> WAL-MART EMBEDDING > RADIO FREQUENCY ID SENSORS > INTO CERTAIN RETAIL PRODUCTS ... > These chips, researched at M.I.T.'s Auto-ID Center are > about the size of a grain of sand. Chipsters say the > technology will only be used to help retailers keep track > of inventory --- like bar codes. But privacy-loving > consumers question the very concept of a device that sends > out radio waves to "readers" that not only identify the > article, but where and with whom it's going.
!!??? This has to be a paranoid hoax of some kind ... Or have I fallen so far behind that I don't realize that it's obsolete to ask how in the world a thing the size of a grain of sand could find the energy to broadcast rf waves to anybody even if across the room? Inquiring old minds want to know. Stephen Straker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vancouver, B.C. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
