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Verisign to run National RFID Directory

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we've-seen-this-before dept.

JamesD_UK writes "Verisign has been given the contract to develop a national RFID directory by EPCGlobal. Under the directory scheme each company will maintain an Object Name Service analogous to DNS with Verisign running the root server. Verisign has already setup the infrastructure at six different global sites."

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  1. lol... by REBloomfield · · Score: 4, Funny

    PeopleFinder is on it's way then :)

    'The person you are trying to find does not exist. Did you mean....'

    1. Re:lol... by REBloomfield · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, that would be kind of cool. I'm always losing stuff...

    2. Re:lol... by Lord+of+Ironhand · · Score: 5, Funny

      > Imagine entering a query to retrieve your car keys... the possibilities are endless.

      Indeed, why restrict yourself to your own car keys?

    3. Re:lol... by Illserve · · Score: 2, Funny

      PeopleFinder is on it's way then :)

      And Google will soon provide us with Poogle.

      Or maybe Stoogle

      (St for Stalking)

    4. Re:lol... by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 5, Funny
      Imagine entering a query to retrieve your car keys... the possibilities are endless.
      Imagine somebody else entering a query to retrieve your car keys... the possible locations of your car are endless.
    5. Re:lol... by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, imagine waking up after way too much to drink way to late into the night... "where am I?" Just scan your self.

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    6. Re:lol... by vt0asta · · Score: 2, Funny

      Endless, but you could always do a search to find it.

      Finally, an answer (and an end) to the joke... "Dude, where's my car?"

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  2. And if you use one that does not exist... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    you get a nice Verisign advertisement.

  3. We're not in kansas any more.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Munchkin VeriSign's Brendsel is surely going to lead us up the yellow brick road.

  4. Great... by jasonfncsu · · Score: 5, Funny

    now verisign has the ability to erase me.

    Please remember me when I'm gone...

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    1. Re:Great... by nacturation · · Score: 3, Funny

      now verisign has the ability to erase me.

      Please remember me when I'm gone...

      Don't worry... you're still in the Google cache, although you haven't been spidered since you were 11 years old.

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    2. Re:Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      That's funny, because I got "spidered" by Michael Jackson when I was 11 years old. Well, that's what he called it, anyway.

  5. In other news.... by nuclear305 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ./ community has released an update to patch this "issue."

    Simply wear the provided tinfoil hat to nullroute this new service.

  6. Organisation or Disorganisation? by janfarrell · · Score: 2, Funny

    More standards, new methods... and what about embedded systems... surely this will not be compliant with old systems in 5 years time... You will need Windows 2006 to be able to use this. Just seems like the web is getting more and more bureaucratic, not good... America: where liberty is a statue and patriotism is trusting the government.

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  7. Verisign and RFID by Pompatus · · Score: 4, Funny

    all in one story is not quite enough for a flamewar. If they were running this new service on SCO licensed servers donated by Microsoft in order to find oil on Mars, THEN you would have a story.

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  8. Verisign is not so bad by markov_chain · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine the outburst on here if FBI was to run directory!

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  9. Re:Renewal fees by Bob+McCown · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yea, but I won't want to renew the tag for my out-of-style pants, so thats a bonus! The scanning system will even tell me when I can't wear my pants anymore.

    Who needs style when technology can do it for me!

  10. New Verisign Ad Slogan by lww · · Score: 3, Funny

    We put the 'F' in RFID...

  11. In other news... by gekkotron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Verisign is considering a name change to 'Skynet'.

  12. Re:Credit for This Idea by geoffspear · · Score: 3, Funny

    I bet you were worried when they started putting barcodes on everything in the grocery stores, too.

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  13. Re:CueCat vs. EPC Directory? by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    > What are the similarities between CueCat and the EPC Directory project? It seems to me that the only difference is the scale of the implementation.

    CueCat: Privacy-intrusive, shaped like a dildo so you could go fuck yourself with it, and run by a useless bloody looney who was first against the wall when the last tech revolution ended.

    VeriSign: Privacy-intrusive, is useful only for telling you as a customer to go fuck yourself, and run by a load of useless bloody looneys who will be first against the wall when the next tech revolution starts.

    So in answer to your question... really not much difference at all.

    Q: How can you tell your sysadmin's got a Verisign rep on the phone?
    A: You hear someone screaming "YOU STUPID FUCING COCKSUCKERS!" into a phone every ten seconds, from six cubicles away.

  14. Re:Write to EPC, my letter is here: by Some+Bitch · · Score: 2, Funny
    the discussions on SlashDot are some of the most intelligent discussions I have ever read

    You really must start reading more.

  15. 11 Weeks, 2 Days Early by Schizoid+Genius · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wake up, check my e-mail, and pop the lid on my RSS feeds, and what do I see?

    Verisign to run National RFID Directory

    My first thought is, "Nice April 1 joke! Hah, hah, hah. Very fucking funny." But then I check my calendar.

    Oh shit.

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  16. My worst fear has come to life by Klowner · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can see it now. I'm shopping in wal-mart (Clearly this is a dream sequence)

    After browsing around for a few minutes, I walk out the doors without purchasing anything.

    BOOM! Two sets of doors slam open, and out comes ItemFinder "Service" Bot ! Scooting towards me at nearly 35mph, knocking me down with his huge spiked arms.

    [IFBot] I AM SORRY THAT YOU WERE UNABLE TO FIND THE ITEM YOU WERE SEEKING!!!
    *** IFBot picks me up and throws me back into the store
    [IFBot] PERHAPS THESE ITEMS ARE WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR!!!

    ...damn you item finder bot

  17. Imagine... by suwain_2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The technology we trust most, in the hands of the company we trust most!

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