Adam Savage Revises Claim of Lawyer-Bullying On RFID Show

Nick writes "A few weeks ago a video of a talk given by Adam Savage of the television show MythBusters spread across the internet (including a mention on Slashdot.) On the video, Savage stated that the show was unable to produce an episode about previously known RFID vulnerabilities due to a conference call to Texas Instruments that unexpectedly included several credit card companies' legal counsel. TI (via a spokesperson talking with cnet.com) stated that only one lawyer was on the call and that the majority of the people on the call were product managers from the Smart Card Alliance (SCA) invited by TI to speak. Then Savage (via a Discovery Communications statement) reaffirmed that he was not on the call himself and that the decision was not made by Discovery or their advertising sales department but rather MythBuster's production company, Beyond Productions."

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Re:of course it did

[Chris Burke]

You know, I've heard that Muslims consider charging interest to be a sin.

Are you perchance a Muslim?

Also, are you perchance Barack Obama?

Re:of course it did

[k1e0x]

It's actually the entire system of money that we have. Fractional reserve lending allows these banks to lend money they do not have.

Ever wonder how it is possible that everyone, you, your folks, your friends, small business, the government, corporations, ALL can be in debt at the same time to the same people?? How can there be that much money? Well it is simple.. there isn't. The true answer is the system is rigged, the game is fixed, and it's not a question of "if this money system will eventually fail", its a matter of when.