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...Note to Census Bureau: I hope this helps. As for your numerous questions about my finances, I'm attaching a shoebox of pay stubs, canceled checks and credit-card receipts. Please notify me when you've determined my income. There's a Form 1040 on my desk, but with all the Census questions I've been working on, I doubt I'll be able to get to it this year. I know you'll understand...
Phillips had stumbled upon one of those frequent-flyer promotions in which airlines team with credit-card companies and other partners. The deal, since withdrawn, was this: buy 10 Healthy Choice products and get 500 miles--or 1,000 miles for purchases made before June 1999. Phillips tossed soup and popcorn into his basket like an end-of-the-world fanatic, but went apoplectic when he saw chocolate-fudge pudding cups at 25[cents] a pop. A mere $62.50 worth, he quickly calculated, would buy 25,000 miles...
...silly to play this ur-genealogy game, expecting someone to heal my existential angst just because their parents were as uncreative as mine. But still, I'm going to go to lunch with him, just to trick him into paying the bill so I can steal his credit-card numbers as part of the easiest scam in history. That way I can rack up enough debt on his credit card to keep him from renewing that domain name...
...that reduces the possibility of credit-card fraud--or even, as in France, a complete medical history. Three French companies produce more than two-thirds of the world's smart cards, a $12 billion business set to explode as companies discover the limits of the familiar magnetic-strip card, which can hold relatively little information and is not nearly as secure for e-commerce. Jean-Marc Giry, vice president for strategic marketing at Gemplus, one of three French firms that dominate the world market for smart-card banking applications, expects most U.S. banks and credit-card companies to begin issuing...
...make transactions. eBay and Wells Fargo are rolling out Billpoint, a service that allows sellers to accept credit cards without establishing merchant accounts. Instead of waiting to receive a check or money order, sellers will get immediate payment to their checking account once the buyer inputs his or her credit-card data. After the first three months, sellers using Billpoint will pay 3.5% of the purchase amount plus 35[cents]. Sales under $10 will get off a little easier and cost only 35[cents...