It's been out in Japan for a couple of years, and has been marketed for such mundane tasks as reading time cards for beleaguered salarymen and storing healthcare records in hospitals.

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Reading from the cards, Lana would then narrate the rearranged story.

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Mr. MARK GODFREY (Coworker): Especially all of the people who have come in and shared their sympathy with either cards or reading that sign on the door.

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Every person has 13 cards in their reading, some of which change over time, that can tell you heaps about yourself.

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Then there have been subtle but important barriers: For instance, Macintosh computers have long been incompatible with a security keycard-reading system known as Common Access Cards system, or CAC, which is heavily used by the military.

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Her unbandaged eye tracked the lines, she opened the cards and turned them over reading the back.

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The way the cards are placed for a reading is called a spread.

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By reading the encrypted data off of two cards and testing thousands of potential site codes against both cards until the decoded data displays a predictable interval between the two, he can find the site code and use it to create more card keys with a magnetizing device.

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Some of the lads were reading the programme, a few had their heads down playing cards - the atmosphere was almost surreal.

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