Barcode Tatoo as Permanent ID - Arrgh! 245
Anonymous Coward writes "It seems someone has received a patent on tattooing barcodes on people to verify your identity. Check it out
at the US government's Patent Site." Yes, it's a real patent. Yes, it's loony. Yes, it's scary. So scary that we might as well laugh at it, because laughter is healthier than tears. (Sigh)
Mark of the Beast - TM (Score:1)
Memories of the Holocaust? (Score:5)
The Mark (Score:2)
It's time come around at last
That slouches toward Redmond to be born again?
(with apologies to Yeats...)
Viva! Viva! La revolucion! (Score:3)
my my my (Score:1)
That's what would be know as a useless patent. (Score:1)
All it does is freak people out, those of us who desire privacy and those who have some sort of religious objection to it.
But maybe that's the point. It might be just to distract from something else...
Depends on who has the patent (Score:4)
Thank God.... (Score:1)
:-)
What's good for the goose... (Score:4)
There are people *now* who have their infants or children tattooed for identification - just in case they get kidnapped or killed or whatnot. Heck, my mom used to threaten to have my lip tattooed if I forgot to take some ID with me in case something bad happened. She never did, but the sentiment is out there - keep our kids safe by marking them perminantly with something that identifies them as *ours*.
I'm not advocating this, and I'd never do it to my kids, but I can understand the sentiment - especially when there are hundreds of kids stolen or lost every year, and at least twice as many parents who can't stand the not knowing. People have even gone so far as to implant digital tracking devices in dogs and cats - and extrapolate use of them on children!
It's scary, but it's only symptomatic of the world we live in. That's pretty darn scary, too.
Been there, done that (Score:2)
The contest winner came up with the idea of tatooing the UPC barcode for Spaghettios on his arm, to save time in the checkout line (he could just wave his arm over the scanner instead of those heavy cans).
Re:We've got prior art!!! (Score:1)
www.spinster.org [spinster.org]
Dumb patent - biometrics beat him to it. (Score:2)
Re:We've got prior art!!! (Score:3)
It's a stupid idea anyway. A subdermal microship (like those used for pets or small children (no kidding!)) is much more effective, since it's less obtrusive and can hold way more data.
Hehe.. (Score:1)
Seriously, the patent should not have been awarded since it is a trivial (and has even been used in movies).
Unfortunatly, the U.S. gov. dosn't need any such primitive methods of keeping track of people. All the law abiding people have social security numbers and they take DNA sample from a LARGE number of criminals.
Jeff
Re:We've got prior art!!! (Score:1)
Filed: Sept. 5, 1996
Satan and his personal ID (Score:1)
I am not a number, I am a free man! (Score:1)
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Re:Viva! Viva! La revolucion! (Score:1)
besides, we have prior arts, if that's what it's called. We (speaking as German, not about me personally) marked people with a serial ID on their arms during world war two, if you remember that sad story of human history. Barcodes are just another form of representation for numbers.
The mark (Score:3)
http://www.greaterthings.com/essays/666mark.htm
Check out what they have to say about Bar Codes!
Re:Memories of the Holocaust? (Score:3)
-cpd
Mark of the beast. (Score:1)
Sounds like the book of Revelations to me...
Re:Memories of the Holocaust? (Score:1)
Not very efficient, though... (Score:1)
and a Barcode tattoo is the best tattoo one can get...
Big brother issues aside... (Score:1)
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But I know I only cost $2.99... (Score:3)
So wait, does that mean the Barcode I have tatooed on my leg is in breach of a Patent now? And does the fact that it woud "ring me up" as a box of coco pebbles (No I'm not kidding) mean my identity would be that of a box of cereal?
On a more serious note, I wonder if the patent holder realizes that: 1. You could never get the general populace to agree to tattooed barcodes beacuse a. It's against many religons b. it just plain hurts 2. That they cost an awful lot of money 3. It's just a plain bad idea.
Ya just got to wonder what's next . . .
Planning for the Future? (Score:1)
I'm not saying It's not a bad (read: scary, inhumane, degrading) thing, but with governments steadily eroding our freedoms, this could be a step they'd like to take. Think of it, by barcoding people, and making it a manditory requirement for transactions, the spooks could very easily keep track of you wherever you go. I would hope that the politicians, and the general populous would never go along with such a stupid idea, BUT they could always use a new tactic to "protect the children" right?
