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Nope. Some people are actually playing with this tech.
The gear shown is veterinary equipment for putting programmable RFID tags into the back of a dog/cats neck, a very common procedure that lets pounds ID the owner of lost animals at the wave of a wand.
In the US veterinary equipment sales are not strongly regulated to facilitate farmers getting it easily. This goes for many veterinary drugs, including antibiotics etc., as well as hardware. As such anyone can get it once they find a source, quite often online.
Some companies are starting to put RFID tags into store tags to facilitate instant checkouts.
RFID's with debit card capability are used in "instant pay" tags at gas stations or some retail outlets.
Now that the FDA has approved them for human use implanted RFID's could make "instant payment" available at the wave of a hand.
Others are touting implants for use by frequent fliers or emplyees in high security zones. Some legislatures are debating putting them into prisoners so they can be better tracked. One company here that sells RFID implants (VeriChip) has even mandated that their board members get 'em in order to help market their use by the general populace.
One legit use would be to put certain medical info (diabetes, asthmatic, allergies etc.) on an RFID so hospitals and/or squads could read 'em in an emergency. Up to now physical tags or the new medical USB memory tags could be lost during an accident, but losing an RFID would be much less likely.
So far over 2,000 people have been "lojacked".
Even so it is a controversial topic;
George Orwell has arrived and is livin' large.
Either that or we really are headed for the world portrayed in "Demolition Man"
Dr. MordridLast edited by Dr Mordrid; 2 January 2006, 20:08.Dr. Mordrid
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The tech is not the problem, really. But, even putting (realistic
) orwellian nightmares aside for a moment, the home-made surgery is what scares me. Have some people no respect for their own body?
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Guess not, but then I'm not one to talk.
I've opened myself several times to remove foreign bodies (sticks, splintered rocks etc.) not to mention putting in stitches, but then I was >30 miles deep in the northern Michigan woods and probably 100 miles or more from a hospital. Go to those places alone and you learn to carry a surgical kit, bandages and waterproof bottles of antibiotics, honey and cornstarch in your backpack.
Yeah...yeah....the "buddy system". Not for me....that was how I took vacations back in my single days: two to three weeks in a tent with a rifle, pistol and a collapsable fishing rod to keep me company. After a year in an E.R. full of the dregs of humanity the last thing I wanted was a "buddy"
That said I think these guys aren't working with on all cylinders. It's one thing to do an emergency repair in the deep woods, but quite another to cut yourself open on the kitchen table
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I wonder if these RFID tags trigger scanners at airports?
I am also thinking attaching the RFID tag to a watch or necklace would be more suitable than "virtual barcoding" yourself
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Now that's pretty sensible.Originally posted by Marshmallowman
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Yikes!!!
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