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FDA Approves Implantable RFID for Patients

anzha writes "It seems that the FDA has approved an RFID tag for use in patients. The idea being that the rice grain sized chip would be implanted and scanned for patient history and updates. It seems that a similar chip was used by the Mexican government for employees that work with sensitive documents. IDK about you, but this seems a to me little...creepy."

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  1. Your Rights Online? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone care to explain how this affects my rights online?

  2. Re:Cashless society.. coming right up. by really? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wish I had come up with this myself, but I can't be bothered to waste more time thinking about useless stuff[1] ... I already spend too much time reading /.

    As found somewhere on the net:

    1.) If God exists, then he is immutable.
    2.) If God exists, then he is the creator of the universe.
    3.) An immutable being cannot at one time have an intention and then at a later time not have that intention.
    4.) For any being to create anything, prior to the creation he must have had the intention to create it, but at a later time, after the creation, no longer have the intention to create it.
    5.) Thus, it is impossible for an immutable being to have created anything (from 3 and 4).
    6.) Therefore, it is impossible for God to exist (from 1, 2, and 5)

    Or, if you insist:

    1.) If the Christian God exists, everything that exists is part of his perfect, divine plan.
    2.) Atheists exist.
    3.) So, atheists are a part of God's perfect plan.
    4.) Therefore, God wants atheists to exist.

    (Boy, would my father be pissed if he read this post.)

    [1]Useless in _my_ oppinion, YMMV.

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    "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." A. Huxley