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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070209/ap_on_hi_te/gps_sneaker_3

Engineer: GPS shoes make people findable

By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer Fri Feb 9, 5:04 AM ET

MIAMI - Isaac Daniel calls the tiny Global Positioning System chip he's embedded into a line of sneakers "peace of mind." He wishes his 8-year-old son had been wearing them when he got a call from his school in 2002 saying the boy was missing. The worried father hopped a flight to Atlanta from New York where he had been on business to find the incident had been a miscommunication and his son was safe.

Days later, the engineer started working on a prototype of Quantum Satellite Technology, a line of $325 to $350 adult sneakers that hit shelves next month. It promises to locate the wearer anywhere in the world with the press of a button. A children's line will be out this summer.

"We call it a second eye watching over you," Daniel said.

It's the latest implementation of satellite-based navigation into everyday life — technology that can be found in everything from cell phones that help keep kids away from sexual predators to fitness watches that track heart rate and distance. Shoes aren't as easy to lose, unlike phones, watches and bracelets.

The sneakers work when the wearer presses a button on the shoe to activate the GPS. A wireless alert detailing the location is sent to a 24-hour monitoring service that costs an additional $19.95 a month.

In some emergencies — such as lost child or Alzheimer's patient — a parent, spouse or guardian can call the monitoring service, and operators can activate the GPS remotely and alert authorities if the caller can provide the correct password.

But the shoe is not meant for non-emergencies — like to find out if a teen is really at the library or a spouse is really on a business trip. If authorities are called and it is not an emergency, the wearer will incur all law enforcement costs, Daniel said.

Once the button is pressed, the shoe will transmit information until the battery runs out.

While other GPS gadgets often yield spotty results, Daniel says his company has spent millions of dollars and nearly two years of research to guarantee accuracy. The shoe's 2-inch-by-3-inch chip is tucked into the bottom of the shoe.

Experts say GPS accuracy often depends on how many satellites the system can tap into. Daniel's shoe and most GPS devices on the market rely on four.

"The technology is improving regularly. It's to the point where you can get fairly good reflection even in areas with a lot of tree coverage and skyscrapers," said Jessica Myers, a spokeswoman for Garmin International Inc., a leader in GPS technology based in Kansas. "You still need a pretty clear view of the sky to work effectively."

Daniel, who wears the shoes when he runs every morning, says he tested the shoes on a recent trip to New Jersey. It tracked him down the Atlantic Coast to the Miami airport and through the city to a specific building.

The company also has put the technology into military boots and is in talks with Colombia and Ecuador, he said.

But retail experts say the shoe might be a tough sale to brand-conscious kids.

"If (parents) can get their kids to wear them, then certainly there is a marketplace. But I think the biggest challenge is overcoming ... the cool marketplace," said Lee Diercks, managing director of New Jersey-based Clear Thinking Group, an advisory firm for retailers.

The GPS sneakers, available in six designs, resemble most other running shoes. The two silver buttons — one to activate and one to cancel — are inconspicuous near the shoelaces.

The company is selling 1,000 limited-edition shoes online and already has orders for 750, Daniel said.

Parents who buy the pricey kicks don't have to worry about their kids outgrowing them fast. This fall, the company is unveiling a plug-and-wear version that allows wearers to remove the electronics module from their old shoes and plug it into another pair of Daniel's sneaks.
How convenient.
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On the Net:

Isaac Daniel: http://www.isaacdaniel.com
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Next will be the "camera" module like is in cell phones these days. Heck, add one of those 2GB flash cards to record every step you take for your entire life...
 
Lets see.... implanted in shoes.... next step... the human body? Maybe
the 'batteries' won't be needed... lets see... oh yea! The body supplies the
microAmps needed to drive it! Simple... put a "dam" in the blodstream so
that it powers a mini-wheel and a little microAmped power generator just
like the hoover dam powers our generators and viola! A complete human
powered GPS circuit! No running is needed!

Yes, RFI chips are one thing, but this ingenous device eclipse them all!
 
dant said:
Lets see.... implanted in shoes.... next step... the human body? Maybe
the 'batteries' won't be needed... lets see... oh yea! The body supplies the
microAmps needed to drive it! Simple... put a "dam" in the blodstream so
that it powers a mini-wheel and a little microAmped power generator just
like the hoover dam powers our generators and viola! A complete human
powered GPS circuit! No running is needed!
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Wasn't it a problem to leave a microchip inside the body without it migrating somewhere else ?
Except maybe if it's embedded in the head, a tooth or a bone.

