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Why ATM still relies on magnetic strip card...that the data (key) could be easily replicated?

We have smart card for years, NFC card for years...Couldn't the bank phase out all those magnetic card with NFC one?
I presume sniffing the NFC air traffic does not compromise the system, of course.

Yes they are damned. They chose to bundle the phone and the contract, and brand the phone etc etc.

If people were just buying the phone themselves, and get SIM card from the carrier, complaints won't be directed to the carrier.

So yes, they are damned anyway.

With major browsers kicked its CA cert out of the trusted list, the CA by definition and practically could generate no profit...

What else do you expect, huh? Of course it could only get closed!

Eye-Fi is a real SD card, and appears to be a storage SD card to the camera. Instead of Wifi card using SD as interface.

Consider this is a USB Flash drive - but it can do two-way sync to the Wifi (Wifi configured separated, not with convention tools, and you cannot get network connection with that Wifi either). And this is not USB Wifi stick. Now s/USB/SD/g and you see the different.

6000A maybe a bit stretch, but it's not out of the ball park.
It takes 1500A@750V to accelerate a 6-car train in Beijing.

Scale to 10-car and 600V, you get 3000A.

DST is a beast. Worse, the rules change over time!

I usually keep hitting the keypad randomly when it's preparing the cash, for fun. Now that's a reason for me to keep doing it!

Those vacuum tube Hi-Fi that I will never hear the difference, I suppose

Welcome to China!

I live in Hong Kong so maybe I could chime in. Hong Kong and the rest of the mainland China is running two system, having different jurisdiction and law.
Factories were moving to Guangdong province (mainland China), where is just 100 mile anyway, anyway regardless of the law because of the cheaper labor cost (around 5 to 10 times).

Plus, factories moved from Hong Kong to Guangdong is just accounted for a small percentage, compare to the whole mainland China. Perspective: Hong Kong population: 7 millions. China population: 12 billions.

Maybe mainland China have some similar environmental protection law, but mostly they could get away by bribing the officials.

Now I hope when I watch a 3D movie, the focus of the picture follows what my eyes are focusing! That would makes 3D movie much more enjoyable.

Same for NFC and mag-strip. Access to audio maybe easier than NFC signal, but it's still "open" to user. Same for SSL...it's all in-band and accessible.
Last time I read a NFC related spec, a asymmetric encryption/PKI is employed.

If phone company run the signal in-band today with the signal signed with PKI, etc etc, it's just as secure as running it out-of-band. It's just we didn't have the technology to do that efficiently a few decades ago.

Maybe someone read the TFA could chime in. The TFS mentioned unified address space, but not necessarily unified memory access right? it could be just another virtual memory paging mechanism....

Honestly! I work for mainland chinese clients, and all their desktops are XP + IE6, and Servers are 2003.