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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
How often do cell phones drop out? Cell coverage everywhere? It's not like people only have medical issues in urban areas.
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so? the thing fails because of malfunction or where you are and.... you're stuck using the methods we have now... its not like you're any worse off for having the chip.
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Absolutely. There are thousands of protocals. But you can't get places to agree on cellular standards CDMA/GSM,TV standards (NTSC/PAL), even 911/999 emergency services. To believe everyone would happily agree to a specific service is unrealistic.
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but there's also a TON that everyone will (relatively) happily agree on... http, ftp, tcp/ip, dns, etc, etc.
and even if there are two standards for europe and NA, building a reader that could handle both wouldn't be the end of the world. an example of something like this would be cell phones that are compatible with both standards or the switchover from IPv4 to IPv6. however a "stick your head in the sand" type solution would be simply relying on it for 99.99% of the chips that you'll see in your area and the rest you'll have have to deal with the old fashioned way. again, in the case that someone here with a foreign chip that can't be read gets into a serious accident and we can't access their medical records immediately, the paramedics and doctors will just have to do what they've been doing for how many years?
rejecting this idea on the basis that sometimes the system might fail and we'll be forced to do what we do right now is a pretty bad way to go about assesing the situation IMO.