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Homeless to be Implanted with Subdermal RFID Tags
An anonymous reader writes "Politech has the scoop on the Bush administration's plans to forcibly implant RFID tags into homeless people in participating U.S. cities. Here's an excerpt from the UPI article: "The miniscule RFID tags are no larger than a matchstick and will be implanted subdermally, meaning under the skin. Data from RFID tracking stations mounted on telephone poles will be transmitted to police and
social service workers, who will use custom Windows NT software to track movements of the homeless in real time... A second phase of the project, scheduled to be completed in early 2005, will wirelessly transmit live information on the locations of homeless people to handheld computers running the Windows CE operating system.""
So now we can use geocaching to find homeless people? Awesome!
When will they force the REST of us who AREN'T homeless to be tracked like our dogs? -Phyrebyrd
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." -Thom
This is the most retarded April Fool's day yet. If you can't come up with your own stuff, at least link to people that do. Lucky for Slashdot that Paypal doesn't let you donate a kick in the ass.
That is how I read it.
How does CTRL-ALT-DEL work on windows CE?
with all these april fool's postings, I don't know what to believe anymore!
(huddles in corner wearing tinfoil hat whilst sucking on thumb)
who will use custom Windows NT software
That's a joke all in itself.
You had me up 'til then.
Yep. Running on NT is the giveaway. MS would not condone this unless it was on XP.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Bush should be implanted a RFID tag himself.
A telephone pole sized one.
Anally.
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Man, the april first articles are going from bad to worse!
What's next, Research showing Sco kill Mother Teresa?
Plese let it stop!
Maybe Komawi Will be able to track down his Mercedes
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Today Bush unveiled the new plan to feed America's poor. "The homeless will be ground up into nutritious meat patties and fed to the hungry" he said.
What do you mean, April Fool's joke?
Use Ctrl-C instead of ESC in Vim!
This is real news. I'm watching it on tv now, though there's no mention of NT or CE integration.
Turn on CSPAN if you don't believe me. Apparently the fifth cousin of an FBI detective that knew about 9/11 a few seconds before the first impact is homeless, and we suspect they're manufacturing WMD in secret rather than feed their own people.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Informative? Are the mods trying to make an April Fool's joke or are they just April Fools?
True story.
"Mid-morning on the 2nd" is still ~18 hours away. Hell, midnight is still nearly 9 hours away!
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
Step 1: Throw device with Windows CE out window.
Step 2: Purchase new device. Help economy.
Step 3: Windows CE has been restarted successfully.
For every karma whore there are four more people with mod points to kill.
Confound this evil plot! (Score:4, Informative)
You can defeat this plot by putting the homeless person in a microwave.
I love meta-humor. The moderation of the parent Informative is funnier than the parent's joke itself, and way funnier than the story.
You know, dude, I don't think "paranoid" is the right word for it.
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
Please tell me this is a joke!
No, it's absolutely true. Polling shows it'll play well in the midwest.
In the words of Red Foreman, "Don't be such a dumbass."
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As a homeless open source developer, I find this whole idea extremely offensive. In fact...
crap, library's closing. bbl
Anybody who has ever been arrested, tried, convicted, of any misdemeanor or above should be tracked using this technology. It's just a good idea - we can keep an eye on criminals.
;>
Better, you could program the automatic doors of your home or office to not let in tagged criminals.
By storing the information in XML format, you can interactively query a RFIDed criminal to find out what their background is (violent vs. non-violent, type of theft, drug use, current income level, gender, SSN, credit history, etc.) and let your security system decide on the fly whether you want that particular entity on your premises.
In fact, governments, building owners, and residents could publish their specification for the type of people they will allow into their space -this will solve all sorts of social ills in the future. The Upper Eastside of New York City, for example, could specify:
<Entities_Allowed>
<Income minimum="50000"/>
<Convictions allowed="white_collar"/>
<Race allowed="caucasian,asian"/>
<Memberships disallowed="ACLU,NYCLU"/>
<Jokes onyou="april foools"
</Entities_Allowed>
Big Daddy, Johnny, Burp, Aunt Zelda, Scott, Slurp, Big Momma
...from Etch-a-Sketch for WinCE. So a reboot is as simple as shaking it!
your post staying at zero fits well in the universe, however.
This is not fucking funny. If this continues, I will stop reading slashdot.
I do have to say that this was the best one for the whole day, though. All the other ones were just, "Ugh...it's April Fool's isn't it?", but this one actually made me chuckle.
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Today Bush unveiled the new plan to feed America's poor.
Sadly enough you know it's an April Fool's hoax with that first sentence alone.
I don't steal, I'm just employed by the "illegal services industry--" they pay cash only, so I don't have to worry about being tracked-- but I hear the government is horning in on our business these days; at least you can't outsource the black market.
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The miniscule RFID tags are no larger than a matchstick and will be implanted subdermally, meaning under the skin
... but the kind I use are known as "Farmer's Matches", and they're huge!
Dude, I don't know about your matchsticks
-kgj
-kgj
A recent article in the Dublin Times, by Jonathan Swift, added another dimension to this story.
Every state government in the United States is struggling with deficits and social program cutbacks. Once the RFIDs are implanted and the software tracking is in place the second phase of the program will be implemented. Republicans in state and federal government have proposed an expansion of the program to harvest the homeless. Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex) noted "For too long have the homeless had a free ride on the backs of taxpayers. This program will be self-supporting without additional government money". The product of this second phase will be served in resturants catering to wealthy clientele. A percentage of the profits will be used to support social services for those who are not harvested.
How does it taste? It varies from person to person.
A few years ago, I went into a Sears to buy a new microwave oven. They had a display model that was really cheap, so I decided to buy it. The sale associate says "Whats your name" and I say "Why do you need my name? I'm paying cash for this" and he replies "Because the computer tells me to".
I ask "Does the computer tell you other things?" He doesn't get it. So I say "Jackie Brown" (just watched the movie the night before). He says "Huh? But..." but types it in anyway. Then he asks for my address. I reply "I don't have an address, I'm homeless." Mind you, I'm wearing nice clothes, driving a new car, etc. He asks "If you're homeless, then why do you need a microwave?" I respond "Because I don't have one." Increasingly frustrated, he says "I have to put something in." So I pick up a card and read the stores address to him. By this time a couple of other bored sales associates have come round. He doesn't like my answer, but types it in anyway. Then I pull a fat wad out of my pocket and peel off a hundred. And walk out with my oven.
-cp-
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Yep. A new way to feed people too. Cool.
Just add {In Space!} to anything.
til Leela implants me with my career chip!
Crisis is the rule, not the exception.
I worked on one of the prototypes for this. One plan was to put a bottle of MD 20/20 at the end of a phone-booth sized room in the city, then the doors would shut on the homeless eprson in question, then someone sticks them with a prod, kind of like cattle.
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the current Barcodes which are hard to read on the grubby and/or ungroomed..
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.