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RFID Bracelets to Track Inmates in L.A. County
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to RFID Journal, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is about to launch a pilot program to track 1,800 inmates using RFID devices. If the test is successful, the technology will be deployed for the 18,000 inmates of the L.A. county jails. With this system, inmates carry a wrist bracelet which issues a signal every two seconds and is caught by RFID readers installed everywhere in the prison. Officers and staff also carry a RFID device attached to their belts. And a central server keeps track in real time of the position of all prisoners and guardians. Besides tracking locations, the system also intends to reduce violence within the jail and to avoid escapes. If this system works as its promoters think, the potential market to equip all federal, state and county jails in the U.S. exceeds $1 billion. This overview contains other details and references, including a picture of a wristwatch transmitter worn by inmates."
Why, it'll become impossible to cheat on your spouse, as she'll only need to go to an online tracking system with her mouse, type in your National ID number, and see who you are boinking.
If your political views differs from the Status Quo, yes, your government will be interested in that too! Wonderful. Orwell had no idea. At least in 1984 there were places you could go to avoid the cameras. Now, there's nowhere we can go.
Couple that with closed-circuit cameras being everywhere in public, face recognition tecnology getting better and better, and Bush slipping his henchmen in place over the years, and you have...? All non-republicans take note!!!!
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Blacks in America also are being subjugated by a system that keeps them in an underprivileged position - the system keeps blacks committing crimes. It is a social predisposition, not a genetic one.
Mind you, I'm mostly white (heinz 57) and a quarter mexican - make of this disclaimer what you will.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Of course not.
It has the number 616 on it instead.
Hey, those yellow bracelets are supposed to be a fundrasing exercise.
See http://www.livestrong.org/
Unfortunately there are a whole bunch of scams selling "fake" bracelets, or overcharging (note that the Lance Armstrong foundation sets a price of $1 each).
Felons are not full citizens in the US even after release. They often can't vote, can't hold security clearences, can't purchase firearms, etc.
The guards in my office building already have to stop at electronic checkpoints while they are on patrol, so the supervisors know the guards are actually patrolling. RFID would just make this more continuous.
Your argument requires a strong leap at the last step, also worth note the last step is the largest step and the least likley, in the original argument the steps were smaller and the last one not so big. My only worry about these is that it might make the guards complacent, or more likley cut the number of guards leading to scary new problems that will be hard to resolve with the fewer guards.
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"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail." - Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
Ironically, bars and restaurants are for some reason still legal to server alcohol even though you are not allowed to leave the place nor stay there.
Actually, you are allowed to leave the bar - just get a ride.
But I agree with you that 0.06 is too low. However, a DOT approved breathalizer is about $100 these days. Cheap insurance.
I was considering getting a commercial driver's license for employment possibilities, but found that in California, if you have a CDL your legal limit is 0.04 all the time (even if you are driving a regular car for non-work purposes). Ouch!
The whole felony/no-vote thing was originally designed to disenfranchise niggers.
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perhaps the government and corporate organizations of America shouldn't have that much access to our private lives.
I understand what you mean, but please note that none of the situations you mentioned had anything to do with private life.
1- Credit card. To use a credit card you are using the CC company's network. They let you use their property, but it's still theirs to use as they please within the terms of the contract.
2- CCTV in a shop. A shop is the property of the shop's owner (well quite often it is rented, but you get the idea). When you enter a shop you are not in public space, you are in a private space that happens to belong to someone else. They let you enter their property, but they have the right to set reasonable conditions for it. Filming people who enter your property does not seem exceedingly unreasonable to me.
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