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An ID Number for Everything

Posted by michael on from the technology-is-not-neutral dept.

jon323456 writes "Put this in your privacy pipe and smoke it. According to news.com, MIT researchers have cooked up a new barcode that has enough dataspace to include a unique serial number for everything. And in combination with RFID tags...."

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  1. WELL....... by flyneye · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    M.I.T. researchers should maybe have some ethics that go a little like:
    MAYBE WE SHOULDNT WORK ON PROJECTS THAT MAY BE USED TO ENSLAVE MANKIND BY BIG BROTHER

    now I ask you is that so F**%ing hard for a bunch of brainiacs.
    (damn, take em out get em laid,show em theres some life to be had out there and they pull a stunt like this)

    --
    *Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
  2. Top Ten Differences Between Democrats and Republic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Top Ten Differences Between Democrats and Republicans (from the perspective of a Democrat):

    10. Democrats take your money and give it to social programs. Republicans take your money and give it to their friends.

    9. Democrats lie about sex. Republicans sex up their lies.

    8. Democrats think international cooperation means working with the United Nations. Republicans think international cooperation means working with Exxon/Mobil.

    7. Democrats try to save the planet. Republicans try to pave the planet.

    6. Democrats are elected. Republicans are selected.

    5. Democrats make treaties. Republicans break them.

    4. Democrats support a social welfare system. Republicans support a corporate welfare system.

    3. Democrats defend the rights of white supremacists. Republicans are the white supremacists.

    2. Democrats govern. Republicans rule.

    1. Democrats call people who don't believe in the separation of church and state a threat to civil liberties. Republicans call them judicial appointees.

  3. HEY BITCH, SHUT UP! by HEY+BITCH,+SHUT+UP! · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm so tired of you sub-1000 numbered bastards hanging out on here and getting free Karma for putting the toilet seat down when you're finished. Just shut your big face.

    Pie hole. Shut it.

    SHUT. UP!

    WELCOME TO MY FOES LIST.

    I will continue to campaign against lower numbers getting free karma points for being elders. This place reeks of geritol.