I think that this will reduce considerably the costs for the distribution of a movie: think shrinkwrapping, copies of the movie that sit on shelves with years, shelve real estate, etc.
I believe that they want to decrease their costs, not to improve anything major for the consumer.
The only benefit I would see is that when you go to such a facility you can get any movie available from those retailers, no more "DVD not in stock" etc.
So I am going to walk into Best Buy, walk up to a kiosk, pick the movie I want to watch, wait 5-10 minutes for it to download and burn on this special DVD, pay for it, and walk out? As opposed to me just grabbing the movie off the shelf and skipping the burning-downloading part?
I think that the main problem with the businesses will be that they will REQUIRE the card to open accounts; for example: you move to a new home and want telephone, cable, internet service, water, electricity, gas, etc. the list goes on and on. Right now you cannot have any of those services (at least in this part of the country) without SSN, imagine that they will switch to the new card. Of course, immediately your life will be pretty tough without the new card.
I believe that when they introduced the SSN they said/promissed that SSN will not be used as an ID card and of course they were wrong...
Just my 2 cents.
Or can businesses start not allowing customers entrance to their places without a card? Will businesses be able to shut off allowing a customer to buy a service or good from them cause they don't have a card? (such as even if they are paying for cash?)
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582 kilo bases-pairs (ignoring that irritating 1024 power of 2) = 1164 kilo Bytes So in fact 1 megabyte should be enough, right?
I have Google to show the main news, etc and the Slashdot story was linked there, so good job with the jokes...
Right now you cannot have any of those services (at least in this part of the country) without SSN, imagine that they will switch to the new card. Of course, immediately your life will be pretty tough without the new card.
I believe that when they introduced the SSN they said/promissed that SSN will not be used as an ID card and of course they were wrong...
Just my 2 cents. Or can businesses start not allowing customers entrance to their places without a card? Will businesses be able to shut off allowing a customer to buy a service or good from them cause they don't have a card? (such as even if they are paying for cash?)