Tin foil hat? I don’t know, rfid chips that can be inhaled like dust.
[quote]T Ham wrote:
Did you read the wired article? Imagine what Wal-Mart can do if they completely switch over to RFID tags.[/quote]
Provide Always low prices! Always!?
You mean like before/after the internet? More info means more info to sift through as well as more ways to subvert collection/organization/distribution/etc. Seriously phrases like ‘all but eliminating foul-ups’ should alert you that you’re reading a rosy picture.
If someone wants to get away with something bad enough, they will:
http://www.rfidvirus.org/
http://www.rfidguardian.org/
Though you are right, chance favors the prepared mind.
[quote]tme wrote:
In this photo released by Hitachi, Ltd., new radio frequency identification, or RFID, chips are placed next to a human hair (that’s running horizontally) for comparison in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007. Smart tags, or computer chips used for tracking items by relaying information wirelessly, are getting so tiny lately, the latest, billed as the world’s smallest, is as invisible as a speck of dust. RFID chips looks like powder, measuring just 0.05 millimeters (0.002 inches) by 0.05 millimeters (0.002 inches), and are thin enough to be embedded in pieces of paper, company spokesman said Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007.(AP Photo/Hitachi, Ltd., HO)
Tin foil hat? I don’t know, rfid chips that can be inhaled like dust.
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I had 1,000,000 of them inserted into my testicles and prostate, so that each time I ejaculate, I know exactly where it goes. Consequently, I have a very good mapping of sewer runoff patterns in 20 major cities in North America and Europe.
DB
You guys are funny, but the reality is that your cell-phone is probably equipped with GPS and you are being tracked everywhere you go with it.
All Verizon wireless phones are GPS enabled and all of the companies are moving toward that. They reason that it is because it is useful for dialing 911, which it is I suppose.
RFID has the potential to be scary stuff. I remember reading about a school district that made kids wear them so they knew where they were in school.
On another note the only ones you really have to be worried about are the ones that carry personal information. Think of the ID cards the UK is using, they got cracked within a week. The good news is that a microwave can toast them, securing ur privacy.
[quote]Ren wrote:
RFID has the potential to be scary stuff. I remember reading about a school district that made kids wear them so they knew where they were in school.[/quote]
Wow! So at least if the kids are doing drugs between 8 and 4, they’re doing them at school, good to know.
Entirely untrue. RFID is much better than biometrics from an illicit “beyond a shadow of a doubt” standpoint;
Police find one of my co-workers dead, they suspect me and analyze some of the “RFID dust” or a tag that says I was buying tube socks at Wal-mart at the time of the murder. My fingerprints are at the scene and the ballistics match a firearm registered to me. Am I guilty?
How about if the RFID dust can be stolen/forged and planted/transferred easily?
RFID works within a few meters. Walmart tried it but it didnt work since you cant tell the difference between one box of items or two boxes stacked on top of each other. they are too close for that system.
For inventory purposes, it is a great idea but in practice its not so effective.
The aluminum thing in your wallet is called a faraday cage and its just some conductor used to surround the chip, thereby blocking signal transmission.
This is also an idea for building where cell phone use is discouraged (ie movie theater).
[quote]T Ham wrote:
(don’t forget http://www.dhmo.org/… [/quote]
Classic! On Penn & Teller’s show “Bullshit!” they had a girl go to some environmentalist rally and get signatures on a petition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O - water for those who still don’t get it) and every single one of those jackasses agreed it should be banned and signed it.
Funny website.
[quote]UB07 wrote:
This is also an idea for building where cell phone use is discouraged (ie movie theater). [/quote]
For cell phones, they already have devices that produce noise in the particular spectrum so that you get no reception.
These are marketed towards theaters, restraunts and hotels (so you have to use their expensive phones.)
No no, you people have it all wrong. Being scared that you are constantly being monitored. HAHA, what is wrong with that? In the long run it will help fight terrorism, and probably a host of other things, including helping to take away each and every persons freedom to go somewhere and have nobody know where they are.
Also I am pretty sure that almost any car made after 97 or something like that has gps installed in it. Even if you don’t order the service or have an actual GPS thingy to read the map, it is still activated, and you can still be tracked.
I am ok with that though… I like the idea that I can be tracked everywhere I go. Having big brother watching me at all times truly makes me feel more safe and secure.
The next step the government should take after this is to take away everybody’s guns, leaving the citizens of North American at the mercy of the government. Then we will have truly reached a state of democracy.
It’s so strange, I thought the government was supposed to be working for us, not against us. Aren’t we supposed to be the one’s spying on the government… since we are the one’s that pay them? I know in places that I have worked it is the managers that are watching ME, not me watching the managers, since they are the one’s paying me.
North America is not a democracy.
And in the words of Zach de la Rocha
“WHAT! THE LAND OF THE FREE!?? WHOEVER TOLD YOU THAT IS YOUR ENEMY!!!”
[quote]DanErickson wrote:
North America is not a democracy.
And in the words of Zach de la Rocha
“WHAT! THE LAND OF THE FREE!?? WHOEVER TOLD YOU THAT IS YOUR ENEMY!!!”[/quote]
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
I had 1,000,000 of them inserted into my testicles and prostate, so that each time I ejaculate, I know exactly where it goes. Consequently, I have a very good mapping of sewer runoff patterns in 20 major cities in North America and Europe.
DB[/quote]
So I guess if you put your tissues in the trash instead of flushing them you could pinpoint landfills near those major cities?