Nobody has mentioned that we've had to give a thumbprint to get a
Texas driver's licence for at least ten years now. What the hell does
a thumbprint have to do with a driver's license, you may well ask.
Well, my understanding it that it was a federal mandate having
something to do with tracking down deadbeat dads who haven't been
paying child support. The magnetic strip on my current driver's
license probably won't work, because I've made a point of trying to
erase it, without any way to tell for sure that I have. Not that it
can be read remotely, but if anybody ever wants to scan it, I probably
won't be in a very cooperative mood. Nobody ever scanned the last one
I had.
Of course, with the new driver's licenses we're supposed to be getting
soon, there will be a lot more irrelevant stuff on them. Probably
there will be some easy trick to disable the RFI chip in the new
licenses--something more subtle than drilling a hole through it.
Of course, the more paranoid among us will never, ever use a tollway
pass....-- Mixon
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