All Cellphones to have government mandated "chip"

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  1. EL PRESIDENTE

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    http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/05/10/national-emergency-alert-system-set-to-launch-in-nyc/
    :tsktsk:
     
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    What a waste of money.

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    Japan has this in their cell phones for earthquake and Godzilla warnings.
     
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    looking forward to this getting hacked.
     
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    Looking forward to becoming more and more policed. No more calling your dealer for a dub, guys!
     
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    looking forward to the next HCP thread...

    "HELP GEEEEEEKS! I TOTALLY NEED MY PREZ CHIP JAILBROKEN!"
     
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    only people with something to hide would mind getting spyed on. in fact it makes me hard just thinking about someone watching me in the shower, or reading my insanely crude and xxx text messages.

    i think everyones laptop camera should feed straight to some pervert in DC so he can beat off to me beating off to some dude beating off all over some chick thats beating off
     
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    I have no problem masturbating on camera.
     
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    Yeah, but I think it creeps out your sister when you send her the video.
     
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    huh
     
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    I predict the ACLU will get in the middle of this.
     
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    What makes anyone think the government can't already spy on anyone's cell phone transmissions at any time? I certainly assume that any call/text I make from my phone is potentially subject to surveillance (not that I particularly care).

    Perhaps I'm naïve, but I see this as nothing more than a method by which the government can inform (propagandize?) the public with a minimum of effort. I don't see how this would be an intrusion on or reduction of our freedoms or civil rights.
     
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    Twitter is not enough. "Go vote for Obama. This has been a message from the emergency broadcast system."

    Actually, this is shades of Orwell's 1984.
     
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    I'm seeing more as a precursor to the V-for-Vendetta scene where V's on the broadcast system and Chancellor Sutler wants him turned off. Dascombe tells him that he can't...Sutler required that it be able to be pumped without interruption into every home and screen.
     
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    at least they arent making me have my cock shortened yet
     
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    I agree with all of this, and it's why I focused on the costs involved, rather than a creepiness factor, or whatever.

    I don't think that the benefits that are associated with reaching cellphone users in a semi-guaranteed fashion is worth the costs associated with mandating the consumers purchase phones with that functionality.

    Ed O.
     
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    Far, far beyond that.

    Here's a 5 year-old article. They're probably watching you read this post with your web-cam right now.

    http://www.zdnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/150467
     
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    So, if everybody in a sports arena gets a "run for your lives!!!" (subjective interpretation of message by the recipient) emergency broadcast, isn't the potential there for a stampede, with trampled bodies everywhere? This goes for any place where a lot of people are in one confined area. Times Square, for example.
     
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