CINCINNATI -- Tiny silicon chips were embedded into two workers who volunteered to help test the tagging technology at a surveilance equipment company, an official said Monday.
The Mexico attorney general's office implanted the so-called RFIDs -- for radio frequency identification chips -- in some employees in 2004 to restrict access to secure areas. Implanting them in the workers at www.citywatcher.com is believed to be the first use of the technology in living humans in the United States.
Sean Darks, chief executive of the company, also had one of the chips embedded.
"I have one," he said. "I'm not going to ask somebody to do something I wouldn't do myself. None of my employees are forced to get the chip to keep their job."
The chips are the size of a grain of rice and a doctor embedded them in the forearm just under the surface of the skin, Darks said.
The work "like an access card. There's a reader outside the door; you walk up to the reader, put your arm under it, and it opens the door," darks said.
Darks said the implants don't enable www.citywatcher.com to track employees' movements. "It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever," he said. "It's the same as a keycard."
www.citywatcher.com has contracts with six cities to provide cameras and Internet monitoring of high-crime areas, Darks siad. The company is experimenting with the chips to identify workers with access to vaults where data and images are kept for police departments, he said.
The technology predates World War II, but has appeared in numerous modern adaptations, such as tracking pets, vehicles and commercial goods at warehouses.
After Hurrican Katrina, as body counts mounted and missing person reports multiplied, some morgue workers in Mississippi used the tiny computer chips to keep track of unidentified remains.
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This sounds like that thing those fundamentalist "born again Christians" warned me about... that whole mark of the beast thing...
hmmmm
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quote:Originally posted by mjm2005: This sounds like that thing those fundamentalist "born again Christians" warned me about... that whole mark of the beast thing...
hmmmm
In the book of Revelation it says that in the "last days" (whenever that may be) people will not be able to buy and sell without the "mark of the beast".
Nobody can say with any certainty exactly what that means or what this mark will look like and how it will all work. Any attempts would be pure speculation.
But I'm sure as governments continue to get increasingly paranoid, we'll all have computer chips implanted within a matter of years.
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quote:Originally posted by jordanreed: I had a D.U.I. a few yrs ago...do i have to get one too?
Yes; yours will only be activated when alcohol enters your body; the chip will be placed in your tounge. It will facilitate your cental nervous system to put your legs into a flaccid state thus assuring you will be unable to drive a motor vehicle. The newer version of this chip is safer and instead stimulates the neurons in the frontal lobe of your brain causing a terrets like response making you repeat out loud every 15 seconds "I'm drunk Officer".
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quote:Originally posted by jordanreed: I had a D.U.I. a few yrs ago...do i have to get one too?
Yes; yours will only be activated when alcohol enters your body; the chip will be placed in your tounge. It will facilitate your cental nervous system to put your legs into a flaccid state thus assuring you will be unable to drive a motor vehicle. The newer version of this chip is safer and instead stimulates the neurons in the frontal lobe of your brain causing a terrets like response making you repeat out loud every 15 seconds "I'm drunk Officer".
Mag, actually? with Jordan, we're not concerned with DUI--he's obviously learned his lesson.
But PUI? "Posting Under the Influence" is a *major* concern...
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Ok, jordanreed, I can fix it for you, just leave it all here with me for safe keeping......heh heh heh.....
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I have absolutely no doubt that had the framers had any notion the directions science would take the world, then, listed with "in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" in the 4th Amendment would also be "their computers and telephones" and then there would have been a distinct prohibition of "electronic or other abnorml means of searching and intruding".
I actually think the inclusion of the word "effects" covers those anyway, though.
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quote:Originally posted by jordanreed: someday I'll tell my story of tequilla,a woman, and the one legged man...
lol, good stuff... got one about whiskey, speed and an amputee to trade with ya...but we better start a new thread...lol, this is for Big Brudda stufff...
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j/k, Jordan
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just gotta keep that cuervo away from me!!
