Slashdot Mirror
Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants?
kramdam asks: "Even with all the talk about privacy and security, there seems to be a growing community of people who are implanting themselves with RFID chips. Being a developer myself, I am intrigued about building applications and solutions that will open my doors, unlock my car, log me on to my computer and control home automation. I'm seriously considering jumping into this head first, being on the bleeding edge, and going with an implant. I have looked at resources like Mikey Sklar's site, and Amal Graafstra's site, since they are two pioneers on this subject. For research, I have started TaggedLife to document my own journey. I was wondering what the Slashdot community think about this. What do you think are the social, security, privacy, and health risks associated with this? What are the pluses? Would you do it?"
hmm... weird moment) has joined #perl
<Alias> The first time you hear a new word and know it's gunna take off and you'll be sick of it in 5 years, but it will hang around a long time
<DrForr> "Web 2.0"?
<Alias> Like Ajax, for Blog
<Alias> or
<Alias> And todays word, "tagged"
<Alias> As a description for people with implanted RFID tags
<Alias> "Are you tagged?" etc
<Alias> And of course there'll be taggers.com
<Alias> Where you can play all new types of games, in the same way geocaching was invented
<DrForr> www.stalkersrus.com
<Alias> And in another year, we'll hear about orientagging
<Alias> Orienteering, but using tags
<Alias> So you can do it any time you like... or something
<DrForr> One of these days I'll get around to creating www.amitouristornot.com.
<Alias> And you'll be able to buy stuff from taggear.com
<Alias> Which will go under 2 years later when amazon undercuts them
<Alias> And the new sport of either (tag sniping|tagnetting)
--> inferno (~inferno@modemcable092.66-130-66.mc.videotron.ca
<Alias> Trying to see who you can grab with your directional antenna
<DrForr> Naah, ham people'll call it taghunting first (foxhunting)
<Alias> yeah!
<Alias> You know, we should register the domain
<Alias> You can upload the people you take
<Alias> And see where they've been on a google map over time
--> crab (~ams@61.246.80.158) has joined #perl
<Alias> And of course they'll map the most-travelled taggers
<DrForr> Don't forget the Ajax-enabled trophy room.
<Alias> Linked into MySpace!
<Alias> or better, LiveJournal!
<Alias> In fact, what a great tagnetting system
<Alias> A monitor in a shop window with a tag scanner
<DrForr> Or even better, DiggMyJournal 2.0!
<Alias> And as it see's you it pulls your user photo from DiggJournal and puts your face in the shop window
<Alias> So of course, the hot new accessory will be wide-band watches to provide some basic Faraday-ish protection again being hunted
<Alias> And of course, it will be the end of paintball as we know it
<DrForr> Hmm, they already make underwear with silver mesh to cut down on irradiating genitalia...
<Andy> "they"
<Andy> Bob's Silver Mesh Underwear, Inc.
<DrForr> The same people that make UnderArmor, I think.
<Alias> And finally, the 80s metallic fashions will be back in!
<mako132_> mesh underwear doesn't sound good for us hairy folks
Wait, your not religous, but you are afraid of the beast wtf is wrong with you why the hell would you believe in the best if you don't believe in the rest of the Bible? I mean seriously pick one of the good comforting parts to believe in, not something taht damns you until you convert. If you don't believe in God fine that's your choice but then don't believe in his damnation of you. It's just stupid. If you aren't religious then live it the fuck up cause you've got nothing after you die, so don't live in fear of a god you don't belive in.
You're an idiot
You need a medal for that http://tinyurl.com/mb6jg