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Comment What's the big fuss? Wisconsin company did similar (Score 1) 135

A few years back a Wisconsin company did something similar. What's the big fuss?

> July 25, 2017
> A Wisconsin company is offering to implant tiny radio-frequency chips in its employees – and it says they are lining up for the technology.[...]
> Employees who have the rice-grain-sized RFID chip implanted between their thumb and forefinger can then use it "to make purchases in their break room micro market, open doors, login to computers, use the copy machine," 32M said.[...][/quote]

> https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Ft...

Comment Re:Cyberpunk (Score 1) 38

Amusingly the game 'HackNet' has a portion where you can hack a pace maker after researching on the ins and outs of it.. and.. ah.. do things.

After my initial B&E I perpetually used it to route my connections through to mask my identity when system security was after me. It made me chuckle.

Comment Re: Only a few meters down.... (Score 2) 54

Poor thing must have been horrified by the humans drilling its shell, tagging it, and doing continuous âoesurveillanceâ on it to invade its privacy and deanonymize its wild habits.

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Yes, I am certain this is most definitely what she was thinking, and not an anthropomorphised mischaracterization.

Comment Re:My biggest fear (Score 2) 129

That's the new gold rush. Develop a company to create "Virtual You's AI" that screen all your phone calls before they get to you. This will start an arms race, of sorts, between scam call AI trying to outfox Virtual You's AI, Virtual You's getting more complex to circumvent this, and so on. Each time a scammer calls a tiny virtual battlefield takes place and, hopefully, your side wins. This time.

Comment Entrenched echo chambers, indeed, are bad. (Score 1) 458

Color me shocked that an established echo chamber leads to unchecked bad behavior - as seen from the outside. Obviously the solution is to create new silicon valleys - like the 'silicon prairie' in the mid west, silicon hollar, or silicon river.

On that note I am pretty certain the Simpsons addressed this at Gazebo 7.

Comment Re:GCSE? (Score 4, Funny) 53

Oh, the UK certainly does exist. I saw the UK on a documentary I watched this last weekend about some fellow named "Harry Potter" (I think he's high up in the government). Sure his early life was broken up over many episodes so it drug on more than it should, but it provided some excellent background into UK youths.

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