bad ideas

Dear Mr. Panetta

20 August 2009 By captbob 0

From: Capt. Bob A Lou
To: Leon Panetta, Director, United States Central Intelligence Agency
RE: Business proposition

Hi Leon! How's the wife?

File this under: "If you can think it, you can build it."

20 May 2009 By captbob 0

The Local: Germany published a story detailing a Saudi company's request for a German patent on a cyanide capsule activated by an RFID chip (http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20090515-19313.html).

The idea behind this device is that it would be implanted into a human or animal, then could be triggered if the chip went past a specially encoded RFID scanner: ideal for keeping domestic servants from skipping out of the tent.

I can't quite make up my mind what is more appalling: the invention or the use case scenario.