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Casio's Credit Card Watch
Takuryu writes "Casio, working with Japanese credit card company, JCB, has developed a combination credit card wristwatch. Workers at the main JCB office wear the RFID tagged watches and use them for security access at the office, as well as for paying for lunch in the cafeteria. I wonder what percentage of employees they have tagged?"
As a retirement watch.
Who will the be the first to buy a watch with a watch I wonder?
For muggers.
Instead of "Give me your money and your watch!" they'll be able to just say "Give me your watch!" With the time the save, they'll be able to rob 50% more people.
So if your boss calls you over for a second to talk to him in the lunch room, it'll probably be because he's trying to get a free meal off of your proximity to the cashier.
When this idea is suggested for computer password replacements I always think of my sleazy coworkers from four jobs ago who would have someone distract me near my cubicle ("Can you dig that pen out from behind the desk? It's my favorite!") while someone else uses my logged in computer.
Grrr...
"I wonder what percentage of employees they have tagged?
100%.
...the engineers are then released back into the wild so that scientists can study their movements. One day, it may lead to the discovery of just how Casio is surviving in the wild this day in age.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
I'm holding out for the JCB creditcard hand and forehead.
[Waving hand at RFID reader adjacent to cash register]
Me: You will give me french fries
Clerk: Yes, I will give you french fries...
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When I was a teenager one of my good friends was a Christian fundamentalist. (I'm NOT) His high school would suspend anyone who purchased a pager (this was just before cell phones were ubiquitous). Their reasoning wasn't that it disrupted class or was a drug dealer thing (sheesh), but that it was the mark of the Devil. You know 666. The theory was that beepers were just the first stage in a series of moves by the DEVIL HIMSELF to accustom us to being tagged, and that eventually we would all be given the mark of the devil.
Now I'm not about to start following his bizarre religious practices (especially since they lead him to being institutionalized), but you gotta give the wing nut some credit. We all started carrying pagers, cell phones, then GPS, and now people aren't even thinking twice when they are asked to stick a radio transceiver on their person (or in it!).
It's like cooking a frog. Stick it in while the pan is hot and he'll just jump out. But if you turn up the heat slowly he never knows it till it's too late.
I would rather be ashes than dust!
Honey, can I borrow your watch? I need to do some shopping!
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To being watched :)
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