You can buy a kit to inject an RFID chip under your skin

Originally published at: You can buy a kit to inject an RFID chip under your skin | Boing Boing

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For when you have to bring your Bowser amiibo everywhere

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[but why gif]

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Yeah, The Daily Show segment on this made me think twice about it.

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Because just being metaphorically tethered to work isn’t good enough.

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In case anyone else wondered (“nah we good.”) The snippet of Greek is (a curious version of) the revelation of John on the naming of the beast around about Revelations 13:18 or so. …i guess it slots in to assigning a number to a person; here’s hoping that this RFID chip provides for more than three digits

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.

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Would it be worth injecting such a chip under your own skin to drive the anti-vaxxers who believe “the gub’mint is going to chip you if you get a vaccine!” absolutely insane?

Maybe.

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You go first, let us know how it works out.

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1 2 3… The Qnuts/GQP’ers will be freaking out, and insurrection’ing.

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Program : Please speak your name as it appears on your current federal identity card. Document number G24L8.
Joe : I’m not sure if—
Program : You have entered the name “Not Sure”. Is this correct, Not Sure?
Joe : No, it’s not correct.
Program : Thank you. “Not” is correct. Is “Sure” correct?
Joe : No it’s not. My name is Joe—
Program : You’ve already confirmed your first name is “Not”. Please confirm your last name “Sure”.
Joe : My last name is not “Sure”.
Program : Thank you, “Not Sure”.
Joe : No. What I mean is that my name is Joe.
Program : Confirmation is complete. Please wait while I tattoo your new identity on your arm.

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The company name is Q-nut trolling almost on par with naming your voting machine company “Dominion”…

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You know, I have a lurking suspicion that I have enough implants already, thankyouverymuch.

:alien: :wink:

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This has been around for pets for a long time. My boys (dogs) got them more than 10 years ago.

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I already got the Moderna one.

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If it can’t fit through a normal vaccine needle, I don’t want one.

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A few of the Arizona hackerspace cognoscenti have had these for years. It’s nice to se it readily available.

But please keep that giant needle several miles from me.

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Thank you! Google Translate recognized it was Greek but refused to translate it to English.

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Forty years ago it was the barcode, now it’s the implantable RFID chip. I personally know some people who are terrified of implantable chips due to evangelical “end times” dispensational theology, which is the reason why I don’t see it getting widespread usage in the USA at least.

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Is the guy running the guillotine supposed to be a Catholic priest? That would not surprise me from a Jack Chick tract.

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