Hi skunks, here is an interesting one: SUMMARY: It is surely the biggest Big Brother project yet conceived. India is to issue each of its 1.2 billion citizens, millions of whom live in remote villages and possess no documentary proof of existence, with cyber-age biometric identity cards. If the cards were piled on top of each other they would be 150 times as high as Mount Everest — 1,200 kilometres. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6710764.ece#cid=OTC-... ------------------ and slashdot commentary http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/1755246/India-To-Issue-Over-a-Billion... -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw