CharlieCard distribution
Dec. 4th, 2006 10:55 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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davis_squareHas anyone gotten a CharlieCard yet? I hear they were supposed to be handing them out to commuters today, but I didn't see anyone at Davis.
MBTA jargon note: CharlieCards are the RFID cards that you wave over the dark grey rectangles on the new turnstiles. CharlieTickets are the paper cards that jam the turnstiles.CharliePasses are the thin plastic cards (cleverly mislabeled "CharlieTicket") that they're deprecating.
Update: I think I made up the name "CharliePass", although I swear I saw it somewhere in the MBTA literature.
Update #2: Davis gets them starting tomorrow. Other stations get them at other times.
MBTA jargon note: CharlieCards are the RFID cards that you wave over the dark grey rectangles on the new turnstiles. CharlieTickets are the paper cards that jam the turnstiles.
Update: I think I made up the name "CharliePass", although I swear I saw it somewhere in the MBTA literature.
Update #2: Davis gets them starting tomorrow. Other stations get them at other times.
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Date: 2006-12-04 09:52 pm (UTC)All I suggest is that you fight the technology by understanding it, not by nuking anything that you may suspect to contain an RFID. By understanding it, you move from the realm of "paranoid" to "RFID expert" and can better protect yourself from potential microwave-proof RFIDs. Knowledge is power, etc. ;-)