I checked some information on Migrating microchips on Google and it's mostly about implanted animals (nice way to test it on a large scale without anyone worrying.) but it seems that migration isn't such a problem anymore.
Uhm...
 
They're doing quite a job of getting kids acclimated for this. A friend just told me that her kids' school will no longer accept cash in the cafeteria, only an ID card charged with credits (bought with parent's cash, and non-refundable until the child leaves the school system), which also tracks what you're buying. Another local school (New England) is making high-school students wear visible photo IDs while on school grounds. They sell these things as beneficial. Notice the progression of the following three headlines.

When Cafeteria Account Runs Low, Students Can Still Eat on Credit
(http:/)/www.gazette.net/stories/031506/silvnew183218_31941.shtml

Photo ID cards will help bring an end to bullying over use of 'cash free' cards
(http:/)/www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/id_cards_to_sto.html

Fingerprint technology speeds school lunch lines
(http:/)/www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=2146


From the Einstein Classical School (Grades K-8), Appleton, Wisconsin web site
<< A dance ticket and an Einstein photo ID cards will be required for admission to the dance. >>
 
AdPop said:
They're doing quite a job of getting kids acclimated for this. A friend just told me that her kids' school will no longer accept cash in the cafeteria, only an ID card charged with credits (bought with parent's cash, and non-refundable until the child leaves the school system), which also tracks what you're buying. ..... >>
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Yep, the “program" just started at my daughter’s elementary school this week. They get their lunch then stand in line as a teacher punches in their ID! Daughters comment: "now we have even less time to eat".
 
Two schools in Brussels already use fingerprint machines to get in or out of school.
The reason advanced for these devices is to keep violent elements from entering the school.
 
I went through eighteen and a half years of formal school without any violent elements, and plenty of time to eat. So, where are these problems coming from? Does anyone ask?

When people speak of the "terror threat" to the West, I reply, "why is there a terror threat?" The US president refers to "America's enemies" all the time. Who has enemies? What creates enemies? Examine self first, OSIT.
 
AdPop said:
I went through eighteen and a half years of formal school without any violent elements, and plenty of time to eat. So, where are these problems coming from? Does anyone ask?

When people speak of the "terror threat" to the West, I reply, "why is there a terror threat?" The US president refers to "America's enemies" all the time. Who has enemies? What creates enemies? Examine self first, OSIT.
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What I find interesting is that each country while following the same objective are giving different reasons for the tougher laws, tougher restrictions, more control and so on.
Terrorism seems the main uniting factor but when you look at the details, UK gave ID card to student because of bullying if I am correct (that's what I heard on the bbc news), Belgium to keep kids safe within schools, what is happening in other countries which is similar to this ?

I am disgusted at how children are used to bait parents with fear to accept such things.
And I suppose all these new tools are mandatory so even if as parents you're against it, it's becoming harder to avoid it for your children.
 
The reasons always given are that it's for your own benefit, for your own protection, for the protection of your children, etc. It's always for the benefit of the public. For those who are paying attention, it is for the benefit of maximum control over the masses of humanity implemented step by step.
 
SeekinTruth said:
The reasons always given are that it's for your own benefit, for your own protection, for the protection of your children, etc. It's always for the benefit of the public. For those who are paying attention, it is for the benefit of maximum control over the masses of humanity implemented step by step.
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And if you ever start having doubts about this, like if you start wondering that maybe it really is for our protection and our good, it helps to think like the other side for a moment to clear up the thinking. If you wanted to implement total control over everyone, how would you do it? Be it on school level or national level. Think of Nazi Germany for very clear and sobering examples of exactly how it is done - and the examples are perfect on school, community, and job, national, and every other level.

And I totally agree with AdPop - I've gone throgh 12 years of school with no incident with practically ANYONE in the entire school at any time. Sure there were some fights, but those fights cannot be prevented with ID's because if 2 people want to fight, unless they are tied to a wall, they WILL fight, period. And "violent entities" cannot be prevented from walking into the school - you have no clue who is violent and who is not, any of the 3000 students with proper ID's can decide to be violent at any given moment. The same is true for protecting our borders from terrorists. We have 300 million people in this country already - the ridiculous notion that all 300 million are saints and cannot possibly be terrorists if they wanted to already laughable. But that is exactly what is implied by preventing people from flying in or out of the country with baby bottles.

