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RFID combined with Smart Dust equals watching every move |
Are you still tolerant of the government being a morality police? |
That speaks to getting in trouble for sexual preferences and habits, drinking habits, etc. what about security is morality? tolerant? no Resigned. It's going to happen. Just like global government. |
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Nothing, per se. But, with enough tracking ability, morality policing becomes possible. Consider data mining rule, run against a database of everyone's movements, that tracks which people have stayed overnight in the same residence with a member of the same sex. Cross reference with known relations. Cross reference with known homosexuals. Check if multiple same sex overnight stays have happened within a certain time period. Output list to members of "neighborhood watch" groups for confirmation of suspected homosexual behavior. "Security" enables control. Control can be abused. "Global government? WTF? This isn't Star Trek. That's just not going to happen." Russia wants to join the European Union. A superstate spanning two continents qualifies as a "world government" in my book. |
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There will be a showdown between the EU and US. Britain is trying to decide with home to side. I was thinking of 3 super-states. EU Asia US |
So, what about South America? Africa? You think anyone other than Brazil wants to take on Brazil's problems? Or the AIDS problems in the Caribbean and African countries? Whatever global government takes over the planet takes on the good and bad of the member countries, and there are a lot of places in the world where the costs would surpass the benefits. This whole idea is paranoid and ridiculous. Shit, Trace, if you were Christian, I'd bet you'd be one of those freaks ranting about bar codes and the mark of the Devil. |
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Dunno. We seem awfully keen about taking on Columbia's problems these days, though. |
more like a balance of power. |
Belgium Denmark Germany Greece Spain France Ireland Italy Luxembourg the Netherlands Austria Portugal Finland Sweden United Kingdom Candidate countries Bulgaria Czech Republic Estonia Cyprus Latvia Lithuania Hungary Malta Poland Romania Slovenia Slovakia Turkey Balance of power????? |
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WE'RE SO FUCKED! |
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Due to our global dominance for over a century we would have had to expect this. How are alliances formed? What propels them? Security and economics. Right? Who controls world security and economics? or at least who is the biggest player at the table? Im not saying its right or wrong, but its not such a huge shocker. I don't even know what you mean when you say "global governement" im not sure if you do either. In your own view the UN is as effective and relavent as partical board, so why you seem so paranoid of a global government is beyond me. |
I said it was inevitable. |
whats funny is Canada's long term interests are more suited for the EU than with any North American alliance... |
We can't even get a free trade agreement with the states (probably due to our FEMALE PM refusing to send troops to support the US, and possibly making an innaproprate comment), while Australia has and did support. Half of the world doesn't even know my country exists, and you think a global govt will work? |
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I as your Emporer, King, Dictator have decreed it. I name as my advisors all contributors to Sorabji.com. And, your PM shall be Mark Thomas. I grant total amnisty to all detrectors who have contributed to these boards. And, yes that includes Patrick. You may now bow before me and be fitted with your annal probe. |
nice. must use it on annoying workmates |
EU Asia US" Eurasia, Eastasia, Oceania? 'Fuckus thou' is particularly pleasing to the eye with a question mark on the end. Lends symmetry. It would make a great tshirt. fuckus thou? |
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fuckus thou? |
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RFID.Org Small chips that can be read by Smart Dust |
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They could include it in the Smart Cards that will eventually replace your State DL, but you have to have it on you at all times to work. More then likely, they will continue to use "non-intrusive detection methods", IE Motion Detectors, face scanners, iris scanners, etc. We have the technology now, and the scanned individual has no idea he/she was scanned. They demonstrated it a few years ago at the super boal. They had scanners set up over the main gates as spectators entered the stadium. These scanners scanned the faces in the croud and ran the scans against a data base. It worked out very well. |
My cellphone can tell me the nearest coke machine, cashflow machine, petrol station etc. Isnt that tracking in a way? |
At worlds of fun, they tried renting bracelettes for parent's to put on their kids, then the parents could go to any information board and locate exactly where their children are. |
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That would be the easy way, but by no means the only reliable way. Don't underestimate the power of fuzzy logic. Imagine that you have an RFID tag on you that's associated with your identity. Any other tags on you could then be associated with your identity with a certain confidence level. "What about other people using your tags, like wearing your dad's shirt?" you ask? That's where confidence levels come in. If the tag from your dad's shirt are detected, your identity may be assigned a 70% probability it's your dad, a 20% probability it's you, based on previous observations of the tag's usage. Other methods of identity recognition, such as face recognition, credit card transactions, and others, would simply be ways to assign "ownership" probabilities to the tags. These methods are expensive to execute, so would be relatively rare, but the tags could effectively be a cheap storage medium for identity marker. Some other examples: You go get your driver's license renewed. There's an RFID detector in the floor that records the tags on your body. The confidence level of tag ownership would be high. You get money from an ATM. RFID detectors there. If you're ever arrested, it's a given. etc, etc...Any time you need to provide positive identity, your tags could be associated with you. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Searches of your home need not be to find anything. THey could be for the sole purpose of assigning ownership to your RFID tags. |
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday that it would develop software and services that will help retailers, manufacturers and distributors use radio tags to track and manage goods within stores and factories. Radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology is gaining ground as a better way to label items ranging from cereal boxes to car parts, since the low-cost tags can be tracked by remote radio receivers, unlike bar codes, which must be visible to be read by laser scanners. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N), the world's largest retailer, told its top suppliers last week to have all their products "chipped" or tagged with RFID modules. Microsoft said that it would work to make its desktop, server and applications software work with RFID and also develop programs specifically designed to use the new retail tagging technology. |
Words to fear and dread. Curtesy of your freindly neighborhood federal employee. |
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PPT slideshow |
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I loved that ride at Disneyland, and think it's cool to maybe see a movie about the same thing. A League of Extrodinary Gentlemen has a really cool looking cast. That might be interesting. |
So...what about you and the pirates? Go! Gooooooo. You know you want to..... |
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I just cannot resist pirate anything. I'm reading a fantastic history of piracy right now called "Under the Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates" by David Cordingly -- it's so much fun, and Cordingly is one of the best pirate historians around today. He spends much of the book dispelling popular myths, which is something I always stand behind. Hey, maybe that could be something to study in grad school... |
damnit! Allan Quartermain isn't the leader! Mina Harker is, and she was never a freakin vampire! |
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In the comic she always wears a red scarf to cover her neck, for whatever bite scars she still has. But she can walk around in daylight and she's rather weak and defensless, she's fearless and smart but she needs the men to save her all the time, so it's usually accepted that she's not a vampire. But that wouldn't make an interesting movie character... so they make her a chick who can appear out of a swarm of bats, fly, throw guys across rooms and do that blood-pouring-out-of-mouth shot. I hope they kept the invisible man as a totall jackass. he cracks me up. |
What I like about the comic is that the "heroes" aren't all that heroic and are pretty flawed. I hope they keep that, but somehow I doubt it. I want to see the movie, but the more I think about, the less I think I'll really like it. |
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Most of the USAPatriot Act goes into effect 1 Oct 2003. |