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Cashless Society

Posted by michael on from the your-cashcard-or-your-life dept.

roomisigloomis writes "France has released "en masse" a new card to replace money. No private information is stored on the card and anybody can use it. Just like cash: you lose it and someone else uses it. Do you think we could be nearing the end of life of paper money?"

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  1. How am I suppose to put this... by Chris_Stankowitz · · Score: 4, Funny

    down some strippers G-String? How I ask you?

    1. Re:How am I suppose to put this... by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just run it down the slot.

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  2. Re:Fatal Flaws by tunah · · Score: 3, Funny
    Still, there's the potential problem of hacking into it, for example to add more money.

    Other possible exploits include taking money off without making a purchase, and using Linux on the card rather than money.

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  3. Recapping it - for lazy /.ers by ThufirHawat · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, so here's the rundown on it.

    Postings belong to one of these categories:
    a. Parochial bum
    Std posting: " Here in Upper Slobbovia (or Ruritania, or whatever) we used this for well-nigh seven centuries, but not everybody(or everybody) uses it".
    b. Yank yokel
    Std posting: "How can it work if it doesn't do a central DB query every time? What if the DB is down? [after the slammer crashing of the Bank Of America ATM network]" (Because of the very primitive US banking system, yank yokels believe that the rest of the planet is as backward as they are).
    c. Turbonerd
    Std posting: "Goodness, in order to work properly and be anonymous one has obviously to do a QCM triple encoding for every non-null challenge in any transaction. You see?"
    d. Impatient twit
    Std posting (by the 300th time that somebody wonders how can you know how much money you have left on the card): " We have this device, see, where you put the bloody card and it will tell you how much bloody cash you have still left".
    e. Know-it-all clown
    Std posting: this one...

    As a result, I don't know anything I didn't know before. I only know now that we live in a far more parochial and chauvinist world than I previously thought...
    And yes, I live in Belgium and I have used the useless stupid thing which increases banks' profits zillions of time...

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    Thufir Hawat
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