[SC_Republican]

They will contain up to 64 bits of memory, storing each traveler's name, date of birth, city of origin and other identifying information -- including a digital image. That's an awful lot of data for just 64 bits...

i was gonna say the same thing....64 bits aint alot of storage.....

[SC_Republican]

but 2 ^ 64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616

[AFreeBird]

Maybe the idiot UPI reporters meant to say 64 kilobits, but then 64 kilobytes would be more reasonable.