One reason it wouldn't fly here is that it is preloaded - We use lots of CREDIT cards. I can literally go out and charge a car in impulse. I don't need the money in advance. I could pick up a good deal on the spot and later, arrange financing.
I can't speak for others but I don't think I've ever bought something less than the value of the card. I always end up forking over some extra. My cards tend to have a balance of $0.00 in a week or so.
You are conviently overlooking the fact that there will have to be millions on millions of cheap, reliable scanners absoutely everywhere that can read and verify such a card - even the thought of security by obscurity is a joke in the real world application of such a system. I'm sure the terrorists would love such a system. People will come to rely on it with unswerving devotion and someone with a cracked card will be almost invisible despite activities that would raise suspicions under other circumstances
If you contract/AUP clearly spells out that you monitor and limit, you are kind of OK. If you don't explicitly tell your customers what you are up to, you are committing a worse sin than any of your customers - you are committing fraud. BTW, if you sell accounts to the public, you are not really a "private" network.
I have looked at this stuff in person at Home Depot. I think it was about a buck a foot. If I were wiring a new home, I think I'd go for it, everything in a nice flexable plastic conduit and pretty well future-proof.
Qwest tells me I don't qualify for DSL, I have DirecTV and the cable company wants me to buy basic cable TV before they will talk cable modem, and I can see a lonely Ricochet box on the pole across the street.I'd go for it for $40 in a heartbeat. I don't think I'm alone in that kind of situation.
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One reason it wouldn't fly here is that it is preloaded - We use lots of CREDIT cards. I can literally go out and charge a car in impulse. I don't need the money in advance. I could pick up a good deal on the spot and later, arrange financing.
I can't speak for others but I don't think I've ever bought something less than the value of the card. I always end up forking over some extra. My cards tend to have a balance of $0.00 in a week or so.
That technique is patented. I assume you have licensed the technology?
You are conviently overlooking the fact that there will have to be millions on millions of cheap, reliable scanners absoutely everywhere that can read and verify such a card - even the thought of security by obscurity is a joke in the real world application of such a system. I'm sure the terrorists would love such a system. People will come to rely on it with unswerving devotion and someone with a cracked card will be almost invisible despite activities that would raise suspicions under other circumstances
If you contract/AUP clearly spells out that you monitor and limit, you are kind of OK. If you don't explicitly tell your customers what you are up to, you are committing a worse sin than any of your customers - you are committing fraud. BTW, if you sell accounts to the public, you are not really a "private" network.
Didn't you hear? Win95 is officially no longer supported! And us with only a few thousand W95 desktops.
And, of course, you are a totally impartial reviewer of the benifits of this solution.
Just what we need: another Hollywood actor as president!
I have looked at this stuff in person at Home Depot. I think it was about a buck a foot. If I were wiring a new home, I think I'd go for it, everything in a nice flexable plastic conduit and pretty well future-proof.
Qwest tells me I don't qualify for DSL, I have DirecTV and the cable company wants me to buy basic cable TV before they will talk cable modem, and I can see a lonely Ricochet box on the pole across the street.I'd go for it for $40 in a heartbeat. I don't think I'm alone in that kind of situation.