OT / NSR: Shift Happens

[s/v Faith]

My dad sent ==>this<== to me today. 

  I thought it was very interesting.

[CapnK]

Wow, incredible numbers. Funny-odd that you should post that, because I have been doing so much computer work lately, and had been thinking on the topic this past week or two. I'm definitely of two minds when it comes to all the gee-whiz high-tech that is around and is being developed. (Uh oh, I am starting to sound like my father! ;D)

Ran across this a couple days ago, a really neat video, somewhat encouraging:

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

But then saw an article yesterday that Hitachi has developed ultra-tiny RFID tags, so small that they are barely larger than dust. How long before you covertly or "accidently" get sprinkled with these things by some company, or worse, the government, so that they can track you.  ???

Sometimes it makes me want to just throw the laptop into the water, untie the lines, and go far far away from all the bits and bytes.

Seems like that might be impossible to do, in the not-to-distant future...

Unless someone invents a magnetic shampoo. :)

[s/v Faith]

My Stanley Skill saw refused to work last week.

  I started to just heave it into the dumpster, but thought it might just be a loose connection so I took out the ~ 47 torx screws to take a look.

  There was an RFID tag, built INSIDE it.  There was a slot molded into the plastic to fit the RFID tag.

  Of course the mgf puts them there as  a theft deterrent... ? right?  Or maybe it is for warrantie issues..?  Everyone knows that they can be read from 5 - 10' (to trip the alarm on the door at the store).

...stopping now least you guys tease me about my tinfoil hat collection.....  :o