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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (242064)7/18/2005 10:48:36 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1586905
 
"but instead embed the number within a computer chip"

Smart cards. Not in the US, credit card companies don't like them. They cost more than the mag. stripe cards in use and the infrastructure is more expensive. They are more common in Europe, but even then seem to be restricted to public phones, at least the places I went. FWIW, almost nobody seems to take credit cards where we went, everything was cash only.
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