> My wife is forced to use XP at work. Her computer is set to auto-update, is firewalled, and has two up to date virus scanners. Despite taking all recommended precautions, her computer got sassered. Does anyone care to explain how she is in any way responsible?
She isn't, but my comment was about the trolling post at the top. Her network admins are;) How could it get through the firewall ?
Oyster cards already do this
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The London underground already uses RFID style cards for the ticket gates.
http://www.oystercard.com/
There isn't any hysteria over people stealing your oyster ID, which is worth money in the form of a season ticket, or pay as you go billing.
And they are much faster when you're commuting, those few seconds less it takes to get through the gates has saved me from missing a lot of trains already.
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> My wife is forced to use XP at work. Her computer is set to auto-update, is firewalled, and has two up to date virus scanners. Despite taking all recommended precautions, her computer got sassered. Does anyone care to explain how she is in any way responsible?
;) How could it get through the firewall ?
She isn't, but my comment was about the trolling post at the top. Her network admins are
The London underground already uses RFID style cards for the ticket gates.
http://www.oystercard.com/
There isn't any hysteria over people stealing your oyster ID, which is worth money in the form of a season ticket, or pay as you go billing.
And they are much faster when you're commuting, those few seconds less it takes to get through the gates has saved me from missing a lot of trains already.
> And writing intentionally crappy operating systems isn't? Ask yourself: what would happen if they wrote something that was *perfect*?
Someone would complain the default colour scheme was crap.
Grow up.