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Mark of the Beast
Electronic UPC Tracking Code?
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Standards Initiative
GTAGTM is an EAN and UCC initiative begun in response to the growing interest in performance standards in RFID. GTAGTM has gained substantial momentum since the press release of March 17, 2000 in which EAN and UCC's announced its launch. GTAGTM is recognized as one of the leading RFID initiatives globally.
[Excerpted from The Cincinnati Enquirer - February 10, 2001 article:]
Microchips might speed restocking of shelves
Developers call them smart labels - tags embedded with microchips and attached to goods that can transmit data and instructions to suppliers' and retailers' computers.
[re:] smart-label research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Auto ID Center . . . P&G the $40 billion maker of such household brands as Tide detergent and Crest toothpaste co-founded the multimillion-dollar lab along with MIT. [P&G = Cincinnati based Procter and Gamble]
The center's mission: developing standard technologies for embedding intelligence, identity and Internet connectivity into everyday objects, according to the center's literature.
The Cincinnati packaged-goods giant was among the first to recognize smart labels as the next step in the evolution of the Universal Product Code more commonly known as the bar code that has made scanners more commonplace in supermarkets than baggers.
Smart labeling also means that manufacturers would know exactly when and what consumers are buying, making inventory management much simpler and more efficient.
Eventually, shoppers will bypass checkout counters altogether, as their tagged purchases are automatically debited to their accounts on their way out the door.
[Did you catch that? Automatically! which means not only the products will have a UPC transponder, but the consumer must also be identified in like manner by walking through the door with the "interrogator" antenna/coil embedded in the door frame. So, are you going to let them "slash" your flesh to insert a UPC (Unarmed Product Consumer) chip "in" your right hand? It's all about making (or not losing) money, and the love of money is the root of all evil. Credit/debit cards can be lost or stolen or counterfeited. (With a UPC embedded in products and people, they kill two birds with one stone. They automatically take your money, and they cancel the "five finger discount" of shoplifters who get charged the full price, or else the door doesn't open "of his own accord" to let them out if they are unable to pay.) Personal privacy and freedom is becoming like a dream that fades with the sunrise of the new age of the New World Order, Friend. You can paddle against the stream, but you can't paddle up a raging waterfall!]
[Excerpts from www.aimglobal.org rfid_basics_primer.htm ,etc. 28Sep1999--]
AIM = Automatic Identification Manufacturers - a global trade association with over 1000 members world wide, created "to support and accelerate the growth of the market for AIDC products." [--from www.aimglobal.org, Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.]
AIDC = Automatic Identification and Data Collection
including:
Bar Code including 2-D Symbologies [UPC, etc.]
Radio Frequency Identification [RFID]
Machine Vision Smart Cards
Optical Character Recognition
Optical Cards
Magnetic Stripe Touch Memory
Voice Recognition
| 13:14_ And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. 13:15_ And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 13:16_ And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 13:17_ And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (--Revelation 13:14-17) |
[MARK = Magnetically Activated Remote Key-tag?]
Shopper Card = Loss of Privacy?
"Every time you shop, just scan your card or keytag when you checkout, and you will automatically receive...discounts." Yeah, sure, instead of anyone getting sale prices, ($3.00 ice cream for 99 cents,) only people with cards get discounts, (99 cent ice cream for $1.66 instead of $3.00?
That's a good deal, Right? :) Of course, they are then able to track who buys what, how much and how often - and who is skimping and who is hoarding, and who is buying sensitive items. Of course, besides the magnetic strip, the card has the UPC, with a system 4 (in store item) code that marks you as a special consumer. Besides the UPC mark being required to "sell", it is gradually being required to "buy" things on "sale". "The barcodes used on the PlusTM Cards are unique to each individual." [--Kroger faq]
Registration and Monitoring from Your Keychain
"Shoppers are lining their key rings with bar code tags for everything from supermarkets and fitness clubs to pet food stores. As one grocery store operator explains, 'What we are doing is taking the technology of scanning and instead of tracking product movement we are tracking customer movement.' Sounds creepy to me." (Newspage 9/99)
Safeway Implanting Subdermal ID Microchips
"...into pets, not people. At least for now. Safeway (the nation's second largest grocery chain) has enlisted veterinarians to inject microchips into the bodies of Safeway shoppers' pets. In a process similar to vaccination, a syringe is used to insert a chip the size of a grain of rice under the animal's skin. The idea is to identify the pet should it be lost. Each microchip contains a unique identification number that is recorded in a national database and can be read by a scanner. That sounds awfully similar to shopper surveillance cards, though so far they've only offered shoppers the keychain option for keeping their number with them at all times."
"When they came for the pets, I didn't object, because I wasn't a pet." When they decide to inject you with a microchip containing your shopper ID number, who will object? (Safeway Press Release via Yahoo Supermarket News or PR Newswire 5/19/00)
What is RFID?
The object of any RFID system is to carry data in suitable transponders, generally known as tags, and to retrieve data, by machine-readable means, at a suitable time and place to satisfy particular application needs. Data within a tag may provide identification for an item in manufacture, goods in transit, a location, the identity of a vehicle, an animal or individual.
Transponders/Tags
The word transponder, derived from TRANSmitter/resPONDER, reveals the function of the device. The tag responds to a transmitted request for the data it carries, the mode of communication between the reader and the tag being by wireless means across the space or air interface between the two. The term also suggests the essential components that form an RFID system - tags and a reader/interrogator with antenna.
The transponder memory may comprise read-only (ROM), random access (RAM) and non-volatile programmable memory for data storage depending upon the type and sophistication of the device. The non-volatile programmable memory may take various forms, electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) being typical. It is used to store the transponder data and needs to be non-volatile to ensure that the data is retained when the device is in its quiescent or power-saving "sleep" state.
Active tags are powered by an internal battery and are typically read/write devices. ... a suitable cell coupled to suitable low power circuitry can ensure functionality for as long as ten or more years, depending upon the operating temperatures, read/write cycles and usage.
Passive tags operate without an internal battery source, deriving the power to operate from the [ElectroMagnetic] field generated by the reader.
Standard numbering systems, such as UCC/EAN [aka. UPC] and associated data defining elements may also be applied to data stored in tags.
Antennas are available in a variety of shapes and sizes; they can be built into a door frame to receive tag data from persons or things passing through the door.
The reader emits radio waves in ranges of anywhere from one inch to 100 feet or more, depending upon its power output and the radio frequency used. When an RFID tag passes through the electromagnetic zone, it detects the reader's activation signal. The reader decodes the data encoded in the tag's integrated circuit (silicon chip) and the data is passed to the host computer for processing.
RFID tags come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Animal tracking tags, inserted beneath the skin, can be as small as a pencil lead in diameter and one-half inch in length. Tags can be screw-shaped to identify trees or wooden items, or credit-card shaped for use in access applications. The anti-theft hard plastic tags attached to merchandise in stores are RFID tags.
| 21:34_ And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 21:35_ For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 21:36_ Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. (--Luke 21:34-36) |
The word of faith says, That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved; For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Call upon him now, while he is near. Grace be to them that love the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. --Richard
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