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Lessons Learned from RFID Field Test
muddy_mudskipper writes "From John Young's cryptome.org website, is a newly posted pdf copy of the "Lessons Learned from RFID Field Test" as compiled by the Field Test Program Manager of the Auto ID Center. It is interesting to note the photographs of the different passive RFID antennas that could be used in product packaging - some small enough to fit into a soap box. Also curious is how many sector antennas have to pepper the test center in order to approach 100% RFID readability. 'In March 2001 a team comprised of Auto-ID Center sponsors (technology & end users) was assembled to plan and implement a Field Test aimed at taking the Auto-ID EPC technology from the laboratory to the real world environment with the objective of proving the power and effectiveness of the EPC and to blaze a trail for future adoption' "
You need twelve more for a record, however...
One thing to look out for is the resonant frequency. We were trying to use RFID tags inside professional tape decks, to tell which tape was currently in the decl - it was an asset management project.
:-)
:-) Always read the small print....
the only useful (in terms of range) RFID tags at the time (18 months ago now) were resonant at 13.5 MHz, which is very very close to the colour burst frequency of PAL TV... not ideal for the inside of a Pro. tape deck
Complete redesign, readers outside and having to motion sensors to detect the tape's direction (if it was going in or out) delayed us quite considerably
Simon.
Physicists get Hadrons!
Just curious as to how many of you already have an RFID tag. Were you aware that the mobil speed pass is an RFID tag?
Contgradulations!! Big Brother is watching YOU.
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RAID strikes again!
Lesson 1: RFIDs screw your privacy
Lesson 2: Lesson 1 is always true.
We've been doing RFID for a couple years now at www dot buyrfid dot com, (www.buyrfid.com), and I can tell you, most of the fears about privacy are not valid.
The best non-battery tags can be read at 20 feet, and all the class 1 tags must have and support a kill command.
Please realize, your cell phone is a rfid tag, its constantly updating your position to the phone cell towers. To implement the Cell-911, they use multi-cell towers to narrow down your location to within 50 feet or so....
So you tag yourself already
Whoops. Wrong neurons in the path - it was the CCIR sampling in the deck that ran at 13.5 MHz... It's late, ok ?? :-)
Simon.
Physicists get Hadrons!
I'm not worried about this RFID thing - I plan on learning how to make these things myself with some kit you can buy out the back of popular science, and I'm going to program them and stick them all over my clothes... the catch is, I'm going to fill them with all kinds of crap data that just wastes these companies and gov's bandwidth and storage capabilities, and flood their databases with wack data. If enough people do what I do, RFID will be worthless real fast I figure. Sure, there will be ways to sort the data so the bad stuff can be trashed, but then we adapt and reprogram the tags, and it becomes a game they will tire of quickly.
As far as I know, systems with reasonable range aren't cheap. I'm not sure any system works well when attached to metal tools.
But the icky issue, is that I want to be able to track my stuff, but I don't want everyone else to be able to track my stuff.
I'd like to try tagging the stuff I lose around the yard and house. Since I would assign the tags, there wouldn't be many privacy issues. People with scanners would know how many things I tagged, but not what they are.
So, are there any affordable systems? How about affordable systems that can quickly scan a room (where is the remote now?). Where can I get them?
[The article was already slashdotted, so I have no idea what it is about.]
I like how they tried to obscure the "Gillette Venus" printed on the boxes in the PDF file but the overlay image doesn't appear until the picture is completely loaded.
Gillette doesn't want us to know that the tests are being conducted either with their cooperation or on their behalf.
Ooops. Foiled by the PDF.
- Hail to our fearless misleader! Fool speed ahead!
Cryptome invites information on means and/or devices that will allow a customer to neuter RFID tags on purchased products which are no longer owned by the RFID installers. Send to: jya@pipeline.com
The RFID docs on Cryptome were pointed to by CASPIAN, the premier group resisting the spread of RFID in consumer products. CASPIAN website:
http://www.spychips.com
Catalogs/datasheets/white papers for electronic parts.