And why the hell protect airplanes? Why would terrorists go for the most overprotected and difficult thing to do like highjack a plane? What about a busy shopping mall with thousands of people in a tiny space? Those are not protected at all - you can walk into a shopping mall with a nuclear bomb strapped to your back and people will just say "wow radical backpack dude!". Again,the ridiculous notion that by protecting AIRPLANES no terrorist will ever A) Already be in the country B) Buy the weapons/guns/whatever from within the country C) Blow up stuff much more populated and important than airplanes that is totally unprotected. And no need to go to flight school either!!

And as proof that terrorists who want to blow things up in America basically do not exist - when was the last time a bomb went off in a shopping mall or any gathering of people that is totally unprotected? We have so many criminals, gangs, organized crimes, drug lords - with bombs, automatic weapons, and every explosive and weapon imaginable - ALL of which is already here inside the country. And so access to such things is available freely to anyone who wants it and has the intention to get it. And yet, with such free access to explosives and piles and piles of weapons, nothing happened in the past couple of years! Isn't it obvious that if a global terror network like Al Qaeda existed and wanted to blow things up, they would've done this already in a massive and constant way!? 6 years and no terrorist attacks on America?!? I think the average person doesn't realise how ridiculously easy it is to aqcuire explosives and blow things up, and really believes that our national security agencies are just doing a good job protecting us.

Please, you can ride an elephant strapped with explosives into US through the Mexican border. Seriously, if an average person from Mexico can get into the country with a little enginuity, how the hell can a professionally trained and organized terrorist network who hates America, the civilized world, and freedom itself not be able to do the same? Can anybody at all answer that question in any fathomably reasonable way? And if they CAN get in the country, what has prevented them from blowing up a totally unprotected public place? Nevermind their supposedly unlimited supply of suicide bombers, which removes any need to cover your tracks at all, or plan any sort of getaway. Is there any reasonable answer to that? I honestly can only think of one answer - because there is no organized America-hating terrorist network bent on blowing us up, PERIOD. The only thing anyone wants to do is get us the hell out of their country, so yes they are killing us in Iraq but only because we are invaders and occupiers and bringers of death and chaos and nothing else - it's not our enemies killing us, it's people who are desperately protecting their country from invasion, just as we would or any country would do!

And I know that it's likely that in the future US will experience fake terrorist attacks to create more security measures. But the very fact that in the past few years NOTHING happened is proof that nobody really has the desire or intention to do this, nobody cares about blowing up a bunch of people in America or anywhere else in the world, otherwise it would be happening far more often on a much bigger scale. Organized crime is busy smuggling their drugs and making their money and have no interest to randomly blow groups of random people up - if they had any interest, believe me, they would do it very VERY easily given their resources. Real terrorist organizations always have an achievable purpose and goal, and of course, destroying freedom or civilization itself is not in any way reasonable or achievable through terrorist means - unless you are the government. Every anti-freedom terrorist action only gives the government more control, so it only benefits the government. Unless of course that's exactly what Al Qaeda wants - to give our government ultimate power over us, which is of course one way to remove our freedoms. But why would they want that? Think about it, it's our government that orders all those "CIA wars" and "police actions" across the world that piss off the rest of the world, so why would a terrorist network that supposedly stands up for oppressed Muslims and Arabs in general give even MORE power to the one group of people that is constantly killing and oppressing those very same Muslims? The American people never have a say in this, they are not asked permission, they are not even told most of the time what the government does around the world, and it cannot make sense to punish the people and only reward the government, because not only does the government get more power, but it gets more reason and ability to cause even greater chaos around the world, so the "terrorist networks" are only giving more and more power to their supposed enemies, the western world.

So the 2 possible reasons anyone does anything: to protect what they have, or to gain more. The terrorists cannot be acting in self-defense, because their actions only empower their enemies and give them more power and reason to invade and attack to an even greater extent. And the terrorist cannot possibly be doing this to achieve control over us, because their actions, again, only give control to our government NOT the terrorist group, and the terrorist group again, only suffers. But the government on the other hand, has both of those reasons to do this. One, they protect the power they already have. Two, they get more power/control. The only 3rd option is if the terrorists really are insane, have no concern for themselves or reason at all, just totally insane bloodlust. In which case, how can that be reconciled with the fact that they are so supposedly well-organized and can totally evade our government? Obviously they are intelligent then and clever. If they can be so careful and genius to carry out something as complex as 911, how can they at the same time be totally devoid of logic and self-destructive and literally insane at the same time? Can anyone answer that question at all?

