17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Scott writes:
To my knowledge, vending machines don't do optical recognition.
In Japan they do. Some banks recently got scammed by people putting photocopied Y10,000 ($100) bills into changers at the banks (getting 10 Y1,000 in return). They've now done a ROM upgrade on the machines. A cultural point: Japan is a very cash-oriented society, so nobody blinked twice when someone went up to the changing machine and plunked 10 or 20 bills into it.