I am interested in WP8. I'm also interested in what RIM releases for their new phone, eventually.

Why? I don't like Apple because they like to tell me how to use my stuff. Android allows the carriers too much say (updates are delayed or non-existant) and has fragmentation issues. So, I'm really interested to see what MS and RIM can bring to the table.

As for the fashion comment... I doubt many here know what is cool and what is not. We don't care. We like functionality above coolness.

I see what you are saying, and that could definitely work. It's still after the fact though. What could you do with the data once you have it? You could flag the account, but then what? Make the bus driver confront them next time they try board a bus. Wait until a fare inspector wanders across them and then catch them? All for a $200 fine(or whatever it is)?

They decided to cheap out and not have every device network enabled. That was a business decision. I would hope that the possibility of ticket fraud was discussed, and the risk of that was weighed against the cost of network enabling every ticket taker thing.

No problem at all. You have a real card that has a positive balance. The fare inspector would read the card, the card would return information (presumably UID, Balance, Time of last use, and location of last use). All this information would be valid and would appear no different.

I believe that you use the NFC chip on the phone to program the card. The story speaks of efuses that aren't being used, so that would support that the phone programs the card.

It's not the data processing, it's the data collection. How are you going to collect the data from presumably non-networked devices in a timely enough manner that you can use that data for card authentication?

How would anyone ever catch you? These systems probably don't have network access, otherwise they would just read a token and then authenticate against a server, so all you have is log files. You could detect the fraud after the fact (if you somehow collected the log files), but to actually catch someone red handed would be pretty difficult.

Even if you did collect the log files, they may be useless. You would have to catch the same non-reloadable card bring used more than the maxumum number of times. To do that, you would probably have to analyse hundreds, if not thousands of .log files from different devices, unless the transactions are somehow manually collected and uploaded into a database. Even then, it would be an after-the-fact type thing.

Did you KNOW that capitalizing and BOLDING random words makes YOU look like a retard?

You seem to understand things better than I: I've always wondered what would happen if you were travelling 99.99999% of the speed of light and you shone a flashlight forward? Would the light trickle out (relative to you) or would it be normal. What is the speed of light relative to?

..and I can fill up for (today's rate) $1.229 CDN/L. That price includes land leases, drilling, transport of raw material, processing into sellable product, redisdribution to buyers, transport to the local gas station, maintenance of all equipemnt, and lots of taxes. Also, everyone is taking a cut at every stage. It's still only $1.229/L.

Its really amazing how cheap gas actually actually is.

Hydrogen is only flammable in the presence of Oxygen.

Bah... that should be NiMH...

My Roomba has a MiMH battery.

I'd rather have a job I like that pays 70K than a job that sucks for 100K. You spend A LOT of time there, so you might as well enjoy it.

I have a 550 "Pet edition" Roomba, and it works great. I have a single cat (who admittidly doesn't shed that much compated to most cats). I have to clean out the rollers every once an a while, but it's still better than actually vaccuuming. While it can't get into a few areas (behind the garbage can is a big one) it generally works great. I think it does a better job than me (because I don't take any time to move anything).

The biggest problem I have with it is that when it decides that it is done a room, it tends to hide. It might be under the middle of the bed, or tucked under the sofa in the back corner, but it's rarely in a spot where I don't have to get on my belly to retrieve it.

I named mine Saul after Saul Goodman. Better call Saul!

$14.52. What does that have to do with anything?