable affordable ID card scheme are almost nonexistent, yet most people in this country unaccountably continue to support the plan. I'm not one of them. I'm going to do my best not to apply for one (tricky though, since they're proposing it be tied in with passport renewals, something I'll be needing to do in a couple of years anyway) and if issued one I won't carry it.
And, the thread title? Just this:
quote:the Clinton administration had decided it was time to devise a security system that would weed out potential terrorists before they boarded a flight. This was called Capps, the Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-screening System
Is there anything the guy can't do?
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
YOu mean besides his inability to provide customisable viewing settings for Flare...? Can't think of a thing.
--Jonah
P.S. We love you, Charles. Don't ever change. I, for one, like the opportunity to be the mockER, rather than the mockEE, for a change. Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
With that nose, I suppose that's understandable.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
My nose...? Buh?
--Jonah
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Hee hee! 8)
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
Dude, I've gotten teased for many things, but never my nose!
--Jonah
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
We just figured you knew. YOu're not Howard Stern ugly or anything...more of a Tucan Sam. Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: . . . or should that be Defense?
An interesting article about identity cards, and identity theft. I remember only a few days before I flew to the States we received an email from BA asking for all sorts of information or else we weren't going anywhere. Right now the Government here in the UK is trying to introduce ID cards, even though the cost will amount to about �100 for each person in the UK (according to one estimate). They've yet to explain how ID cards would stop four guys with backpacks getting on the Tube, however, and when pressed on the subject witter on at length about how they'll help prevent identity theft and fraud.
But over the past nine years "New" Labour has been plagued with disastrous large IT government projects, often delivered years late and massively overbudget - if they're delivered at all - which often don't work. Even now they continue to pursue their dream of a centralised NHS database. To these ends billions have been thrown the way of their preferred suppliers, EDS and Capita (the latter of which has had one of its senior members involved in the cash-for-peerages scandal).
The chances of a viable affordable ID card scheme are almost nonexistent, yet most people in this country unaccountably continue to support the plan. I'm not one of them. I'm going to do my best not to apply for one (tricky though, since they're proposing it be tied in with passport renewals, something I'll be needing to do in a couple of years anyway) and if issued one I won't carry it.
And, the thread title? Just this:
quote:the Clinton administration had decided it was time to devise a security system that would weed out potential terrorists before they boarded a flight. This was called Capps, the Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-screening System
Is there anything the guy can't do?
When you have in the neighborhood of six eyes, like Charles Capps, you do some serious screening.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I've always thoight of Charles as a giant spider.
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