This may have some kind of verification to make sure the ID was properly checked. Many places only check your social security card...that has no form of actual identification. Are you sure it's the law you have to show a photo id currently? Birth certificate is absolutely not required. Each city, & state and employer is different. Two jobs ago I had to provide a photo copy of my naturalization certificate (though the second HR person said I had to bring it in to show it to her, because a photo copy from her predecessor wasn't proof enough...which shows inconsistencies). This was in addition to my license and social security card. My last job? Social security card and license. I am pretty sure the license was more for the employer then for the gov't (i would have to do some driving so needed a license). My current job - they just needed to check to see who i am and run a background check (not gov't required, just a company process).

THe point is - there are tons of inconsistencies, and through all of my employers (large and small, in NJ, PA, DE, and various cities/counties in those areas) they have all been different. I used to work in retail banking while in college and they had to get me bonded (all bank employees must do this)....i only had to provide social and drivers license.

Why they don't require some kind of photo on a soc card is beyond me...it would help reduce ID theft...and your social card is one of the most difficult ID types for you to get changed, and it is so integral in your life (credit, social security benefits, and more)

Tracking citizens of what, their work? We already do that. Before you can get a job (legally anyhow) you need to provide your social security number. The problem with this - your card has no biometrics (pictures, fingerprints, etc) - so you can steal someones social security card and then use that to gain work...which is not what we want. It's actually a huge issue and there have been many cases where illegal immigrants use stolen social security numbers from dead people (or living people who had their id's compromised). This will help curtail that identity theft.

This is nothing more then putting a "picture" on your social security card.

Obama's not in the senate. He hasn't been in the senate since he became president. This proposal is in the senate. Stop obama bashing.

Just because Schumer is meeting with Obama does not mean Obama is responsible for this idea. According ot the article, a source in the white house said they have no official stance.

Personally, this is the first time I have seen the democrats sell something properly. They are targetting this towards everyone, but their language is focusing on immigrants. Republicans are against national IDs, but they are more likely to be for it when we start throwing out the words "immigrants"

Make it so this card also has my drivers license, and passport (I assume it already has my social security since it's for work) and I am all for it. I am tired of having to to worry which ID i need to have on me. Drivers license (all the time), then passport when I fly (god help me if I forget this one), and now this?

Gov't - stop making life cumbersome. With technology we can get everything we want, on a drivers license sized ID card. It shouldn't be that hard.

Oh - and don't forget the most important thing...the persons picture.

Remove all of the fans and you should be good to go on the noise. It's free and will get 100% noise reduction. People who spend tons of money on "quiet" fans are just silly.

Pricewatch wanted to test their servers against brute force attacks. The site's still up, so if it can survive /. it can survive anything.

She's real! I have a picture of her: Picture

The problem is that men won't be able to use falling asleep after sex as an excuse for not talking to their girlfriends.

Yea that horror nightmare that I had was really great entertainment. Peeing my bed just made it all the more fun.

Besides, i can see my fiancee sticking this on my head to see what I am dreaming about...and then getting yelled at because she's not the women in my dreams.

Hm....Imperial is a proper form of measuring temperature. Just because others do not use it does not make it so. Otherwise "I'm in an area of the world that uses American English (read: proper) language and I can assure you..."

If you want to be snooty and talk about scientific measurements then you better start talking in Kelvin.

I chalk it up to us Americans like to stay consistant, while the rest of the world changes their minds like a pregnant woman about what color she wants to paint the room.

I am Canadian, and don't know how to evaluate Farenheits. So right now, it's approximately 21 C. Too lazy to do the conversion.

See I know what you said (quoted) but what I really read was:

"I am Canadian, blah blah blah, Too lazy to do anything" ;)

Years ago I would fight with my coworkers for temperature control. The females would complain it was too cold, the males too hot (it really was down the sex line). I would tell the women "hey put on a sweater, unfortunately I HAVE to wear a shirt, tie, and pants...i don't have an option for shorts, caprii's, skirts, or whatever else women get to wear...and i don't have an option for shirt sleaved shirts...you do...you also have the option to put on a sweater"

it got pretty vicious so I went to OCEAA and found their standards is (drum-roll) 69 degrees. They have it set slightly on the colder side to prevent people from dozing off at their desk.

Please elaborate on examples of a real router and the steps (or link to such steps). Assuming the cost is not insane I would go for it.

How does one set this up on say a Linksys router? Then restrict it so anyone who doesn't have their mac address recorded with me would get the routing. For example I would want my friends to connect (they give me their MAC), but someone at the coffee shop can bite it.

I would so name my network "FreeNetwork"