CGofMP
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Paranoia?
How about this...
I do not have any idea how robust these rfid chips are to heat, spinning and impact. I also do not know how many unique numbers each one can hold.
Given the technological advances and the potential for hardening electronics (remember when the slight bump of a vacuum tube could take a tv or radio off-line...) I do not think it would be too hard to see a future where rfid like devices (arent they the size of a grain of rice?) become pretty tough.
Remember a few years back when they wanted to put 'marking agents' in all the gunpowder? Well what would happen if you encased RFID into each bullet sold?
Suddenly if someone has a reader:
* You are NOT CCWing any longer - anyone with a reader knows what ya got on yer hip under that coat
* "Your bullets" are all registered as soon as you leave the wal-mart making 4473's far less of a worry than your next purchase for federal tracking purposes
* Police might be able to scan your car and develop Probable Cause for search for an arbitrary number of rounds as decided by the government - we all know that if you carry more than 200 rounds you must be a terrorist right?
Theres probably a lot more...
As for the mark Of The Beast comments... I can understand where the posters are coming from. This specific item may not be THE MARK, but this technology, and the usage of them to track people and allow or disallow specific actions/transactions is certainly a way to prove technology. We now DO HAVE the capacity to track every single financial transaction (no matter how tiny) in real time and track every person who made it in the world. The technology for this did not even exist when I graduated high school... The mark of the beast was a technological laugh then. As society becomes cashless, it becomes more and more of a technological possibility.
How about this...
I do not have any idea how robust these rfid chips are to heat, spinning and impact. I also do not know how many unique numbers each one can hold.
Given the technological advances and the potential for hardening electronics (remember when the slight bump of a vacuum tube could take a tv or radio off-line...) I do not think it would be too hard to see a future where rfid like devices (arent they the size of a grain of rice?) become pretty tough.
Remember a few years back when they wanted to put 'marking agents' in all the gunpowder? Well what would happen if you encased RFID into each bullet sold?
Suddenly if someone has a reader:
* You are NOT CCWing any longer - anyone with a reader knows what ya got on yer hip under that coat
* "Your bullets" are all registered as soon as you leave the wal-mart making 4473's far less of a worry than your next purchase for federal tracking purposes
* Police might be able to scan your car and develop Probable Cause for search for an arbitrary number of rounds as decided by the government - we all know that if you carry more than 200 rounds you must be a terrorist right?
Theres probably a lot more...
As for the mark Of The Beast comments... I can understand where the posters are coming from. This specific item may not be THE MARK, but this technology, and the usage of them to track people and allow or disallow specific actions/transactions is certainly a way to prove technology. We now DO HAVE the capacity to track every single financial transaction (no matter how tiny) in real time and track every person who made it in the world. The technology for this did not even exist when I graduated high school... The mark of the beast was a technological laugh then. As society becomes cashless, it becomes more and more of a technological possibility.