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   The Social Consequences

   

   dorpus, Oct 3rd, 2007 @ 2:02am

   
   

   A column in a Japanese newspaper says that Japan should "learn from Finland". The spread of cell phone technology has had many negative social consequences in Japan, from kids who spend all their time text messaging each other and studying less, getting involved in prostitution rings, to cyber-bullying. In crowded Japan, it's impossible to tell when someone has bumped you with an electronic device, and when such crimes happen, net-hooligans write thousands of posts blaming foreigners.
   
   In other news, unknown hackers have been spreading text messages claiming that many children are being molested in the bathrooms of nearby shopping centers. The fad started in Tokyo and has since spread to other cities. Variants of the message have claimed that perverts are sticking pencils into boys' rears, that girls are getting their uteruses surgically removed, that the perpetrator is an attractive woman in her 20s, or that an old couple is responsible.

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   Handshakes

   

   Anonymous Coward, Oct 3rd, 2007 @ 2:38am

   
   

   Imagine getting you identity stolen by a handshake.

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   Re: Handshakes

   

   Anonymous Coward, Oct 3rd, 2007 @ 2:39am

   
   

   Should have been "your" identity.

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   Kiosks

   

   Grandfather Time, Oct 3rd, 2007 @ 3:18am

   
   

   I have seen kiosks in grocery stores, here, where I live promoting and enabling another form of pay-by-touch. Although, not as nifty sounding as this seems to be. You simply press your finger onto the pad and it deducts from your account, based on info and things provided by you and your bank.
   
   I considered it at one point, but, I would rather not waste the half hour forking over my information and sliding a blank check through a machine......

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   Re: The Social Consequences

   

   Paul`, Oct 3rd, 2007 @ 7:58am

   
   

   How the hell does mobile phone usage pull people into prostitution rings?

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   spaghettihead, Oct 3rd, 2007 @ 8:18am

   
   

   Paul, don't you know? I was pulled into severe self depreciation by paying an outrageous bill every month. Now all my jaw work is done for the man.

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 3rd, 2007 @ 9:02am

   
   

   I ask again, when are people going to get it through their thick heads that wireless is, by its very nature, less secure than any wired technology? I have NO trouble WHATsoever using a credit card at a gas pump or any place else. I refuse to buy into RFID tags, fingerprint scanners, and any other sort of completely unnecessary technology that does not solve problems but instead creates them.
   
   Credit cards work, period. Don't constantly try to fix what isn't broke.

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