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To: QwikSand who wrote (25995)	1/9/2000 9:17:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

I could have done without the implanted chip thing, too. There are reasons to implant them (artificial heart controller, disease diagnosis/monitoring, etc.), but that's not how it came across in the interview. There IS a lot of mistrust of computers, and rightly so, but the solution is awareness and caution, not paranoia. JMHO.

To: QwikSand who wrote (25995)	1/10/2000 3:31:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Yes, but he chose the same moment to come out with his wide-of-the-mark joke about chip implants in peoples' necks which seemed to turn off Rukeyser (and me too). Wide of what mark? Mark of the beast? My dog has an implant. We've been doing it for years here. Pretty soon they'll be selling RC dog kits at Radio Shack where you use real dogs and command them through your cell phone. That'd be a pretty cool thing, having your dog out in the field and able to dial him up; or to call your horse. I'm sure Scotty has a chip. He was probably just warming Louis Rukeyser up to the concept. What he *should have suggested is an embedded JVM in a tiny subdermal Blackberry type device on the back of Louis Rukeyser's left hand with streaming realtime quotes and the ability to run instant PEG calculation applets and stuff. Get over it, Louis! <g> Scott scored with that device "too small for Ctrl-Alt-Del" image. He needs more from that brush (IMO). He's needing to move a whole consciousness into 'the network'. There's no blueprint. He's doing okay. More interesting I thought (and I didn't see the Rukeyser thing) is the way Scott has stepped in front of free software and the Linux Community. Sun is now flying the Apache/Linux colors with vitriol. You're hearing Scott refer to "the free operating environment". He's almost debranding Solaris. I feel a rally and a route coming. :) -JCJ

To: QwikSand who wrote (25995)	1/10/2000 8:11:00 AM
From: JDN	Respond to of 64865

Dear QS: Chip implants is no joke. Right now I bet there are a number of people RIGHT ON THIS THREAD who have had microchips imbedded in their purebred pets to identify them if lost or stolen. All the vets and humane societies have the scanners now to read them. They inject them with a needle and it is painless and supposedly last forever. Right now technology is studying ways to make chips to be injected that will carry say cancer fighting drugs DIRECT to the cancer cell thus destroying ONLY the bad guy and not blasting the whole body. the list goes on and on. JDN