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RFID Not Just for Kids
dritan writes "News.com is reporting that a theme park in Florida is tagging all members of your group when you enter. The park has kiosks throughout the park that let you find the other members of your group in "real time." The park's web site makes it seem that you will only be able to find members of your group, instead of seeing everyone in the park. Slashdot has previously reported about tagging kids with RFID in order to keep track of them."
Great, there goes my plan to leave my crazy no-good kids behind.
----- You know you have ego issues when you register a domain in your name.
It's going to be a huge problem when these people wander near the sharks with frickin' RFID-tracking laser beams attached to their heads.
paintball
Dude! Where's my Ki...
Woah. Gnarly.
Thanks Mouseman.
How am I supposed to have any fun if I can't accidentally get separated from the wife?
paintball
Wow! Now you can find your other family members via a tracking system. Next thing you know the government will be using it to "track" you in airports, grocery stores, masterbating in the bathroom, etc. In Mexico they are implanting RFID tags into goverment officical to track them in case of kidnapping. "Experts" say that there is nothing to fear. Yeah, right. My paranoid buddy said a few years ago that the dreaded U.N. black helicopters could fly over your house and scan it to see how much money you had in it. Now that's possible; The EU is putting RFID tags in it's money. Also, within 5 years, EVERYTHING you can buy will have the damn tags on it.
I hate to sound like an apocalypse nut, but within 15 years it will be capable of one individual (i.e. antichrist) to control/track just about everyone on the planet, including money and food.
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I agree, some people seem to overhype RFID privacy problems a bit.
There should be no problem with this, simply microwaving the children for a short period should be sufficient to disable the tag.
I believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
Admission: $50
Lunch: $20
Knowing your party landed in Alabama: priceless.
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
Hopefully they have enough monitors around...nothing like waiting in a 20min line to find out that your party is in the same line, 50 people behind you.
"If it sucks without butter, it still sucks with butter, only creamier." - AC
Get everyone to take off their tag and attach it to the roller coaster cars ... then sit back and watch as park officials panic when they realise that there are 578 people riding around and around.
... as you take a journey through a ride, take off you tag and through it as far as you can into the diaroma ... and watch as park officials try and hunt down the lost kid
... flush a tag down the toilet and then say your kid is lost ... and watch then chase the 'kid' as it 'travels' around the park
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The point here is that 'saving kids' is a convenient excuse for something which is more likely being introduced for commercial reasons. It isn't even a good excuse (and quite possibly dangerous) for reasons I pointed out.
And for that everyone who enters the park with a child or not is being made to wear tags just so the park can determine ways to extract more money from people's wallets on their way through.
It's like a real life version of Roller Coaster Tycoon - except you can't pick people up with tongs and drown them in a lake.
... welcome our new Theme Park Overlords.
No, no, no... 5 minutes a side under the broiler for browning, then microwave to cook through. The microwave time varies by weight.
Acually, based on what a theme park experience tends to be, this would be "Your Rights In Line"
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