The End of the Bar Code

valdean writes "The University of Wisconsin RFID Lab, principally funded by a dozen Wal-mart suppliers including 3M, Kraft Foods, and S.C. Johnson & Son, believes that RFID could spell the end of the ubiquitous bar code. The big draw? Speeding up supply-chain management. Wal-mart's warehouse conveyor belts presently move products at 600 feet per minute... but they want to be faster. And better informed."

Comments

Is Satan joining the computer revolution?

[wangmaster]

Does this mean that armageddon isn't coming? Or does this just mean that satan is joining the computer revolution and will be embedding us all with RFID's encoded with 666?

The Mark of the Beast

[SunPin]

Wal-Mart executives have cloven feet.

Re:No, expedite you standing in lines.

[ZeroExistenZ]

You know that for the bigger amount of hermit slashdot crowd porn acts as a vicious circle?

1. Approach a sexual attrative specimen
2. get turned down, give up (on chicks)
3. Create a sexual outlet through porn
4. Feel frustrated about not having sex after/during porn-sessions
5. goto 1.

It's the paradox of the geek;
Generally slutty people are considered less cerebral, yet the most intelligent among us cannot get less cerebral people to copulate with us by trying to outsmart them.

In a positive daylight, one could say by the 'easy outlet of sexual frustration throught porn' one might void the time- and energyintensive need to go out and become the most desirable male-specimen to mate with. All the vast amounts of energy wasted in that process can be used for a greater good, as most geeks seem to do. Unless one gets dependant on the "release" of both hormonal as other organic substances and end up living a lonely life with fleshcoloured pixels.