Any decent source? Most of stuff I find on the net are either very limited range, or just trade offers with very short descriptions (no pinout etc), or available only for a fee. Could you share your sources for that stuff?
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I would say something like "Sounds like 1984 is more of a reality every day."
I live in a managed flat in Central London, where the entrance key to the concierge area is unlocked with an RFID tag. The door to the flat itself is still a normal key though :-)
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
What we need now are edible RFID tags which fast food franchises can put in their happy meals and which will lodge in the gut of their consumers.
:)
This way, as soon as one of them waddles into their store, ones favorite happy meal will be ready for you by the time you get to the counter!!!
Convenience!!!
That will be double plus good!
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Its a us federal sponsorred initiative to track vehicles near certain highways feeding certain urban areas.
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basically the fbi enters a rfid number into the database and then history of travel for the car pops up.
the feds can also pre-enter rfids they want to watch after getting a reading off your parked car or from the canadian-us customs border (where they already actively log the car rfids in the tires and associate them with plates)
Your tires have a passive coil with 64 to 128 bit serial number emitter in them! (AIAG B-11 ADC v3.0)
Photos of chips before molded into tires:
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:SVUlB-z0BCQ J: www.sokymat.com/applications/tireid.html
Californias Fastpass is being upgraded to scan ALL responding car tires in future years upcoming. I-75 may get them next in rural funnel points in Ohio.
http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html
YOU MUST BUY NEUTRALIZED OR FOREIGN TIRES!!!!! Soon such tires will become illegal to import or manufacture.
Using these chips to track people while they drive is actually the idea of the us gov, and current chips CANNOT BE DISABLED or removed. They hope ALL tires will have these chips in 4 years and hope people have a very hard time finding non-chipped tires. Removing the chips is near impossible without destroying the tire as the chips were designed with that DARPA design goal.
They are hardened against removal or heat damage or easy eye detection and can be almost ANYWHERE in the new "big brother" tires. In fact in current models they are integrated early and deep into the substrate of the tire as per US FBI request.
Our freedom of travel are going away in 2003, because now there is an international STANDARD for all tire transponder RFID chips and in 2004 nearly ALL USA cars will have them. Refer to AIAG B-11 ADC, (B-11 is coincidentally Post Sept 11 fastrack initiative by US Gov to speed up tire chip standardization to one read-back standard for highway usage).
The AIAG is "The Automotive Industry Action Group"
The non proprietary (non-sokymat controlled) standard is the AIAG B-11 standard is the "Tire Label and Radio Frequency Identification" standard
"ADC" stands for "Automatic Data Collection"
The "AIDCW" is the US gov manipulated "Automatic Identification Data Collection Work Group"
The standard was started and finished rapidly in less than a year as a direct consequence of the Sep 11 attacks by Saudi nationals.
I believe detection of the AIAG B-11 radio chips (RFIS serial number transponders) in the upgraded car tracking http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html is currently secret knowledge. Another reason to leave "finger print on Driver license" California, but Ohio gets it next, as will every other state eventually.
The AIAG is claiming the chips reduce car theft, assist in tracking defects, and assists error-proofing the tire assembly process. But the real secret is that these 5 cent devices are a us government backed initiative to track citizens travel without their consent or ability to disable the transponders in any way.
All tire manufacturers are forced to comply AIAG B-11 3.0 Radio Tire tracking standard by the 2004 model year.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:gwhgWJnCf3o J: www.aiag.org/publications/b11.asp
Viewing b11 synopsis is free, downloads from that are $10 and tracked by the FBI. Use the google cache to avoid leaving breadcrumbs.
A huge (28 megabyte compressed zip) video of a tire being scanned remotely is at http://mows.aiag.org/ScriptContent/videos/ (the file is "video Aiagb-11.zip"). I would use a proxie when touching it. The FBI is monitoring the "curious" hackers.
