At 4:48 PM 8/28/95, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
"TCM" == Timothy C May <tcmay@got.net> writes:
TCM> At 8:52 PM 8/20/95, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
These transponders are already used for many year. They inject them in pigs and cows to identify them. And some car manufacturers put the into the ignition keys as theft protections.
TCM> There has so far been no known uses of this on humans, at least as a TCM> matter of routine. Possibly some developers have tried injecting TCM> themselves, for the usual reasons.
Believe it or not, something like this is being used (or is being prepared for use) in breast implants. An article in the Houston (silicone city) Chronicle about a month ago (sorry, I can't produce a more exact reference) stated that new soybean oil breast implants are being manufactured to accept an identification device to track information on the patient and the implanting doctor.
It's not exactly big brother (bigger sister?) but it's the first human-implanted ID device that I've heard of. I don't know if any have actually been implanted.
Big Brother? Big Sister? Naw, it's "Big Tits." It's a way for we males to scan the females at the bar to see if they're naturally well-endowed or silicone-enhanced. Part of the "truth in advertising" laws recently passed. ... Seriously, I'm awfully skeptical that any kind of remote sensing device is to be placed in the breasts of women seeking enhancement. The technology just does not currently support small devices, though I suppose some of the 55GG strippers could support an active transmitter (or, "transtitter"). Conceivably, when the women go down to their local doctors to have their tits inflated there can be some kind of "taggants" added, a la the taggants added to some explosives, but this is a far cry from an electronic identificaton device. Some boob must've come up with this one. --Tim ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."