A casino is just like any other business. They want to protect their market, they want to make sure the customers feel that they should spend their money, and they want to go after the almighty buck. The reason they collect all the data is most likely for security, and for profit. It would be poor judgement for them to sell most of this data, but by having all of this data, the casino can give a gambler a more 'personalized experience'.
Everything in a casino is about making money. They make the ceiling and floor 'loud' so that you look forward, not up or down. When you look forwards you see slot machines and tables and other games. Bells, whistles and sirens are set to attract people to areas so that they will spend their money. The food is priced cheap, so that you'll spend more money gambling since you are saving so much eating.
Everything in a casino is highly advanced. You are under constant watch from floor bosses, security cameras, and the like. All the 'automatic' games are computer controlled. A casino is required to give back a certain % of their profits, so for example, if it's a busy night, you are more likely to make money off the slot machines. If the casino is fairly empty, maybe not. I have also heard stories from some guards who used to work at casinos that some of the games are timed so that if you are not playing them during an hour, you will not win. A casino is pretty advanced technology-wise.
So I am not surprised that they have so much market data on their customsers. Many casinos now even have cards that you can use with 'credits' that work the slot machines and other gambling sites. These cards allow the casino to track gambling habits of their patrons.
But in the end, security is probably the top reason for all the data on the customers. The casino wants to make money, and by keeping track of what you are doing, they can make sure your not cheating, and that the house remains in the black.
Just don't be surprised if they have a nice government- style database, complete with pictures of everyone who has ever entered the casino.
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What will happen though when the pornography industry gets super saturated by thousands of people using this persons plan.
And more so, why would I take advice from an xdot comer who tried this and it didn't work for him, so now he's trying to sell me the same idea. Perhaps he thinks other people will learn to learn from his mistakes?
I think I'll start a series of classes. How to get rich quick by not giving money to get rich quick schemes.
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
Actually, due to what I've seen in the last couple of months, the way to REALLY make money in the.com world is to either
a. Sue someone who makes a product that includes part of the name or a string of letters similar to those in your products name saying it's your copyright even if it's just a word. Ex Illustrator
b. Sell out to Microsoft
c. Go IPO, lay off all your employees, close up shop.
Other acceptable answers would have been sell anything EXCEPT dogfood online, or Sue Spammers for 50$ a piece in California
But honestly, there are already tons of porn sites. Just about ANY search might turn up at least one. Like any industry once the market becomes saturated by so many companies people begin to make less and less money. They even begin to lose, and then it becomes a 'whose the best' competition, and in the end, a few companies end up on top, and a couple remaining companies lay around doing 'mediocre'.
And No WISE instructor is going to teach you the secret of defeating them......
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
Yo, you guys reposted this story you know!
Anyway, here's my two cents. I'm not sure I like this. I don't mind the police checking me against there memory, but the camera is out of line. I read an article where they had cameras all over the UK and had some sort of software that could trace you and tell you who everybody was in a crowd. While I don't like being tracked by companies, I don't like the government constantly checking me as I walk down the street.
If my employer uses cameras I don't have a problem, they own the country and stuff like that. In the US I own the country as a citizen, so unless I can view the camera images at the same time in live feed as the government and know exactly what they are doing I don't think it should be allowed. There should be some website where I can look at the cameras for entertainment.
And what about a kinda weird cop getting into this.
You could conceivably be 'stalked' or 'profiled' by a bad police officer. Anyway. Just my two cents.
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
I've noticed reccently that there are several members of society trying to launch there way into space. They are just trying to achieve low earth orbit for the most part, but has anyone considered how space will be ruled? Think about it. North America and South America (though already inhabited by the Native Americans) were 'discovered' by Europeans according to your average elementary school textbook. Companies sponsored explorers to colonize this 'new world'. Eventually, after a couple hundred years, these continents revolted and put their own governments in place. One must wonder how space will be ruled. The moon and Mars are both out their waiting to be colonized. The question is, will the settlers allow themselves to be controlled by an opressive earth based government?
With companies sponsoring to get into space. Space habitation will be a quicky realized dream. Before we know it, we could have a moon-based government. It's kinda weird.... Of course, besides tourism. What is the moon going to manufacture. Bauxite? What is Bauxite used for anyway?
By the way, I know everybody else has mentioned this already. But this has already been covered/.
