I believe that there should be some regulation here, but the Walmart 2005 date shouldn't concern ANYONE about privacy issues.
The reason? Wal-mart is pushing for RFID on the PALLET level. They are not pushing for all of their products to be individually identified (yet).
For tracking of product coming in and our of their warehouses, this is a great idea. Rerouting product that someone accidentally put into the wrong truck is costly. Also this means they could drive around and find a pallet they are looking for in moments, even if it is still in a trailer.
Which would immediately be blind since you don't live in a permanent blackness (unless you view/. with black text on a black screen....).
But assuming you can get past the genetic modifications, people with aquariums are often for relaxation/amusement. I find that unique fish would be a welcome addition to my tank, but breeding is beyond me so as long as these fish don't have other major side effects from gm (short life, high cost, diseases, etc) than for those of us who do this for the enjoyment would love these.
It does make you think of Jurassic Park when they say the fish are 90% sterilized.
It's hard to judge the comment of "he got what he deserved", when you didn't read the article. Yes, it was done with a warrent. And yes, the warrent was based on other investigation (where they estimated the speed at 98 MPH.)
In general, if someone came through my residential area at 60-80 MPH ABOVE the limit, they deserved to
get nailed to the wall.. I don't think 22-30 years
is enough. If you are doing 100 mph in an area where people live, you have to know that you have a very high chance of killing someone. I'm surprised this wasn't a higher charge than it was.
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I believe that there should be some regulation here, but the Walmart 2005 date shouldn't concern ANYONE about privacy issues.
The reason? Wal-mart is pushing for RFID on the PALLET level. They are not pushing for all of their products to be individually identified (yet).
For tracking of product coming in and our of their warehouses, this is a great idea. Rerouting product that someone accidentally put into the wrong truck is costly. Also this means they could drive around and find a pallet they are looking for in moments, even if it is still in a trailer.
As funny as I meant that original post, I wonder how long you'd have to sit in the dark to really appreciate the beauty of those type of fish?
Which would immediately be blind since you don't live in a permanent blackness (unless you view /. with black text on a black screen....).
But assuming you can get past the genetic modifications, people with aquariums are often for relaxation/amusement. I find that unique fish would be a welcome addition to my tank, but breeding is beyond me so as long as these fish don't have other major side effects from gm (short life, high cost, diseases, etc) than for those of us who do this for the enjoyment would love these.
It does make you think of Jurassic Park when they say the fish are 90% sterilized.
It's hard to judge the comment of "he got what he deserved", when you didn't read the article. Yes, it was done with a warrent. And yes, the warrent was based on other investigation (where they estimated the speed at 98 MPH.) In general, if someone came through my residential area at 60-80 MPH ABOVE the limit, they deserved to get nailed to the wall.. I don't think 22-30 years is enough. If you are doing 100 mph in an area where people live, you have to know that you have a very high chance of killing someone. I'm surprised this wasn't a higher charge than it was.