Comments on: PPI on RFID http://techliberation.com/2004/10/06/ppi-on-rfid/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jak King http://techliberation.com/2004/10/06/ppi-on-rfid/comment-page-1/#comment-51819 Jak King Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:40:34 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/10/06/ppi-on-rfid/#comment-51819 <p>It is sad that you think that "lower prices and improv(ing) the quality of goods for consumers" are the be-all and end-all. Slave labour and death for quality defects would both lower prices and improve quality. Would you support those too?<br><br>We are already experimenting with RFID chips to track inmates in prisons, and sex-offenders once released. Pretty soon there will be insidious commercials seeking to have all of our children tagged in case of kidnap and natural disaster. Peer pressure will drive this forward ("you mean you don't want to protect little Johnny?") and within a generation the government will be able to track every move we make.<br><br>I'm willing for supermarkets to be a little less than optimally efficient to protect us from this fate.</p> It is sad that you think that “lower prices and improv(ing) the quality of goods for consumers” are the be-all and end-all. Slave labour and death for quality defects would both lower prices and improve quality. Would you support those too?

We are already experimenting with RFID chips to track inmates in prisons, and sex-offenders once released. Pretty soon there will be insidious commercials seeking to have all of our children tagged in case of kidnap and natural disaster. Peer pressure will drive this forward (“you mean you don’t want to protect little Johnny?”) and within a generation the government will be able to track every move we make.

I’m willing for supermarkets to be a little less than optimally efficient to protect us from this fate.

]]> By: Jak King http://techliberation.com/2004/10/06/ppi-on-rfid/comment-page-1/#comment-30742 Jak King Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:40:34 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/10/06/ppi-on-rfid/#comment-30742 <p>It is sad that you think that "lower prices and improv(ing) the quality of goods for consumers" are the be-all and end-all. Slave labour and death for quality defects would both lower prices and improve quality. Would you support those too?</p> <p>We are already experimenting with RFID chips to track inmates in prisons, and sex-offenders once released. Pretty soon there will be insidious commercials seeking to have all of our children tagged in case of kidnap and natural disaster. Peer pressure will drive this forward ("you mean you don't want to protect little Johnny?") and within a generation the government will be able to track every move we make.</p> <p>I'm willing for supermarkets to be a little less than optimally efficient to protect us from this fate.</p> It is sad that you think that “lower prices and improv(ing) the quality of goods for consumers” are the be-all and end-all. Slave labour and death for quality defects would both lower prices and improve quality. Would you support those too?

We are already experimenting with RFID chips to track inmates in prisons, and sex-offenders once released. Pretty soon there will be insidious commercials seeking to have all of our children tagged in case of kidnap and natural disaster. Peer pressure will drive this forward (“you mean you don’t want to protect little Johnny?”) and within a generation the government will be able to track every move we make.

I’m willing for supermarkets to be a little less than optimally efficient to protect us from this fate.

]]> By: Derek http://techliberation.com/2004/10/06/ppi-on-rfid/comment-page-1/#comment-51818 Derek Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:17:15 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/10/06/ppi-on-rfid/#comment-51818 <p>Jim, I work in a grocery store as the computer guy and let me tell you, RFID is coming whether anyone wants it or not. Truth of the matter is Walmart wants it, so that means everyone that hopes to sell their stuff there will do it. Which means most everyone else is on board. Great site, thanks!</p> Jim, I work in a grocery store as the computer guy and let me tell you, RFID is coming whether anyone wants it or not. Truth of the matter is Walmart wants it, so that means everyone that hopes to sell their stuff there will do it. Which means most everyone else is on board. Great site, thanks!

]]> By: Derek http://techliberation.com/2004/10/06/ppi-on-rfid/comment-page-1/#comment-30741 Derek Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:17:15 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/10/06/ppi-on-rfid/#comment-30741 <p>Jim, I work in a grocery store as the computer guy and let me tell you, RFID is coming whether anyone wants it or not. Truth of the matter is Walmart wants it, so that means everyone that hopes to sell their stuff there will do it. Which means most everyone else is on board. Great site, thanks!</p> Jim, I work in a grocery store as the computer guy and let me tell you, RFID is coming whether anyone wants it or not. Truth of the matter is Walmart wants it, so that means everyone that hopes to sell their stuff there will do it. Which means most everyone else is on board. Great site, thanks!

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