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
Let me clear this one up. I used to work in a grocery store.
No, thats where you are wrong. Many retail chains like walmart, grocery stores and other industries use pricing guns (commonly made by the TELXON corporation or SYMBOL.) These guns use a wireless network and if you look around, some stores will have small boxes on the pillars in the store or located on the wall. Other stores are not big enough to require these. The devices that act as the networks 'hubs' are the size of the inards of a Motorola bag phone, and resemble the inards too. (Heavy duty plastic or metal casing with a rubber duckie antenna sticking out the top or side.)
The price tags run off of the same wireless network. In some stores the registers are even connected wirelessly, however more often than not, the registers use standard cables.
But the next time you are in a store look for these wireless hubs. Also look for managers, or staff with what appear to be oversized calculators witrh a tiny antenna on the side and a laser in front mounted in a gun fashion.
So no, the flourescent lights in your local grocery store are not a network. sorry...
Umm... not that it matters, but in my experience many businesses, schools, and companies will let bulbs flicker forever as they are dying. i.e. a bulb that is half lit because the other bulb is out or because it is nearing the end of the life of the bulb.
Does anyone know how this weould affect the distortion of the data or how the range or effectiveness of the network would be affected by this. also, in places like California, with rolling brownouts, how many of the lights will have to be on a backup for the network to still be effective?
by viewable with lynx, I mean not so graphic intensive. Yes, most pages are viewable, but are usually designed with the 33.6k user in mind on at least a 233mhz processor....
Still, a neat Idea... Probably not affordable though. I remember IRIDIUM service being expensive. And if you look, they are targeting marine, rescue, and other services that might need these services where cellular is not available. But can they compete with the current systems in place? Ships receive weather data already, and commercial class radio and amateur are pretty powerful to. Is this something that these businesses are going to find that they really need?
Hey, this sounds kinda cool. But how useful is it now that so much is graphic based. This would be awesome to have if more webpages were viewable with lynx and gopher was still as popular as it once was. Plus, with lower cell phone rates, national plans, free nights and weekends, and other options like the faster, although slower to expand, ricochet service, is this really worth it for the speed they give you? Still cool I guess. I was surprised to see that Iridium is trying to make a comeback... Maybe there new business plan will be more successful..
The Dolphin was available in a previous version of Office. I tried to install it once in Microsoft Office 2000, but it won't work. I think it's for Office 97 or 98 or sometihng... Anyway..
Hey, regarding data, apparently XP supports Microsofts terms of service agreement with Hotmail and the MSN Messenger service as seen in the following image
see the paperclip say all your base are belong to us
http://www.traicovn.com/base.gif
Apparently the paperclip changes what it's little message is. Also, their server kept having trouble displaying part of the site for me... Quality MS ware:)
I would care more about what a user could do about the data stored by the software once the software has expired more than the software itself. Software can be replaced, however, what about the data that was stored in a proprietary format by my word processor, or by my tape archive system? In addition I've noticed some people post that it would still be legal to use the software once the company has gone under because they would not be stealing from an existing entity. Not entirely true unless you were authorized to.
The companies copyright would still be in effect. They could sue you.
"GeoPoint is your geolocation service. It lets your Web site know in real-time where each visitor is located. So you can dynamically serve up the message, pricing, currency, product, or ad that's right for that user. "
Your exactly right, 27 million AOL users WILL look like they are from Virginia. My guess is that all this service REALLY does is it knows the range for different networks. (It knows who owns them)
What this means then is if I am in another country and dial into a US ISP it's going to show me as living in the US! Anyway.... I have a strange feeling this service is total bullsh*t just like the service that was going to scan the entire internet and track down every mp3 and stolen dvd.... (link anyone?)
I believe that the first computer was one that stored data, called it back, and was able to even perform basic tasks. In the modern day enviroment it is used very often in mission critical situations, and is excellent at multitasking. It does catch viruses but these viruses are diagnosed and destroyed with anti-virus utilities.
I have decided that since no one else has I will claim patent on it.
The human brain
On a more serious note: It really depends on what you call a computer. The US CENSUS had some machine that they used in the 1920's I think or 1930's... can't remember what it was called but it was used to tabulate the census. It had some real basic name also.
