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From: davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Big brother
Message-ID: <2999@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 16 Mar 88 22:04:52 GMT
References: <1243@uop.edu>
Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY
Lines: 28
Keywords: A look up your *ss

In article <1243@uop.edu>, todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack) writes:
> Have you heard about the "Smart toilet"??
> 
> It will monitor your blood pressure, check your urine to see if there
> is anything amiss, (and inform the user).

> I wonder if J. Edgar was alive if he would insist on a phone tap
> to monitor his favorite person's bodily functions!!

Well, the CIA once wanted a urine sample from King Farouk, so they
could verify whether or not he was deadly ill.  They set up some type
of remote-control electro-mechanical trap on the urinals in a rest room
someplace where Farouk was attending some kind of meeting, then kept track of
when he went in to relieve himself, so they would know for sure it was
his pee.  I think they concluded that he wasn't ill.

One of the intelligence agencies also gathered up a bunch of toilet paper from
latrines where the Warsaw Pact forces had held some kind of maneuvers.  These
samples were taken back for analysis, although I don't know what they expected
to discover.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!

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     "LASER BEAM SETS BRAIN               Dave Fiske  (davef@brspyr1)
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