If the info is on the card, follow the refrigerator magnet idea if you don't want them to cash your cheque. Or do as the Sarge did. Then, instead of having a record that you purchased Pentouse Letters on April 14 at 10:33 pm in Mac's Milk on the corner of Broadway and 110th, they have a record of your withdrawal of 50 bucks from the atm and a picture in their video database as you did the withdrawal. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. [Deletions] If the info is in the database, and it is (even though _this_ pos terminal may not have access to it) then - well, if you object to this, keep up with cp and other fora, get yourself some fake or anonymous id's (?), write code, use pgp, become judgement proof, move and don't set up forwarding addresses, have your id killed, etc. Bill Garland, whose .sig just vanished <- What might be really useful is a list of the different measures used on all the states ID's. For example: Maryland uses a magnetic strip, Digitized Photo and a bar code. All that is printed on a credit card like card and not laminated. Military ID's are green and white paper with a polaroid and a signiture, normal lamination. Illinois is a normal lamination with a complete photo within, no bar code or strip, no digitized photo record. Anyone want to further the list? I wouldn't mind compiling the information. What seems key and most attractive to those who are willing to go through the trouble, is identifying the states that use limited measures, espeically avoiding the magnetic strip and digitized photo states, and getting your license(s) in the states that are "behind the times." -uni- (Dark)