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10/03/09
The passive RFID tags used in clothing provide just a serial number of the item, not anything personally revealing. Plus if you forget to cut them out, one trip through the drier will nuke them beyond useable.
Your clothes are really the least of your RFID worries. Let's talk about the RFID tags in US passports, which *do* contain personal information and *are* verifiably insecure.
10/04/09
10/03/09
Maybe yours will, but mine won't. I don't even have a cellphone.
-Kle.
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10/02/09
I swear, didn't people used to think the government would have to force us to use these things?
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10/02/09
As I said the night I walked into a Wal-Mart at 3AM coming down off shrooms when I noticed the motion sensing lights in the freezer section: "I'm not ready for the f**king future yet!"
Then I kicked the hell out of a stray cart, causing it to rebound to and fro off the doors (which, ironically, only reinforced my initial issue as it made more lights come on).
Good times.
10/02/09
I could see embedding one in clothes, especially kids clothing that makes them easier to track down if they get lost or kidnapped, but it seems stupid to sew it into the clothing so that you the consumer has to cut it out of your clothes.
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08/20/09
It was called WINDOWPANE and what a frakken trip that used to be inthe old days.
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07/19/09
And so many of the "I prefer paper" comments aren't even about the merits of print books as a medium so much as plain old snobbery, like "Kindle? Sorry, I'll stick with real books." As if it's some kind of noble stance to take. We are on a science-fiction site, and we live in what is still largely a print-based culture. No one is denying the merits of the print book.
It's like if you own a Segway and discover you have problems riding it to work because there's a big hill or something. And you're trying to figure out what might be done, and someone says, "Well, that's why I just drive my car." Thanks, jackass -- I never thought of that.
(Please note that I'm not actually calling you a jackass.)
07/19/09