And just as showerheads are now illegal to import into the USA from Canada or mexico, as are drums of industrial Freon, and standard size toilets are illegal to import for home use, soon car tires
So they can track when I buy a bar of soap...You know what...I'd not actually mind that someone knows that I bought some Irish Spring...maybe I actually want them to know that I like the product.
Ppl are always spinning this RFID thing the wrong way. It's called a live inventory and it is already being done with the bar codes that they scan when you buy your bars of soap (or maybe you don't buy soap...I'm not one to judge). This is the biggest reason they want to do this. Besides serving as a replacement for a bar code, these things could also be used instead of those magnetic security scanners at the doors...you know, the ones that always go off because the cashier forgot to demagnetize the strip or didn't do it properly???
I don't know what ppl are so concerned about. The only ppl that should have these things are stores and maybe your kitchen if you want to know about everything you have...
Anything the store will know about you can already be gained by combining information from an ATM/Credit Card and the bar code scanner...
CASPIAN is founded by Katherine Albrecht, a privacy spook (with an agenda to become famous) that has long fought against barcodes and supermarket discount shopping cards.
The reason she has changed her target to focus on RFID is because... not one really listened to her when she whined about supermarket discount cards, by focusing on RFID she'll get more media attention (as she is now).
[twisted humor]
Scene:
Man1: How's the warehouse inventory project going?
Man2: Well, we've got 2504 cans of tuna fish, 478 radial tires, and one Boeing 747.
Man1: A Boeing 747? WTF?
Man2: No, WTC! Hahahaha!
[/twisted humor]
For my grad school class project, I had to design an API (based on TI's S6350). Tell me what you think.
While there are certainly plenty of issues surrounding use of RFID in personal items, I believe there are plenty of opportunities for their use in non-Personal items that carry none of these issues. For example, what if RFID were integrated into all of the multitude of assembly line and related devices found on a factory floor. They could then be used to quickly inventory the items currently in a specific area of that factory. Or, track the spare devices in a storage area, making it very easy to determine if there is a replacement for a failed part without having to search through multiple storage areas only to learn there is a discrepency between electronic records and what is physically present.
Or, how about using RFID to track all items entering and leaving a construction site? This would provide very accurate and timely tracking of items arriving from suppliers, or being returned to suppliers.
None of these examples has privacy issues, yet they offer new solutions to rather challenging issues. Chief among them is the ability to match up electronic records with physical reality without being nearly as vulnerable to human error.
You haven't been taking your medication, have you?
Listen carefully. *Any* RFID tag can be neutralized , when subjected to a strong enough field. Take your tires down to your neighborhood welder & have him strike a few arcs next to them.
The "feds" can't find Whitey Bulger, they're not tracking you through your tires. Your cell phone is much easier.
...thereby immensely frustrating the tinfoil hat community.
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
It fits in a soapbox you say? Well do you mind getting of yours so I can scan my RFID tag...?
"Once again proving that Western civilization has far too much leisure time."
Yes, they do.
I like how they tried to obscure the "Gillette Venus" printed on the boxes in the PDF file but the overlay image doesn't appear until the picture is completely loaded.
/. articles on Tomacco & Skittlebrau I should have figured otherwise.
This reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer builds a webpage and starts calling himself Mister X. When the web graphic loads, it first loads Homer's picture, and then loads the ? bag over his head. he he.
Never thought I'd see it anyplace but on the Simpsons, but I guess with the recent
It is not aliens, but gnomes and they are going to steal your underpants!
Go out and get sailing!
That's basically a note in a bottle form of tracking, and can't be tied to an individial (unless they want to be)
HAHA! I read the entire pdf about RFID at Cryptome, and no matter how hard Walmart and P&G try, they will never ever have 100 percent registration of each and every pallet, case, etc. WHY???? Because in those very pretty pictures within the pdf were examples of just how nicely the sometimes HUGE label had to be applied. Each label was perfectly straight, and located exactly away from metal on the products to which they were attached.
What I'm getting at is that in the real world, humans will never always place the RFID labels exactly in the right place! Never! And, did you notice the size of those darn labels??? They are huge, some of them!
