RFID Tags

[mot78]

I've heard from someone that stores are putting these tags on people's shopping carts and in their bags in order to track what they buy, and determine their personallity as a customer. WTF is up with that?

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. i remember i was in a store

and i had nothing on me and i set off the RFID sensor, i was told that wal-mart puts them in the boots they sell and they occasionally dont get deactivated and set THIER sensors off

[Selteri]

2. RFID

Yes, the plan with walmart is to literally FRID all items sold in thier stores to individually identify each item so that you just have to walk through the checkout and get everything...

It's an interesting idea but will become just another tech eventually.

[DancingBear]

3. I worked in RFID for several years

This is the tip of the iceberg. RFID was originally designed as tracking device (inventory control), then it morphed into security (several amusement parks use it to track children, in case they become separated from their parents). When I left the field, I was working on an application for a hospital ER. The ER docs would carry a small RFID "tag", and a corresponding antenna ("reader") wold be in EACH of the ER rooms. As soon as the ER doc entered the room to see a patient, his location would be sent to a central PC, where a clock program (written by the hospital IT programmers) would start. This clock would transmit the actual time the ER doc spent in the room to the BILLING department so they could charge for every minute he was there!

Like I said, this is only the tip of the iceberg.

[Merlin]

4. True RFID is strictly used for inventory and theft control.

It involves placing a chip in every product. That chip has no power source, but because of its physical and chemical composition, it emits a tiny signal which simply repeats endlessly its unique id.

Readers can quickly survey an entire warehouse and count each item. Readers guarding exits can determine which items leave the premises.

However, the scope and distance of the readers is limited.

RFIDs are the technology behind the EZ-Pass highway toll tracking systems.

Similar ideas are being developed for wider tracking, but they typically involve powered chips.

[AntiCoup2K4]

5. Sounds a lot like...

Revelation 13

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

The RFID tags are being made by none other than Poppy Bush and friends at the Carlyle Group!! :scared:

http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2002/01/14/story3.html

[rdfi-defi]

6. i think they prefer the forehead,

one could remove a chip from a hand or even chop it off, but the forehead/skull is another matter all together.

and screw wal mart too