European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 modern living state of the Art charging the smart by David Sanger new York times credit cards used to be there was just the plastic embossed with a then came the magnetic three tracks of encoded data that identify the Speed credit approvals and make it possible to get Cash from a Teller main a reversal of the usual flow of technology Between the United states and american companies arc starting to toy with the French designed smart the credit card bearing an embedded i rather than run the card through a com designers decided that they would put the computer inside the card with everything from a digital portrait of the car users signature to a credit limit and a record of the cards last 200 this Mastercard International will Start distributing thousands of them in a Pilot program in the and Palm whether Consumers will Ever develop much enthusiasm for the is still an open question and a Host of technical and social problems have yet to be even some credit card companies Are it has Best been described As a solution without a said Kathleen vice president of funds Access services at american and its very but John executive vice president of elec tronic services at who is heading up the All of my life Ive been a social i laugh at jokes that Arent i rave about yellow i Compromise my own if i had seen the emperor i would have love that color on youre a Arent you in a wimp because basically i am insecure and need to be i read where Christopher a prominent hair named Tina Turner As having the Best hair style in America he described it As innovative and croissants Are fat cheerleaders Are Tinas hair is what happens to a 45yearold woman who has just been told by her obstetrician she is about to become a designed in this Frau proof credit card has a built in a photo Washington and Florida if smart cards were going to solve a lot of problems he chief among them is making illegal use of a credit card these Days docs not take much while credit card companies have made counterfeiting efforts More expensive by placing Hardtop produce holograms on some thousands of fakes and most thieves Are guaranteed at least a few hours shopping spree before transactions on a stolen card Are that leeway costs the credit card companies hundreds of millions of dollars last but will find it at to install properly encoded chips in their own pickpockets will face an equally difficult before the merchants terminal wiil approve a the smart card user must Type a code like kind used in Bank Teller an algorithm to approve the codeword will be stored on the meaning that the password will never have to be tra milled to a Central that reduces the chances that even a thief Well versed in the Art of tapping data transmissions will get the a stolen cards Chip will be rendered inoperative As soon As someone tries to make a Purchase with a stolen identification numbers Are not the Only Way to assure that the right person is using the a digital profile of the card users invisible to the could record not Only what the authorized signature looks but How quickly and in what pattern certain letters Are when the card user signed the credit card a pad beneath his pen would detect the signature and compare it with one stored in the the other identification methods we Are examining Are mostly like Elliott taking a Page from some government Security the company is investigating the practicality of a Point of Sale terminal that scans the card users then compares the print to the profile stored in the the card guards against not Only but Overin in the debit card experiments conducted by the Bull group in France where More in in 3 million smart cards will be in circulation by the undue of in the in the was c was fam o info is said Paul vice of marketing for Micro card technologies a Dallas based subsidiary of Bull that says it can now produce the cards for about each when they Are purchased in Large among the other possibilities emergency medical information read Able at a portfolio information that would make it possible to Trade stocks at a Teller machine even a personal Telephone directory that would appear on a pay phones screen when the card is sceptics Spencer publisher of a credit card Industry said i dont want a card with my history in it i dont even want a magnetic its what happens whren you clean the toaster without unplugging its what happens to Shirley Badaines hair in terms of endearment after a ride in a convertible with Jack its what happens when you crawl out of bed in the morning and want to theres a lot of things to Admire about Tina her for there going to go on dancing for a Good 20 years after Shes she sings a Good seems like a Nice lady and has but some How i dont see the women of America worshipping at the shrine of space shuttle what is really amazing to me is the double Standard our kids recently my son came for a some thing had happened to my i had slept funny on it and had already used enough foam on it to land a crippled whats wrong with your hair he whats it doing its sticking up All Over your you ought to do something with it i look 1 you talk to be about my hair when you can watch Cyndi Lauper without adjust ing the color on the to set you could watch the grammy and not try to crawl into the set with a Brush and comb and As for Tina Turners whats wrong with Tina Turners hair he said it looks like Shes just been on a trip with Toto and i always thought you were too insecure and had to be loved to say things like i so maybe she has a ill give her c c los Angeles times Syndicate