To me, this looks like a huge failure about to happen at Walmart's vendors expense.
Here are reasons why these RFID labels will not work properly:
1. Radio interference from many sources.
2. Improper placement on item.
3. Damage due to many reasons.
4. Distance from antennas.
5. Failure of antennas to stay properly tuned.
These are just a few reasons.
Barcodes are better and heres why:
1. The barcode tags do not store personal data on them.
2. They cannot be read from a distance without the use of a laser whereas RFID could be read from wihtin your package as you walk wthin a mall, or store, and even from one vehicle to another with the right equipment.
3. Barcodes are already on everything, and require no additional expense to vendors.
4. There are no real advantages to consumers for each and every item to be remarked with an RFID tag vs a barcode that is already on the item.
But, to giants like Walmart, RFID tags are just ANOTHER way of tracking products. Barcodes are already used at all Walmart distribution centers to mark pallets and crates or boxes.
Lastly, if you read the industry notes, you'll learn that RFID tags are becoming smart tags, and they will begin to be much more than mere number transmitters. In the future, RFID tags will be computers with storage ability and that will make you a walking target for stores and companies to monitor as you walk within stores or malls, you will be tracked, and your purchases identified even by other stores who want to see what you purchased at another store.
Just say no, to RFID tracking before it gets out of hand.
The kooks and extremists will be coming out of the woodwork over this story. Turn off the Alex Jones and quit reading your From the Wilderness newsletters for a minute and get it in your head that the Patriot Act, the War on Drugs, the War in Iraq, gun control/bans, DMCA, NAFTA, GATT, FTAA, globalism, income tax, social programs, etc are good and necessary to ensure our freedom.
So, quit listening to filth and learn the truth. The government is here to help and this RFID is a good thing if it helps the government track you.
Just for the sake of argument. How do you think they will do that? Think about it very carefully, because you know you don't want people to be poking holes in your argument.
Exactly. WTF does the government want to know where you and your POS Gremlin are going? (Actually, I can infer wherethe grandparent poster is probably going: a) to the doctor, b) from the doctor, c) to the park to sleep, or d) Down to the gun store at the command of the radio voice they put in his head). Everytime I see an RFID article I do an automatic rolleyes to prepare myself for the first comment. You are already trackable via credit card and cell phone, and the gov't hasn't bothered you yet. ...
Or are they?
Dun dun dun!!!
You raise a series of very good points (especialy 1, 2, 3 in the RFID set and #2 and 3 of the barcode set). But there is another side to some of the points you raise.
4. There are no real advantages to consumers for each and every item to be remarked with an RFID tag vs a barcode that is already on the item.
Not so. There are number of benefits to consumers. These go beyond lower costs from more efficient handling of product and less theft of products. Three example applications that benefit consumers are:
1. Automated inventory management in the home. With a home scanner, say on the refrigerator or the front door, everything you bring in or take out is tracked. If one person in the house drinks the last of the milk and throws out the carton, the scanner(s) note the potential need for milk.
2. Product recall: With these chips, the retailer knows who bought which lots of a product. If a product recall is initiated, the supplier can alert the retailer and the retailer can contact the customer.
3. Prevention of counterfeit medicines. Apparently some people steal medicine containers out of hospital dumpsters, refill them and resell them. IDing all the containers and flagging the discards prevents this. It also prevents other forms of counterfeiting in which criminals make copies of pharmaceutical packaging. Again, the ID creates traceability (to the extent that the criminals don't also hack the databases)
1. The barcode tags do not store personal data on them.
Actually, the RFID chips promoted by the Auto-ID people don't "store" any personal data. The chip only contains a unique ID code - a database has all the "personal" data associated with the ID. Unless you have access to the database, the data on the chip is useless because its just a code number. Bar codes can be unique and associated with databases - just look at the bar codes on UPS parcels. Any privacy issues (with either Auto-ID or unique bar coding) is more with the database, than with the chip. OK, its a minor distinction, but it adds hurdles to criminal exploitation of RFID.
Just say no, to RFID tracking before it gets out of hand.
