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To: Travis McGee

Ball-peen hammer. Small one. Smash the little f***er. It really pisses me off when administrative types make seriously bad decisions based on something they think is a “cool” idea but have no clue what the Hell they are doing.

The idea of RFID is ripe for abuse due primarily to the technical fact, something that escapes these liberal arts idiots, that someone can use a handheld reader and gather the information these RFID chips allow to be scanned from inches away.

A microchip serves absolutley no purpose. None.


45 posted on 02/28/2009 7:21:18 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberalism is Communism, and both are a mental disorder. Grow up.)
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To: CodeToad
I did a quick search for "long range RFID", and the first item found is a $499 Long range RFID Reader:
The Long Range RFID Reader network can simultaneously read multiple RFID Asset Tags at ranges up to 450 feet (free air), and can also register and report the disappearance or unauthorized movement of individual RFID tags. This is especially helpful in inventory management systems where a single Long Range RFID Reader can monitor a number of tagged assets and report to a Host Computer or Access Control System any change of status of a specific asset tag and its associated employee.
Mount a few of those in overhead highway signs and you could track RFID chips in all the cars passing that point in the highway. With the sensitivity needed for a 450-foot range, at ranges of 10 yards you would probably get good readings even through a metal car body (which is not all THAT good in shielding against RF, otherwise your cell phone wouldn't work in your car, now would it?)
56 posted on 02/28/2009 8:45:48 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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