Technology: Eight people injected with silicon chips

Nando.net ^ | 6-12-02 | Nando Times

[Registered]

Technology: Eight people injected with silicon chips

By DAVID STREITFELD

(June 7, 2002 11:35 a.m. EDT) - Eight people recently have been injected with silicon chips, making them scannable just like a jar of peanut butter in the supermarket checkout line.

The miniature devices, about the size of a grain of rice, were developed by a Florida company. They will be targeted to families of Alzheimer's patients - one of the fastest-growing groups in American society - as well as others who have complicated medical histories. "It's a safety precaution," explained Nate Isaacson. The retired building contractor entered his Fort Lauderdale doctor's office on May 10 as an 83-year-old with Alzheimer's.

He left it a cyborg, a man who is also a little bit of a computer.

The chip was put in Isaacson's upper back, effectively invisible unless a hand-held scanner is waved over it. The scanner uses a radio frequency to energize the dormant chip, which then transmits a signal containing an identification number. Information about Isaacson is cross-referenced under that number in a central computer registry.

Emergency room personnel, for instance, could find out who Isaacson is and where he lives. They'd know that he is prone to forgetfulness, that he has a pacemaker and is allergic to penicillin.

"You never know what's going to happen when you go out the door," said Isaacson's wife, Micki. "Should something happen, he's never going to remember those things."

Applied Digital Solutions Inc., the maker of what it calls the VeriChip, says that it will soon have a prototype of a much more complex device, one that is able to receive GPS satellite signals and transmit a person's location.

It's a prospect deeply unsettling to privacy advocates, no matter how voluntary the process may initially appear.

"Who gets to decide who gets chipped?" asked Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "Parents will decide that their kids should be implanted, or maybe their own aging parents. It's an easier way to manage someone, like putting a leash on a pet."

Applied Digital, which says it has a waiting list of 4,000 to 5,000 people who want a VeriChip, plans to operate a "chipmobile" that visits Florida senior citizen's centers. An estimated 4 million people in the United States have Alzheimer's, with more than 10 percent of them in Florida.

Jeffrey and Leslie Jacobs and their teenage son Derek, whose "chipping" was a national media event, don't have problems with dementia. The Boca Raton, Fla., family has a mixture of ailments and interests: Jeffrey has been treated for Hodgkin's disease and suffers from other conditions for which he takes 16 medications, while Derek is allergic to certain antibiotics. Mostly, though, he's a computer buff who considers the procedure nifty. As for Leslie, she's merely hoping to feel more secure in an insecure world.

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[Registered]

...while Derek is allergic to certain antibiotics. Mostly, though, he's a computer buff who considers the procedure nifty...

Yeh, NIFTY Derek, real NIFTY.

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[lanceboyle]

As a member of the military, if some shitbird colonel in the bowels of the Pentagon decides to make points with his superiors on the force protection issue and sends out a directive requiring active duty personnel to receive one of these devices, the gummint can kiss my culo, because I'll punch out rather than be tagged like a wildebeast on Wild Kingdom.

[sigSEGV]

The way I look at it, they'll probably be able to scan your genetic makeup remotely within a few years anyway, so all this implanted computer chip business will be temporary.

[TheDon]

[TheBattman]

Ladies and Gentlemen - the technology is here. It's only a matter of time before The Beast begins forcing this on the people. Either on your hand or your forehead.......

[concerned about politics]

The chip was put in Isaacson's upper back,

For now.
666 - They'll find they need it in a part of the body with less soft tissue, so it doesn't bury itself. The forehead, or the right hand would work much better.

"Parents will decide that their kids should be implanted, or maybe their own aging parents. It's an easier way to manage someone, like putting a leash on a pet."

Next comes public school kids, every one of them, "for their safty."

[concerned about politics]

BUMP

[Thinkin' Gal]

Applied Digital, which says it has a waiting list of 4,000 to 5,000 people who want a VeriChip, plans to operate a "chipmobile" that visits Florida senior citizen's centers. An estimated 4 million people in the United States have Alzheimer's, with more than 10 percent of them in Florida.

Shouldn't that be a "chadmobile"?

Alzheimer's... forgetfulness... dementia. Lots of pictures. The Alzheimer's brain goes hairwire in the horn of Ammon. Gray's Anatomy pg. 666

[weikel]

My understanding(as a 20 year old civilian) is that would be illegal under the UCMJ and they'd just court martial you and put you in the brig.

[Thinkin' Gal]

An estimated 4 million people in the United States have Alzheimer's...

That does paint quite a picture, considering that...

"Muslims have the right to kill 4 million Americans"

[babylonian]

The "selling of the chip" has officially begun, and it's going to get really intense!

[2sheep]

>Applied Digital, which says it has a waiting list of 4,000 to 5,000 people who want a VeriChip, plans to operate a "chipmobile" that visits Florida senior citizen's centers.

Hmmm...something like the buses or vehicles that the Germans used to round up and kill the Jews in Nazi Germany.

[RightWhale]

So who has a scanner to read these microelectronic wonders?

[Bush2000]

The most ludicrous thing about this technology is that it's a huge privacy threat, it won't make anyone safer, it will inevitably be used for tracking us like cattle, and there's a huge potential for great harm to come from it. I predict that a lucrative black market will develop for these chips. Yes, that means the bad guys will be able to buy chips belonging to average citizens and get past the security intended to keep us safe. In other words, it won't keep us safe. Or worse, the bad guys will string up innocent people (perhaps Americans on vacation) and carve them open to get their chips (perhaps leaving their entrails on the outside for good measure). Oh, yeah. People don't think about that. But terrorists do. And if anyone doubts for a second that they wouldn't kill us to get those security devices, just look at the sad state of Israel and the suicide bombers and get a grip. Say no to biometrics.

[martin_fierro]

"Pamela Anderson was heard to comment, 'People implanted with silicone? SO??'"

[ratdog]

They've been around for at least 15 years. A veterinarian demonstrated it to me. Back then, as now, they were used on exotic birds. Of course, our converstion included what is prohesied in Revelation.

Have you ever gone to the ATM machine and not been able to get money out because of a bank fowl-up? In the future, it may not be because of a fowl-up. Your chip may just get deactivated!

[Tall_Texan]

Yeah, I'm sure they could sell these to coeds as a "starter kit".

[Tall_Texan]

Back then, as now, they were used on exotic birds.

That's true. My parrot has no desire to learn how to say her name or our address.

[2sheep]

>Applied Digital, which says it has a waiting list of 4,000 to 5,000 people who want a VeriChip, plans to operate a "chipmobile" that visits Florida senior citizen's centers. An estimated 4 million people in the United States have Alzheimer's, with more than 10 percent of them in Florida.

Presumably they will try to convince people this will keep old folks from being "lost."  What an irony!  Taking the mark will guarantee they are "lost" for eternity.  They go from a rest home...to wrath...and then to no rest...

Re 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.