Somebody said,
> Frankly, if using my card saves me $10 on a roast,
> it's hard for me not to think it's a good exchange..
Hogwash. It's not saving customers anything at all.
Same gimmick as credit cards. Take away a percentage
from noncard-holders and give it to the cardholders.
What economic
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Sunder wrote:
> Not in any 1U system that I know of unless you mean multiple racks.
It doesn't matter. While NSA builds their own hardware, you can as well
think in terms of vanilla Dells.
> The biggest ATA drives I see on the market today are 200GB. Most 1U
> systems won't
Not in any 1U system that I know of unless you mean multiple racks.
The biggest ATA drives I see on the market today are 200GB. Most 1U
systems won't hold more than two of these. That's nowhere near 1TB!
Also you're forgetting about doing backups; and I don't know about you,
but I get a fuckload
At 07:12 PM 1/1/2003, Mike Rosing wrote:
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote:
> * I expect most uses of "customer courtesy cards" are to try to get
> some kind of brand loyalty going. People thinking "Well, I have a card
> at Albertson's, but not at Safeway, so I'll go to Albertson's."
They'd lov
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Todd Boyle wrote:
> Its not enough to put the chips next to the beer. They want
> to examining the layout of all their shelf space.
> The cash register data alone, is enough to do this, but
> it doesn't work very well for shoppers who come and
> buy chips on tuesday and beer o
At 05:07 PM 1/1/03 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>I was book-shopping with a friend a few years back when he remembered
he had a
>discount card for that store. In front of the person at the checkout,
he
>pulled a large stack of the store's discount cards out of his pocket,
picked
>one at random from
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At 5:07 PM +1300 on 1/1/03, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> She didn't bat an eyelid,
> nor was she concerned that he had the cards and I was buying the
> books. Not My Problem.
I'm sure many other people besides myself have had a cashier swipe
her own card
At 12:27 PM 12/31/2002 -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote:
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:12:02PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> As for your point about prescription drugs, box cutters, kitchen knives
> being trackable, I assume this is a trol
At 12:03 -0800 on 12/31/02, Tim May wrote:
Yes. So?
Notice that exactly the same type of coupon is printed out with a
cash or non >courtesy card purchase. It's a purely local
calculation. In programming terms, >a purely local variable
situation.
No. Obviously the coupon was closely linked
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:02:48AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
| On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
|
| >At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
| >>Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of Hughes, a
| >>credit card with the name Shostack, and
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:12:02PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> >But what if this data is used as part of a larger picture, such as in
> >TIA. It definitely can be used, along with gas purchases, to track
> >where a suspect, aka a ci
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote:
But what if this data is used as part of a larger picture, such as in
TIA. It definitely can be used, along with gas purchases, to track
where a suspect, aka a citizen, is living. Also, many possible
weapons such as perscription
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:41 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 11:02 -0800 on 12/31/02, Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of
Hu
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:02:48AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
>
> >At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
> >>Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of Hughes, a
> >>credit card with the name Shostack, and
At 11:02 -0800 on 12/31/02, Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of Hughes, a
credit card with the name Shostack, and an expired membershi
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 12:12 -0500 on 12/31/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
Rummaging through my wallet...a grocery card in the name of Hughes, a
credit card with the name Shostack, and an expired membership card in
the name Doe.
Interesting point on gr
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