All reason and logic and analysis of motives points only to the government as the creator of terrorism. Of course, that in and of itself is not enough to accuse anyone of a crime - but it is enough to suspect. And it is unreasonable to suspect a group of people when not only do you have no evidence against, but you have not even a motive or any benefit. So the fact that "Al Qaeda" or any other foreign terrorist organization hates our freedoms IS an insane conspiracy theory that, quite literally, is exactly the same as a child who fears the dark because of the boogie-man. This tactic works for parents to control their child because young children tend to trust and believe their parents and not really question what is being said, and so, do not think critically. But for this same tactic to work on a few million adults is frankly embarrasing. The often-used phrase "freedom isn't free" is correct - but it's not because you have to kill people to ahieve it. It's because you have to be constantly CRITICAL and never put your faith/trust in any leader or government. The price of freedom is vigilance and critical thinking and being responsible for your actions and the actions of your government - THIS is much harder than simply going to war when your government tells you it's necessary. Doing the latter is already a result of failing to pay the true price of freedom, and as a result, regardless of how many people you kill abroad in the name of freedom, you are already fooled, you already failed to pay the true price and losing your freedom at every turn.

Another way of saying it, murdering somebody in the name of God does not mean God, if he exists, will like you for it. Most people realise this that if you invade a nation and do it "in the name of God", it does not in any way mean that God wold approve just because you said "in the name of God" while doing it. Otherwise you could do any horrible thing and say "in the name of God" and just go to heaven for saying it. Similarly, just because you go to war in the name of freedom, does not mean that you will gain any freedom from it. In the past people have been tricked into waging horrible wars in the name of religion, and now the western world learned that just saying "in the name of God" doesn't make it so. But now the western world wages horrible wars in the name of freedom - and just like the price for Heaven is not what the Spanish Inquisition said it is, the price for freedom is NOT what we're told it is by our leaders today. Think about it!!

Also, if anyone during the Spanish Inquisition said "let's not go around killing people" it would be easy to accuse them to be "soft" and a "liberal" or any such thing, and that "our enemies won't have mercy on us" etc. But from our perspective today we know that it was just propaganda manipulations to get people in line with the agenda. And yet, sometimes it IS necessary to fight and be strong, and in those times it is not a good idea to just turn the other cheek. I am not saying that war or battle does not solve anything, but I am saying that fighting at the wrong time for the wrong reason and in the wrong way can do infinitely more damage to ouselves and everyone else. Similarly, not fighting when fighting truly IS necessary is not good either. The trick is knowing when to fight, how to fight, and why to fight. Historically humanity has most often fought because they've been tricked by their government into it, not because there truly was any necessity for it. And the only way they were tricked is because they didn't question what they were told, they did not question who the true enemy was, they had no time, they were too busy with their lives to worry about the burden of proof and reasonable statements. They paid the price.
 
Scio, these are my thoughts quite accurately. I've been using the same argument for years. If there were real terrorists with the intent of ruining America, our economy would be devastated and people would be cowering in their homes 24/7. A well-placed martyr every ten days or so (36 per year) could easily accomplish this. It's not happening because there is no desire on anyone's part to do it. No one is out to "destroy America," no matter what Hillary or George says. Period. Borders, beaches, ports, chemical plants, etc. are left unguarded because the power structure knows there's no need to protect them. There's no prevention because none is needed. People who angrily wail about the fact that nothing is being done, security-wise, are missing this point.

Seriously, consider reworking your first six paragraphs above into a clear, cohesive, measured editorial, and submitting it to SOTT for possible publication. A campaign to promote and remind people of these simple, irrefutable facts would wake a lot of folks up. My apologies if I missed such a piece extant somewhere -- I have not seen one.
 
Ha ha! We're on the same wavelength tonight. When typing my post, I actually wrote the word "in your rant" between the words "paragraphs" and "above" and then backspaced in consideration that you might be offended by the term. Silly me! It actually is cohesive, just a few too many words is all I meant.
 
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