What became of the idea to combined finance card/ID/cardkey?  I believe the idea was tested at UCSC.?
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If you lose it, someone owns your life. The national ID card system is something that is continuously brought up and shot down - studies and thinktanks repeatedly assert that such a measure would make our country less secure as a whole, and to combine all of these elements together would mean that a mugging would turn from a loss of a couple of dollars to a loss of identity for a period of time. It's just not too practical.
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Go to motorola's website and see what you can find there.  \nGenerally speaking, a smart card is a plastic card, the size of a credit card, but with a small chip embedded within (if you've never seen one, the Amex Blue card is one, with a small gold colored chip off to one side).\nSmartcards can perform a variety of functions, because the chip embedded within can be fairly sophisticated.  A smartcard could be something as simple as a card used at a local laundromat, where you load value on the card and then, each time you use a machine, the value is deducted from the card. \nA more complicated example would be the use of a smartcard for identification purposes.  Some banks will issue you a smart card, on which is stored a digitized copy of your fingerprint.  When you go to use an ATM or conduct some other transaction, the image of your fingerprint will be compared with an electronic reading that is taken at that very moment of your fingerprint.  If the two images don't match, access denied.\nThese are just some examples.\nOther than Motorola, you can try the website of this company called Gemplus. They're a French company and are a big player in the smartcard market.  www.gemplus.com
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You have many options to combine finances.  Of all of these I would advise you to each start a separate trust with all of your worldly assets.  You can name your partner as the benefactor or the trust and vice versa.  I would not advise putting multiple names on loans, leases or credit cards.  If for some reason these things go sour the liability would be greater.  I would advise anyone (married or not) to keep credit cards with only one name.  This debit is forgiven with a death certificate in most states.  By creating a trust account (and making 1 person sole benefactor) you are showing that you are committed to your partner and that you're pennywise!
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The story begins back in pre-calculator days, when there were cash registers. We're not talking cash registers that scan, but mechanical things where you actually had to push the keys hard to punch numbers. The cash registers were designed with 0 at the bottom, and the numbers going up. Why did cash registers choose this organization? I was unable to find any clear answer. The people who designed cash registers evidently just thought it was the obvious approach--lowest numbers at the bottom, highest numbers at the top. \n\nIn fact, the earliest cash registers had multiple keys. You didn't enter 7 and 9 and 5 for $7.95; there was a separate column of keys for each decimal place. Think of a matrix, with the bottom row of 0's, next a row of 1's, then a row of 2's, going up. The right hand column would represent single units (cents), the next column for tens, then hundreds, etc. So, to enter $7.95, you'd actually enter 700, then 90, then 5. \n\nWhen calculators made their appearance, they copied the cash register format. In fact, some of the earliest mechanical calculators had multiple columns, like the cash register. The earliest calculators had keypads that were ten rows high and generally 8 or 9 columns across. \n\nWhen hand-held and electronic calculators made their appearance, they copied the keypad arrangement of the existing calculators--0 at the bottom, 1-2-3 in the next row, 4-5-6 in the next row, and 7-8-9 in the top row, from left to right. So, basically, they evolved from the cash register. \n\nThe Touch-Tone phone emerged in the early 1960s. Before that, there were rotary dials, with the numbers starting at 1 at the top right and then running counterclockwise around the dial to 8-9-0 across the bottom. Why would "0" be on the bottom? Probably because the dialing mechanism was pulse, not tone. Since they couldn't do zero pulses for 0, they did ten pulses, and hence put the 0 at the end.  \n\nThere seem to be three reasons that the Touch-Tone phone keypad was designed as it was: \n\n(1) Tradition. People were used to dialing with 1-2-3 on top, and it seemed reasonable to keep it that way. \n\n(2) AT&T (the only phone company at the time) did some research that concluded there were fewer dialing errors with the 1-2-3 on top (possibly related to the traditional rotary dial layout). \n\n(3) Phone numbers years ago used alphabetic prefixes for the exchange (BUtterfield 8, etc.). In the days of rotary dials, no doubt it seemed logical to put the letters in alphabetical order, and to associate them with numbers in numerical order. The number 1 was set aside for "flag" functions, so ABC went with 2, DEF with 3, and so on. When Touch-Tone phones came in, keeping the alphabet in alphabetical order meant putting 1-2-3 at the top. \n\nSo there we have it. Basically, calculator keypad design evolved from cash registers, while telephone keypad design evolved from the rotary dial. Tradition has kept them that way ever since.
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You must be careful about the encryption in the page where you're sharing your personal info. Don't share ur credit card numbers unless the site's reputed n has 128 or 256 bit encryption!!
