The machine readable ones are those that have a laminated page with all the important info on it. Watch next time, they open it and run the bottom of the laminated bit through a slot like you would with a card with magnetic strip.
You're right, chips are machine readable as well, which is indeed ambiguous.
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Re: Huh?
Date: 2007-05-02 11:28 am (UTC)Watch next time, they open it and run the bottom of the laminated bit through a slot like you would with a card with magnetic strip.
You're right, chips are machine readable as well, which is indeed ambiguous.