 RFID tags, I saw one today |
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 Apr 25 2006, 10:55 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 19-April 06 Member No.: 8,483  |
At work today, I was working at an Alumina refinery, saw on one of the posts a little round tag that said, "World Tag" RFID....Just caught my attention enough to look it up at least in wiki and give you guys the link. After looking at it, apparantly I've been seeing these things all over and just not realizing it.
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Apr 25 2006, 11:10 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 8-April 06 From: My dorm room Member No.: 8,438 |
Wow, so that's what the stickers they put on my shampoo bottles are for! :eek:
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Apr 26 2006, 06:35 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,754 Joined: 9-July 04 From: Modesto, CA Member No.: 6,465 |
Although the idea is new to SR4, RFID technology has been around for a while now.
One of the neat applications was being able to run your shopping cart though the checkout and have it give you a total without having to unpack it all. Soon as it becomes "useful" to the business world, you'll see it more and more. |
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Apr 26 2006, 08:41 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98 |
I get into and out of my work building every day with an RFID tag in a card. Honestly, I think the card is just used so they don't lose the damn thing.
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Apr 26 2006, 09:42 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Earth - Europe - AGS - Norddeutscher Bund - Hannover Member No.: 7,624 |
At the moment RFID chips are still much too expensive to put them on every single product in a store. But major trading corporations like WalMart or METRO are already using them for logistics and in warehouses. Though the technology still has some some problems.
You can find some additional information about future applications of RFID technology in trading on this page: Future Store Initiative There is a link on top of the page to the english version. Now: Guess which corporation I am working for? :D |
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Apr 26 2006, 11:24 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 19-December 05 From: Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Member No.: 8,081 |
Since last year new passports in germany contain a RFID chip with biometric data und fingerprints.
Needless to say that the concept is basically insecure and therefore flawed, which was proven even before the first passport was introduced. |
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Apr 26 2006, 12:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Earth - Europe - AGS - Norddeutscher Bund - Hannover Member No.: 7,624 |
They introduced these passports mainly, because a certain other nation demanded biometric passports for everybody wishing to cross their border...
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Apr 26 2006, 02:26 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
RFID has been out for ages. You ever seen those security tags on CDs and computer games? Ever used a metro card? Have a work ID that opens by virtue of it touching the reader? I've begun stealing RFID tags for fun and putting them on my keys so I buzz whenever I walk past those things at the entrances to stores. Too bad they die as soon as they get close to a magnet.
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Apr 26 2006, 02:29 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
Ah, yes, RFID tags. I won't go into my big rant about them, but I'll say this:
When the guvmint can see where you are 24/7, that's a scary thought. Almost as bad as cameras in a private home. Give me anonymity or give me death! |
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Apr 26 2006, 02:38 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,002 Joined: 22-April 06 From: Canada Member No.: 8,494 |
There is talk that the Canada/US and US/Mexico border crossing will use RFID tags for shipping. If everything you are caring has an RFID tag attached to it it would only take customs a few seconds (vs hours) to scan your load. This will greatly decrease the amount of time it takes to ship stuff accross the boarder and increase trade in North America.
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Apr 26 2006, 03:17 PM
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Running, running, running Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,220 Joined: 18-October 04 From: North Carolina Member No.: 6,769 |
Not a fan of the full house webcam layouts so you can watch sexy co-eds plan their shadowruns in 2070? |
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Apr 26 2006, 03:23 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
Widespread RFID use would make the shipping industry much more efficient. Of course the longshoreman's Union will oppose it as long as possible for that reason, they like the job having a clipboard and a piece of chalk to mark and locate containers on the docks.
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Apr 26 2006, 04:12 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
Mexico US on some particular sites, yes, but I haven't heard anything about Canada. However I don't believe it'll be required, it'll just work sort of like speed-pass (a program you see on most toll roads around here). |
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Apr 26 2006, 04:45 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 152 Joined: 29-March 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,420 |
I bought a Wallet a few years ago, that had an RFID tag wedged down into one of the credit card slots. I kept setting shit off, and getting my bags searched everytime I left a store with anti-theft sensors.
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Apr 26 2006, 04:52 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,754 Joined: 9-July 04 From: Modesto, CA Member No.: 6,465 |
RFID is not the same as a portable GPS. It's a passive device that responds when a signal it sent to it.They are a close proximity device so when the tag is brought close to a scanner (like a bage ID or a container) they change to alert the scanner of what information they carry. I would be more worried about cellphones than RFID. |
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Apr 26 2006, 05:50 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
But keep in mind, both RFID and cell phones can be blocked relatively easily, as they both rely on radio waves. Simply create a faraday cage using tin foil (not aluminum foil). That's why there's a giant tin foil hat on my house. Spy on me now, Uncle Sam!
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Apr 26 2006, 06:00 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,754 Joined: 9-July 04 From: Modesto, CA Member No.: 6,465 |
:rotfl: |
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Apr 26 2006, 06:22 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
You totally forgot about the molemen he's got hired to tunnel under houses and listen from there.
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Apr 26 2006, 07:06 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 152 Joined: 29-March 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,420 |
The Molemen are actually haliburton Contractors.
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Apr 26 2006, 09:06 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...and Boy Georgie W quietly signed a measure that would force states to standardise their ID cards & DLs which would include RFID with all your personal info encoded (including background). You don't squawk proper, you don't get to pass go and collect your 200 :nuyen: The age of the SINner and SINless is coming faster than we think. |
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Apr 26 2006, 09:14 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,754 Joined: 9-July 04 From: Modesto, CA Member No.: 6,465 |
Try doing much of anything w/o a Social Security Number. Bank account, driver license, home loans, lots of things require it. Tell someone these days you don't have an SSN and they look at you as funny as I'm sure they do in 2070 when you mention you don't have a commlink. |
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Apr 28 2006, 03:52 AM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...I'm already beginning to feel pretty SINless because places like banks & such now require (by federal law) a minimum 2 pieces of valid ID = DL/State ID (which is all I carry) + either a Credit Card, Military ID, Passport, or Company Employee (picture) ID. The SS card doesn't qualify. |
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Apr 28 2006, 04:55 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,754 Joined: 9-July 04 From: Modesto, CA Member No.: 6,465 |
Next time an application or institution asks for a SSN, tell them "no" and see how far you get.
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Apr 28 2006, 01:49 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,002 Joined: 22-April 06 From: Canada Member No.: 8,494 |
The degration along the Canada/US border will slow down imports/exports soon. The Americans plan to fence off their side of the border. It looks like they are tring to make a prison of the USA from our point of view. |
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Apr 28 2006, 04:28 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...and next you know, they will start building a wall around Portland. I hear Haliburton and Bechtel are competing for the contract. |
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