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I think a chip will be the mark, but it won't be simply for medical/mental health reasons.  The chip will also be able to handle banking information, hence the whole "can't buy or sell without it" scenario.  Think of it, your credit card couldn't get stolen, no stolen identities, couldn't write bad checks, it would save a lot of business headaches.  If its winter you wouldn't have to take off your coat to scan your shoulder or something, so the hand or forehead would just be the rational way to do it.  It would be able to track lost kids, keep your finances updated, keep your medical history on file, It will be very logical.  The logic of it is the frightening part. Not only would any semblance of freedom be gone, but you'd be affirming your alliegance to the very entity (government, islam, man, whatever), who'd be trying to destroy us all.
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hey...none of those codes will work anymore....tom made a code against it!! sorry!! \ni know it sucks..no more privacy!!\nlol...\nyea mine doens't work anymore!! \nif you find a code that works..let me know!! thanks!
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There are a few of reasons vendors ask for CC type including security.  They want to make sure you're not just pulling the number from some random piece of paper found somewhere.  I addition to that, since many vendors usually work with certain software programs that require a credit card type before the number, name, and expiration date actually appears on the screen.  My guess for that is the software needs to recognize which additional security fields will be displayed for the corresponding card type.
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http://www.saflok.com/product_pdfs/what_are_keycards_scrn.pdf#search='electronic%20keycards'
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not every question/answer on this sight is stupid. \n   we can sometimes be informed.   \ni do think the 'chip' will be associated with, if not actually be the mark of the beast. every thing that you purchase has a barcode on it. that is RFID (radio frequency ID). a lot of companies are installing RFID scanners for all merchandise that enters the store. i worked for one of nestle waters bottling plant and wal mart has started trying to have them put RFID barcodes on products. so far it's too expensive, but the plan is in the works. owners are putting chips into their pets in case they get lost they can be returned. there are bars that offer a kind of chip to it's patrons so they can be admitted. some people are having themselves implanted. i can't understand the reasoning there... as it is now, you don't - yet - have to have an implanted chip. who do you know doesn't have a cell phone? a computer in their car (for diagnostic purposes, only, of course...)? and so on. it's all GPS (global position satelite). got cash in your pocket? wallet?purse? that thin metal strip in there (i like taking them out...just one of my little contributions to civil disobedience)? that strip can be tracked. labels on some clothes now have tracking in them. hanes? how about that nifty discount card the grocery store, or where ever, gave you so you could save when you use it? tracking the purchases of a geo-area? yeah, that, too.  oh! lets not neglect to mention that metallic strip on the back of your driver's license! at least here in Texas. it contains all the info on you that is in the main computer: financial, credit, military, legal, etc. it's in there. can anybody say: HAL? or even know what HAL is? it won't be too much longer, time being relative, that money will not be obsolete. there will be your 'account' (think direct deposit) and if you don't have the proper card (or implant?) you cannot buy, get medical care, anything. \nhey, i don't make this stuff up. it's real. you can look it up. one place you might try is infowars.com.
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that's called a secured credit card
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I heard that in Australia and US (I think, 2 countries that use ID cards anyway) there is a much higher rate of identity theft, because all someone would need to steal your identity is one card instead of having to go through loads of bills etc. to get all your details. I think it's the most stupid idea and you'll probably end up having to have an ID card to prove who you are in order to get an ID card, or you'll need a passport, driving licence or some other such thing that not everybody has.\n\nThen again if they introduced them and someone stole the identity of someone like the prime minister and got all his money then they'd just see how silly an idea it was.
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an integrated suite of banking applications designed to support deposits, loans, cards customer management and collections for the global banking market.\nCORE would mean the basis of this.
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The answer is 'I don't know', but I'd like to. It is certainly not "none" (give me a break!) but my guess is it's in double figures at least and growing. The place to ask this would be Seven-Eleven Japan or the Japan Credit Card Association.
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these are actual excerpts from an article i found on yahoo search\n\nEDMONTON -- Imagine a world where you're taken unconscious and with no identification to a hospital. The doctor scans the microchip implanted in your shoulder, downloads your medical identification number and links up with a secure network that says you're a diabetic and allergic to Tylenol.\n\n"This is all happening relatively quickly," said Ian Kerr, an expert in ethics, law and technology who spoke Friday at the Access and Privacy Conference in Edmonton. "I don't think we're that far off."\n \nBut already, people have been able to clone the chips. While that doesn't give them complete medical information, issues of privacy and security must be raised, Kerr said.
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Setting up Third Party Payment gateways require good quality hardware, software and bandwidth connected to Visa/Master Card databases. \n\ni havent worked on this kind of project, but would be interested. Mail me on what you plan to do...
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I don't think so either, but I like the idea! Y360 allows you to ID yourself with anything you choose. Maybe the sports leagues will add that option.