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MasterCard to start verifying transactions through selfies

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Post by collyw »

ma2rten wrote: post #35
logn wrote: post #29

I'm starting to feel like a grey neckbeard. In my day, when I wanted to hang out with my friends, I called them, from a landline, known simply as "the phone". These days, I'm at or near a desktop/laptop computer almost 24/7 so don't see much need for a smartphone. I dread the day when a smartphone is required to be a part of society. It's shifting in that direction rapidly. If being on Facebook/LinkedIn also becomes…

Actually the main reason I have a smartphone is for GPS. Imagine a device where you enter the name of a place and it tells you how to go there.

Sure its easier now, but it wasn't that much of a problem before. Just get an A-Z map of the town you are going. When I was travelling I always had a Lonely Planet guide. It had most of the information you would be likely to find with online searches, and organised in a helpful way.

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Post by jlgaddis »

51Cards wrote: post #20
jlgaddis wrote: post #15

I would just be happy if I could actually use my "chip and pin" credit card when performing a transaction. I have yet to find a retailer where I can actually use it.

Interesting, where are you located? Here in Canada I use mine practically everywhere on a daily basis.

Indiana, US

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Post by jlgaddis »

harperlee wrote: post #28
frandroid wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're in the U.S., the last large bastion of the magnetic strip.

And the paper cheque.

Yep, I still write several checks a month too (almost exclusively for rent, utilities, and the occasional donation).

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Post by herge »

dragonwriter wrote: post #45
herge wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always wonder if there were these old fogeys who complained when the first postal services were brought in in the 19th century. Like "Back in my day, I visited my friends and family because I cared, but now any idiot with a stamp can send me an annoying letter."

> I always wonder if there were these old fogeys who complained when the first postal services were brought in in the 19th century. The first postal services were formed long before that; there were definitely some in the late 17th Century, may have been earlier.

FWIW, I date it from the issuance of the first really convenient paper postage stamp, much like how OP probably is complaining about smartphones post 2007, as opposed to the first mobile phones in the 70's.

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Post by kwhitefoot »

jlgaddis wrote: post #53
harperlee wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the paper cheque.

Yep, I still write several checks a month too (almost exclusively for rent, utilities, and the occasional donation).

I think the last cheque I wrote was at least 15 years ago. They don't exist here, Norway, any more.
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