They don't have a mag stripe, they have mag printed characters. See the bottom two rows of text in this photo, the "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Passport_inside_(Biometric).png

RFID passports are currently in production from several countries. I've personally seen one from Japan, and reportedly new US Passports also include them. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport

-molo

Isn't this what the current passport system already provides? Passports already have unique numbers, and there are existing standards about reading the mag printed strip and RFID tags in there now.

-molo

As for water supply, how much water do you think a 70 year old woman can carry? Not very much.

Yes, it is not terrible, but it is not very good. She at least says it is better than during/after WWII, that this doesn't even compare.

-molo

The comment from slashdot.jp are fairly positive, but reports from family there are not as rosy. Last night (US time) we talked to my wife's aunt who lives in Saitama, just north of Tokyo proper. They have electricity but no tap water. She has to walk to a local distribution site and carry water home. She reports that the grocery stores are empty and the stores are not getting the supplies they would normally get. This includes staples like rice, milk, and yes, toilet paper. They are unable to buy gasoline. Her daughter is bicycling 45 minutes each way to work when she would normally drive.

We also have family in Koriyama, just 60km west of the nuclear plant. They want to leave but are unable to get gasoline.

-molo

In the grim future of hello kitty there is only war.

http://www.gamerdna.com/uimage/uL71klJr/full/hello-kitty-40000.jpg

-molo

In case you're not aware, Ekiga already exists and is a free-software SIP client implementation. See http://ekiga.org/ . At best this should be an extension for Ekiga, not an entirely new project.

-molo

"Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6." © 2011 Microsoft

Wow. IMO, they should have left off the "6".

-molo

You mean like this?

-molo

I can't even find a wikipedia article on Blue's News.

-molo

And then don't forget to launder them.

-molo

This is in Manhattan's Chinatown. As for being a filthy shithole.. welcome to New York. :)

-molo

Didn't blackberry roll over for the governments requesting intercept capability last summer?

Either way, I don't trust BB that much.

-molo

This also excludes licenses published by Microsoft, such as the Microsoft Reciprocal License (MS-RL), which is approved as an Open Source license by OSI and a Free Software license by FSF (although incompatible with the GPL).

-molo

If it were perfect, that would be fine. However the prospect of creating people with birth defects or disabilities due to flaws in the cloning process is horrific. Considering the recently published studies showing incresed risks surrounding IVF treatments, there must be many factors we are not controlling for. I imagine this would be far worse with cloning.

-molo

This is the first time I've heard "birther" used in an anti-abortion/pro-life context. The only context I've heard "birther" before were people doubting the birthright citizenship of Obama. Lets not confuse the terms.

-molo