Quote from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Pittsburgh's terascale computer will use 682 of the next generation of Compaq's AlphaServer computer, each of which contains four computer processors. In addition to a 6-teraflop peak speed, the computer will draw on 2.7 trillion bytes, or terabytes, of random access memory, will have 50 terabytes of online hard-disk storage and another 300 terabytes of additional tape or disk storage"
hmmm... Compaq has shown interest in linux, i wonder what the OS will be? (anything but windows:)
I believe that everyone will agree that clothing must be open source... HEH.... a whole new level of hacking
Can you just se teachers saying "Johnny, put susies clothes back on!" Unfortunately, at this time you only have eight colours to choose from, that's ok, I am pretty sure I dress in 8 bit right now.....
Yes, we must make sure that one of the EIGHT COLOURS is flesh...... by the way, remember, this is not something that is TANGIBLE, this is just a hologram, and a real hologram, like something you would dimply walk through.... there is no real mass....
before i get moded down, let me say that it would really be cool in augmented reality and wearable computing if it was small... i wonder how large the unit will be... Still, it could be used in augmented reality. I could see someone being able to step in a unit and see what they would look like with a certain dress, hair color, suit, implants, etc.. also would be good for doctors who help in assisting operations from a remote location...
Microsoft enjoys spending loads of money on a project that doesn't work right, and expoiting resources...look at windows
This project is right up their ally brMy one fear is they would buy a giant neon sign and attach it to mir, or shine the ms logo at earth i.e. batman style....
Perhaps you didn't notice the stock market yesterday? Go to COREL's website.... Corel and Microsoft have formed a famous microsoft 'strategic alliance'
Amazon can't honestly thing that they will get away with this one-click shopping patent do they? It sounds like we are simply dealing with a company that is slowly failing, and trying to find additional sources of revenue before it goes under....
Perhaps someone should patent applying for stupid patents?
I hav decided that I will patent the following:
Well, between British Telecom's Hyperlink patent and Amazon's "one click shopping" patent I have decided to combine the two and create my own super patent.
From this point forward I will hold the patent to one click hyperlinking, you must all pay me $1000.00 in royalties.
Slashdot Mirror
A casino is just like any other business. They want to protect their market, they want to make sure the customers feel that they should spend their money, and they want to go after the almighty buck.
The reason they collect all the data is most likely for security, and for profit. It would be poor judgement for them to sell most of this data, but by having all of this data, the casino can give a gambler a more 'personalized experience'.
Everything in a casino is about making money. They make the ceiling and floor 'loud' so that you look forward, not up or down. When you look forwards you see slot machines and tables and other games. Bells, whistles and sirens are set to attract people to areas so that they will spend their money. The food is priced cheap, so that you'll spend more money gambling since you are saving so much eating.
Everything in a casino is highly advanced. You are under constant watch from floor bosses, security cameras, and the like. All the 'automatic' games are computer controlled. A casino is required to give back a certain % of their profits, so for example, if it's a busy night, you are more likely to make money off the slot machines. If the casino is fairly empty, maybe not. I have also heard stories from some guards who used to work at casinos that some of the games are timed so that if you are not playing them during an hour, you will not win. A casino is pretty advanced technology-wise.
So I am not surprised that they have so much market data on their customsers. Many casinos now even have cards that you can use with 'credits' that work the slot machines and other gambling sites. These cards allow the casino to track gambling habits of their patrons.
But in the end, security is probably the top reason for all the data on the customers. The casino wants to make money, and by keeping track of what you are doing, they can make sure your not cheating, and that the house remains in the black.
Just don't be surprised if they have a nice government- style database, complete with pictures of everyone who has ever entered the casino.
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
What will happen though when the pornography industry gets super saturated by thousands of people using this persons plan.
And more so, why would I take advice from an xdot comer who tried this and it didn't work for him, so now he's trying to sell me the same idea. Perhaps he thinks other people will learn to learn from his mistakes?
I think I'll start a series of classes. How to get rich quick by not giving money to get rich quick schemes.
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
a. Sue someone who makes a product that includes part of the name or a string of letters similar to those in your products name saying it's your copyright even if it's just a word. Ex Illustrator
b. Sell out to Microsoft
c. Go IPO, lay off all your employees, close up shop.
