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Oracle has been looking at NFC, and decided that the technology needs to be a good deal faster if it is going to have any hope of going mainstream. In Oracle's tests it took two seconds to open and read the three files required by their proposed application. That time could be reduced by combining the data into a single file, …

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  1. Robert E A Harvey

    never fast enough

    It will never be fast enough to persuade me to trust it. Far too far left field.

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  2. Chris 3
    WTF?

    And NFC is what, precisely?

    It's not a well enough know initialism to go un-spelled-out in the opening sentence.

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    1. Kay Burley ate my hamster
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      Coffee/keyboard

      Near Field Communication

      El Reg has been banging on about it for quite some time. Also searching for it on this new fangled WWW (World Wide Web) can help you. Basically quit the moaning, you know this is a tech site. Blimey!

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    2. Tom Maddox Silver badge
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      FAIL

      Let's see ...

      http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nfc&l=1

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    enhanced security?

    I don't know what 'enhanced security' they are talking about and what the example of the London Underground system has to do with it because that system is ridiculously easy to crack with extremely cheap hardware.

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  4. Mage Silver badge

    Why?

    Why store anything other than part of a key?

    The user having the rest ...

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      'Cos they want to make things like "credit coins" from Star Wars?

      You know, the things that are *always* being stolen from people in the books.

      Banks don't care about security anymore - Barclaycard have already decided that merely having their new cards is fine to authorise transactions, and made a big deal of someone using that without the shopkeeper even looking at them in several adverts.

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  5. petrosy
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    MYKI

    In Melbourne the new rail card system can take upto 5sec to scan.... when it works and has already costed us $1.5b

    This system sounds awesome compared to the pile of sh1te we have

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      you should check out this guy's site, he's on the PTUA

      formerly known for the TCWF, he's now a professional commuter, and from what I've read, a serious guy. He's at danielbowen.com

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