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Puritad - 18 Oct 2004 17:38 GMT

Hi! Can you help me?

What does these two sentence means
1."CHANCES ARE THAT YOU ' RE already familiar with RFID"

and

2."Do you have an employee badge that you place near a card reader,
rather than swiping it through the reader?"

Thank You Very Very Much
Pu

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Einde O'Callaghan - 18 Oct 2004 18:14 GMT

> Hi! Can you help me?
>
> What does these two sentence means
> 1."CHANCES ARE THAT YOU ' RE already familiar with RFID"

It is quite probable taht you already know quite a lot about RFID
(whatever that is).

> and
>
> 2."Do you have an employee badge that you place near a card reader,
> rather than swiping it through the reader?"

In modern security systems people who are entitled to access to certain
installations have an identity card. The two types mentioned in this
sentence are (a) one where you simply hold the card near a device that
can then read the information on the card (often contained in a chip)
and (b) another type with information on a piece of magnetic tape (like
on a bank card) where you have to pull the card through a slit on the
reader (this is known as swiping, for some reason I've never been able
to work out) - the action here is often a downward movement through a v
vertical slit.

I hope that's clear.

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

> Thank You Very Very Much
> Pu

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Puritad - 19 Oct 2004 07:51 GMT

Thank you very much Einde.

> > Hi! Can you help me?
> >
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> > Thank You Very Very Much
> > Pu

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Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / October 2004

What does these two sentence means 1."CHANCES ARE THAT YOU ' RE already familiar with RFID" and 2...