Mexican Attorney General Gets Microchip in Arm 410
novakreo writes "Rafael Macedo de la Concha, Mexico's Attorney-General, now has a non-removable microchip in his arm, to track his movements and to give him access to a new crime database, according to Bloomberg. The article says that eventually around 160 Mexican officials will have a chip implanted." (Wired and CNN are both running the very similar Reuters report, too.)
Great... (Score:3, Funny)
How to cause panic (evil and slightly offtopic) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh wait did yo want him to live afterwards???
In that case never mind. An axe will work just as well.
Re:Great... (Score:3, Funny)
Welcome to the Future (Score:2, Funny)
terminator/2, cafe flesh etc etc
Anyways im still waiting for the flying cars..
Homeland Security masterplan (Score:1, Funny)
Upon so doing it will be able to monitor all immigrants crossing the border, and those without chips will obviously be terrorists.
Mark of the devil!!! (Score:2, Funny)
It's the sign on the devil! Apocalypse is upon us! Major League Baseball really is tracking our movements!
Reboot? (Score:5, Funny)
A chip to "give him access" ? (Score:5, Funny)
I am Attorney Sancho Panza of Borg, prepare to be indicted!
Re:Great... (Score:0, Funny)
I can tell you one thing (Score:3, Funny)
(ok ok arm, its close..)
Seriously though, is there really any justification for this? Is this not something that can be achieved by other, less obtrusive methods?
yes but.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I can tell you one thing (Score:2, Funny)
El hermano mayor le está mirando. (Score:4, Funny)
My tin-foil hat (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Can't be removed? (Score:5, Funny)
If he doesn't get in there, he can just go to a convenience store to commit an "armed" robbery.
Re:yes but.. (Score:3, Funny)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of attorney generals!
Sorry.
Oblig Quote (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Great... (Score:5, Funny)
bada boom crash!
I want a MOD CHIP too!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great... (Score:2, Funny)
This is Old News (Score:3, Funny)
THIS [scifi.com] has been done before.
We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
We have the capability to make the world's first Bionic man.
Rafael Macedo de la Concha will be that man.
Better than he was before.
Better . . . stronger . . . faster.
duh nah nah nah nahhhh...
Hmm... (Score:2, Funny)
*cue martial arts fighting scenes*
Re:El hermano mayor le está mirando. (Score:1, Funny)
Nice try... Score: 8.5/10
s/le/te
"El hermano mayor te está mirando!"
"En Rusia soviética, el microchip te programa a TÍ!"
(the inverted excl marks are missing, sigh)
Re:Can't be removed? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Great... (Score:3, Funny)
*NOW* how's his security?
Scary. (Score:3, Funny)
They say they'll have access to the network, but apparently, in Soviet Mexico, THE NETWORK WILL HAVE ACCESS TO *THEM*.
Just say NO to the Mark of the Beast, kids. Especially if it's running Microsoft.
Re:Can't be removed? (Score:5, Funny)
*ahem* That's "Pot Kettle African-American," you insensitive clod.
Right tool for the right problem! (Score:5, Funny)
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
When the only tool you have is a shotgun, every problem looks for the nearest exit.
But when the only tool you have is an axe, every problem looks like hours of gleeful, giddy, glorious fun!
Re:Not necessarily (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, this would be "do able." All we really need to figure out is how to get an organ to transmit radio waves. Then we refine that from barely tranmiting RF to tranmitting RF out to about a mile. Every cell in our body has a copy of our DNA. It should be that difficult to pick enough markers for the individual to be unquie. Then you have the organ just operate 24x7 similar to the heart. Then we'd just have it passed down to all the offspring. Actually, all the really hard parts could be tested out in other organisms before field testing it in humans.
Of course you could be evil and design cockroaches that broadcast out random RFID tags or copied useful RFID tags. Could you imagine tring to find your RFID keys in the morning when your house says that you have 10 copies of them moving around in different rooms?
Remember SF is good for thinking about things that may or may not be that far in the future.
More like... (Score:5, Funny)
(Apologies in advnance for my terrible Spanish)
Or, he could just memorize a password (Score:4, Funny)
Somewhere in Mexico, an IT guy is laughing his ass off.
Re:Great... (Score:2, Funny)
That was long due (Score:4, Funny)
People are overlooking the really important point (Score:3, Funny)
[Mexican mecha-attorney general] With this new microchip I have had implanted in me, I have become more powerful than ever imagined. I can track my movements, as well as access a new crime database.
[Reporter] But Señor Macedo, aren't you worried about there being ill effects?
[Mexican mecha-attourney general] Yes, that's why I have also had an "inhibitor chip" installed, so that I control the RFID chip-- instead of it controlling me.
Re:How to cause panic (evil and slightly offtopic) (Score:1, Funny)
This way Mexicans can use the EZ Pass lane at the Southern California Border Checkpoints and don't tie up the rest of us who have to wait in line to have our cars searched for illegal Mexicans.....
Hey wait a minute!