Writes 'The is a collection of web-based tools that sheds light on personal data collection and usage practices in the United States. The tools demonstrate the value of personal information on the open market and enable people to access information encoded on a driver's license or stored in some of the many commercial data warehouses. Check out the, which shows how much your personal info is worth, and how the data brokers get it. It's all part of the, which will be on exhibition at UC-Irvine in March.' I saw this story as a subscriber before most everyone else did, so I go to the site and download all the software before the site ends up getting slashdotted. I then download java, run the jar, scan my driver's license. Doesn't work.

Then I rotate the image 180 and find out it doesn't work. Then I go online and notice that California doesn't have a 2d barcode on the back of their licenses. Which comes to the rule of the day, which is apparently applicable to myself: You can be enough of a nerd to care about what's on your barcode, and still be a complete fucking moron. .I go online and notice that California doesn't have a 2d barcode on the back of their licenses. My experience was actually the exact opposite. I checked my id (new as of March 2003, so less than one year old), and saw no 2d barcode.

The ID Checking Guide contains a full page Drivers License and ID card sample for every U.S. UV images for many current format licenses. Free download drivers license 2d barcode format Files at Software Informer.

Figured, what the hell, and decided to look to see what good 'ol Minnesota has for privacy (overall not too bad, only a [slashdot.org], separate [slashdot.org].) I saw that Minnesota indeed does have a 2-d barcode, however it is nowhere on anyones licences that I checked made this year (I. I used mine to keep track of my customers DLT tapes. Since we were up to a library of ~500 tapes and were changing them out at a rate of 25 every 10 days or so it really paid off. In fact I had my brother write a little VBA app on top of Access to keep track of their container and position. That way when the library needed new tapes I could take the reports from Veritas and pick out the tapes that were ready to be reused and know right where they were. Before doing this it took me about 3 hours a week to ch.

IANAL, but I'm a news writer at times. And you can't copyright a fact. A copyright on a 9, 10, or 11 digit number just isn't going to stand, and neither is a copyright on an address. It is your address or number, it already appears on plenty of public records, and thereofore uncopyrightable documents. You can copyright an expression of a fact, so maybe a copyright of your address in your handwighting will stand. But you're not going to ever get copyright protection on your personal info, reporters can use your name all they want while talking about you, and the same goes for basic facts about you. Yeah, but the definition of a compliation isn't going to cover facts about one person.

The only compliations that are going to ever get protection are those about multiple people or multiple thing. Think 2 or more database records in a table. If it can be properly expressed in one record, it's not going to make it. Remember, it's the people who compile lists of data who are behind the effort to make sure copyright protection extends to what they do. They're not gonna be dumb enough to propose a law that puts themselves out of business.:).

Most barcode readers / magnetic swipe readers work with drivers that simulate keystrokes. And that's why the point at which you're allowed to scan the card just happens to be same screen at which you can type the number in manually. The device just needs to be configured for what sequence of enters/tabs/etc. To enter after a scanned number. For example, a credit card reader at a POS unit would be set to output the first 16 characters on the card, and then maybe [tab] to exit the entry box and [enter] to clear the 'Are you sure? Chistij server css v34 linux. Hook the same reader up to any free-text entry screen, and the number ends up in plain view. In my opinion, we're less than 100 years away from basically a total lack of 'privacy.'