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The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee's hand. [...]
What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish startup hub Epicenter. The company offers to implant its workers and startup members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.
[...] "People ask me; 'Are you chipped?' and I say; 'Yes, why not,'" said Fredric Kaijser, the 47-year-old chief experience officer at Epicenter. "And they all get excited about privacy issues and what that means and so forth. And for me it's just a matter of I like to try new things and just see it as more of an enabler and what that would bring into the future."
The implants have become so popular that Epicenter workers stage monthly events where attendees have the option of being "chipped" for free.
Full article here:
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/start-up-epicenter-implants-employees-with-microchips.html
AC: There are so many things wrong with both the article and with those people I wouldn't know where to start.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @02:03AM (15 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @02:23AM (10 children)
It sounds sexier in Latin.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @02:35AM (9 children)
Et facit omnes pusillos et magnos et divites et pauperes et liberos et servos accipere characterem in dextera manu sua aut in frontibus suis, et ne quis possit emere aut vendere, nisi qui habet characterem, nomen bestiae aut numerum nominis eius. Hic sapientia est: qui habet intellectum, computet numerum bestiae; numerus enim hominis est: et numerus eius est sescenti sexaginta sex.
Or in the original Greek perhaps?
καὶ ποιεῖ πάντας, τοὺς μικροὺς καὶ τοὺς μεγάλους, καὶ τοὺς πλουσίους καὶ τοὺς πτωχούς, καὶ τοὺς ἐλευθέρους καὶ τοὺς δούλους, ἵνα δῶσιν αὐτοῖς χάραγμα ἐπὶ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν τῆς δεξιᾶς ἢ ἐπὶ τὸ μέτωπον αὐτῶν, καὶ ἵνα μή τις δύνηται ἀγοράσαι ἢ πωλῆσαι εἰ μὴ ὁ ἔχων τὸ χάραγμα, τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ θηρίου ἢ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ. ὧδε ἡ σοφία ἐστίν· ὁ ἔχων νοῦν ψηφισάτω τὸν ἀριθμὸν τοῦ θηρίου, ἀριθμὸς γὰρ ἀνθρώπου ἐστίν· καὶ ὁ ἀριθμὸς αὐτοῦ ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἕξ.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 04 2017, @04:58AM (8 children)
Thanks for the Greek! Good to be able to read SoylentNews in my mother-tongue! But, not to quibble, that is koine greek, kind of the language of slaves and the uneducated. Could you, perhaps, rephrase it in Attic? Oh, wait, I see my error! Christians! Well, as Runaway9672 would say, bugger me! I recommend the movie "Agora", mostly because it has Rachel Weiss in it, but also because it involves mobs of really stupid Christians perpetrating barbaric violence on anyone who does philosophy or science.
And everyone knows that Revelations was off, on the whole number of the beast thing: Bill Gates said it his own self: No one will ever need more than 640!!! Got that? The number of the Beast is +640! As in 640K! RAM, that is. Less than a Megabyte. Upper Memory. config.sys. Autoexec.bat. If you remember those, and you have not adopted Linux, truly you are damned for all eternity.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:46AM (2 children)
That was Greek, not retard you dumb ass. We all know your first language is retard.
(Score: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:22AM
Ah, some one from the Westernmost reaches! Yes, of course it was Greek. But not all Greek is Greek, just as not all English is Anglish, as your very dubious example shows. For example, what, precisely, is a "dumb ass"? It seems to me that all asses are dumb, if you are referring to the species Equus africanus asinus, and if you are not, I have no idea to what you are referring.
Second: "first language is retard"? I am not familiar with any such language. Perhaps you could enlighten us, since you seem to be extremely proficient in the arts of the extremely stupid and uneducated. Surely you know that "tardus" is just Latin for "the late one". I, for one, fail to see how this is a bad thing! I have been alive for over 2400 years, and I have seem many cases where people did not show their true potential until well into their later years. But never was "retard" a language. Usually they had their own, rather idiosyncratic, language, possibly shared only with a twin. But that is neither here nor there. The point, my Soft and Squishy AC, it that you, in fact, are the idiot here. You do not read Greek, and you cannot tell the difference between dialects of the language, so you accuse me of ignorance? Oh, dear, my dear AC, you are in well over your head. So far, in fact, that your head may actually right now, but up your own ass, and here I am not referring to Equus africanus asinus.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @01:45PM
You err. The queer Greek's first language is pedarasty.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:18AM (4 children)
Can you actually read that fluently? I can understand a little of it due to over a decade of bible study, but am not even sure how to pronounce half of it--specifically, where the h's go in front of the occasional omicron. Also how can you tell Koine from Attic in writing?
It's odd; I never studied Latin but more of it is immediately intelligible just due to the familiar alphabet and the cognates with Romance languages.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 5, Informative) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:33AM (1 child)
Yes, believe it or not, there are people who can.
καὶ ποιεῖ πάντας, τοὺς μικροὺς καὶ τοὺς μεγάλους,
καὶ = and
ποιεῖ= he makes
πάντας= all
τοὺς μικροὺς =the micro (small)
καὶ τοὺς μεγάλους,= and the large.
See? Greek is just a language, like any other, it only takes some perseverance to get it. Of course, as I pointed out, there are some differences between Biblical (Koine, or common) Greek and Classical Attic or Ionic Greek, not to mention Homer. And Modern Greek is an entirely different animal. Hopa!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:25PM
Oh, I can understand about half the Koine just based on cognates, and another 1/4 or so through, frankly, some completely unexplainable intuition (works on Russian too somehow...). It's a little crazy-making, but useful in some odd circumstances.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Tuesday April 04 2017, @12:14PM (1 child)
If the thingy curves to the right it's a spiritus asper, ὁ = Ho, Wiki calls it "rough breathing" [wikipedia.org] for some reason.
If there is no accent necessary they put a very similar looking thingy that curves to the left on it to add confusion: spiritus lenis, ὄνομα = onoma (name), smooth breathing [wikipedia.org], which means: it's jus t a normal omicron, but we put a special accent on top of it, so that you can see that it's not the H special accent.
It's been so long ago that I had Greek in school that I can kind of still figure it out but with great difficulty :-)
We have to ask Aristarchus for the differences between Koinè, Attic, Doric, Ionian, Homeric and Pindarussian, because my mind is a blank.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:18PM
Wiki calls it "rough breathing" for some reason.
"Some reason" being the literal translation: "spiritus" = breath, "asper" = sharp/ragged, and "lenis" = gentle/smooth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @02:30AM (1 child)
Get rid of the archaic language if you're going to read a fantasy novel.
"This second Beast worked magical signs, dazzling people by making fire come down from Heaven. It used the magic it got from the Beast to dupe earth dwellers, getting them to make an image of the Beast that received the deathblow and lived. It was able to animate the image of the Beast so that it talked, and then arrange that anyone not worshiping the Beast would be killed. It forced all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to have a mark on the right hand or forehead. Without the mark of the name of the Beast or the number of its name, it was impossible to buy or sell anything."
See, much better.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:14PM
So presumably you're not a Tolkien fan.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:03AM
The "wisdom" being referred to here is Gematria, that is, assigning each letter of Hebrew or Greek a numerical value and ciphering with it. 666 just so happens to add up to--more or less--"Neron Qaisar" (remember, "it is the number of a man"). Revelation is coded anti-Roman polemic, which dovetails nicely with an estimated composition date of ca. 90AD.
Incidentally, Luther wanted to leave it out of the canon...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @01:01PM
> he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name
Ok that means a global commerce system more than compulsory chipping.