It's not paranioa, if they really are watching you!

RFID keeps getting smaller. On February 13, Hitachi unveiled a tiny, new “powder” type RFID chip measuring 0.05 x 0.05 mm — the smallest yet — which they aim to begin marketing in 2 to 3 years.
By relying on semiconductor miniaturization technology and using electron beams to write data on the chip substrates, Hitachi was able to create RFID chips 64 times smaller than their currently available 0.4 x 0.4 mm mu-chips. Like mu-chips, which have been used as an anti-counterfeit measure in admission tickets, the new chips have a 128-bit ROM for storing a unique 38-digit ID number.
The new chips are also 9 times smaller than the prototype chips Hitachi unveiled last year, which measure 0.15 x 0.15 mm.
At 5 microns thick, the RFID chips can more easily be embedded in sheets of paper, meaning they can be used in paper currency, gift certificates and identification. But since existing tags are already small enough to embed in paper, it leads one to wonder what new applications the developers have in mind.
[Source: Fuji Sankei]
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For the uninitiated, RFID is Radio Frequency Identification.
A small device (as you can see just how small!) is powered and activated by a radio signal passing through it and it gives out its ID number. This enables the object (read human) it is attached to, to be identified.
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Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag is an object that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radio waves. Chip-based RFID tags contain silicon chips and antennas. Passive tags require no internal power source, whereas active tags require a power source.
via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID
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Hmmm, I wonder if government agencies would be interested in these little pieces of technology?
Now, can you see, children, where a government agency could possibly have a use for something like this? No? Well, think again my little trusting idiot!
Who really needs conspiracy theories when there is enough going on that you can see, to give a massive amount of concern on the personal freedom/privacy front?!
Who cares if they made up the moon landing or really do have an extra-terestrial working in local government, these are real and they will be used, of that you can be reasonably paranoid!

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Take some responsibility people, please!

Now, some will read this and think "glass houses,stones, throwing etc" and they would be right but ..
Aparently they are thinking of banning adverts for alcoholic beverages now!
So, smoking advertising was banned, soft drink/sweet adverts are banned from reaching the people (kids) it was aimed at and now they want to stop alcohol ads. The reason is (as it appears to me, anyway) that people can't stop doing things that are bad for them on their own and need legislation to stop them! What happened to freedom of choice (within the law, of course, ahem)?
So, do we get the choice or are we having it made for us? It seems to me that our choices are becoming less and less as governments and various other forms of "leadership" take things into their own hands to "keep an eye on us poor commoners" and prevent us from excess!

Stop it, you bastards!

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Just Exactly How Good Is This?

Top Secret Drum Corps Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2006

These guys are just a little bit fantastic. Even if you don't like the "music" too much, there is no denying that these boys are just a little special.

Watch and be mesmerised.

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Daft Punk - Never Knowingly Uninteresting!

You just have to like this .. No, I told you, you just have to like this!

Snow! .. Hurrah! .. erm .. What Snow?

Well, the forecast is for snow, and lots of it, everywhere! Hah! they always say that and where is it? Usually on the Scottish Highlands or some remote part of the country that is populated by 14 people who have no electricity for 28 days because the fuse blew and they only have the 1 fuse between them and it's 14 days to land and B&Q!
If it does happen to snow on mainland England, then be afraid, be very afraid! Everything will stop, shops will close, people will die, companies will go bankrupt and a small field mouse will get frostbite in one of it's toes! Especially if it snows long enough for at least a millimetre to settle. This country must rank in the top 3 completely useless places at dealing with anything but rain. If it's too hot, everything melts and if it's too cold, everything freezes up!
Lets hope it snow a lot (with the exception of hurting people) it's always good fun to wake up to a good layer of white frosting on this green and pleasant land. You just know that as soon as you step outside your front door, that's almost as far as you're going to get for the first hour or two! It never hurts to have a day off work due to inclement weather and sticking your head back under that duvet is never a bad thing!
Bring on the snow!!! (Please!)

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Web 2.0

Here's a brilliant video by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, who schools us on Web 2.0 from start to finish.
Or is this just the beginning? Powerful point from Michael: We're teaching the machine, and the machine is us. Time to rethink the world. The network is the machine; the machine is us. – Charlie White
Bio [Michael Wesch]

Via http://uk.gizmodo.com/


This is just really interesting and rather clever (and I don't pretend to understand all of it!).
Just watch and enjoy ..