Comments about patents... (Score:5)
When I pointed out that there was nothing truly unique in our software (is there in anything?) and thus nothing patentable the response I got was : "It doesn't matter if it's enforceable, just applying for a patent will increase our value and the threat of a lawsuit will slow down our rivals."
They didn't get any ideas out of us but it shows how pathetically cynical the whole patent process has become.
The failure to include a sig., is in itself a sig.
Warning: bad, possibly inappropriate joke ahead (Score:1)
It really does make you wonder, what would Brian Boitano do?
Re:Mark of the Beast - TM (Score:1)
The future is alredy here, i guess....
Re:Mark of the Beast - TM (Score:1)
Maitin
Re:Mark of the beast. (Score:1)
Actually, it makes me wonder whether some devoted fan of this whole "Mark of the Beast" thing has gotten tired of waiting for it to happen on its own and decided to go ahead and make it happen.
Who needs a tatoo? (Score:1)
Who is the idiot who figured that we needed tatoos? Anybody could get any tatoo and get it lased off or altered. That's a really, really stupid proposal. Patent offices are no longer the place to nurture budding Einsteins I guess.
I'm me. Really. Like my wife says sometimes, "Its you allright. I just have to scratch and sniff."
-Charles-A.
Who wants a barcode? (Score:2)
I don't think that will be ever of any practical use, since you can have the same effect by having a microchip injected under your skin.
That said:Top 5 reasons to have a barcode tatoo anyway
Whats the big deal? (Score:1)
I admit barcodes are tacky and associated with holocaust victims, but why not got for a sub-dermal microchip, or even an optional wearable one, like a ring or wristband? I know I would prefer it to a wallet + license +regisitration + insurance card + mac card + credit card yadda yadda yadda.
Re:Dumb patent - biometrics beat him to it. (Score:1)
Home of the brave, land of the free (Score:3)
I think they should dump whoever came up with this patent into the deepest depths of the pacific. Someone who has ideas such as those is not only seriously deranged, but a genuine danger to humanity.
It ALSO makes you wonder, with all the recent control trips, Echelon, and so on that the US has put on, how long will it be until some smart representative/senator/whatever comes up with the idea of really using the system? Maybe only on criminals at first - or child molesters - no once could argue with that... And some day it will creep into everyday usage and then they do it automatically with every newborn child. of course by then, us the people here in Europe get to 'benefit' from the same crap, because afterall, we wouldn't want to disagree with our 'friend', the USA.
Maybe it's my sarcastic and pessimistic nature coming out, but I wouldn't be surprised if the next Hitler is an American president, let's say, 15 or 20 years down the road.
I can see it now... (Score:1)
Temporary tatoo man!
(Insert Music)
This can't fly. (Score:1)
Second, I can carry a laser barcode scanner that works well past a few hundred feet, scan someone's visible barcode (when they show it to an officer, at the bank, etc) and use it. It is then a simple matter of painting over my own with makeup, and redoing the barcode in makeup.
-Adam
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.
-Oscar Levant
Re: (Score:1)
Re:Memories of the Holocaust? (Score:1)
Re:Satan and his personal ID (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
Same as it always was (Score:1)
Chuck
subdermal LCD display exists. (Score:1)
Can't find a reference to it right now though. Anyone?
Prior art, hell, how about "nonobvious..." clause? (Score:2)
If, however, this is deemed "nonobvious" then I'm gonna get patents on barcoding ( or otherwise marking with machine-readable identification
Re:Mark of the Beast - TM (Score:1)
tatto, location of (Score:1)
The two-D barcode is being used by Panasonic as part of their document imaging system. Once this technology is matured, I predict it will be tied into a world wide database to ID everybody. Some states have plans to put it on their drivers licenses. And we all know where digital data in state databases actualy goes, don't we? It won't happen soon, but in the name of 'protecting the children from perverts' or 'protecting the world from terrorists' I can see it happening. I don't like it but what can we do?
Infocriminals turn left, Lawful citizens turn righ (Score:1)
Remember the story I posted last week about a neighbor who was in the Polish resistance, and helped some of the Polish Intelligence agents smuggle the Enigma plans to England. His wife has a tatoo on her arm, and she had no problems re-telling what life was like in a concentration camp.
