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Open Source and Smart Cards?
jortega asks: "I am looking into implementing a photo ID system using smart cards, preferably using open-source and cheap components. We currently have several systems for libraries, meal plans, identification using older ID cards, and more, yet none of these systems integrate with each other. I envision a system where a smart card can accommodate all these things in addition to things like print management, purchasing books at the bookstore, meal plans, and security. I have looked extensively on Google and other sites, and while I can find a lot on information on smart cards, I haven't been able to find much on a cheap open-source system that I can build on to accomplish this. Does the Slashdot community have any advice on what to do and where to go from here."
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You want advice on how to see what I've printed, what I've read and what was in my last lunch? Don't you remember, Slashdot is an electronic meeting place for those wanting to stick it to "The Man". If you do implement the system, you might want to program the cards to check if *BSD has died wach time they swipe in. The NSA is bugging my phone. I'm at university and my professor told me that vi is better than EMACS. Do you use gentoo? What comes before 3: Profit? Imagine a beowulf cluster of petrified Natalie Portmans dishing up hot grits. I've just graduated and there are no jobs. I hate M$. Have they ported Linux to this puppy yet? In Soviet Russia, smart cards log on to YOU. Did anyone else read that as SMART CARDS IN MY ASS? I did tee hee ha ha. I like anime. I know I'm going to lose karma for saying this, but isn't this like 1984? Just imagine having sex with a Sony AIBO. I have to go and clean my wookie costume. This was nowhere even close to a FIRST POST.
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Oh, and FUCK LINUX.