I agree with you on the potential threat from some abusive applications of RFID. But to ban the entire technology seems a bit excessive. I'd rather work to ensure that it can be used safely.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
If RFID tags become common in every product, as some seem to be suggesting, does this mean that cardboard boxes will no longer be recylable since there are electronics hidden in the paper layers? Has anyone considered this angle or am I really out of it?
And Gillette did about the same, too.
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
Whatcha gonna do when you misplace your RFID scanner, Sherlock? :-)
"A worthy cause has never been harmed by the truth" - Gandhi
This is obviously a karma whore, the information listed is false. The next time you get a flat keep the tire and cut it open. You'll know who to trust then.
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Why are you so worried about this? We already have laws mandating clear, trackable identification of automobiles via license plates. In fact, we must actively register our vehicles for this purpose. Optical scans of license plate numbers are already in place in many cities for ticketing red-light infractions, speeding, and emissions monitoring. This is all much more sinister that any potential misuse of RFIDs in tires that are designed to track failures. Big brother is already watching.
BTW - I feel that Firestone was made a scapegoat for the bigger problem of oversized vehicles riding on underinflated passenger tires driven by a poorly trained populace.
Consider this; They could easily put RFID tags in shoes and read them a lot more reliably than getting information out of an RFID tag through steel belting. Of course it won't work while you're driving, but the moment you step on the sensor, you've been fingered. Or should I say, toed.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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everybody's watching you, not just Big Brother. I mean, there is the world's highest density of street surveillance cameras, right? And the well-known snoopy journalists and paparrazi? and those damned speed-tracking and automatic citation systems - nobody else is quite so thorough about that yet.
:-)
Orwell's 1984 and the movie Brazil are both very distinctively English, probably for good reason.
So I always assume that London is going to continue to be the leader in the transition to a world devoid of privacy. (And the USA may be right behind, the way things are going. Or maybe Australia.)
Not that I don't still want to visit the UK someday.
Is this like a bluetooth that works on
the energy coming from a radio dish?
I thought the FBI was using this to
bug buildings.. I usually just tickle
them with feathers..
Anyhow, given that your radio dishes whirl around and are able to determine the precise
angle a correlating ID is from multiple radio
beacons, as with GPS, if your have about 4 points of reference and a unique ID, you can determine a 3D coordinate of the particular item.. So to say they might with RFID's over a period of time be able to track the location
and possibly the orientation, depending on how many RFID's are on the snickers bar and the precise amount of time it takes for the signal to return to the radio dishes.. So if someone really wanted to, they probably could use these
RFID tags and radar atenaes to do motion capture
for a IK chain.. Hey cheap 3D data collection!!
Anyhow.. I always say, what the net and the world needs is more accountability.. And more forgiveness.. Less of both of these is a bad thing.. Less forgiveness and more accountability
produces clique cultures (" we don't want you in our clique because you promote all these products we don't, you wierdo"). More forgiveness and less accountability produces (" nobody will know I'm over here building a bomb.. And will spring it thus forth on these unsuspecting people.. ") or (" Nobody will know I'm a sex crazed nazi eskimo who is turned on by teh same stuff ed wood is.. ") . Who really cares about your personal fetishes, come on.. But if you like sleeping with nuclear warheads, I really would like to know about that..
When I was in new york, I had attended conferences on the subject of tracking people's cellphone, and the issue that came up with the businessmen was, would they be able to keep their secret life with their lovers seperate from their wives in the case of the wifes curiousity.. Hey if your wife is curious enough,
that just bypasses the whole trust part of marriage, right? And if you are concerned about it, you shouldn't be cheating.. I think some people forget why they got married int he first place.. To keep up with the joneses!! Yes..
Ha! Well there was some discussion in the conferences about systems to control the amount of accountability at every level, where the beacons should be required by law to only allow certain kinds of information to be collected and transponded.. I'm wondering how this is being handled.. And if your researchers are wondering baout the correlation of the ids and if they can be distributed, hey go check out the PIDS healthcare id specification on the OMG website, disregard the CORBA implementation, its a good spec.. And can be modified to protect those being tracked, can unify the ids across domains without trrusting relationships, and is vendor independent and enforceable by the government and standards committees.. Makes me wonder why our healthcare ids are not currently being managed with this system..