I have a feeling this guy will soon be the target of a lot of people with some very bad memories of tatoos. I wouldn't want to be the guy who sold him life insurance.
the AC
stuipd ass [atent office (Score:1)
--bsDaemon
dfree@inna.net
Ha, ha, ha! (Score:1)
Just apply some logic, people: unique indentifiers are only useful if they are UNIQUE. A barcode is one of the most forgeable things on earth, whether on a box of cereals or the head of your penis. No selfrespecting government--let alone the US one--would give it a second thought. Still, this is great stuff for paranoia.
Paul Radu
Voluntarily...? (Score:3)
Forced control is harder to get away with and easier to rally support to fight.
Not necessarily visible (Score:2)
I saw a prog on telly once about rave culture, and there was a young woman on who worked for some big firm in a customer facing role. She obviously couldn't go around with a load of facial tattoos in case she freaked out the custo's so she got a really cool Spider web tattoo done on her face in a flourescent dye so you could only see it under UV lighting in clubs or whatever.
This doesn't mean I'm in favour of this whole idea, but it does mean you don't have to be "disfigured" by a mandatory tattoo...
Re:Welcome to 1984 (Score:1)
Checkout Person with a BarCode on his/her wrist (Score:1)
Could you then take them to court for damages ? ie you can no longer work at your chosen trade.
Re:Memories of the Holocaust? (Score:1)
Re:What's good for the goose... (Score:2)
People have been tattooing their SSN or other identification number on valuable animals for years. More recently, chips embedded in the skin at the back of the neck have begun to replace tattooing.
The chip's ID number is read with a hand-held scanner held near the animal's neck. Most animal shelters and many veterinarians have the scanners. The hope is that the technology will help return more lost animals to their rightful owners. It's hard to argue that this is a bad idea.
Implanting these chips in children is a whole 'nother thing....
Re:Dumb patent - biometrics beat him to it. (Score:2)
But the point is that barcode scanning technology is ubiquitous - it's been around for years and is easy to implement. Any true biometric would be much harder to implement and would take years to arrive at the same amount of infrastructure.
Of course, it would be almost absurdly easy to fake a barcode tattoo. I'm sure there's portable barcode scanners. Go someplace where people are baring their barcodes (the beach at last resort), surreptitiously scan in some numbers, then go make yourself a fake tattoo and you're golden.
Makes me wonder what they'll do to make this more tamper-resistant. Special ink? Holographic type? A watermark?
Overall, it doesn't seem like it fills any specific need. Definitely raises some spectres though.
Re:Code me up baby... (Score:1)
I wonder what his motive is (Score:1)
It reminds me of a stupid rumor going around a couple of years ago about someone going into a Wal-Mart, telling the cashier to scan their hand, and then telling them that they are part of a test of this method of payment. Of course it was a bunch of crap. I wonder if this person thinks that they are going to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
Re:Your message is a contradiction! (Score:1)
Re:Memories of the Holocaust? (Score:1)
Re:What's good for the goose... (Score:1)
Y'know, this technology could replace MedicAlert bracelets. Imagine tattooing/implanting Alzheimer's-disease patients, so if they wander off, they're that much easier to identify. (Before you flame me, I spent a night along with a bunch of my neighbors helping look for one's lost father, whom the cops later found a half mile away on a stranger's porch.)
Re:Mark of the beast. (Score:1)
Would that be stupid or what?
I'd be so totally disappointed.
Re:Home of the brave, land of the free (Score:1)
The US already has this, its called Megan's Law, Or the sex offender registry.
You must register "IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN CONVICTED OF A SEX OFFENSE". Which is anything from rape to lewd behavior (such as public nudity).
Its scary when criminals have to start registering so they can be out casts for the rest of their lives, even after they have served their jail time. If they are so dangerous that they need to register, they should still be in jail.
Anyways, look for more "registries" soon.
-RossB
Re:Memories of the Holocaust? (Score:1)
Re:Yet another Liberal whiner . . . (Score:1)
"the only 'victims' are victims of their own stupidity"??
Please. That's ridiculous. How bout I torture you to death over the next few months? Would YOU be a victim then?
"The only people who could possibly object to this are people with something to hide: Drug dealers and other criminals."
And almost everyone else. How many people wouldn't object to this is the real question. I don't know a single person who would go along with this kind of shit.
Funny this is coming from an AC. Fucking moron!
Hmm... (Score:1)
* OK, so it really is the least of it.
