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Japanese Schoolchildren to be Tagged with RFID
oostevo writes "CNET has reported that Japanese schoolchildren in the city of Osaka will be tagged with RFID tags. Apparently this is in addition to the trial program in Tabe that The Register reported earlier, where parents can track their children on their way to school."
How else will they know if their schoolchildren are being attacked by this month's Tentacle Monster?
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They love electronics. They'll probably be signing up for Hello Kitty themed RFID tags voluntarily.
But won't the metal cover of the vending machines prevent the RFID tags from working?
I can't think of any other culture that would want to do something like this. I love Japan. Everything about it seems to be 20 years in the future. If you ever say anything weird or unbelievable, add "in Japan" at the end, and it sounds more realistic.
Try it out.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Hmmm. Who wants to start placing bets on which child will emerge as the lone survivor of class 9-B?
Longhorn is released, nearly bug-free, and crushes Linux once and for all... in Japan!
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they should tag the monsters? Giant Robo? anyone?
Come with us now as we study the migratory patterns of the Japanese School Child.
[Helicoptor flys over a school yard full of children, one is separated out from the herd and tranqualized with a dart, scientist staples an RFID tag in his ear...]
That would be so cool.
Game... blouses.
Why don't we encase our children in 'Nerf'? After all, then they would just bounce off of cars when they run out in the street.
If it saved one child, it's worth it right?
That would be worth it for the entertainment value alone.
but then you couldn't put your kids in the microwave anymore.
And once every year, a class of year 9 students will mysteriously disappear, and their tags will gradually wink out over the course of the next three days....
Only one will survive.
Man watching 6 MSCE's around a sun box, looks alot like the opening scene's of 2001:space odyssey...
Why don't we encase our children in 'Nerf'? After all, then they would just bounce off of cars when they run out in the street.
...Lord knows that's what I'd do...
Because that would ENCOURAGE kids to run out into the street so they could be hit by cars.
Is this the same system tested on the homeless earlier this year? If so, have they unset the evil bit for this implementation?
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Remember kids, RFID is a four letter word!
Learn something new.
'Silence, Humans! We used to be exactly like you. Flawed. Weak. Organic. But we evolved to include the synthetic. Now we use both to attain perfection. Those who disagree are wrong, and must be assimilated.'
I, for one, welcome our new RFID masters.
Real programmers use "copy con program.exe"
NOBODY expects the Third Man Argument.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
Don't kick the baby!
"The Nazi's had pieces of flair, that they made the Jews wear"
...and is a 10th level spell at Hogwarts
dude, a little advice: find an ad in the newspaper where the color matches your jeans. (from your post, it's safe to assume there's no telling what color that is on any given day) Put the ad inside your jeans so it shows through the hole. Now you're safe!
Poor cat though, that's rough.
The military.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Whoa, that sort of makes my head hurt.
>>As a Daddy of two,
My, you started early!
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"Danke daß Du mich gemolken hast" said the German cow.
Hey, who better to do drugs than kids? What are you gonna fuck up at age 16 that you can't bounce back from - what, you going to get a F?
I can't do drugs any more - At my age I have shit to do. I can't go on a 2 day acid binge cos I have to move my car on street sweeping day. Drugs are for kids.
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Your post advocates a
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(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting crime. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(x) Criminals can easily use it to locate targets
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(x) It will stop crime for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Society will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(x) Requires too much cooperation from criminals
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Government cannot afford to alienate potential voters
(x) Anyone could pseudonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for RFID
(x) Foreign sources of custom RFID tags
(x) Ease of phishing for tags addresses
(x) Asshats
(x) Jurisdictional problems
(x) Unpopularity of weird new implants
( ) Huge investment in existing enforcement methods
(x) Areas without RFID sensors
( ) Willingness of users to implant RFID tags received by mail
(x) Eternal arms race involved in all monitoring approaches
(x) Extreme profitability of crime
(x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(x) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with criminals
(x) Dishonesty on the part of criminals themselves
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(x) Walking about should be free
(x) Why should we have to trust you and your monitoring agents?
(x) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
(x) I don't want the government watching everywhere I go
(x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
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