"No doubt allaying users' fears at a stroke"

Stroke being the operative word if one of these gets into the bloodstream...

Waqui Jacqui

Is already putting the on her expenses.....

60million @£ lots = Kerchiiing.

Most important.

When's Captain Cyborg getting upgraded? Inquiring minds want to know. Surely nobody'll take him seriously if he doesn't have the latest and greatest version.........oh, wait.......

all very well but...

how much charge can they deliver when the remote tazer functionality is used?

would be much more useful to our oppressors.. um.. i mean.. leaders. with leccy, drugs and/or other 'person control' payload, on top of the usual tracking and recording capabilities..

Let's combine a few things..

Given the recent apparent desire for ID scans at London fetish clubs (earlier El Reg story), it would maybe an idea not to SHRINK those chips. I can see the dodgy ads already - "gain immediate entry with this remotely readable plug (in)".

In my opinion, that's more or less where they can stick the very idea of implantable ID chips anyway, printed on thick cardboard with jagged edges. It's getting ridiculous, next thing you know China town has to add them to any rice dish. You'd only find out when your London Underground Oyster card refuses to work because the reader picks up all the other RFIDs..

Yup, the flasher mac, please..

Seriously?

Cataloging your population shows a distinct lack of understanding of a Government's obligations to run the country, (and not control it's population) Even the Nazis' understood that principle (hence the number of nazi propaganda marches to win people over)

Together with the Police deciding their own policy on how to interpret law, draconian legislation to micro manage the populace of this country, covert surveillance, logging of email and telephone calls, will lead to the downfall of the current Governmental system.

Cold war eastern europe had the stazi, we're going the same way.

Does anyone know the analogy of the Frogs in boiling water?

@Sillyfellow

And in other news - "Gov 'smart meter' plans: Sky box in charge of your house"

Wonder if it includes an RFID scanner on it....?

@ Sillyfellow

There's nowhere near enough room for any of that in the chip. It was all they could to to fit in the dose of Botulinum toxin and the delivery trigger.

I got four words for ya...

OVER

MY

DEAD

BODY!

@ Seán

"No more getting the wrong meds and fucking dying". Yep, I hate it when that happens to me.

Humm

Lets see here Mr. Silverman was it? Yes very good. I have a letter here from 99.999999999999% of the population. RE: You're notion of implanting RFID chips in everyone to "tag" them. No, no, no, no, fuck no, no, no, hell no, no, no, over my dead and rotting corpse, no, no, no. Oh did we mention NO! Oh we did, just checking. In other words take your idea about tagging people roll it up real tight, shove it up your ass and set fire to it. kthnxbai.

@Sean

Provided of course the doc who prescribed your meds understands your language well enough to proscribe properly. And has not been awake for 4 days.

While we're at it you'd also better make sure the nurse can read his notes and not shove 10x the dosage he asked for into you. Those pesky decimal points can be a real killer. And then they might have the idea that you (or your loved one) is somehow surplus to requirements and decide to knock on Heaven's door for your behalf.

But yes other than these little annoyances I quite agree with you.

Easier

Just tatoo our Personal Identification Number on the arm and Bob's our big brother.

Not bloody likely I'll ever consent to anything like this...

@Dr Patrick J R Harkin

"Knowing which patient you've got on the table could be handy"

Don't all hospitals put a wrist band of some kind on their in-patients? It's not impossible to get off but it does take some effort.

"Also possibly useful for proving care - healthcare worker carries reader, reader can show doctor was with (or at least near) patient at X o'clock - or not, in accusations of substandard care. Though an RFID tag in the wrist-band would be as good for that."

Now this I like.

Especially if the reader (it could be as small as a pen torch) had a thumbprint reader in the end to match doctor to patient. Best of all would be *if* it cannot be tampered with, and maintains a chain of evidence. Something tells me that hospital managers in the British NHS might be a bit resistant to a device that can prove a junior doctor has been up for 80 hours when he made a faulty diagnosis.

I wonder if they're overtime rate is still less than their normal time rate (and does *any* other professional group operate that system)?