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Microchips For Human Implantation As ID
securitas writes: "Reuters is carrying this story about Applied Digital's VeriChip -- a subcutaneous microchip (like the ones they use to tag pets, livestock and wildlife) used as ID for humans. They are radio-activated and would initially be used to store and transmit medical data via the Internet. They will be also used as tracking beacons and personal ID according to a company exec. The launch will be in Europe and South America. The company has made an FDA application and the FCC has already licensed airwaves for a similar device." We've mentioned this company's "Digital Angel" before, but there's an understandable sudden interest in such tracking technologies.
I assume they would use IPv6 :)
:)
That way you can also get QoS data and priority
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So you mean that you don't ask for their IP?
and willing to test it out on said chips ?
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egg troll, i am your biggest fan. please, tell me how i can be like you?
how long before someone h4x0rz it?
"The ones who dont do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down" -- Henry Rollins
As long as the chip uses a Microsoft OS, I'm okay with the chip. It will crash so often that nobody would be able to get any information out of it.
(Scenerio)
Police: Sir, I need to scan your ID chip.
[attempts to scan chip and fails]
Police: Uhhh for some reason, I am getting a blue screen of some sort on my reader. I knew they shouldn't have used Windows on these things!
-RickTheWizKid
Netcraft has confirmed: Taco-snotting is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Taco-snotting community when recently IDC confirmed that Taco-snotting accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Taco-snotting has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Taco-snotting is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Taco-snotting's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Taco-snotting faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Taco-snotting because Taco-snotting is dying. Things are looking very bad for Taco-snotting. As many of us are already aware, Taco-snotting continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. The circle-snot is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core snotters.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Juicy-snotting leader Jon Katz states that there are 7000 snotters of the Juicy-snot. How many users of anal snot are there? Let's see. The number of Juicy-snotting versus anal snot posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 anal snot users. SnotOS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of anal snot posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SnotOS. A recent article put the circle-snot at about 80 percent of the Taco-snotting market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 circle-snot users. This is consistent with the number of circle-snot Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, the circle-snot went out of business and was taken over by SNOTi who sell another troubled jizz snot. Now SNOTi is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Taco-snotting has steadily declined in market share. Taco-snotting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Taco-snotting is to survive at all it will be among homosexual hobbyist dabblers. Taco-snotting continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Taco-snotting is dead.
Fact: Taco-snotting is dead.
I want one that stores Mp3's
/. reader hacks it and mounts an 80gigger under his arm?
but the real question: how long before some
I can see it now....Linux ported to Steve
Chaos, Mayhem, and Destruction: Not
Where am I?
In the Village
What do you want?
Information
Whose side are you on?
That would be telling . . .
We want Information
You won't get it
By hook or by crook . . .
We will
Who are you?
The new Number Two
Who is Number One?
You are Number Six
I am not a number . . .
I'm a free man!
(Mocking laughter)
--The Prisoner
Your not a TERRORIST until you commit the act of terrorism, until that date, its free speech.
But of course one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
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First, it's going to be the terrorist.
Then it will be the sex offender.
Then it will be the murderers.
Then burglars.
Then the activist.
Then all of us.
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Is that all you can come up with, faggot boy???
jesus, it never ceases to amaze me, the slack MS gets, by PUSSY-I-JUST-INSTALLED-LINUX-AND-AM-L33T bitches, so PISS THE FUCK OFF and grow a BRAIN...
It won't happen in the US as we have it today.
My understanding of prophecy is along these lines:
1. Spiritual forces start aligning the nations of the world to be more united in government and religion -- the UN and others are working on this now.
2. The Church (all true believers in Jesus) will be instantly raptured and will simply disappear from the earth.
3. Shortly after that, the Antichrist will sign a 7-year peace agreement with Israel. He will put the finishing touches on the world government.
4. Halfway through that 7-year period, he will be killed and rise again, indwelt by Satan himself.
5. THAT is when the Mark comes into play. People all over the world will be fascinated by his resurrection, and wooed by his false miracles. They will gladly accept this Mark.
Times will be *completely* different then.
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And all those that oppose these measures and rant about 'lost liberties' only give ammunition to terrorists and scare hard-working Americans
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Just a guy with an opinion
hear hear !!!
For my neighbour, that is, and with a simple modification: I want to be able to press a button on a remote control, and zap the bastard.
:-)
Starting at midnight last night, the S.O.B. started playing his car stereo at ungodly decibel levels. Pictures on my wall were rattling. And when I phoned in the complaint to the cops, did they show? Hell, no: not in the hour and a half they had to come by and experience it all!
So I want something embedded into this moron, that I can control. Swear to god, if he acts like a reasonably decent human being, I'll never, ever press the button. But pull another stunt like he did last night, and he can writhe on the ground screaming in electronic agony.
I, of course, don't need an implant. I never piss people off.
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Even worse is the problem is that most Americans, including the people working in the government, have forgotten that the Constitution is a document that limits government by spelling out what it CAN do. Instead, they now believe that it only restricts what what the government CANNOT do - so by default, the government is free to do anything that is not specifically prohibited in the constitution.
This was one of the major arguments AGAINST the bill of rights. Many believed that it was at best unnecessary because the government was not explicitly given the ability to curtail the personal rights found in the Bill of Rights. For example, the Constitution did not give the government the right to curtail free speech, so therefore it should not have been necessary to make an ammendment prohibiting it from doing so. At worst, the Bill of Rights establishes the framework for the government to do anything it wishes, as long as it is not already prohibited elsewhere in the Constitution.
Sadly, the "worst" scenario is what we have now. The government should be permitted to do only what is spelled out in the Constitution. Instead, it does everything that is no prohibited in the Constitution. This is wrong.
I guess that makes me a libertarian.
I submitted this story probably 2 days ago.. guess my submission just "vanished" in thin air.. Figures. That's the last time I submit something to /.
Social security numbers are used by everybody because they are (theoretically) unique numbers everyone has, and relational databases love
unique IDs.
This is the inherent danger of using the SSN for identification purposes: The very uniqueness of the SSN allows the cross-tabulation of any data stored on any database anywhere in the world which uses the same unique key. It might be unique, but the SSN is also a ubiquitous identifier. It's what permits the state to arrest you on a routine traffic stop because of non-payment of alimony. It's what allows a city government to deny you employment because you're late paying your local taxes (maybe because of a legitimate reason).
The government is the danger, very much so. As government becomes more centralized, power is taken away from the people. Information is power, and thanks to your SSN, your fingerprints (yes, some states do require fingerprints for things such as driver licenses, concealed handgun permits, etc.), and other unique data, the government is able to touch your life in ways you might never imagine.
I worked for the US government for over a decade. During that time, I was forced, over the course of several years, to learn my way around the Privacy Act to force the government agency I was working for to expunge certain derogatory information about me from their records. You see, I was essentially "blacklisted" by the government, which made it very difficult for me to find employment after leaving government service. I was eventually successful in having the lies removed from my government files, but to this day, I find myself having to explain about "gaps" in my employment records from the deleted data in various financial and government transactions. This can be very difficult at times, trying to explain away data that isn't there without disclosing the data in the first place.
The government is far more dangerous than you can imagine. And I would hardly consider myself "complacent."
As for getting to work, I already have: I started railing against the use of SSN for personal identification purposes in 1989, and have continued to do so as time permits.