sunebeck
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You can argue that it's not the "fault" of mass transit, but anyway you don't have to plan as much for taking an Uber, giving it an advantage over the bus.
The typeface they used and can be seen in the screenshot at the end of the article makes the schwa look almost like a regular a.
It'd be easier if that's just factored into the price.
Used to be normal in Denmark, but it's so much easier to prepay.
The comment has since been edited to show 'Denmark' instead.
I wouldn't wanna let it probe 'rm' :D
Perhaps the probing could happen in a VM / container image which would reset after each invocation.
This is supposed to be contrasted with an operator asking for the credit card digits manually, leaving room for them to scribble down the card number.
The DTMF system is so that the computer receives the card number directly. Of course that could be done with speech recognition as well.
And in any case, as others have pointed out, a phone connection is not a secured line.
But then again, a credit card fraud incident isn't the end of the world either. So maybe the risk is acceptable.
Anecdotally, FindFace found my Russian friend's VK.com profile (amongst many millions of such profiles) as the number one hit after I took a picture of her in a bar and submitted it to their face recognition service.
Oh, I see - I take my comment back then :-)
I lived there for 5 years.
Berlin AB ticket (for Tegel airport), EUR 2.80.
Berlin ABC ticket (for Schönefeld airport), EUR 3.40.
There are Teslas in many countries around the world, and autopilot is marketed as a feature in those as well.
About the US train network, it's good for freight but passenger trains are slow.
It is not difficult to make a passport reader, and the Chinese are definitely capable of that.
You can read the contents of the RFID chip using $100 off-the-shelf hardware, and the decryption key is the OCR string on the “main” page of the passport.
The piece of glass where you lay the passport, the OCR, and the case itself I’m sure any Chinese contractor could easily do as well.
Would be nice to implement for hard drives to catch them failing before they do!
