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Mexican Attorney General Gets Microchip in Arm
novakreo writes "Rafael Macedo de la Concha, Mexico's Attorney-General, now has a non-removable microchip in his arm, to track his movements and to give him access to a new crime database, according to Bloomberg. The article says that eventually around 160 Mexican officials will have a chip implanted." (Wired and CNN are both running the very similar Reuters report, too.)
Well, when someone REALLY wants access to the system, all they'll need is a saw.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Record his transponder signal, and throw a copy of his chip over the border fence into the USA...
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
Why is it sci-fi movies of years past tend to predict the future
:)
terminator/2, cafe flesh etc etc
Anyways im still waiting for the flying cars..
Homeland security soons hopes, through coersion, fear, FUD, false warnings and money, to install trackable microchips in every Mexican by the year 2020.
Upon so doing it will be able to monitor all immigrants crossing the border, and those without chips will obviously be terrorists.
May the Maths Be with you!
I'm just waiting for the conspiracy theorists on this one:
It's the sign on the devil! Apocalypse is upon us! Major League Baseball really is tracking our movements!
"Righteous speed demon and trust fund party darling of justice"
Well, do you kick hin in the ass to reboot the thing?
What, with an internal heads-up-display, a la the Terminator
I am Attorney Sancho Panza of Borg, prepare to be indicted!
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
This guy really does have a chip on his shoulder..
(ok ok arm, its close..)
Seriously though, is there really any justification for this? Is this not something that can be achieved by other, less obtrusive methods?
"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
can you run linux on Him? Now that's what I call an Embedded solution.
En Rusia soviética, el microchip le programa!
is now embedded UNDER my skull
I suddenly have a mental image of a Mexican criminal trying to get into a government installation carrying an arm...
If he doesn't get in there, he can just go to a convenience store to commit an "armed" robbery.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
I, for one, welcome our new Cybernetic Mexican Overlords...
Then I can play all the cool games! Right now I can't play worth a flip.. ...this is about the new playstation right? Maybe I should go back and read the article...
THIS has been done before.
We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
We have the capability to make the world's first Bionic man.
Rafael Macedo de la Concha will be that man.
Better than he was before.
Better . . . stronger . . . faster.
duh nah nah nah nahhhh...
... Upgrades.
*cue martial arts fighting scenes*
Founder of Mirror Moon - Tsukihime Game Trans
"In the case of Mexico, where the vast majority of its citizens have sub-average intelligence" you are an American and Bush voter, aren't you?
SHE does throw dice.
From the Article: Mexico's Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha said he had a non-removable microchip implanted in his arm as a security measure to track him throughout Mexico and to give him access to a crime data bank.
They say they'll have access to the network, but apparently, in Soviet Mexico, THE NETWORK WILL HAVE ACCESS TO *THEM*.
Just say NO to the Mark of the Beast, kids. Especially if it's running Microsoft.
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
You, on the other hand, smear both Americans and Bush voters as being like this racist idiot guy. Pot Kettle Black.
*ahem* That's "Pot Kettle African-American," you insensitive clod.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
When the only tool you have is a shotgun, every problem looks for the nearest exit.
But when the only tool you have is an axe, every problem looks like hours of gleeful, giddy, glorious fun!
Woah! Been reading a lot of SF lately I take it? :)
Yeah, this would be "do able." All we really need to figure out is how to get an organ to transmit radio waves. Then we refine that from barely tranmiting RF to tranmitting RF out to about a mile. Every cell in our body has a copy of our DNA. It should be that difficult to pick enough markers for the individual to be unquie. Then you have the organ just operate 24x7 similar to the heart. Then we'd just have it passed down to all the offspring. Actually, all the really hard parts could be tested out in other organisms before field testing it in humans.
Of course you could be evil and design cockroaches that broadcast out random RFID tags or copied useful RFID tags. Could you imagine tring to find your RFID keys in the morning when your house says that you have 10 copies of them moving around in different rooms?
Remember SF is good for thinking about things that may or may not be that far in the future.
(Apologies in advnance for my terrible Spanish)
Member of Orkut? Annoyed with spam?
...a non-removable microchip in his arm, to ... give him access to a new crime database...
Somewhere in Mexico, an IT guy is laughing his ass off.
Now, if they only equipped politicians with detonation collars..
Lisp is the Tengwar of programming languages.
MEXICO WILL SOON BE RULED ENTIRELY BY CYBORGS. Is nobody noticing this? I mean, we can finally scratch an entry off the list of "things that we would have expected to happen in the 21st century". We may not have flying cars or meals in pill form yet, but at least Mexico is now living in the plot of a comic book.
[Mexican mecha-attorney general] With this new microchip I have had implanted in me, I have become more powerful than ever imagined. I can track my movements, as well as access a new crime database.
[Reporter] But Señor Macedo, aren't you worried about there being ill effects?
[Mexican mecha-attourney general] Yes, that's why I have also had an "inhibitor chip" installed, so that I control the RFID chip-- instead of it controlling me.
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