Other acceptable answers would have been sell anything EXCEPT dogfood online, or Sue Spammers for 50$ a piece in California
But honestly, there are already tons of porn sites. Just about ANY search might turn up at least one. Like any industry once the market becomes saturated by so many companies people begin to make less and less money. They even begin to lose, and then it becomes a 'whose the best' competition, and in the end, a few companies end up on top, and a couple remaining companies lay around doing 'mediocre'.
And No WISE instructor is going to teach you the secret of defeating them......
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
Yo, you guys reposted this story you know!
Anyway, here's my two cents. I'm not sure I like this. I don't mind the police checking me against there memory, but the camera is out of line. I read an article where they had cameras all over the UK and had some sort of software that could trace you and tell you who everybody was in a crowd. While I don't like being tracked by companies, I don't like the government constantly checking me as I walk down the street.
If my employer uses cameras I don't have a problem, they own the country and stuff like that. In the US I own the country as a citizen, so unless I can view the camera images at the same time in live feed as the government and know exactly what they are doing I don't think it should be allowed. There should be some website where I can look at the cameras for entertainment.
And what about a kinda weird cop getting into this. You could conceivably be 'stalked' or 'profiled' by a bad police officer. Anyway.
Just my two cents.
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
I've noticed reccently that there are several members of society trying to launch there way into space. They are just trying to achieve low earth orbit for the most part, but has anyone considered how space will be ruled? Think about it. North America and South America (though already inhabited by the Native Americans) were 'discovered' by Europeans according to your average elementary school textbook. Companies sponsored explorers to colonize this 'new world'. Eventually, after a couple hundred years, these continents revolted and put their own governments in place. One must wonder how space will be ruled. The moon and Mars are both out their waiting to be colonized. The question is, will the settlers allow themselves to be controlled by an opressive earth based government? With companies sponsoring to get into space. Space habitation will be a quicky realized dream. Before we know it, we could have a moon-based government. It's kinda weird.... Of course, besides tourism. What is the moon going to manufacture. Bauxite? What is Bauxite used for anyway? By the way, I know everybody else has mentioned this already. But this has already been covered /.
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
Let me clear this one up. I used to work in a grocery store. No, thats where you are wrong. Many retail chains like walmart, grocery stores and other industries use pricing guns (commonly made by the TELXON corporation or SYMBOL.) These guns use a wireless network and if you look around, some stores will have small boxes on the pillars in the store or located on the wall. Other stores are not big enough to require these. The devices that act as the networks 'hubs' are the size of the inards of a Motorola bag phone, and resemble the inards too. (Heavy duty plastic or metal casing with a rubber duckie antenna sticking out the top or side.) The price tags run off of the same wireless network. In some stores the registers are even connected wirelessly, however more often than not, the registers use standard cables. But the next time you are in a store look for these wireless hubs. Also look for managers, or staff with what appear to be oversized calculators witrh a tiny antenna on the side and a laser in front mounted in a gun fashion. So no, the flourescent lights in your local grocery store are not a network. sorry...
Umm... not that it matters, but in my experience many businesses, schools, and companies will let bulbs flicker forever as they are dying. i.e. a bulb that is half lit because the other bulb is out or because it is nearing the end of the life of the bulb. Does anyone know how this weould affect the distortion of the data or how the range or effectiveness of the network would be affected by this. also, in places like California, with rolling brownouts, how many of the lights will have to be on a backup for the network to still be effective?
by viewable with lynx, I mean not so graphic intensive. Yes, most pages are viewable, but are usually designed with the 33.6k user in mind on at least a 233mhz processor.... Still, a neat Idea... Probably not affordable though. I remember IRIDIUM service being expensive. And if you look, they are targeting marine, rescue, and other services that might need these services where cellular is not available. But can they compete with the current systems in place? Ships receive weather data already, and commercial class radio and amateur are pretty powerful to. Is this something that these businesses are going to find that they really need?
Hey, this sounds kinda cool. But how useful is it now that so much is graphic based. This would be awesome to have if more webpages were viewable with lynx and gopher was still as popular as it once was. Plus, with lower cell phone rates, national plans, free nights and weekends, and other options like the faster, although slower to expand, ricochet service, is this really worth it for the speed they give you? Still cool I guess. I was surprised to see that Iridium is trying to make a comeback... Maybe there new business plan will be more successful..
