from the this-can't-possibly-be-used-for-evil dept.
Yes, you read that right. Microchip implants.
"It's the next thing that's inevitably going to happen, and we want to be a part of it," Three Square Market Chief Executive Officer Todd Westby said.
The company designs software for break room markets that are commonly found in office complexes.
Just as people are able to purchase items at the market using phones, Westby wants to do the sam[sic] thing using a microchip implanted inside a person's hand.
"We'll come up, scan the item," he explained, while showing how the process will work at an actual break room market kiosk. "We'll hit pay with a credit card, and it's asking to swipe my proximity payment now. I'll hold my hand up, just like my cell phone, and it'll pay for my product."
If the company was really cool they would do it by tattooing the sum of the squares of the first seven primes (2² + 3² + 5² + 7² + 11² + 13² + 17²) over the employees' left ear.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @09:43PM (4 children)
"It's the next thing that's inevitably going to happen"
Fuck them with a cactus
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday July 24 2017, @10:33PM
> Fuck them with a cactus
Unlike them, you actually seem to be trying to answer an existing problem.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday July 24 2017, @10:41PM
"BAAMP. Access denied. Your chip may be implanted in your own body, please attempt to authenticate with that member instead."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @12:04AM
First post managed to wrap everything into one nice sound bite, good job :D
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 25 2017, @06:30AM
Inevitable, propaganda term for "there is no objective advantage for you, but we want to do this".
Progress, propaganda term for "there is no objective advantage for you, but there is some for our plans"
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 24 2017, @09:47PM (15 children)
The microchip presumably provides unique identification, 1^6 - 2^6 + 3^6 is all too common a sum, can't use that to tell the minions apart.
Besides, the phrase is "give the Devil his due" not "send the Devil the bill."
Also, my understanding of the whole "number of the beast" thing is that there is an 18 digit number (three sets of six numbers) that is the name of the beast and when that number is "activated" (spoken, written, printed in the New York Times, not sure, really... ) that the beast will be called forth and do all those beastly things that keep the parishioners inspired.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday July 24 2017, @10:05PM (1 child)
Hmmm … 666666 666666 666666? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:28PM
" 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:
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.
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."
Revelations 13:16-19 [mcgrewbooks.com]. Good luck getting any Christians who actually read their bibles to get this implant. Those with tattoos and piercings don't read it or they would know they're sins (so is a man's shaving his face), so they'll probably jump right on this evil stupidity.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @12:30AM (2 children)
Just holding your hand to the reader isn't very exciting. Why not add some drama? Design it so you have to wave your hand around in some specific gesture (like casting a spell) to call out the spirits of the RFID.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:01PM (1 child)
You could have the hand movements encoding your order. Now that would be pure magic: You wave your hands and get what you want!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @02:33AM
Arthur C Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:35AM (9 children)
For fuck's sake...no, 666 is gematria (number/letter cyphering) for, more or less, "Neron Qaisar" or Caesar Nero. The other symbolism is very clearly referring to the Capitoline Hills and the series of short-lived, embarrassing emperors. Revelation is mostly a coded anti-Roman rant.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:02AM (7 children)
> 666 is gematria (number/letter cyphering) for, more or less, "Neron Qaisar"
qaisar, an arabic term, the interpretation looks forced to me, in a book that is more oriented to greek and, when speaking of romans, latin.
> more or less
meaning?
> very clearly referring to the Capitoline Hills
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_claimed_to_be_built_on_seven_hills [wikipedia.org]
among the shitload of places, most notable are Jerusalem, Mecca, Moscow.
BTW "At the end of the year 666 of "Julian time", there was the beginning of the year 622 A.D., which was the year when the founder of the Islam, Mohammed, settled from Mekka to Medina, and this is the year "one" of the Islamic calendar, so calculating the Islamic year (Yi) from the "Julian" year (Yj) is: Yi = Yj - 666"
Leaving numerology, the most explicit anti christian stuff is in the Koran and obviously in the Talmud.
Also, the events narrated or symbolized in the apocalypse are simply too apocalyptic for a book meant to attack nero.
Also, attacking the enemy does not make much sense in the context of early christianity, everybody was the enemy.
Also, the peculiar warning "to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city..." points at something different than a political tirade. Maybe encoded knowledge, who knows.
What seems clear to me is that this is far from clear.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 25 2017, @06:34PM (6 children)
You...*do* know that the correct pronunciation of "Caesar" is "Kaiser/Qaisar" don't you? And that Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew are Semitic languages with common roots? As an example, "Satan" (Hebrew) and "Shaitan" (Arabic) are equivalent, the root being {S[h]'t'n} or "adversary, one who opposes," hence Yeshua telling Cephas "get thee behind me, Satan."
There is most certainly "encoded knowledge" in the book, as the phrase right before the infamous number is "let him who hath wisdom (this being closer to "esoteric knowledge") reckon (i.e., "sum up" or "cypher") the Number of the Beast, for IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN (this is the important part) and the number is six-hundred-threescore-and-six."
Some variants have it at 616, not 666. Since the value of nun (Hebrew) or nu (Greek) is 50, you get "Nero Qaisar" rather than "Neron Qaisar" from 616.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:41PM (4 children)
Yes I am familiar with the pronunciation. Still the audience was Greek/Latin, so I am not convinced.
