The idea of a national identity card, once widely viewed as un-American, is gaining ground in Washington, where some are advocating standardizing driver's licenses throughout the country as a first step in that direction.
"Both Parties Try to Revive Privacy Issue in Congress" (news article, April 28) says a recent Senate proposal to standardize driver's licenses nationwide would "calm fears about a national ID card".
If the right is willing to imprison people indefinitely and send young people off to die in Iraq in the name of security, then why is it unthinkable to standardize driver's licenses into a national ID?
The REAL ID Act of 2005 is a $17 billion privacy and civil rights nightmare that requires all fifty states to issue standardized ID and drivers license cards.
To enable wider hardware support, peripherals such as human interface devices, storage and other components that use USB and I²C connections use class drivers and standardized protocols.
Standardized testing drives standardized curricula and standardized pacing.
To assess the relative impacts of seasonal variation in these environmental drivers, these covariates were standardized to have zero-mean and unit variance.
In a separate proposal (pdf), the commission wants to standardize a rule that drivers of any type of city cab - yellow, black or livery - check their vehicles (and their trunks) for any forgotten property upon completing a trip to Kennedy, La Guardia or Newark Airport.
And it's true still for dash-mounted climate control and driver-assist features, even when these are manipulated via essentially standardized physical controls, like buttons, dials and switches.
We computed standardized mortality ratios for the total cohort, HC exposure frequency groups, and tank truck drivers, and we also used Poisson regression techniques to model mortality for selected causes of death according to HC exposure frequency.
