Posted on 05/21/2006 9:35:29 AM PDT by Nachum
If the legislators are not going to ban them, then at least, they should require manufacturers and retailers to inform the customers where the chip is placed with instructions on how to remove or disable it after they leave the store.
Any hope for an rfid arrow shaft so that shot deer don't go unfound?
I used to be a big technocrat.
I've lately been wondering how foolish it was for anyone to have left the farm life, for any reason at all.
if you don't have a reader it is effectively disabled.
Thats easy...Try having diabetes without technology.
Thats easy...Try having diabetes without technology.
You really can't have diabetes for long without technology. Without technology what you mostly have is funerals of diabetics.
I see the sadness, but also the price. It grows every year.
In the past couple of years, since Walmart's RFID plans became public, I have been looking for stock opportunities in this field. I haven't found any publicly traded companies that are pure plays. This article mentions ThingMagic LLC, and I went to their website and they talk about "generous stock options" for prospective employees. But I can't find that company listed on any exchange or OTC.
Maximizing profits, reducing overhead. Does that necessarily mean lower retail prices? Or higher earnings? Both? Pro'lly 5/3/2/1 -- Exec bennies/inventory expansion/ROI/retail buyers. Naw, scratch retail buyers . In fact, cut ROI in half and raise bennies to 8 and buy more RF chips with the remainder.
Siemens
They seem to be owned by Tyco Electronics. http://www.rfidsolutionsonline.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=afbb9716-4640-4961-ae4f-b50f0d41243b&VNETCOOKIE=NO
LOL. Reminds me of the story about the rich Wall Street banker (WSB) and the poor Mexican fisherman (PMF). The WSB is on vacation and notices the PMF brings in quite a haul whenever he chooses to go fishing. He begins telling him that if he fished every day, bought a few more boats and hired some help, he could greatly increase his volume. Then, if he moved to the States and began a fish processing plant, he could eventually take it public, get rich & retire.
The PMF asked what would he do then. The WSB replied that he could then move back to his village, kick back and go fishing whenever he felt ...
Exactly my point.
My point, such as it is, is the fact that nothing stops technology. This is particularly true for a capitalist system where technology often provides an edge in a competitive marketplace.
Stem cell research, to cite one example, had its gubmint funding cut. So what happens? You get three states (CA, MA and NY) dumping a ton of money into the kitty to establish themselves as the biotech capitals of the country.
Yeah, there are casualties and unexpected consequencesin the march into the future, but the march will continue. And it'll continue either here in the U.S. or elsewhere.
Thanks for the info, but in the article you linked it is not ThingMagic but M/A-COM, Inc. that is mentioned as a business unit of Tyco Electronics.
If you understood how these really work, you would not be concerned.
truly.
Thank you, good and robotic citizen of the State.
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