Motorola shows off tattoo and swallowable password hardware Motorola has shown off an electronic authentication tattoo and an FDA-approved pill that uses the body to transmit passwords, and says it wants to see a new generation of smartphones geared towards such wearable – or edible – technology. The Number of the Beast The Number of the Beast Speaking at the D11 conference, Regina …
It causes all, both small and great, both contract and pay as you go user, both free and fanboi, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead using the very fashionable over the nose attachment, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the 'droid device, that is, the name of our all encompassing data overlords or the number of one of the OEM's. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the tax payment, for it is the number of a Irish man or possibly a fish, but quiet possibly that of a large case of Guinness, and this number is not know to anyone, even more so if you be one of those at the HMRC.
How are check digits the number "6"? In what encoding? If they are check digits, how come they are constants?
Maybe you should just read up on Barcodes.
Awaiting references to Greek Monasteries, The Schengen Treaty and the Dresden Agreement of 1931.
As this kind of bullshit production stresses me out something fierce, I will help you even more by vectoring you to the description of the specific UPC barcode. In that code:
- Start, Middle and End Markers are two black bars separated by a white bar, each 1 module wide ("BWB") , they are not check digits.
- Clearly these don't match the UPC encoding of "6" for the left-hand side ("WBWBBBB") nor of the "6" of the right-hand side ("BWBWWWW"). Yes there are two 6. Choose one. Or not.
Well, the right-hand coding could be interpreted as being somewhat like the markers if one squints enough and one hasn't taken the lithium pills, I will grant you that.
Hope this helps.
If we suppose that "Apocalypse" is the result of a first century Christian receiving an authentic vision of the future, he may have missed the specific meaning of the start and end stripes, which do look the same as the encoding of 6 (the other 6 is just colours reversed). On the other hand, they didn't have these numbers then, so God would have had to explain that, too. I think they used letters for numbers (Roman and Greek) and in each case the number 60 or 600 wouldn't include a 6, it was a different symbol for 10s or 100s.
Wikipedia says: "In most New Testament manuscripts, the number is rendered as 666, but the variant 616 is found in critical editions of the Greek text, such as the Novum Testamentum Graece. Catherine Cory has identified the number as having symbolic correlation to the Emperor Nero, whose Greek name transliterated into Hebrew has the numeric value of 666, whereas his Latin name written into Hebrew is 616." So apparently the number represents writing down "THAT TWAT THE EMPEROR NERO" without writing that down explicitly and getting into even more trouble.
So should people's individual religious feelings be disrespected.... well, no... except when your religion tells you to kill unbelievers or disrespecters on sight, I suppose. I think Scotsmen and Sikhs carry a knife at all times for this purpose. Or something like that.
Which type of bar code did Satan adopt? Code 25 interleaved/non interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128(x), EAN 2, EAN 5, or GS1-128? I would think he'd go with a more robust and inconspicuous standard like DataGlyphs but maybe he was a early adopter and is locked in. There are other options as well but they tend to cause supply chain disruptions due to scanner incompatibilities in the downstream logistics chain.
Normally barcode standard selection is a major decision but I suppose with the fairly high rate of Human inventory turnover it wouldn't be unmanageable to implement a different standard system wide as long as you could leave existing scanner and printer infrastructure in place.
As pointed out by Johnny (David Thewlis) in Naked:
"What can such a specific prophecy mean? What is the mark? Well the mark, Brian, is the barcode, the ubiquitous barcode that you'll find on every bog roll and packet of johnnies and every poxy pork pie, and every f*ckin' barcode is divided into two parts by three markers, and those three markers are always represented by the number 6."
All looks very convenient but with your stomach screaming out its secrets all day long and your misspelled sanskrit or celtic symbol happy to oblige at the touch of a gadget beware of jostling crowds and suspicious people wanting to shake you by the hand.
Mind you I suppose that the idea would be to enhance the security with the addition of a simple second factor such as an easy to remember password.
Are they just a glorified RFID tag that uses the whole body as an antenna?
It sounds as though that's all they are, in which case there is a nice (if somewhat yukky) attack channel in reusing "spent" pills; that, and the fact that the user would need to keep taking more pills as old ones pass through the body -- so there would not be one single unique token per user -- makes them considerably less useful than a swipe-card.
If, on the other hand, their behaviour is influenced in some predictable way by the actual body that they inhabit, so that their use by the wrong person would be detectable, they might represent an interesting new way to perform biometrics ... but I suspect that's still in the realms of Science Fiction?
Alien. Just because!
The "average user has to sign-on 39 times a day" but the pills are only "FDA-approved and CE-stamped for people to take up to 30 of these pills a day", so you still have to remember 9 passwords (on average)?
I hesitate to point out the possibilities of pill recovery from the sewage system. Hackers used to go dumpster diving...
The JW's avoidance of blood is based in part on verses from Acts which purports to be a historical account of early Christianity, in other words it probably should be taken literally if you are a christian.
The mark of the wild beast though is from Revelation, which does use more than its fair share of symbolic language. <troll_alert>PS. The various 'beasts' are all symbols of political entitiies, so may be we should be worried if governments start mandating these things.</troll_alert>
And for pity's sake stop using the King James version in your biblical quotes. It's using 400+ year old English and was translated from Latin (not from Hebrew or Greek). It makes great poetry, but it's time to move on people.
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