Using RFID as an e-wallet is so passe

Use of RFID in Apple’s iPhone 5 expected to have a ‘unique’ twist
[Via AppleInsider]

Apple is expected to include near-field communications technology like radio-frequency identification (RFID) in its next-generation iPhone, but with a different approach to the feature than has been seen in RFID-powered Android phones, according to a new report.

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You bet Apple will have something new to offer. Others offering RFID in their phones have all looked to use it with a, so far, failing approach – swipe it past a receiver at the checkout line and it’ll pay for your groceries, for example. I bet Apple’s will do the same.

But swiping will be the least of what this will do, I think.

Apple will be doing something different. One suggestion, with the right permissions and security, you can sit down at any Mac with your iOS device handy and boom, and the Mac is configured for you, with all your settings in place. Access email, get your calendar, etc.

Think about that in an enterprise setting. Any Mac in the building could be instantly. Sit down, turn it on and you can access the corporate databases just as though it was your own computer. Think this might sell some computers. ANd which other hardware maker could tie together its own desktop and its own mobile device?

This is another benefit of having created its own ecosystem from mobile devices to desktop.

We will not be on the road to recovery until these guys are in jail

by epicharmus

Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? | Rolling Stone Politics
[Via Rolling Stone]

Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer.

“Everything’s fucked up, and nobody goes to jail,” he said. “That’s your whole story right there. Hell, you don’t even have to write the rest of it. Just write that.”

I put down my notebook. “Just that?”

“That’s right,” he said, signaling to the waitress for the check. “Everything’s fucked up, and nobody goes to jail. You can end the piece right there.”

Nobody goes to jail. This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth — and nobody went to jail. Nobody, that is, except Bernie Madoff, a flamboyant and pathological celebrity con artist, whose victims happened to be other rich and famous people.

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If you want a discouraging look at what is wrong with America and how the very wealthy are different than us – because they can fraudulently destroy entire nations, commit crimes that investigators can prove and never go to jail.

Read about AIG and Joe Cassano. This is partly why our system is so screwed up, why the corruption of money not only affects our legal system but our political. A different brand of justice for different types of people, while often present, is very corrosive when it is so blatant.

Nothing will be done because they own the government. We see this when so much of what the government wants to do is make life easier for these guys rather than charge them with crimes. Give these frauds more tax breaks and never do anything about their crimes. Let them control our Social Security because they need those trillions of dollars to jack up their bonuses at our expense.

How in the world can anyone expect privatization of Social Security could be a good thing with these crooks in control? Their only concern is their own wealth. They know they can fraudulently lose all our money while accomplishing their personal goals. No one will stop them.