10 Types of People Who Should Be RFID-Tagged - And 5 Not »

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Humorous look at RFID chip implants in humans, and who should be getting them.

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JimmyFalls
Sept. 19, 2006, 10:10 a.m.
I disagree with the one about chipping kids, especially after reading about the girl who was kidnapped this weekend and sent an SMS message leading to her rescue.
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Forgetaboutit
Sept. 19, 2006, 11:43 a.m.
This device is a coil that is pulsed with a magnetic field. When the field collapses, the RFID turns into a ring oscillator giving off a certain frequency. A frequency counter is used and your identity is that frequency. Sounds difficult but in-fact it works very similar to your cell phone. This technology can be duplicated then what. A new black market!!
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wallyone
Sept. 19, 2006, 12:01 p.m.
although there may be benefits, there are also a down side.. big brother is closing in on us fast..
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geographer47
Sept. 19, 2006, 12:41 p.m.
Humorous article, but RFID could be a serious assault on Fourth Ammendment rights.
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48hours
Sept. 19, 2006, 12:54 p.m.
Remote control means exactly that.You are not in control some remote individual is. You cannot control the frequency at which someone may decide to send electromagnetic waves into the chip.
In a perfect world the frequency would always be just enough for tracking in our current world...ie cellphones.
Reminds me of the intro to the Outer Limts: ...we will control the horizontal, we will control the vertical, we will control all that you see and hear etc.
Picture this, microchip all detainees...wake them up every few hours with frequencies in the range beyond the threshold of human pain...
Now picture yourself, in your own country, minding your own business, it is decided that in addition to viewing your financial data, tapping your phone, chipping your passport, your gov't wants to chip you. There are already chips being experimented with that are implanted into people in the attempt to download the electrical impulses of their brainwaves and interpreted...as well as upload data.
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48hours
Sept. 19, 2006, 1:05 p.m.
Incidentally, this form of abuse is used on Wesley Snipes who plays a prisoner in a cyberjail in Judge Dredd. So it's really not science fiction it's science of the future. That's where the ideas come from scientific experiments happening in the real world that are not widely known...so it seems fantastic.
Ten years later, or less, it's a part of your life.
Other examples: Star Trek: needleless injection via electroporation through the skin...already exists.
Invastion of the Body Snatchers - cloning...already exists
Gattaca: DNA profiling, absence of middle class...already happening
Lawnmower Man: virtual reality..already exists
1984: obvious
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AnimlNitr8
Sept. 19, 2006, 1:25 p.m.
i think its a damn shame that people think they need to tag their kids to protect them...a shame because there ARE so many predatory sickos out there and it really seems kids arent safe ANYWHERE. what the hell is wrong with this world??? when did everyone turn into raving sicko lunatics? wish we could just go back to the days of not having to worry about so much...
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AnimlNitr8
Sept. 19, 2006, 1:27 p.m.
also, will this become an even easier way for people to steal our identities?
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AnimlNitr8
Sept. 19, 2006, 1:30 p.m.
hey, can we chip sexual predators so that when they even think of attacking someone they get a debilitating jolt to the family jewels?
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agsreno
Sept. 19, 2006, 3:06 p.m.
RFiD can easily be misused and abused. We should all be on high alert for this potentially huge Orwellian threat to our civil liberties.
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uncleT
Sept. 19, 2006, 6:12 p.m.
Docj: All Muslims in the US and insane leftwing anti American terrorist loving Democrats.... and all of the left wing press....
I suppose you want the pleasure of zapping any of these low lifes if in your opinion and yours along that they don't agree with your very narrow minded agenda puke.
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uncleT
Sept. 19, 2006, 6:41 p.m.
Zapping would be the next thing you control freak.
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uncleT
Sept. 19, 2006, 8:11 p.m.
We could go tit for tat and it would not solve a dam thing. I saw on one of your post comments you served in Vietnam and so did I, does that make me a cut and run liberal in the world controlled by DocJ? One of my sons has been to Iraq and made it back, does that make him a cut and run liberal?
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lfergie812
Sept. 19, 2006, 10:45 p.m.
Tag the kids until they're 18 and then I wouldn't care where they were. LOL