.50cal snipers have some serious kick and that's about a 4 inch bullet. This is at the high end of what a personal weapon can fire. Increase its size by 2.5x and you no longer have a rifle you have an anti aircraft bullet. At the rate obesity is going the next generation might just be able to handle the recoil from a 10in anti aircraft shell........

If everything went metric we wouldn't have these problems. The bullet is 10cm not 10in.

My data and existence will be recycled right back in to the matrix...............

Well now I'm pretty sure the internet speed is going to be capped (and or its progress slowed down) somewhere by some "oh so nice people" from a bunch of fantastic organizations.........RIAA???? "Increased internet speeds will only lead to more piracy, going back to dial up will fix this" I can't stand 3mbs I want 100mbs at my house, its a shame fios isn't in town

I am pretty sure that the way they did this from reading the article was by installing a wireless serial link. They did nothing more than install a transmitter into the card reader which outputs a serial stream, it will not be confused instead it will just transmit the data off that card instead acting as a transparent data interceptor. The machine will just reject the card and tell you the card could not be read or invalid card ect... So now they can clone your "preferred shoppers card" using a card writer and voila they can now steal your groceries too....lol I also noticed on the linked sites that a few people say that a car or other odd object would have to be in close proximity (to receive) in order for them to steal the information. Just so people know a (decent power) bluetooth transmitter about the size of a stick of gum can transmit over a football field. I wouldn't consider a football field to be in "close proximity" in the slightest since. Plus the receiver could be a box no larger than a (3.5in) external hard drive that is BURIED in the ground with 2 TINY antennas that look like sticks protruding up. People also think that the crook has to be there to get the data but this is FALSE! The box could contain a cellular modem that could literally text the information to the criminal EVERY time someone swipes a card. Technology is a lifesaver (I love it) but its also the devil for criminal assholes like these guys trying to leach off hard working people! In order to prevent this the gas pumps must be made TAMPER PROOF like the credit card readers at retailers. If the machine does not have a special code input into the panel BEFORE opening the panels it will immediately cease functioning, alert the gas station, cut power to the reader / disable it, and flash warnings to alert people that its out of order. The machine could be reset but only by a technician after they found out what happened. It's amazing that the machines don't have this already, people need to crack down on gas pump manufacturers about this. If a machine is compromised you have no way of knowing, the best protection is not to go to shady places to fill up and to check your statements every month. Any charges on your card that you didn't make no matter what the amount should be taken seriously and you should contact your card company immediately. People don't care about a few bucks missing but say a few hundred or thousand goes missing will you be worried then? The really funny thing was that they only got $11,000 from that gas station. Now does $11,000 with the chance of getting sent to jail for a VERY VERY long time sound like its really worth it? I didn't think so...... BTW a similar story broke a while back where people were using products from one of my favorite online stores to steal information and rip people off. What an evil use of there products it makes me so angry! http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/news/SparkFun-PINScam.pdf