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Lady Libra

Oct 13, 2004, 10:11 AM

NO ME ENCANTA

so... what happens if your phone gets lost/stolen/damaged? 😕

i suppose someday we'll all be have some kind of awesome new technology implanted under our skin at birth, and we'll think it's great that we no longer have to carry keys or credit cards or driver's licenses with us because our entire identity will be linked to that...

WATCH FOR THE SIGNS!!! 😳
I think since the system will not give you a new credit card but say store the info about the AMEX card you already have. SO I suspect losing your phone would in the end be just like losing your wallet and having to call to cancel the card(s) you hav...
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lol, reminds me of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy book, where everyone has been so paranoid about identity theft that simple ATM machines would take retina scans, skin samples, etc... until they developed a card that stored all of that informati...
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jonknee

Oct 12, 2004, 2:37 PM

I would love this...

Until my phone runs out of batteries and I become poor until I find a charge.
If this is anything like the paypass (or whatever it's called) used by Esso then I don't believe it actually requires any electricity on your end to pass the information along.. Maybe I'm just an idiot.
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Idra82

Oct 12, 2004, 1:46 PM

COOL!!

😁 Isn't that cool, to be able to pay using your phone, and do so much more stuff. This is great.!!! 😁
Until they announce the service fees and/or data fees involved in using the service 🙄
 
 
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