posted on December 21, 2002 03:29:03 AM new
.......the government specifically the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on a way to identify you by smell!
Yep,you've read about how they want to ID people by how they walk, and how they're plugged in to the database that screens at check-in air passengers' credit, travel, criminal history, et cetera ad infinitum.
And now, if DARPA's newest plan works out, those swarms of unionized federal government employees at the airport will have a new toy to annoy you with — robot sensors sniffing you to make sure you're not a smelly terrorist!.
Yes, DARPA's Army Research Office, a cousin of John Poindexter's Information Awareness Office (with a less-scary pyramid in its logo) published on December 13 a "Presolicitation Notice" of bids for its new "Odortype Detection Program." According to the full 18-page notice, the ARO hopes to have the technology fully functional and ready for use some time around 2008. The thinking (?) behind the plan is that like your genetic code, every person's odor is unique — in fact, it's determined by your genetic code. If the whiz kids at DARPA can prove that, they want to move on to develop filters that will distinguish between the smell of your genes and the smell of your jeans or whatever foods, drugs, oils, and ? you've been putting in or on your body. (It Does No Good to Bathe) To that end, "It is envisioned that this will involve experiments using both rodents and humans." Since the idea behind this program evidently sprang from observations on how mice react to the "chemosignals" given off by each others' "urinary odor," such experiments could easily prove to be an . . . interesting . . . use of your hard-earned tax dollars.
"And if you ask me, it stinks".
— James Plummer, a policy analyst at Consumer Alert, Washington, D.C.
posted on December 21, 2002 09:55:36 AM new
Who pays for that website to function?
Maybe they're doing the good cop, bad cop
type of deal.
We're the good guys, so you should trust us
to tell you the truth. Meanwhile PBS is getting it's funding from the Marlboro foundation.
Is that article taking advantage of people's ignorance?
I remember being 6 years old and watching the hungry ethiopians on t.v. I cried and wondered if there was anything I could do.
At the same time, a girl who got on my school bus every day was probably going hungry too, she just didn't look like the people I saw on TV.
The girl on the school bus, what could I do about her. The Americans, are only interested in themselves, the other countries think, or else they would be spending their money helping other people in the world.
It's all relative, isn't it.
Chinese made goods in the store, people feeling victimized, so they quit their jobs when they don't know when the next paycheck is coming from. Meanwhile, Joe peasant in China knows his upward mobility means busting his butt at work in the factory.
But there is no upward mobility, it's that false consciousness type of thing. He just knows that this .12 cents an hour will buy him whatever, and maybe he can be like the Americans soon.
"It is envisioned that this will involve experiments using both rodents and humans." Since the idea behind this program evidently sprang from observations on how mice react to the "chemosignals" given off by each others' "urinary odor," such experiments could easily prove to be an . . . interesting . . . use of your hard-earned tax dollars.