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A main central computer at city hall receives information from a satellite that locates the brain implants people got as a child. This would be great for catching criminals. Brain implants would be nonremovable.
[Susen]'s version...
http://www.halfbake...20ankle_20bracelets
...with associated links. [angel, Oct 17 2004]
This one, in particular
http://news.bbc.co....ci/tech/1742203.stm
(Third para from the bottom) [angel, Oct 17 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
here's one
http://www.ptm.com/home.htm
replace "offender" with "everybody" [lurch, Oct 17 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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gah! nononononononono. this is way too much like 1984. |
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Obligatory *Where's StarChaser when you need 'em to beat up on this idea* Post |
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//brain implants// You go first. We'll just implant this fishbone-shaped transmitter for a test swim. |
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If *nobody* is trustworthy, who works at city hall? |
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Last I checked, brain surgery was still dangerous and expensive. Multiply 30,000 bucks times the population of the planet and I think you pretty well tank the global economy just in startup costs. |
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And who's at City Hall? Boss Hawg, that's who! Great idea, keep 'em comin'. Plenty more fishbones where that one came from. |
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I would want to say major invasion of privacy, but the government (at least the one here) has got no privacy protection laws, and would probably be pretty eager to have something like this.... |
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[tombomb] just because a genre of
idea is always fishboned doesn't
mean the genre should be
banned... |
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meanwhile, this proposal would
lead to a terrible reality. the
number of privacy infractions and
the opportunity to circumvent
nearly all basic democratic rights
are just overwhelming when held
against the ability to locate anyone
at any time for legitimate reasons. |
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to quote the author, this would be
great for catching criminals. but it
would also be great for spying on
private citizens without legal
cause. |
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uhhh...can anyone say BIGBROTHER? There's two sides to this coin, I can understand ppl wanting to catch criminals easier and stuff, but where does it stop?! In the last couple centuries or so are privacy has continued to be invaded upon more and more. What's next. Besides, whenever a new technology is developed criminals make something to counteract it. |
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