Didn't Molly have such a watch? (Score:2)
Re:Mark of the beast. (Score:2)
Some of the other posters have a point: barcodes are very easily forged. However, just the fact that someone would patent such an idea seems to be a sign of the times.
The Mark will probably not be a barcode. There are more reliable ways of sticking an ID on a person. But I don't doubt something like this will happen, and probably sooner than you think.
CT
One other possibility... (Score:1)
Re:Before you go making generalizations (Score:1)
Before you go making generalizations please do some basic law research. There is NO law that REQUIRES a person to have a SSN/SIN.
There ARE law abiding citizens WITHOUT Slave Identification Numbers. They are the Sui Juris (Free Men), and Sovereigns.
http://www.nyx.net/~imschira/frogfarm/fffaq16.h
Another bit of prior art (Score:1)
Re:Depends on who has the patent (Score:1)
Voluntary means choice -- if you don't want to be identified going through the checkpoint this particular time, do you expect there to be tattoo-removal clinics on the side of the road (and matching booths on the opposite side to re-imprint you)?
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There is prior art in movies... (Score:1)
The movie "Forteress" with Christofe Lambert pictured people with bar code as ids. I think also that in Alien 3 there is some bare code ids on the prisonners.
The patent was filled in 1996 and these movies date before that.
Look's like the patent office clerk do not watch movies!
Aren't tagged animals considered "livestock"... (Score:1)
Thus, theft or killing such a tagged animal, renders the perp subject to prosecution for a felony.
Re:Planning for the Future? (Score:1)
Plus I really don't think that would ever happen. There are just a few to many memories of the Holocost.
But it is kind of Ironic that this comes up durring the high holy days.
Happy New year 5760 All.
Re:The mark - prior art (Score:1)
Re:Mark of the Beast - TM (Score:1)
Re:Yet another Liberal whiner . . . (Score:1)
1) "By advocating protecting people from their own stupidity, you are advocating a welfare state."
2) "Drug dealers and other criminals"
What is the primary nature of many drug laws? To protect people from their own stupidity! Same with seat belt laws, helmet laws, and all the other pointless, freedom-restricting cruft we have in the legal system.
Try to think a little more before you spew next time -- if you consider drug dealers criminals, you are advocating a welfare state.
Identification and information routing (Score:2)
Physical street address, land line telephone, wireless telephone, IP address for your box(es), email address(es), social security number, driver's license number, passport number, school ID numbers, etc, etc..
Consider eventually having an IPv6 address as an identification number. Emails route to it, snail mail routes to it, you have a small tattoo on the inside of your wrist to scan the large number, and a retinal scan to verify yourself. Local routing tables keep track of a physical locale to leave shipments - updating them when you drop into a hotel for a week, for instance, means packages, bills, whatever could possibly always get to you. The routing table has a permanent address in it as well, and when you sign up for a bill you indicate the floating address or the permanent - and the floating address can change from day to day, updated across the routing system like DNS propogates right now.
Of course, we'll get mugged - our wrists severed and one eye gouged out. No more 'give me your wallet'.
Re:Home of the brave, land of the free (Score:1)
However, granting this one is absurd because of the existence of large amounts of prior art.
Hamish
Re:Not necessarily visible (Score:1)
I recently visited an amusement park in Minnesota, and if you wanted to leave the park temporarily (for example, running out to your car to grab a towel for the water park inside), they stamped your hand using special ink that could only be seen under a black light.
And lest someone try to patent *that*... (Score:1)
"Bio Identification is much more reliable and accurate, and is tougher to fake (rip an eye out or laser off a tattoo...)"
Just so nobody comes up with a Patented Method For Fooling Retina Scanners, Wesley Snipes did that already, in _Demolition Man_. (Prior Art, Prior Art!
Christian R. Conrad
MY opinions, not my employer's - Hedengren, Finland.
Sounds to me like a stonewalling tactic. (Score:2)
I was told that nobody would be allowed to buy or sell anything without the mark. Well, if you read the application for patent protection it is a system to very human identity during sales transactions.
It sounds to me like either
1. This is the attempt of some well meaning Christian to legally stall or possibly even prevent the apocalypse that he believes is coming, or perhaps even scare some non-practicing Christians into coming back to the church.
or
2. I made a mistake when I changed my religion.
If I were a betting man, I'd bet on 1.
This system would be highly vulnerable to color copies being used instead of real flesh and blood to authorize transactions.