You could have had a CB RADIO that looked like a telephone, they made those. Kinda different looking I guess :)
The Dolphin was available in a previous version of Office. I tried to install it once in Microsoft Office 2000, but it won't work. I think it's for Office 97 or 98 or sometihng... Anyway..
http://www.traicovn.com/base.gif
see the paperclip say all your base are belong to us http://www.traicovn.com/base.gif
Apparently the paperclip changes what it's little message is. Also, their server kept having trouble displaying part of the site for me... Quality MS ware :)
I would care more about what a user could do about the data stored by the software once the software has expired more than the software itself. Software can be replaced, however, what about the data that was stored in a proprietary format by my word processor, or by my tape archive system? In addition I've noticed some people post that it would still be legal to use the software once the company has gone under because they would not be stealing from an existing entity. Not entirely true unless you were authorized to. The companies copyright would still be in effect. They could sue you.
"GeoPoint is your geolocation service. It lets your Web site know in real-time where each visitor is located. So you can dynamically serve up the message, pricing, currency, product, or ad that's right for that user. "
Your exactly right, 27 million AOL users WILL look like they are from Virginia. My guess is that all this service REALLY does is it knows the range for different networks. (It knows who owns them)
What this means then is if I am in another country and dial into a US ISP it's going to show me as living in the US! Anyway.... I have a strange feeling this service is total bullsh*t just like the service that was going to scan the entire internet and track down every mp3 and stolen dvd.... (link anyone?)
He must love the smell of burning silicon in the morning....
I believe that the first computer was one that stored data, called it back, and was able to even perform basic tasks. In the modern day enviroment it is used very often in mission critical situations, and is excellent at multitasking. It does catch viruses but these viruses are diagnosed and destroyed with anti-virus utilities.
I have decided that since no one else has I will claim patent on it.
The human brain
On a more serious note:
It really depends on what you call a computer. The US CENSUS had some machine that they used in the 1920's I think or 1930's... can't remember what it was called but it was used to tabulate the census. It had some real basic name also.
Quote from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Pittsburgh's terascale computer will use 682 of the next generation of Compaq's AlphaServer computer, each of which contains four computer processors. In addition to a 6-teraflop peak speed, the computer will draw on 2.7 trillion bytes, or terabytes, of random access memory, will have 50 terabytes of online hard-disk storage and another 300 terabytes of additional tape or disk storage"
:)
hmmm... Compaq has shown interest in linux, i wonder what the OS will be? (anything but windows
I believe that everyone will agree that clothing must be open source... HEH.... a whole new level of hacking
Can you just se teachers saying "Johnny, put susies clothes back on!"
Unfortunately, at this time you only have eight colours to choose from, that's ok, I am pretty sure I dress in 8 bit right now.....
Yes, we must make sure that one of the EIGHT COLOURS is flesh...... by the way, remember, this is not something that is TANGIBLE, this is just a hologram, and a real hologram, like something you would dimply walk through.... there is no real mass....
before i get moded down, let me say that it would really be cool in augmented reality and wearable computing if it was small... i wonder how large the unit will be... Still, it could be used in augmented reality. I could see someone being able to step in a unit and see what they would look like with a certain dress, hair color, suit, implants, etc.. also would be good for doctors who help in assisting operations from a remote location...
Should've used preview!!!
This would be really neat to use in wearable computing and augmented reality.. Any idea how much it will cost?
Microsoft enjoys spending loads of money on a project that doesn't work right, and expoiting resources...look at windows
This project is right up their ally
brMy one fear is they would buy a giant neon sign and attach it to mir, or shine the ms logo at earth i.e. batman style....
Perhaps you didn't notice the stock market yesterday? Go to COREL's website.... Corel and Microsoft have formed a famous microsoft 'strategic alliance'
Amazon can't honestly thing that they will get away with this one-click shopping patent do they? It sounds like we are simply dealing with a company that is slowly failing, and trying to find additional sources of revenue before it goes under....
Perhaps someone should patent applying for stupid patents?
I hav decided that I will patent the following:
Well, between British Telecom's Hyperlink patent and Amazon's "one click shopping" patent I have decided to combine the two and create my own super patent.
From this point forward I will hold the patent to one click hyperlinking, you must all pay me $1000.00 in royalties.