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Is Japan really that far ahead of us?
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:57 pm
by Queeaqueg
I was watching a programme on TV. It said that the Japanese don't carry cash or credit cards any more but just used their phones. Their mobile phones carry bio information about the person and they use this as credit cards plus as train tickets and other stuff. There was loads more about this method and I was wordering why Britian can't come up with this stuff like robots and bullet trains, etc.
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:04 pm
by Fist and Faith
Wouldn't that make identity theft really easy??
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:09 pm
by Queeaqueg
That's what I thought but there was some complex way. Sounds stupid or something from the future but the phone is meant only to recognise its owner through bio stuff. I will have to look into it.
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:37 pm
by I'm Murrin
It's those finger-scan things. Like those microsoft keyboards with "biometrics" they were advertising a year or two back. Stick your finger over a little patch on the phone and it recognises you.
Edit - Aha:
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:16 am
by Fist and Faith
Ah, like the tv ad with the $6,000,000 Man!
(And how hilarious is
that idea in today's economy! These days, $6,000,000 will get you, what, hairplugs?)
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:55 pm
by Revan
Fist and Faith wrote:Wouldn't that make identity theft really easy??
Fist, identity theft is already easy.
Hmm... can you get me more details on this Verdego... I can't really make a judgement till I know about it; how secure it is, how well it works, details like that.
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:25 pm
by sgt.null
i don't think we will ever do away with cash. too many transaction that we don't need the goverment to know about.
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:31 pm
by Revan
Well, it's not as if Governments go looking through every single one of our purchases'... even if they did, what would be wrong with that? Any pruchase you make on a credit would be perfectly legitimate.
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:36 am
by Avatar
Murrin wrote:It's those finger-scan things. Like those microsoft keyboards with "biometrics" they were advertising a year or two back. Stick your finger over a little patch on the phone and it recognises you.
All that means is when they mug you, they'll cut off your finger as well.
--A
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:00 pm
by Prebe
Scary prospect Av
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:57 am
by Avatar
Is true though...want to bet?
--A
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:22 am
by Prebe
In SA maybe, but NEVER in the fairy land of HC. Andersen!
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:38 am
by Avatar
Haha, maybe not there. But here? I guarentee it. Muggers already have been known to cut people's fingers off for wedding rings...
--A
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:54 pm
by Revan
Avatar wrote:Murrin wrote:It's those finger-scan things. Like those microsoft keyboards with "biometrics" they were advertising a year or two back. Stick your finger over a little patch on the phone and it recognises you.
All that means is when they mug you, they'll cut off your finger as well.
--A
*Darth tries to hide his collection of index fingers*