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Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction
Because the number of abductions in Mexico has jumped almost 40% in the past 3 years, the wealthy are getting subcutaneous transmitters so they can be tracked when kidnapped. Xega, the Mexican security firm which makes the chips, has seen a sales jump of 13% this year. The company injects the crystal-encased chip, the size and shape of a grain of rice, into clients' bodies with a syringe. The chip then sends radio signals to a larger device carried by the client with a global positioning system in it. A satellite can then be used to find the location of the missing person. Things must be a lot worse in Mexico than I thought.
You're just too cynical.
In other news, I had a personal transportation chip injected into my feet. So long as I'm occupying a moving vehicle, it works perfectly at transporting me around.
Call me crazy, but I think I found a flaw in their system.
That would depend on where they're hiding it...
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This is why we should put more R&D in implanting Laser Eyes. Whos gonna kidnap you if you can shoot lasers out of your eyes.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I think you forgot ABDCT, MISNG, and WHRAMI. :-)
It's simple.
If they get thrown in jail, then can dig the implants out of their arms, and use them to make a primitive laser to cut open the lock.
Of course, it takes 2 implants, and a piece of an old bedframe....
Maybe its because of my background in nursing, but, um, the lower finger in the picture didn't look like a finger to me on first glance...
I'd say what it did look like, but I don't know what the slashdot filters are like. Lets just say I had to remove a soup spoon handle from one once during a shift on casualty and leave it at that.
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Good news everyone. It's a supository!
and after I read your comment, you signature crossed my mind as "My inner cavity..."
Yeah, you're right. I'll wait for the "Hollywood" version of this technology where the constraints of physics, etc. are swiftly banished by handwavium, ignorefactium and the ever popular technologyisjustmagicium.
Pretty much... gives the term "Faraday Cage" a whole new meaning.
Great. Now when you're kidnapped the first thing they'll do is cut off a chunk of your flesh. Or even just stick you in a metallic sack so that the radio signal can't escape.
But wait! The best part is, if you try to tamper with the internal device, it explodes violently, marking everything in the vicinity with a blue die, and rendering the kidnapped person useless.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
You apparently misunderstood the story. You see, these wealthy Mexicans are indeed getting chipped as a hedge against being kidnapped, but it's a tactic meant to prolong survival, not assist in their immediate rescue.
They're having large volumes of tortilla chips compressed into small volumes through sophisticated matter reduction technologies. These tortilla chip packets ("microchips", if you will) are then implanted under the skin in various regions of the body. Inadvertent tortilla deployment is prevented through daily exposure to a specific frequency of RF radiation, which ceases upon the individual's kidnapping. The calorie-laden tortilla chiplets begin to expand, releasing a clotting agent and mild anaesthetic into the surrounding tissue to mitigate any unpleasant sensations from their eruption through the skin. After their time-released eruption, the packets expand to their full volume, providing delicious sustenance for the captive.
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Wealthy Mexicans need to carry a device in addition to being chipped?
Okay this just doesn't make sense - there are wealthy Mexicans?!?
or else!