Posted on 06/09/2003 3:31:33 PM PDT by Radix
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
MORGAN HILL, Calif. -- Tom Pounds waved his overflowing grocery basket at the wall and offered a glimpse of our shopping future. The coffee cans, razor blades, and other items in his basket each carried a stowaway -- a tiny chip, the size of a fleck of black pepper, coupled with an antenna. Each emitted a short burst of identifying data that streamed via radio waves to a sensor on the wall.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Those of you who can discern will, well, you will discern
I'm gonna go look for a good, 1950's, B sci-fi movie to watch.
How about using cellphones as a relay? Chip xmits to the phone, phone xmits to Big Brother.
Or a device in a car such as OnStar that transmits the information.
Easy enough to build in enough receivers in a mall, airport, sports stadium, etc.
After that, a receiver in each lamp post or telephone pole, etc.
Not inconceivable.
As for manufacturers not interested in tracking people, as stated in the article, I'm sure the government will be. Of course it will be to "protect us".
I could see parents being urged to get their children implanted in order to track them if they are kidnapped. Even making it mandatory like vaccines are now.
No. A static E-M field wouldn't affect them at all. There are two ways to "defeat" such a thing:
1. Wrap it in foil (create a Faraday shield around it). Prevents (well, greatly reduces) energy-bearing signal going in, and any responsive signal out.
2. Overwhelm its protective circuits (on its antenna input) with a device that generates a very strong electromagnetic pulse. (If you can physically locate the RFID tag, the area that requires the strong pulse can be much smaller, thus reducing the size and energy required for your device -- making your neighbours and the FCC much happier.)
PUH-LEEZE.........
OK, who here has to have an "alert" to tell you that you need milk????
Think about it. If they knew where everyone was all the time, how many crimes could not be committed with an expectation of getting "away with it." Murders -- who was near at the time? Robberies -- who but the victim was there at the time? Delayed-action bomb -- who passed by during X period? And so on, and so on. And all you have to do is give up a little privacy...
But don't worry, they won't start with you. They'll pick on someone that nobody could protest. Convicted felons, or middle-eastern immigrants. Apply it retroactively to the former. (BTW, where is there a "right to privacy" in the Constitution? I don't see it... and it seems only to apply to abortion anyway.) That will set the precedent that could end with you -- maybe on your next traffic violation.
(I'm not saying this will happen, just that it could.)
The protocol is already in place - it's called 'BlueTooth' ...
MOST of us who work in industry would simply refer to this as 'shielding' and skip the attempt to show how smart we are ...
Ahh yes. But your primitive shielding will not be effective against Faraday rays.
To which Google responds:
Your search - " Faraday rays" - did not match any documents.
"Go fish"
Probably not but no-tech, un-sophisticated boycotting would.
I'm not acquainted with these, sorry.
I can think of a third, it's called a hammer.
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