Now HERE'S a technology we can't live without!

[MilDoc]

http://www.livescience.com/scienceof...bluscreen.html


NOT!

[Pappy]

We really need another way for others to spy on us!

[billwmeyer]

Wow! I read a science fiction book many years ago, and that same thing was described, except not with bluetooth, I think it was from some kind of embedded id chip or something. That is almost the same thing though. the ads were a hologram with audio that was projected in front of you and traveled with you until it finished. I wish I could remember the book title.

Bill

[cabinetman]

Paul

This technology will eventually seep into other "blu toothing", such as microsecond pregnancies, marriages, and of course honeymoons. We will be urged to involve our children, pets, parents and butcher in the "blu screen" condition, which will call for doctors to treat the "blu" syndrome. There must be something to it because I get palpations every time I get a "blu screen".



"I'M NEVER WRONG - BUT I'M NOT ALWAYS RIGHT"

[mineengineer]

bill i think the book you are referring to is farenheit 451

[scorrpio]

Nope, I remember 451, has nothing of the sort. Yeah, they did have TV screens covering entire walls and personalized content, but no embedded chips or anything (they personalized it by address).

This tech ain't gonna fly. Due to rampant bluejacking, very few people walk around with open mode bluetooth enabled. I.E. my phone will only talk to my headset, nothing else. And what if five people come by the screen at once? Blah.

The tech that really looks interesting is RfID tags.
At stores: every item has a small tag. Once you put an item into shopping cart, the cart tells you item price and your running total. As you walk out of the store, you only need to stop by a booth to pay. (Thus would usually involve a biometric device of some sort for security reasons).
At home: a fridge that keeps track of its contents and expiration numbers on products. a closet that keeps accurate inventory of its contents.

[Hoyden]

could the movie be "Logans run" they were also firemen I believe. trying to stop anyone who tried to leave the city. and also burning books.

[BobSch]

The tech that really looks interesting is RfID tags.
At stores: every item has a small tag. Once you put an item into shopping cart, the cart tells you item price and your running total. As you walk out of the store, you only need to stop by a booth to pay. (Thus would usually involve a biometric device of some sort for security reasons).
At home: a fridge that keeps track of its contents and expiration numbers on products. a closet that keeps accurate inventory of its contents.

Oh, man, RFID tags are evil. With RFID and paying by check or credit card, the store had a foolproof, low-cost way of tracking my shopping habits. Using RFID to manage stock is one thing, but tying each purchase to an individual? NO WAY! If I know a store is using RFID in that way, I'll shop elsewhere (or, if forced to buy from them, use cash.)

[430752]

I dunno what yer all worried about....

You obviously haven't taken the right precautions.

See, the person typing this is a 78 yeard old eskimo priest who earns $100K a year. Or maybe a 33 yeard old white nurse earning 50K. or perhaps an 22 african american student earning only 18K a year.

I dunno, I guess it depends upon which database you troll. I actively fill out those forms incorrectly, stating I'm a man or a woman, sometimes Doctor, always a priest or nun if that option is given, usually a minority, and usally earning the highest income bracket possible. I guess the only real people who know are the credit card companies, and they don't have race information on file, only economics. The funny thing is when I get mail addressed to Sir or Master, or to some phony company or school I put down. They don't even check these things and have me listed as Mrs., Ms., Miss, etc. (Ms. Curtis?), and a lot of times there is no verification, where the key tag for frequent shoppers are issued on the spot without even a human reading it. I've given my info as stephanie mills once, in person, to a clerk who never bothered to check. When they do check, you can tell them you don't want to give out the real info but want the card anyway, any cashier worth their minimum wage won't blink and will do their dutiful duty and give you whatever you want. My local grocery stores (where you have to fill out that stuff to get their price plus card) is scratching their heads wondering why a 56 year old pacific islander fomer civil servant earning $155K a year is buying organic bananas and thick porthouse steaks! You should see the checkout coupons I get from companies offering initial purchase enticementstuff (as opposed to the stuff you get for repeat buying, which is accurate no matter what psuedonym I use). My local video store (when I rented back in the day), wonders why a 70 year old nun rents rated r and foreign moveis. They didn't even compare the creditcard to the application, and you pay cash after that. Whatever.

well, I'm sure its not foolproof, and maybe i'm deluding myself, but I figure if you keep em guessing it'll help. Also, I've recently started to slim down the false aliases into three or four, cuz I figure if I keep making new ones up with new and different info for each, then there won't be enough data to formulate a coherent figure. That is, their programs must have some sort of procedure for kicking out anomolies and abnormalities. So, I've been discovering that a more limited, but deeper, set of data dopplegangers and false implants seems to work better. The stuff I get in the mail and in checkout coupons has been getting more consistent.

With the bluetooth phone, I guess they'd have your name, but you can skew the rest. We should all become a nation of 18 year old pacific islanders with a post graduate degree earning $150-200K, annually, and living in a zip code which is demographically depressed, and subsrcibing to cooking, bingo, and custom hot rod magazines!

curt j.

[gsmittle]

could the movie be "Logans run" they were also firemen I believe. trying to stop anyone who tried to leave the city. and also burning books.

Logan's Run had to do with implanting a timer in every person so that when they reached 21 (in the book) or 30 (in the movie, or was it the other way around?) they had to report to be killed. The Runners (those who tried to run away) were chased by Logan, until he went undercover and eventually become a runner himself.

I've read the other book too, and I think it had something to do with advertising being the supreme occupation. I can't for the life of me remember the title, but I do remember a product called "Moka-Kola" in it.

g.