While I have always believed that our society would benefit from the help of robots to do the more menial tasks of our culture, this is still a bit scary. The Korean Center for Intelligent Robots has said that by 2010 we should see robots assist the police and military in keeping the public peace and going on dangerous recon missions. I guess we are not so far off of I,Robot after all.
While I am on the topic of security, I will mention RFID secure wallet for those concerned about the little radio transmitters scanning your wallet and alerting the government that the hard candy it contains has been in there since the early 90's (so nice now that we can use "the '90's" to signify something old). The blog entry here is actually not bad, even though I'm poking fun at it. There are RFID tags in a lot of the stuff that we use and because the tech is new and does not have an extensively secure ideology behind it yet, maybe some steps to keep your info safe are necessary. Still, a wallet surrounded in duct tape begs the user to be called "crazy" or some type of conspiracy nut. I wonder if they have ways to jack money off of E-Z Pass hardware clients yet? That would be crappy, someone jacks a huge amount off of your credit card just by sitting next to you at a red light...patent pending.
Last but not least I would like to alert everyone that I have become the incredible hulk, or just fat, not sure which one yet. Today while stretching in my office chair I clenched my fist, which flexed my forearm ( a normal move during stretching) and my sleeve right around my mid forearm tore, just like your pants would when they are tight and you bend down to grab something. This was really not cool because I like this shirt a lot, and it wasn't really that tight (its a button up shirt). It is a novelty though, and my sleeves that are rolled up to cover up the 3"-4" tear are an acceptable office fashion, could have been worse I guess. Could have ripped my pants (knock on wood).
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