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Bill Gates Talks about Belgian eID Card
Brainsur writes "Today Bill Gates visited Belgium to talk about the Electronic ID card introduced last year in Belgium as experiment. Microsoft announced that they will integrate the electronic identification into the Windows Software so they can deliver more security and privacy on the internet. The register has
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"Once the rfid chip is implanted in the base of your skull, you just let Microsoft take over. We do all the upgrades and what not, you are free to 'pursue' your daily lives"
"You must first open your passport .net account for us to verify your ID."
My thoughts exactly.
Yeah, on top of that security, it comes with a retina scan. It should not blow out your eye socket by beta 2 or release candidate 6.
Now user in belgium will effectively have MS passport in physical form.
In Canada, Businesses are forbidden to use SIN#s for tracking purposes and this is not that different. Maybe if it works there, he'll be able to use the US' ID cards the same way.
Oh and patent the fuck out of it, too.
Obama's legacy: (N)othing (S)ecure (A)nywhere and (T)error (S)imulation (A)dministration
and knowing my way around windows, this has me somewhat frightened.
I am a little confused by this. Distributing a card with a chip with a unique ID? I didn't think Borg cared about uniqueness when it came to assimilation?
-- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
After the overwhelming success of Passport it was only a matter of time until this happened!
the Commission balked at ``Windows XP Reduced Media Edition
You have to admit, it takes some serious nerve to suggest "Reduced Media Edition." I wonder what the less inflammatory proposals will be. Some ideas:
(Where The Phone Company tries to take over the world by implanting a phone in everybody's skull so they can make calls any time and any where... and be tracked...)
Is today International Assimilation Day or something?
Of course they care! Post-assimilation is when you need a unique ID. Otherwise, how would you know if you're "Seven of Nine", "Six of One", or "Half Dozen of the Other"?
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
I tell you, the world is going to hell thanks to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer's illegitimate moon child Windows. Back in the days of yore (about two years ago) I was using MSN Messenger to communicate with my intarweb pals. Then someone told me that M$ wanted to claim ownership of what I wrote in MSN Messenger. No! I didn't believe it. I figured that this had to be some kind of GNU Hippy Commie FUD lie. But I read the fine print myself and sure enough, Micro$haft owns anything you happen to write in MSN Messenger. So I stopped using MSN Messenger. Now they want to start interfereing in personal IDs? This is wrong wrong wrong!!! Can you imagine? Micronut$ would own YOUR IDENTITY! I'll bet there is fine print legalese that says that by using the ID, you promise to never do anything contrary to Micro$uck's wishes. The GNU hippies were right! I personally reject all that is Micro$oft as being invalid and declare myself a sovereign computer operator! If I can't buy and sell things as the bible tells of Bill Gates and his Beast system, then I prefer to starve to death than wear the mark of Bill (Satan) Gates!!! They'll never take me alive!!! NEVER!!!! NEVER!!!! They're going to have to pry my GNU/Linux system from my cold dead fingers.
These OSes DON'T RUN!!! (Linux, *BSD, *nix, Mac OS X) Err... wait.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
If I'm paying that kind of money, I want some sort of LoJack(tm) system where I can remotely shutoff the ignition if some young punk's taking her for a joyride!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Just knowing that a company with such a sterling reputation for security as Microsoft would be protecting one's identity gives me a warm feeling. Much like I felt when driving a Ford Pinto with a full tank of gas.
Microsoft should soon be making this technology available worldwide with model 666.
There are better ways to conclude that some people don't like Bill. Pie throwers like throwing pies at people who act important, and who think they're important. Or something like that. It's an exciting hobby. An extreme sport.
They probably have wet dreams about smacking a pie in Bush's face, and surviving it.