LK
Re:Mark of the Beast - TM (Score:2)
Re:Sounds to me like a stonewalling tactic. (Score:1)
One the memory of the Holocost is way to fresh in my mind. At the old folks home that my grandparents live at there are way to many folks who can't wear short sleaves as they don't want that number visable.
Two tatoing is agenst my religion on general pricipals.
Three, Ick.
Re:There is prior art in movies... (Score:1)
If I invented a warp drive, the patents would be mine, not Star Trek's.
Tattoo ID'ing happens elsewhere... (Score:2)
His Name
His Religion
His Blood Type
A number
And one or two other things I forgot. Apparently they use it for a more simple reason... war. Its easier to 1. know what kind of blood to put in the soldiers quicker, and 2. what kind of headstone to give them if they are killed.
Scairy...
Security through Obscurity (Score:2)
Just let them try to find the right one!
*beep!* "Oscar Meyer Weiner...try again."
*beep!* "Liqd Plumbr...try again."
*beep!* "Sheryl Crow...try again."
That'll teach 'em! :)
Re:But I know I only cost $2.99... (Score:2)
But do we know that this would be a traditional tattoo (visible ink injected below the skin with a needle)? I haven't looked up the patent, but it sounds similar to an idea I heard a long while ago.
A mark that can be painlessly applied that is visible only with ultraviolet or some such. So you can't object for any health or comfort reasons, no religeous or cosmetic objections. And to top it off, it is not compulsory but you get a substantial discount for using it, or you have to pay a huge surcharge if you don't
Some banks and merchants will insist on it and it will be harder and harder to get by without one. Airlines start to give passengers discounts for using 'ticketless' services, later some carriers simply require it for international travel. After a while, the government decides this would be a great cost-savings for social security, welfare and food stamp programs to reduce costs and fight fraud. Eventually, all public grade schools require that you have one and that your child's immunization records be tied to the code by your private physician. Then, to control overpopulation, everyone must go to carousel by their 30th year, or the red chrystal in their palm starts to blink and Michael York comes and kills you.
Then I woke up from my nightmare sweating...
Re:Sounds to me like a stonewalling tactic. (Score:2)
There were actually morons there who didn't know what the tattoo was. Some stupid bitch made this old man cry by grabbing his arm and asking "What is this?"
Many in our generation are totally clueless. In 20 years when all of the holocaust survivors and most of their children are gone, I can see the short attention spanned people in this country (The USA) thinking that shit like this is actually a good idea.
It's kinda funny (funny as in strange, not is in comedic) that after the holocaust more than hald of all male babies in the USA now get circumcised. I had a Jewish Biology professor who used to joke that this was a Jewish conspiracy to prevent easy visual identification of Jews to avoid a future holocaust here in the USA.
LK
Mark of te beast... (Score:3)
Also, as the fellow who is a box of cocopuffs will testify, anyone with a tattoo pen (wich can be made easily out of a guitar string and a poorly balanced motor) can forge a tattoo. easy enough to masquerade as someone else.
No The Mark of the beast will be much more elusive, creative and foolproof. A microchip under the skin is what seems to be the latest (well since the 70's but I think that's classified), and in 5 years it may be something else.
Guess we won't know till it happens huh?
case of a bill of attainder (Score:2)
The problem is, no one likes sex offenders, and so no one has any qualms about violating their rights.
Re:Memories of the Holocaust? (Score:2)
So somebody patented barcode tattoos. And microsoft tried to patent the word processor. And Al Gore tried to say he invented the internet. woopdeedoodah. so when the antichrist comes (assuming he's not here already), do you really think he's going to go up to this dude/dudette and say I need to have a right to use your patent so I can brand everyone and take over the world and lead the world into the Apocalypse and so that the forces of Gog and Magog can have at each other on the Plains of Apocalypse? hmmmm, would be so much easier just to give out those American Express cards that came out the other day and are dumbed-down smartcards. Geez.
unit 123073 (Score:2)
Re:A new game called Liberal Tag, and your it.... (Score:2)
Please.
How many incidents of "spin-off" crime can you attribute to alcohol? Cigarettes? It makes a big difference if they're legal.
The criminal mind will do something criminal in order to get enough cash for his/her fix.
