... an ant farm? I was thinking of getting one for my kids this year.

Are you suggesting the NZ government should provide GPS navigators to all drivers, or that they should employ people to stand around street corners ready to provide directions in case drivers without GPS get lost?

A more efficient solution would be to mark on the cover of the magazine that this publication contains modified images. After all, it's only the packet of cigarettes that has the cancer warnings, not each individual cigarette.

Besides, will this stop anorexia among readers, or increase anorexia among models, as without photo manipulation, they will actually have to be a size zero.

On a related note, I think I read about the recent London fashion week where a designer used a size 12 model on the catwalk and one of the stylists there walked off in disgust.

AFAIK - before the national census in several countries (UK and possibly Australia), people (usually students) are encouraged to give 'Jedi' as their religion. If enough people follow a certain religion, then the government has to recognise it as an official religion and provide funding. I always thought of it as a large-scale prank, getting government funding for Jedis. I don't know if it ever actually happened or received the required amount of followers, but it looks like this guy decided to start up a church for real.

I think I'll just wait until 4D Tv comes around. Just a matter of time....

Yeah, ok, no biggie, but remember that this was only an early attempt at cloning, taking just 12 minutes. If that can be done now, isn't it only a matter of time before the biometric data on a cloned card can be amended? If it stops at cloning these cards then you might be right, but isn't it more likely that this is just the first step?

So losing sensitive data "last year" is only being reported now as a problem!?

I hope that between losing the material and reporting it (several months later), some action has already been taken to minimise the potential for blackmail. ...or were they waiting a certain length of time to see if it turned up somewhere or was posted back to them before panicking.

(I would say that I hope action has already been taken to prevent this from happening again, but I'm not that naive)

This is just the first version, wait until the Advanced Professional Really Interesting Like Facial Observation Opera Language..... coming to a browser near you probably in exactly a year's time.