{"id":1057,"date":"2004-07-16T00:13:46","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T05:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/chipping-kids\/"},"modified":"2004-07-16T00:13:46","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T05:13:46","slug":"chipping-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/chipping-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"chipping kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>just before i ran away at the beginning of the week,  this story broke,  and it&#8217;s gotten some serious <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/04\/07\/14\/0049259.shtml?tid=126&#038;tid=158&#038;tid=99\">legs<\/a> [slashdot] since then.  it seems that most of the news is about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/07\/09\/japanese_tag_schoolkids\/\">japanese school kids<\/a> [the register] that are getting chipped.  it made <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Japan+school+kids+to+be+tagged+with+RFID+chips\/2100-1012_3-5266700.html?part=rss&#038;tag=5266700&#038;subj=news.1012.5\">news.com<\/a> and (of course), joi got <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/archives\/2004\/07\/13\/japan_schoolkids_to_be_tagged_with_rfid_chips.html\">in on it<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>joi, of course, is polishing his tin foil hat, but he has little to fear, since he&#8217;s already one of the most closely monitored humans on the face of the planet&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>the lesser-reported, but still widely available chipping story this week is about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,1282,64194,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4\" class=\"broken_link\">mexican attorney general and several of his staff<\/a>.  this, also picked up on <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/04\/07\/14\/1226212.shtml?tid=126&#038;tid=158&#038;tid=99\">slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>based solely on a meta-analysis of the slashdot coverage, chipping kids is worth 492 comments, while chipping attorneys general is only worth 284.  that makes sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>a lot of the comment-content seems to be that this is a big development, but i think it&#8217;s not such a big development.  we saw news about <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/harry_chipper.html\">chipping princes<\/a> almost a year ago, and <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/chips_for_everyone.html\">chipping school kids in america<\/a> back in october.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s not quite the same, but worth throwing into the mix, since this seems to be &#8220;chipping week&#8221; (in contrast to &#8220;drm week&#8221;)&#8230; we&#8217;ll tag the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/biznews\/0709VS4RSGG_business.shtml\" class=\"broken_link\">old  people<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m not completely opposed to rfid &#8211; in fact, i rather like the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/doing_difr_backwards.html\">doing it backwards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just before i ran away at the beginning of the week, this story broke, and it&#8217;s gotten some serious legs [slashdot] since then. it seems that most of the news is about the japanese school kids [the register] that are getting chipped. it made news.com and (of course), joi got in on it too. joi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}