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RFID Coming 'Whether You Like It Or Not'
VTBassMatt writes "According to an interview with Scott McGregor of Philips Semiconductor in BusinessWeek, RFID tags are coming whether we like it or not but of course won't affect our privacy. Choice quotes from the article include such gems as, '[P]rivacy concerns around RFID tags are a little like concerns about supermarket scanners years ago. When the laser scanners were coming out, everybody was saying, retailers are going to collect information about what you buy. And none of that happened.' Is that why I have two loyalty cards on my keyring and three more in my wallet?"
Am I the only one who started thinking about some new HTML tag on seeing the article title?
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
> Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein
> believed in God. So do I.
I don't think Newton and Einstein, to pick two examples off the top of my head, believed in the same god, though...
Newton, brilliant though he of course was, was also an out and out fruitcake. If you're going to use argument from authority, best not to pick someone who would these days be locked up quicker than you can say `and what about Shockley and his white-supremacist nonsense`...
Real programmers know how to comment, they just choose not to.
Next you'll see the "Patriot card" to track that whole loyalty thing.
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - A. Hitler
or Algeria?
I don't read or respond to AC posts
. If you're going to use argument from authority, best not to pick someone who would these days be locked up
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I hate sigs. Which is why I have them turned off on
But if I did, it would be:
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
Any logic sufficiently advanced will be indistinguishable from faith.
They will never stop until somebody makes the