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more on RFID - shopping carts & prisoners
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/microsoft-and-mediacart-p...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/uk-jails-considering-rfid...
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CR83
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My company staffed a majority of MediaCart's IT staff in Dallas. They had some financial trouble and I don't know the outcome. It is a very cool
company and very cool idea behind Mediacart. I'm sure this will be the way all grocery stores go in the not too distant future.
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I just did a little more homework. Mediacart is out of business now. Ran out of funding.
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There is such a thing as too much technology, as well as misuse of technology. Just what I want, advertising staring me in the face as I grocery shop,
as if I'm not pissed off enough in the first place because I'm grocery shopping. How about a shopping cart mounted, low-yield taser to zap that
ignorant fucker who thinks its okay to carry on a conversation with his cart pulled across the whole fucking aisle. There's some technology I could
get behind.
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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I like grocery shopping.
I like eating....
but I go when nobody is in the place in the off hours....
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MikeCore
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I don't want my grocery purchases being tracked. Period.
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I don't want any of my purchases being tracked.
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sounds like a lot of this stuff is going to eventually be unavoidable in the not so distant future...
How do you guys feel about the store cards that track your purchaes, but give you coupons on stuff you use? I wouldnt bother if thats all they did,
but at most stores it seems like they have sales, but the only way to get the sale price is to use the card.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by juandiablo
I like grocery shopping.
I like eating....
but I go when nobody is in the place in the off hours.... |
^^^^^^^^^ Ya me too. Like 2 a.m.
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they have been tracking your purchases for years...
that is if you use any sort of credit card...
and if you use store discount cards it's even worse...
I like the idea of the cart scanning the shit I put in the the basket
that way I don't have to deal with an idiot at the end, jsut push my cart to the exit and give them my card...
the only product that america still knows how to make is advertising
everything is a commercial for soemthing...
hell I advertise bands on people's chests for a living...
this website advertises a record label and the bands that are on it...
the future is going to be fucking strange no doubt about it...
but take someone for the turn of the 20th century riding in horse and buggy and drop them on the freeway in rush hour...
heart attack central
cars, phones, planes, clothing, voting rights, buildings, food,
shit everything is different then it was then...
and still we exist
and with the changes coming we will adapt as a we always have....
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Those of you that smoke pot....need to slow down or stop, it's making you 1984 paranoid  This is no big deal, it's just more convenience in the land that coined the term. The tracking of your purchases does exist to an extent,
but if you think they have someone assigned to "your purchases" watching everything you buy to profile you or something, like I said, lay off the
dope. Steve, well put with the sum of change my man, couldn't have said it better myself.
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Here are my issues (and I seem to like numbering these things for some odd reason)...
(1) Please dear god no more ads in the grocery store.
(2) I hate that my purchases are tracked at the grocery store, but it's the only way to get the sale prices. But I don't buy anything at the store
that matters (unless insurance companies can one day access this to see what your diet looks like... but hey, when computers analyze mounds of data in
mere seconds, why would they ever do this?).
(3) Walmart collects mounds of data and prices as a result. Did you know that the two of the most popular items when a hurricane is coming are
poptarts and beer? Well, neither did I, until Walmart told us (and they were equally amazed).
(4) RFID tracking devices on prisoners or on people on house arrest? No problem. Surgically implanted? How does that not creep the shit out of you?
Just fix the fucking ankle bracelet so it can't be removed... hell, anything but implants. Cause the next thing is the black market in
surgically-removing the implants. And permanent RFID is scary as fuck. I'm not a conspiracy nut, but you don't have to be to realize that shit would
be abused immediately.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Voodoobillyman
Those of you that smoke pot....need to slow down or stop, it's making you 1984 paranoid This is no big deal, it's just more convenience in the land that coined the term. The tracking of your purchases does exist to an extent,
but if you think they have someone assigned to "your purchases" watching everything you buy to profile you or something, like I said, lay off the
dope. Steve, well put with the sum of change my man, couldn't have said it better myself. |
Pot is the one purchase they can't track. 
Its not so much the intent of the people that are developing the technology as the use it could be put too. Eternal vigilance, or have you you guys
pretty much given up on the whole justice and liberty for all thing? It was gettin' kind of old anyway.
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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justice and liberty for all thing? that sounds like commie talk mister  what are you anyway, one of them freedom haters?
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read: RFID credit cards easily hacked with $8 reader
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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I am waiting for the day when I am shopping with my self scanning cart, HUGE cart full of groceries, everything going good, about to pay and leave
when all of a sudden...
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