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From The Guardian:
Britain's biggest employer organisation and main trade union body have sounded the alarm over the prospect of British companies implanting staff with microchips to improve security.
UK firm BioTeq, which offers the implants to businesses and individuals, has already fitted 150 implants in the UK.
The tiny chips, implanted in the flesh between the thumb and forefinger, are similar to those for pets. They enable people to open their front door, access their office or start their car with a wave of their hand, and can also store medical data.
[...] Steven Northam, the founder and owner of Hampshire-based BioTeq, told the Guardian that most of its 150 implants have been for individuals, while some financial and engineering firms have also had the chips implanted in their staff.
BioTeq has also implanted them in employees of a bank testing the technology, and has shipped them to Spain, France, Germany, Japan and China.
We recently covered similar technology being used in Sweden but the idea of implanting a tracking chip in a human for identification is nothing new.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @08:39AM (19 children)
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by PiMuNu on Tuesday November 13 2018, @09:51AM (15 children)
Revelations... Presumably you believe all the drek about sheep and seals as well?
(Score: 5, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:06PM (14 children)
No need to go believing things to accept a perfectly decent warning.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by ledow on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:29PM (1 child)
I believe the book also warns of diety-based retribution on an almost per-page basis, but that singularly fails to materialise too.
Just because someone's warning you of something doesn't mean it has any relevance to reality at all.
Currently, it's illegal to require someone to undergo surgery for anything but absolutely necessary medical procedures ordered by a court after a long, long, long legal battle (e.g. when doctors say a child must be treated against parent's wishes etc.).
Until that changes, the story is nothing but hyperbole.
Even if we all "need" to have a chip to pay our way, you still can't force people to have it implanted inside their own bodies against their will. And given that "being in your body" is not a requirement in any way, shape or form for such chips to operate and perform their function, you have a seriously long and expensive legal battle until anything like a dystopian, Biblical enforcement of such could ever take place.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:48PM
You can't force people to get a state ID or driver's license either but it's all but impossible to live in modern society without one. Same thing here.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Troll) by OrugTor on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:18PM (11 children)
Well, no, if you don't believe things it's not a decent warning, just gibberish.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:34PM (10 children)
You've just relegated all parody, satire, and a bloody lot of generic fiction to the rubbish bin.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday November 13 2018, @06:08PM (4 children)
Most parody, satire, and generic fiction isn't touted as "proof" of an imaginary sky fairy that billions of people blindly follow.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 15 2018, @07:30PM (3 children)
You're still trying to say the book's all or nothing. Doesn't work like that unless you care to say we should go around murdering, stealing, etc... also since not doing them is in there as well.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Thursday November 15 2018, @10:38PM (2 children)
Granted, though I don't need said book to tell me not to murder, steal, etc. Though I'm pretty certain that there are other passages in that book that advocate killing, stealing, rape, etc if I recall my studies from long ago (was raised Roman Catholic. I got better).
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 15 2018, @11:02PM (1 child)
If you were raised any flavor of christian (thus have experience from which to speak) and don't see any value in the source material, you're having to put a lot of effort into not seeing it. You don't gotta worship or even believe but lose the chip on your shoulder and you'll be happier. Oh, and fewer people will think you're a jackass.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday November 19 2018, @05:02PM
Nah, no chip on my shoulder. I have no qualms about someone else's beliefs provided they aren't affecting me. And like yourself, I could give a flying fuck about who thinks I am a jackass.
And yes, I do see the value in parts of the bible. It is the other not-so-good parts that diminishes that value. That and those who thump it repeatedly.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Wednesday November 14 2018, @11:04AM (4 children)
I agree that the bible is parody, satire, or generic fiction.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 15 2018, @07:34PM (3 children)
Your jokes are going to fall flat like that most every time you try shitting on a big chunk of the nation out of pure spite. Religious tolerance works for Christianity too or it doesn't work for any religion.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday November 16 2018, @01:12PM (2 children)
Sorry , it was just a throw away comment and I didn't mean to cause offence.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 17 2018, @11:07PM (1 child)
No worries. Dick jokes seem to be all that're left lately. The ones where you're being a dick rather than making a jokes about dicks, I mean. When the entire culture is on the bandwagon, it's understandable to occasionally fall prey to it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday November 19 2018, @10:33AM
You got an apology, don't push it!
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Tuesday November 13 2018, @10:06PM (2 children)
a bit off topic but does the original Hebrew version really spell it out like that?
Because when you think about it it reads like it is saying "600 of something plus 6".
Like "10 dozen 6 packs plus 3 loose cans" (total 75 cans)
So in this case the something is "threescores". A "threescore" is equal to 60.
Which would make the "Number of the Beast" = 600 * 60 + 6 = 36,006
Maybe we have had it wrong all this time?
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @10:27PM (1 child)
This part of "Lord of the Cross" was written in Greek.
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday November 14 2018, @12:18AM
Thank you for the correction.. I thought it was part of the Dead Sea scrolls or some such.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."