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Admission Tickets as Text Messages
lee1 writes to tell us that InfoWorld is reporting that Smartmachine and their partner Skidata have developed a new way to allow customers to purchase and receive tickets to events. The new ticketing system allows users to "have a ticket sent to their mobile phone via SMS (Short Message Service) in the form of a 2D (two-dimensional) bar code. At the gate, they slide their mobile phone display showing the bar code by a bar code reader." The new technology also claims to help combat the counterfeit, pilferage, and repeat use that can be such a problem for paper tickets.
Another example of useless technology that in reality does not good except require that you have a cell phone with you that adds to the stream of such ridiculous ideas who have shown up after the 2001 law that made it illegal to manufacture cell phones without a tracking chip which makes possible to pinpoint your exact location at all times (for your own protection, obviously).
Does this idea really do any good except ensuring that it is possible to know exactly who buys the tickets and when?
As of how it is a) used a credit-card system which stores the number of trips and detracts one for each time you pass the gate, which works smoothly and b) illegal to own a cell-phone that is not registered with the correct name and address locally.
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