[Kenshin]

My biggest problem with all of this stuff as it stands now is the processing and retrieval of all of this information. As Ronin had said about the super computer needed to process and recall of this information. Lets have a little fun with the math here. This also has a lot to do with Real ID system and how inefficient it is going to be.

Lets us a round population atm according to the census bureau we have 303,000,000+ people in this country. Now lets use that number whether its citizens or not for the real ID.


ASSUME THAT THE LAST SEARCH RESULT WILL GIVE YOU A MATCH(This is not always true but statistically it covers the bases)

303,000,000 people x 10 fingerprints = 3,030,000,000 finger prints. Yes thats assuming that everyone has all 10 of their fingers left. 3 billion finger prints.

Now lets assume that the average computer can compare 10 finger prints a second.

3,030,000,000prints/10 prints/sec = 303,000,000 sec

303,000,000sec / 3600 (sec/hour) = 84,166.6 hours

84,167 hours / 24 hours/day = 3507 days

3507 days / 365.25 days / year = 9.6 years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thats 9.6 years to get a match on a single print that was the very last print. Thats if the computers can do it at 10 prints/ sec.

Now if you can do 10,000 prints / sec

You end up with with 3.5 days to match a finger print. Thats if the computer can do the calculation fast enough to match 10,000 PRINTS EVERY SECOND.


There is a reason why only a limited number of people have their fingerprints in the system and why every system is different.

Now factor in the retinal scans and DNA scans they want to put on the Real ID and figure out how long it would take to scan a database that large. Or 50 databases one for each state. days, weeks, months, years, decades, hell you may even be dead before they get a match. And thats with only ONE thing queued!!!!!!!! It wont happen. We have powerful computers but not that powerful and the shear amount of information stored would be so massive that if the data is wiped or has to be backed up it would take months or years to do.

Its no wonder the states dont want to do the Real ID. It will cost the tax payers billions if not trillions of dollars. Because the states have to setup the funding for it the National Government thinks the states should do it.