My understanding, and I'm not law degreed so it probably doesn't carry much weight, is that the 5th basically frees you from having to give damning testimony against yourself in a trial. Witnessing against yourself when you know your guilty puts you in a bit of a bind...it's perjury if you lie and are caught, and pretty much throws out the "proven" part of being proven guilty.

The police are allowed to use evidence that could constitute witnessing against yourself (teeth impressions, finding the bloody knife in your hand at the murder scene), assuming they meet the criteria for a reasonable search and seizure. Getting DNA off everybody as a matter of course has a better shot of getting thrown out because it's unreasonable seizure under the circumstances than because of any 5th amendment concerns.

Heck, the feds have my DNA because of military service. I'm sure those weren't destroyed when I got out.

With RFID you need a lot more than a photocopier and laminator to make a fake drivers license.

Yeah, you also apparently need a couple of hundred bucks worth of stuff. And the added "advantage" to RFID is that most people will probably actually believe it's secure and take the scan at face value, making it easier than ever to pass off fake ID most places.

Hey, where's the roadside test for vicodin? Prescription codeine or morphine? Dextromethorphan?

They may not have a roadside test, but a lot of prescription drugs are searched for with a blood test after the arrest. Marijuana lingers for so long that, even with a blood test, it's difficult to pinpoint when the drug was taken.

Sometimes when a mommy planet and a daddy planet love each other very much...

I doubt it'd be used much in the field, at least not without some heavy modification to the iPod. I can't imagine it's resilient enough to meat mil-spec standards off-the-shelf. Once it's out there, I'd bet the spotter uses it more to get rapid numbers to feed to the shooter than the shooter uses it. The spotter can keep it mostly concealed and hide the light.

It happened after learning kung-fu, but before learning to act.

Is it a typical EULA that was scene during the install of the product? Can't your friend state that she read the EULA, disagreed with the terms and is, in effect, returning the software (deleting it). Delete it, get a fresh copy (just in case the company in question modified some of it before passing it along), and use that instead.

If breathalyzers cease to be used, that will likely just increase the use of blood testing. In my town, they've already had a few "no refusal" weekends/holidays to get around pesky defense lawyers advising people to refuse the breathalyzer. A judge is on tap to get provide a warrant for the blood search, and it goes on from there.