Why One Man Got a Guerrilla RFID Implant

Shannon writes "One of my writers just did an interview with Amal Graafstra, who just had an RFID implant put in his hand and has been building appliances for it to simplify and automate his life... "I guess I have my own Big Brother paranoia. Given the choice of Orwellian societies, I'd rather live in one based on RFID tags than fingerprints, DNA, or facial structure; an RFID tag system is easy to manage and opt out of, whereas DNA sampling or facial recognition, well, isn't.""

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What Happens in the RFID gets demagnetized/errased

[Shaolas]

I can see locking yourself out of your home, car, bank account, office... Just think of the pain in the ass it is now to get a new or temp ID card at most places

The End Is Nigh

[Bedlam Ballroom]

I, for one, welcome our Anti-Christ overlords.

Re:The drawback is

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

Jesusland? Is that what you call the USA?

We've been (unfortunately) trying to stamp every mention or acknowledgement of God out of public life every chance we get for quite a number of years now.

Re:From his site

[Anonymous Coward]

I've always interpreted that as the beast is an elephant which means that the mark is the republican party logo. Perhaps soon you need to be a member of GOP to do anything.

FucKer

[Anonymous Coward]

Fueling internal company a 2 Are inherently OF BUSINEES AND and financial

Re:Opt-out, eh?

[TrappedByMyself]

I was wondering if he ever read revelations.

Wow, modded Insightful. I guess the Religious Right is spreading it's will to Slashdot too.

Re:What about jewelry instead?

[Sp1n3rGy]

This article is from BMEzine (Body Modification Ezine). These guys get off on cutting themselves. They don't need a good reason.

Re:The drawback is

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

No I'm not kidding.

We should have God in public life. He exists whether we wish to acknowledge that fact or not. Just as does gravity. If you don't believe, and jump off a building, you'll still go splat at the bottom.

God is real, and you WILL realize that one day.

Whether that day comes before or after you die is up to you.

This universe didn't self create.

Explain how order came from chaos. Without violating the second law of thermodynamics. Or having a God who is in charge of all. Explain how something came from nothing. Where did matter, energy, space and time come from? Answer that and tell me where that came from. Ad inifinitum. There must be a First Cause. That First Cause must be God or a divine act.

Atheism just doesn't make any sense.

You should pray to God. Pray He make Himself known. If He doesn't exist, no harm done. If He does (which He does), it will only be to your eternal benefit.

I detest when people in the sciences think it explains all, and that God must not exist.

Physicists thought they knew all (except for minor loose ends) near the end of the 19th century.

Those loose ends included quantum mechanics. Now we know that there is a LOT that we DON'T know, and may never know (through science - perhaps God will reveal this knowledge when the time is right).