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Hong Kong's Octopus

Posted by michael on from the not-talking-about-sushi dept.

Reuters is carrying an interesting story about Hong Kong's Octopus smart card system, which serves as a mass-transit fare card and is now being accepted by merchants for small purchases. A magazine cover story from last year goes more into depth. Interesting to note that the system started off anonymous, and is now being converted into a personally-trackable system.

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  1. Re:It's not as bad as the post says. by RTFA+Man · · Score: 3, Funny

    When's the last time you dropped a penny and even gave two flying fucks about picking it up? Hell, I don't even bother to look where it rolls. The damn thing could land on my shoe, and I'd just kick it off. The fact that we still have the penny is a testament to how fucked up our government is. I expect to have the penny for many years to come ;)