An ID Number for Everything 391
jon323456 writes "Put this in your privacy pipe and smoke it. According to news.com, MIT researchers have cooked up a new barcode that has enough dataspace to include a unique serial number for everything. And in combination with RFID tags...."
96 bits??? (Score:5, Funny)
So could any coder who cut his teeth on machine language.
We need to stop teaching Perl/Python/Java as a first language. Make the uber-generation deal with opcodes and registers. Assembler will put hair on your chest boy!
The point is, bits aren't cheap. If we're going to set standards for their allocation, let's let somebody who knows what they're doing do it. Yes?
Barcode? (Score:3, Funny)
You read that right. (Score:5, Funny)
Wow this is pretty dumb.. slow news day? (Score:5, Funny)
wow stop the presses.. thatis revolutionary..
oh wait I got an idea.. lets use 128.. or better yet 1024!!! we'll never need to make a new standard for thousands of years!
woooo!(ric-flair like woooo)
Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Even the tinfoil? (Score:2, Funny)
Lets see (Score:4, Funny)
hosts... minus 2 for the broadcast and the network address. Um...No thats not right.. damn cisco.
Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
MOT (Score:1, Funny)
Isn't there only about 10^80 particles? (Score:2, Funny)
Same technology to *fix* CD's (Score:5, Funny)
Take a felt tipped marker. Make one of the lines thicker.
Problem Solved!
Did I just violate DMCA?
Oh no (Score:5, Funny)
Get your requests in early! (Score:2, Funny)
Number the RFID tags! (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm. If everything can have a unique ID, and an RFID tag to go with it, then my cunning solution is to insist that each RFID tag has its own unique ID (and tag) as well. Privacy intrusion defeated by the power of recursion!
Re:Wow this is pretty dumb.. slow news day? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hey! What is my number? (Score:2, Funny)
Knee Jerk (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe the things that I smoke in my privacy pipe is my own freakin' business- that never occurred to you now, did it?
The ghost of Bill Gates... (Score:2, Funny)
--MIT, 2003
Re:Hey! What is my number? (Score:5, Funny)
-- Homer J. Simpson.
Can we pick serial numbers? (Score:3, Funny)
This could be called... (Score:5, Funny)
MIT Everyware [slashdot.org], perhaps?
Re:96 bits??? (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, those so called 'researchers' at MIT are nothing but frauds. We need people who know what they are doing. We need experience. We need expertise.
I say we ask Ballmer. He'll help us out.
Huh. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Great! (Score:5, Funny)
In related news, this move pissed the hell out of the MIT researchers who developed the so-called "Everything Barcode", which they claimed had enough dataspace to uniquely indentify everything. Said one reasercher, (off the record): "Man, did this come as a surprise. I mean, we made space for every single atom in the entire friggin' universe in this barcode system, but did we think about Quarks and Leptons! Argh! We'll have to go back to square one on this. Give us another two years, and we'll find a number so big, that
Re:You read that right. (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, it is worse than that. It takes all those PhDs to figure out that you can count really high if you just keep counting...
I hearby claim first bar (Score:3, Funny)
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Privacy? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Even the tinfoil? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can we pick serial numbers? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Same technology to *fix* CD's (Score:5, Funny)
and the total number of IDs is (Score:1, Funny)
Re:No more inventory counts (Score:3, Funny)
Re:An ID on every car axle? (Score:5, Funny)
The VIN is truly unique; no two cars have the same number. They are unique amongst a common manufacturer, and unique amongst all automotive manufacturers. Every car, truck, minivan, SUV, etc. has one of these numbers, often written in multiple places, and oftentimes PHYSICALLY STAMPED in the material of the car so as to prevent fraud (it's illegal to remove this privacy-infringing device!)
These numbers are not protected at all; they're prominently displayed on the dash of all vehicles equipped with them, so that anyone simply walking past your car can look in and record the number. From it, they'll know what manufacturer produced your car, the car's series, its body style, engine type, emissions, what model year it is, what factory it was produced in, and on top of that, A SIX-DIGIT UNIQUE IDENTIFIER!
This problem has existed for decades, and few people actually know the evils that lurk inside! This must be stopped! Stand up to your car manufacturers, tell them you WILL NOT BUY another vehicle from them until this travesty is corrected!
(Peace out, yo.)
Re:Same technology to *fix* CD's (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No more inventory counts (Score:4, Funny)
Unless, of course, that your whole business is the warehousing and distribution of RFID tags. If that's the case, you're probably just about set.
Re:Huh. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:IPv6? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Even the tinfoil? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You read that right. (Score:5, Funny)
MIT (Score:2, Funny)
Indifferent
Technologists
Uh-Oh (Score:1, Funny)
mom and dad walk by little jimmy's room, pull out the scanner, and find jimmy has:
2 packs of cigs
5 porno videos, including the tommy lee video
a 50 pack of condoms
and a "3 foot long tobacco enhacement product (tm)"
dad says to mom "thats my boy!"
Obligatory joke (Score:1, Funny)
Their products can also have an unique ID. for SCO I suggest 2 and RIAA 3
Did they actually say it? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:96 bits??? (Score:1, Funny)
Mnemonics are for wimps. Gimme back my toggle switches.