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more about #socialcontrol Adam Simon: Wow, way to spread the FUD. The passive RFID tags used in clothing provide just a serial number of the item, not anything personally revealing. Plus ... more » Klebert L. Hall: "By 2014, All Of Your Clothes Will Be Tagged With RFID Microchips" Maybe yours will, but mine won't. I don't even have a cellphone. -Kle. more » bookwench: Aaaaand I'll be microwaving my clothing after purchase now, thanks. :/ more » Adah: I'm assuming the US Army already has my uniforms tagged in every way imagineable. And that my Anthrax and Smallpox vaccines were probably some form o... more » Post-Nuked: Of course American Apparel uses them. So now you can wear over priced faux retro clothing modeled by heroin addicted 16 year olds and be followed be S... more » ThisDudeRufus: ...Why? So it'll update out Twitter account automatically whenever we enter a trendy nightclub? I swear, didn't people used to think the government w... more » schrodingers-katana: Who's got two thumbs and will be buying all of his clothes vintage in the future? This guy. As I said the night I walked into a Wal-Mart at 3AM comin... more » Makidian: I haven't worked in retail for quite some time, but those used to be stickers that peel off right!? Why are they attaching them to clothes if they hav... more » qwijybo: Not an issue isn't the world supposed to end before that. more » lilliputzian: so, wait...all those wingnuts jumping up and down and screaming about Hitler and the Nazis at townhall meetings about healthcare reform actually are o... more » marlowespade: Well for Pete's sake, why don't you just gift-wrap the reservoir and hand Gotham over to Scarecrow? You're not even making it hard! more » gorehound: i used to prefer a much better way at getting scared............. It was called WINDOWPANE and what a frakken trip that used to be inthe old days. more » crashedpc - Haifisch: *raises hand* Ah, yes, do you recommend the crack or the cigarette route when it comes to terrifying the masses? I believe that cigarettes are more ec... more » Moff: EVERYONE BE SURE TO MENTION HOW YOU PREFER PAPER BOOKS WHEN YOU COMMENT AND THAT YOU HAD BLEACH FOR LIKE SOOOO LONG BEFORE NEVERMIND CAME OUT. more » Wookie1972: Napoleon apparently said "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence," and I think that applies here. Maybe I don't fe... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: I guess so. I don't really feel like this is a big deal. I mean, in the first place, like all right-thinking people I already *own* a paper copy of ... more » AlisaHaemarrhoid: At least it was 1984 and not Fahrenheit 451, they only erased data and didn't have to set their Kindles on fire. more » rotwang: If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on an Amazon Kindle — forever. more » Lassus: FYI, the read on this over at Gizmodo is pretty good as well, in regards to DRM and such. more » rek: Why would anyone pay for a digital copy of something? more » -
#socialcontrol
The Secret Connection Between Dopamine And Fear
Dopamine is infamous as a pleasure-inducing brain chemical: It's the neurotransmitter released when you smoke a cigarette or snort cocaine. But a new study published today shows that dopamine is also key to keeping people terrified for long periods. More » -
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Amazon Secretly Removes "1984" From the Kindle
Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell's 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle age. More » -
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Your Smile Will Be Monitored To Evaluate Quality Of Service
More than 500 employees of Keihin Electric Express Railway in Japan will be subject to "smile checks" every morning. Software will evaluate the quality of their grins, and alert them if they aren't looking happy enough. More » -
#springmatingseason
With 32.7 Million "Excess Males," What Will Become of China?
For every 100 girls born in China during 2005, 120 boys were born. A new demographic study shows that the biggest population control experiment in history has turned China's youth into the "male generation."
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#socialcontrol
A Tiny GPS Tracking Device That You Can Swallow
Want to track your boyfriend's every movement? Just slip this GPS tracker into his breakfast, and it will stay in his system for 72 hours - while you track him online. And there's more. More » -
#jivetarkin
Designer Babies Are a Terrible Idea
Recently, we asked whether designer babies were OK. I’d like to reopen that discussion, because it’s such a complex question, with no easy answers. So let me start by saying: No, obviously they are not. -
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#surveillance
The Art of Monitoring New York City's Telephone Conversations
You can gage how busy New York City is by looking at all the people swarming in the streets, or by smelling the giant piles of trash they've left at the curbs. But there are ways to take stock of the city's populace that are far more revealing. For a new MoMa exhibit this month, MIT's Senseable City Lab chose to expose how talkative New York is by tracking lines of electronic communication into and out of the city. Their project is aptly named the New York Talk Exchange (NYTE). It's also inadvertently a portrait of digital surveillance, showing exactly how easy it is for people to use phone records to monitor which countries New Yorkers are ringing up. More »