It basically works like this, you have at every beacon a database of ids, and when any database comes to know of a new id, it sends the id to everyone about it, along with the source information about the id.. Then the other sites can associate an additional local id, so as to keep the precise id away from lesser priviledged machines.. If so needed.. And the ids can be
given extra attributes, like this id has this eye color, skin color, blood type, address.. But it doesn't have to have any of these.. Hey it may save your life one day.. Lets say you went into a store, you bought a sniker bar and you
went to the counter, paid for the snicker bar, the RFID is correlated to the credit card you use, then you get into a car crash, all your id is destroyed by the gasoline fire, your face is mostly burned or difigured.. No form of id, if the car was demolished and nothing can be salvaged, lets say for instance you might have been on a bus, or for whatever reason the only form of id on you is that danged snicker bar with the RFID, well if using a pids system they can query ba
Just say no to license servers!!
*imagine if you will, the year is 2020, RFID tags are in common use for automated inventory, the location, a construction site for a high-rise...
A truck pulls up to the gate, the driver waves his pass-wand (a battery powered RFID chip) at the reader, the gate opens and the driver slowly pulls the truck through the arch (a reader).
As the truck pulls through the reader (which reads RFID tags in the shipping box labels), a tally shows up on the foreman's PDA (wirelessly connected to the construction site's server). The shipment of ball bearings and wing nuts has arrived, not needing the shipment at the moment, he directs the driver to park the trailer in a quiet corner of the yard via instant messaging.
The driver then parks the trailer in the indicated corner of the yard, and leaves, again, he waves his pass-wand at the reader on his way out, and drives off into the sunset.
Two days later, when the wing nuts are finally needed, the foreman opens up the trailer and discovers a single cardboard box sitting in the trailer. What happened? The tags said it was full. The answer, some greedy bastard stuffed a box full of the proper RFID tags into the trailer, and thanks to automated inventory, nobody thought to look.*
Of course, this scenario is somewhat far-fetched, but it serves to demonstrate a major downside of fully automated inventory.
ahaha, that boycott gillette site is retarded. Oh no, they're taking photos of you in a public place! Look at all the scruffy men buying razorblades!
You'd think it would have dawned on them that the security cameras in nearly every store is indeed recording them. Boycott going outside because you might get videotaped!
The people at the grocery store might even find out about that special ointment you tried to hide under the carton of eggs.
Not for tracking, but for authentication? I'm getting a bit tired of my $20's changing every few years, with newer and better printing processes. Heck, if you showed me five "new" twenty dollar bills and asked me to find one or more counterfits I wouldn't have a chance.
Give me a handy-dandy rf interrogator which checks the validity of the internal key with a one-way hash and gives me a true or false. Sure, you could still just copy a number, but then they'd all be the same, and a smart reader would flag any repeats in a checked set. The keygens for WinXP I've seen take several seconds per attempt, and minutes to generate a valid key on a fast desktop machine...and it's only a 140 bit key (or thereabouts).
Any possibility of this?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Wow I think this the first time I've seen a PDF file with a "omg we've been slashdotted" notice pointing to a mirror site.
Hmmm.
...unfortunately no one can be told what The Mat^H^H^HGoatse is...they must experience it for themselves...
The last few months, I've gone from caring to indifferent in regards to RFID's. The reason? Visible Light.
With Visible Light, the FBI can track anyone, anywhere. In case you haven't noticed, they already have cameras which can read license plates, and from distances much longer than the few meters of RFIDs. RFID's are a moot point - the technology for tracking people using Visible Light already exists, and is already installed.
