RFID thread

A few people commented in the "RFID is nasty" thread that we'd have
people lurking outside our houses with their readers and antenna
checking out all the groceries we have.

Received Insights catalog today with this on the cover:-

Datalogic Jet 001-511 RFID reader. (inc bluetooth & barcode scanner)

Cost £1599.99 ex.

Operating range : 10cm

So unless you arrange everything along your window sill, it ain't going
to work!

 

That's going to narrow the doors in Tescos quite a bit.

 

I see a gap in the market for farraday cage shopping bags.

 

So you wouldn't regard having an RFID chip embedded in your vehicle
numberplate as a privacy issue then? Just get used to being continuously
monitored?

 

Bingo! RFID hardware is still madly overpriced, that's why we built our
own OEM stuff. Read ranges, as Andy says above, vary wildly dependent
on frequency / tag / tag placement / environment / what way the wind's
blwoing at that specific moment.

Las Vegas Airport ( McCurran? ) trialled RFID for baggage and were
getting read ranges >60m, and that caused no end of problems with
baggage being grouped together when it shouldn't have been.

 

[snip]

Must have missed that...

Spookily, this was the first thread I saw when I refreshed just now,
having just put the 'phone down to my boss who was asking for some input
on an RFID project we're bidding on! Are you bugging my flat, Rich?

 

doetnietcomputeren says...

My mate Mark Roche circumnavigated the mainland Britain on a Honda ST70
Monkey bike, 2-up with full camping kit back in 1983. He's the same
nutter who built the H1 engined SS50, and later had a full-race TZ350 of
highly dubious legality as his 'get to work' bike.

Last I heard he'd gone mental and bought a fucking Harley.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

<bleep>

****! All that "cookery" stuff's bullshit! He's got fourteen tins of
blue-and-white-stripy baked beans and a white loaf...

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Have you got something to hide or are you some kind of luddite that wants
to take us backwards?

If we don't take these great strides forwards we'll simply be giving in
to terrorists.

 

DNC scrawled:

If we don't wake up to what's happening we'll be sleepwalking into the
surveillance society.

 

It's only a problem for those who want to destroy freedom and our way of
life. Or is that what you want?

 

Tell you what. Lets insist that all our public servants wear the tags
first so we can see how well it works.

 

I can see the protection of our way of life and improved security for
employees being as good as reason as any; it would be hypocritical of us
to keep insisting on improvements to workplace safety but to reject this.

If it also means the spin off logistical and data management benefits,
err, benefit the customer it can only be something we should encourage
and embrace.

I think you're only taking the 'ultra' view to bolster your lefty
credentials. Real life doesn't work like that.

 

I was thinking more of the pilot project requiring all MP's and Home
Office Civil Service to wear them. Let's see how keen they are to embrace
their own arguments. After all, the house of commons is at more risk of
terrorist attack than 23 Anystreet Yourtown n'est pas?

 

Their primary aim /must/ be protecting innocent people.

 

I see what you mean. If that's the case, they'd be way down the list.

 

I'm sorry I can't do this anymore because (a) it's made me feel poorly
and (b) I'm beginning to believe it.

 

It's easy to distinguish ordinary folk from politicians isn't it?

 

Poor fella. It's sad when their minds go, isn't it?

 

Ben Blaney says...

It's hard to say when his mind went. Rocky was never the most sane
person, he worked as a waiter to save for diving courses so he could
train to be a deep sea diver/underwater welder. You can see why he's
like he is now.