# Shall I scan your right hand or forehead?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 26, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447 "2003-11-26T20:17:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/1 "2003-11-26T20:17:06Z")
This news story on [MSNBC](http://www.msnbc.com/news/997952.asp?0cv=CB20) has the fundies in a dither that the Mark of the Beast has arrived:
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> Radio frequency identification tags aren’t just for pallets of goods in supermarkets anymore. Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) of Palm Beach, Fla., is hoping that Americans can be persuaded to implant RFID chips under their skin to identify themselves when going to a cash machine or in place of using a credit card
There is no way that I’m having anybody cut into my flesh and palnt a chip under my skin when I have a perfectly good bank card in my wallet.
Does ADS really think anyone will do this?
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/2 "2003-11-26T20:25:04Z")
I hate it when I’m in a Satanic supermarket, and the person in front of me has a dirty forehead and it won’t scan properly, forcing the cashier to peer at his forehead and type the numbers in by hand. It always seems to be when I’m running late.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/3 "2003-11-26T22:46:28Z")
They can implant a chip in my cold, dead hand.
Anyway, where are the three sixes?
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/4 "2003-11-26T23:34:55Z")
I’ll have mine implanted somewhere in the ass area. They’ll get thier money, but they aren’t going to like it very much.
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### Author:  [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/5 "2003-11-27T00:07:58Z")
Well, I had one idea, but i don’t think the other people in line or the cashier would approve me of whipping it out everytime I bought something.
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/6 "2003-11-27T00:09:30Z")
I’ve got mine implanted in my right middle finger. I enjoy holding it up for them to scan.
My next upgrade will be a detachable hand with robotic lobster claw, buzzsaw, chaingun, and egg beater replacement attachments.
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### Author:  [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/7 "2003-11-27T00:36:06Z")
I think you’re forgetting the “way cool” aspect - some people will sign up just to be able to trigger cash points by waving their hand past, and shouting “I’m a cyborg”
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/8 "2003-11-27T00:41:00Z")
Yeah, yeah., you get the chip implanted in your wang and the whore gets a scanner implanted in her hoochie, so you can be charged by the stroke…
Beep. Beep. Beep. Beepbeepbeepbeepbeep!
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/9 "2003-11-27T00:54:30Z")
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> \*Originally posted by gobear \*
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> Does ADS really think anyone will do this? \*\*
Sure do, as soon as they fix it so there is no other choice.
And they will.
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/10 "2003-11-27T01:03:49Z")
My first thought was “only a moron would do this.”
Then again, this was also my first thought the first time I saw someone with a pierced tongue…
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### Author:  [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/11 "2003-11-27T01:30:12Z")
As an engineer, I applaud this idea.
Screw stuff like “smart gun” technology, let’s take control of the population to the source. Much more efficient that way.
As a citizen, I think it sucks.
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### Author:  [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/12 "2003-11-27T01:36:25Z")
Look at it this way: I think its a cool idea. I trust the government. But when there’s even a slightest conceivability that it might include a tracking device, blood tester, or electric shocker, it, ah, doesn’t pass the “just no” test.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/13 "2003-11-27T02:28:24Z")
Why is the flower in my palm blinking red and black?
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/14 "2003-11-27T02:36:09Z")
because you took the brown acid…dude!
(vanilla, sad that noclueboy has forgotten its my birthday today…)
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/15 "2003-11-27T02:58:23Z")
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> \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \*
> \*\*Why is the flower in my palm blinking red and black? \*\*
We have a runner!
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/16 "2003-11-27T03:04:46Z")
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> \*Originally posted by vanilla \*
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> (vanilla, sad that noclueboy has forgotten its my birthday today…)
:smack:
[This’ll have to do til the flowers get there.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=225697)
Sanctuary?
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### Author:  [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/17 "2003-11-27T05:05:19Z")
I hope so, my stock depends on it.
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### Author:  [@einstein\_s\_lovechild\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/einstein_s_lovechild_1)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/18 "2003-11-27T06:54:48Z")
So we’re meant to hold out our hands and become economic machines to make it more convenient for some companies. Charming.
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/19 "2003-11-27T11:22:12Z")
REUTERS – Reports indicate that a strange old man identifying himself as “Jack Chick” had 1,000 consecutive orgasms, then began screaming, “I WAS RIGHT!!! I WAS RIGHT!!! I WAS RIIIIIGHT!!!” at the top of his lungs before collapsing from exhaustion. He remains in a coma.
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### Author:  [@BoringDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoringDad)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shall-i-scan-your-right-hand-or-forehead/215447/20 "2003-11-27T13:22:22Z")
OK, I get to be the freak in this thread. When they are useful and secure enough, I’ll get one in a flash. People will willingly give up privacy if the ygain tangible benefits. After all, you can be tracked right now by your cell phone, e-mail, credit card, bank card, etc. You use them all willingly becasue of the use you get from them. But each one of them serves only one purpose.
That RFID chip can be used to replace your car keys, your house keys, garage door opener, your entire wallet (drivers license, passport, bank card, credit cards), computer log-on ID at work, airplane tickets, movie ticket bought on-line, and loose change in my pocket.
Never again will I get locked out of my house in a blizzard, fail to have enough change to buy a candybar or plug a parking meter. I will be able to buy a beer at a beachside bar without wearing any pants.
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