The reasons for the Satan epithet has itself other interpretations than simply assuming it means adversary, especially in hindsight when the denial of the sacrifice on the cross is considered THE discriminant factor for followers (1 John 2:22).
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 25 2017, @09:08PM (3 children)
Look, if we're going to get into the tenets of Christianity itself, you've already lost.
In plain English, Yahweh sacrificed his son, who is also himself, TO himself, to STOP himself from throwing his own voluntarily-formed creations into the Hell he also didn't need to create and never mentioned to them (no, he let the Persians and Greeks do that...) for the sins (read: his own negative aesthetic judgments, since DCT is empty) he knew they would commit before he created them.
This. Is. Insanity. What you have here is a cross between Kim Kong-Il and Donald Trump times infinity. He's literally Infinite Hitler, no Godwin because the comparison is entirely valid, with his inescapable eternal concentration camp full of fear and fire and pain and torture and misery for what amount to his political prisoners.
The entirety of the Abrahamic corpus is somewhere between delusional and outright psychopathic-sadistic. No God would act this way. Only a demon would, which is why I am certain Yahweh either doesn't exist or is an evil spirit.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday July 26 2017, @09:40AM (2 children)
personal belief is off topic, the topic is what people millennia ago might have meant.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:15PM (1 child)
And you're saying they meant to predict Islam, Russia, and all the other bogeymen that give good Yahweh-fearin' church-attendin' n*****-bashin' f*****-hatin' MURRICANS the vapors then...?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:02AM
> And you're saying they meant to...
no, I said interpretation is far from settled on Nero and/or Rome.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @09:18PM
I did know this, thanks New Vegas.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday July 25 2017, @06:45PM
Revelation is mostly a coded anti-Roman rant.
Fuckin' Romans, what've they ever done for us, anyway?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @09:55PM (1 child)
Can I get a chip reader installed in my hand instead? and then go shake hands with everyone...
(Score: 4, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday July 24 2017, @10:44PM
"Hey, nice to meet ya."
beep
"What was that?"
"...nothing."
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Monday July 24 2017, @09:58PM (2 children)
So now they rob you at machete point and take your hand instead of your wallet?
Why do people keep on doing this stuff. We can't seem to stop ourselves from creating skynet.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @10:01PM
No see, we'll embed in in their skull. Bet you feel like an idiot now!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:16AM
My theory is that implants give the elites a sense of more power, or that invading the body (see also tattoos) yields advantages according to some esoterism or to some forced prophecy fulfilling, or that implants are the boogeyman designed to keep attention away from subtler tracking technology.
None of these possible explanations bodes very well for our future.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @09:59PM
Good for them. It's about time the men and transgendred of WI own their micro problem and accept help from robotic transplants.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday July 24 2017, @10:10PM (6 children)
If it became mandatory, I'd go on welfare.
If it became mandatory for welfare, I'd live in the woods with my mealworms.
No. Way!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by gznork26 on Tuesday July 25 2017, @12:30AM (4 children)
...until you need it to collect your welfare.
Khipu were Turing complete.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:01AM (3 children)
You should've read the second line of the GP's comment before commenting.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:22AM (2 children)
First you don't read TFA before commenting
Then you don't read TFsummary before commenting
Then you don't read TFtitle before commenting
Then you don't read the comments before commenting
Then you ditch the internet and comment directly unto the collective mind
Then you comment directly unto God
Then God smites you.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:06PM (1 child)
When there's a collective mind, there's no longer any "you" who could comment unto it.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 25 2017, @05:48PM
If only YOU could be used for plural too... :D
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(Score: 1) by tftp on Tuesday July 25 2017, @12:51AM
Easy. They make it mandatory to receive healthcare. Within several years the problem will be solved! The holdouts are usually older people who need healthcare, or they die.
(Score: 2) by Absolutely.Geek on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:12AM (1 child)
Citation needed!
Don't trust the police or the government - Shihad: My mind's sedate.
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:32AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:35AM (2 children)
A few years ago, tech site was chipping ops so they can get in to computer room.
Bigger is no MRI anymore? Embed magnetic device in hand will not allow you near an MRI. NO meds for you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:42AM (1 child)
Chips are mostly silicon/sand -- not magnetic.
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:38AM
Go with a conductive but not ferromagnetic (say, gold) implement inside MRI and come back to share your experience.
Try something like a nose ring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Lester on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:34PM (1 child)
Either the company wants you to do it, either the company don't care.
If the company wants, the words "voluntary" or "option" lose their real meaning.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:10AM
Yeah. At a former job, all employees were 'offered' a wellness program that would give $XX off your health insurance each month, at the cost of waiving all privacy rights re healthcare information. Being fat, I didn't agree. 6 months after implementation, I see my paycheck dinged -$XXX each month for 'non-compliance', and my employee reviews went from 4/5 to 2/5 for 'a lack of cooperation'. When I objected, I was told straight out that not participating meant I was not a 'team player' and there's really nothing to worry about.
I will not work for a company that requires access to my medical history (which, BTW, makes your medical history essentially public and sellable - no matter what protections may be written in law, an 'aggregrate or anonymized history' can be sold, and both are trivial to reconnect to the person) Nor do I want to work for a company that uses RF tracking badges or phones. Forcibly getting chipped? When exactly will violence *be* considered the answer?