R. Paul McCarty wrote: > > This kind of scares me... Think of what it would be like if in 20 years > > or so, everyone had something like this (for Big Brother's benefit, of > > course). > > Yeah, it'd be great; I wouldn't have to whip out my grocery store card, > driver's license, creditcard, etc. to go shopping. If you keep the > signal strength down, they probably wont be able to track you unless you > get near a detector (probably can't see you with a satelite). Besides, > if you're really paranoid you can turn it off. It's your body, unless > microsoft owns that chip, you can do anything you want with it. > > Just keep one of those nasal extractors that Arnold used in Total > Recall. ;-) ouch. My opinion - only allow the 'tracking' option to use a user-modifiable code - and allow this to be duplicated. So if you want to be untrackable, change you code to the same code as, say, one of the Spice Girls, and you will be invisible. -- Pete Hardie | Goalie, DVSG Dart Team Scientific Atlanta | Digital Video Services Group | -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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