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Gillette Pulls RFID Tags In UK Amid Protests

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the less-tabs-kept-the-better dept.

akb writes "Indymedia UK is reporting that after protests against the trial of RFID tags by Gillette at a Tesco store in Cambridge, increasing press coverage, a boycott, and the growing mobilisation of campaigners against the intrusive use of the technology, Gillette have withdrawn their trial. RFID (Radio Frequency ID) tags are small tags containing a microchip which can be 'read' by radio sensors over short distances (for background see SchNEWS Feature / 2 part Guardian Article)."

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  1. cron.daily by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    just started running

  2. I Invoke the Riot Act by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George for preventing tumultuous and riotous assemblies. God save the King.

  3. hard drive errors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I used to get these and other hd errors:
    Jun 24 00:43:08 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
    Jun 24 00:43:08 kernel: hda: lost interrupt
    Jun 24 00:43:08 kernel: hda: dma_intr: bad DMA status (dma_stat=30)
    Jun 24 00:43:08 kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }

    including one that said Uncorrectable Error

    I put noapic in the append line for my lilo entry and it cleared the problem right up.

    I hope mandrake gets it right with 9.2.

  4. Close! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Phew! THAT was a close shave!

  5. where does the picket line start? by velska · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Talk about a hair-raising story - this wasn't even a worse-case scenario. Some nonprofit civil rights movement should organize a worldwide protest and boycott. The only positive scenario that comes to mind is reducing the amount of large denomination banknotes - mostly used in contraband transaxions. On the other hand, contraband is a matter of definition and subject to political climate changes, so... and think, you get that $1,000 bill just to keep it in your wallet for a while before paying a mortgage payment - and anyone with $5 worth of seminconductors can find out.

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    --v
  6. Re:In Store Theft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Chemist"? "Bottled it"? Get this shit off /. -- we speak AMERICAN here, limey!