We're *all* criminals. When was the last time you broke the law? I'll confess -- I was speeding on the way back home this morning. Legalization, taxation, and support for those with genuine problems is a much more humane (and realistic) solution than trying to lock up everyone you can get your hands on. The laws are unfair (witness the Cocaine/Crack sentencing disparities), selectively enforced, and are turning our country into a police state.
Wanna know what's really screwing up this country? The (failed) War on Drugs.
Stang
Speaking Biblicaly (Score:3)
Intuitively, this doesn't seem to be the mark spoken of. Think on this,
This isn't a very secure individual marking system, any tatoo can be replicated. One can merely have access to your account after taking a picture of your hand. So as a unique identification a mark on your hand is very poor.
However, taking the reference to Revelations "save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name" would denote that one isn't being identified as individual but as part of a society with a mark and two passwords.
These marks and passwords are used to authenticate that someone can make an economic transaction with another member of a particular society, not as an individual access method to their own money (we will always have cash, or gold or other monitary exchange system. And as long as that is around there is no enforcable "mark" system.
It has been said that "causing all" is a reference to the government making a law. However this is a hasty reaction since there are many economic and political motivators that such a society can use to "causeth all...to recieve a mark". And by no means does it say that they will be successful in causing "everybody" to get it. But it will entice people in a way that is offencive to God, hence his utter cursing of the mark (boils and blisters).
In otherwords this isn't a clear reference to government.
Why some people, in fear of such a society might be motivated to mark themselves to entrust that who they are speaking to are "safe" from the other mark. Others might be setting up a secret economic order where you are essentialy creating a silent monopoly or mafia like order, and you need to know who else is involved so you won't try to steal from them (but will try from everyone else.)
Also remember, the 144,000 also recieve a mark in there foreheads....
I'm welcome to further email discussion on the topic. (just remove the SPshieLD)
^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~
Voluntary? (Score:2)
Form 1040 does indeed contain a valid OMB number, and this is the only reference anywhere in the IRS form documentation that mentions anything resembling "voluntary".
Is there some other place on the form or supporting documents that you're basing this information on?
Complete Movie Quote:NAKED (barcodes & wormwood) (Score:2)
JOHHNY: Has nobody not told you, Brian, that you've got this kind of gleeful preoccupation with the future? I wouldn't even mind but you don't even 'ave a f*ckin future. I don't 'ave a future. Nobody as a future. The party's over. Take a look around you, man. It's all breakin' up. Are you not familiar with the Book of Revelation of St. John, the final book of the Bible, prophesying the Apocalypse?
BRIAN: Yes. As it happens, I'm familiar with all of the books of Bible.
JOHNNY: I'm very happy for you. "He forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand, or on his forehead, so that no one shall be able to buy or sell, unless he has the mark, which is the name of the Beast. Or the number of his name; and the number of the Beast is six-six-six."
BRIAN: Six-six-six. I know about it!
JOHNNY: Great!
BRIAN: I know about Nostradamus. Nostradamus talked about three brothers. Now, did he mean the Kennedy brothers, or was he talking about three bits of the Soviet Union. You see, you just can't tell.
JOHNNY: F*ck Nostradamus! I'm not talkin' about Nostradamus or Mother Shipton or Russell Grant or Mystic f*ckin Meg- I'm talkin' about the Holy Book! What can such a SPECIFIC prophecy mean? What is the mark? Well, the mark, Brian, is the bar code- the ubiquitous bar code that you'll find on every bog-roll, on every packet of johnnies, on every pocy pork pie. And every f*ckin' bar code is divided into two parts by three markers. And those three markers are always represented by the number six. Six. Six. Six! Now what does it say? "No one shall be able to buy, or sell, without that mark". And now, what they're plannin' to do in order to eradicate all credit-card fraud, and in order to precipitate a totally cashless society, what they're plannin' to do, what they've already tested on the American troops, they're gonna subcutaneously laser-tatto that mark on to your right hand or forehead. They're gonna replace plastic with flesh. FACT! In the same book of Revelation, when the seven seals are broken open on the Day of Judgement, and the seven angels blow the trumpets, when the third angel blows 'er bugle, "Wormwood will fall from the sky. Woodwood will poison a third part of the waters, and a third part of the land, and many, many, many, many people will die". Now do you know what the Russian translation for "wordwood" is?!
BRIAN: No.
JOHNNY: CHERNOBYL!
Still more prior art. (Score:2)
I've seen barcodes as I.D. tattoos used by a repressive regime in at least one made-for-TV movie years ago, too.