Once you get to a point where every vehicle is required to have GPS, a lot of other potential uses arise. It becomes a lot harder to argue your way out of a ticket when you've got GPS tattling on you. And I would think the insurance companies would make a strong push to be able to use them for accident reconstruction.
Whether this particular attempt works or not, the idea of introducing sexually transmitted vaccines/cures has a lot of interesting social implications. Not to mention a whole new breed of bad pick up lines.
Please. The American media may have plenty of problems, but its hardly to blame for the lack of attention being paid to Sudan. It's been going on a long time, and the media occasionally tries to bring it up again. The fact is we just don't care about what happens in Africa. Maybe if a few members of the British media (or someone else we actually relate to) wander in there and get massacred, we'll pay some attention. But the tsunami isn't to blame. If it wasn't the tsunami story that took precedense over the Sudan story, it would have been something else. Perhaps what Britney Spears had for breakfast, for example.
It seems to me one of the most obvious and simple uses would be to detect card counting at blackjack tables. At the moment they do this by watching how you change your bets. Dealers and pit bosses are trained to notice if your bets keep conveniently changing between 10, 20, and 40, for instance. With these new chips you could have a computer do it for you, and do a far better job. As it is you have to place the chips you are betting in a little circle on the table. All they have to do is put a reader under those circles and they can have a computer automatically track bets and look for suspicious patterns.
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Once you get to a point where every vehicle is required to have GPS, a lot of other potential uses arise. It becomes a lot harder to argue your way out of a ticket when you've got GPS tattling on you. And I would think the insurance companies would make a strong push to be able to use them for accident reconstruction.
Whether this particular attempt works or not, the idea of introducing sexually transmitted vaccines/cures has a lot of interesting social implications. Not to mention a whole new breed of bad pick up lines.
Please. The American media may have plenty of problems, but its hardly to blame for the lack of attention being paid to Sudan. It's been going on a long time, and the media occasionally tries to bring it up again. The fact is we just don't care about what happens in Africa. Maybe if a few members of the British media (or someone else we actually relate to) wander in there and get massacred, we'll pay some attention. But the tsunami isn't to blame. If it wasn't the tsunami story that took precedense over the Sudan story, it would have been something else. Perhaps what Britney Spears had for breakfast, for example.
It seems to me one of the most obvious and simple uses would be to detect card counting at blackjack tables. At the moment they do this by watching how you change your bets. Dealers and pit bosses are trained to notice if your bets keep conveniently changing between 10, 20, and 40, for instance. With these new chips you could have a computer do it for you, and do a far better job. As it is you have to place the chips you are betting in a little circle on the table. All they have to do is put a reader under those circles and they can have a computer automatically track bets and look for suspicious patterns.