Eavesdropping technology is a red herring designed to distract the public from the real issue - that is, our legal system isn't entirely just. There have always been ways to frame the innocent, and there have always been ways to coerce and intimidate. The absence (sp?) of RFID's isn't going to prevent the government from oppressing people; last I checked, we are still "detaining" Muslim "persons of interest" for extended periods of time. Now tell me, what do RFID's have to do with that?
RFID's are a moot point. The real issue is the Federal Government's lack of accountability to the public.
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I feel that Firestone was made a scapegoat for the bigger problem of oversized vehicles riding on underinflated passenger tires driven by a poorly trained populace.
From what I've heard another big-name tire manufacturer was spared the humiliation, because they were better able to show that user-negligence caused any "tread separation" failures with that brand of tire.
In the media, it was reported that one Firestone factory had quality control problems. If so, that is a very isolatable and fixable problem. Also, other Firestone tires generally don't have that problem. My car came with Firestone OEM tires that, while kind of on the cheap side, are just fine. I'll probably replace them with Bridgestones or Goodyears, anyway, partly due to brand loyalty.
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin
So, you're saying my hover car is safe? Or...are they also putting RFIDs in to the anti-graviton emitters, too?!?
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin
is there anything i could buy that i could carry around with me that i could use to see if things are actively transmitting a radio signal?
with everything being RFID enabled soon. i'd kinda like a little hand held GBA looking thing that scans for a transmission and disables it. or just something i can turn on and off that will emit a stronger signal blocking all 2.4ghz devices, cell phones, RFID, etc. from being able to receive/send info.
'In March 2001 a team comprised of Auto-ID Center sponsors (technology & end users) was assembled to plan and implement a Field Test aimed at taking the Auto-ID EPC technology from the laboratory to the real world environment with the objective of proving the power and effectiveness of the EPC and to blaze a trail for future adoption'
Well gee, it sounds like they decided what the outcome of the test needed to be before they even began. How convenient!
I'm betting the numbers are so heavily fudged that they can be used as a hot ice cream topping.
fbi shills kept marking my message to -1 to silence this post
Your bizarre, unsubstantiated, unsubstantiable anti-governmental conspiracy theory would be entirely unremarkable, except for this new Slashdot-related twist on the old "I'm being silenced for telling THE TRUTH" bit. I gotta give you credit, you're taking kookery to whole new places.
Your mare has NO RFID number!
All that is transmitted is a unique serial number. So what if you transmit a ton of serial numbers? You'll just more uniquely identify yourself.
It would be interesting to walk through RFID-Land encased in an RF Umbrella that just produced a stream of gibberish on common RFID Frequencies.
90% of everything is crap. Also, crap is relative.
Being an "Inventory Specialist" for a walmart store I want enough rfid tags to put on every pallet in the store. From there, I want to create a database which I log in the rifd tag and the barcodes and contents of the pallet, then shrink wrap and slot the pallet for retreival 2 weeks to 2 months later. Now I dont really require an exact count of everything on said pallet (I would be stupid to wish that as things fall off, are removed, ripped off, stocked, trashed, destroyed, etc). I just want to know generally where the heck things are better than I do now.
Currently my mornings include a 15 min walk in which I take a mental note of where certain bulk items are on the floor, then what bulk items are in lofts.
At any random moment I could have a department manager call me, or walk up and ask where they could find such and such item, Bulk, feature, or just regular freight and I have to remember where I have seen it. I have a photogenic memory, but it's memory.. I can remember where an object was a month ago, but between now and then it has been moved by some hapless nutcase with a forklift key.
If I had rfid tags on every pallet, spend 30 seconds per pallet to collect pallet id, contents and last known location while moving the pallet from one side of the warehouse to its resting place--be it, loft space, bin space, floor space, container or sales floor--I would be able to look up a last known location, then just start doing a rfid tag sweep from there to find the pallet and hopefully it's contents. I would probably save 2 hours every day.
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Consider yourself blessed if you are sneezed on by a dragon and only get wet, it could have been a fireball.
Palomar (2002) PAssive LOng distance Multiple Access high Radio frequency identification system Project funded by the European Commission (IST-1999-10339)
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