On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:24:35AM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote:
| On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Adam Shostack wrote:
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| > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:22:14AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
| > The other motivator is liability. If I build the mugger's little
| > helper, a PDA attachement that scans for real prada bags, then perhaps
| > the RFID tag will be removed at the counter after the first lawsuit.
|
| I think economics would be a better argument. If the manufacturer
| can recycle the tags for inventory control they can save a lot of money.
| 10 cents per item isn't much, but at millions of items it becomes worth
| while. Having the tag removed at the counter so they can be sent back to
| the manufacturer along with returns and defects saves money, and that
| argument carries more weight to someone trying to make a profit than
| anything else.
Having a counter clerk mess with a 10c embedded item is a loss.
Longer lines, less throughput, etc.
It may not matter at Prada, but it does at the grocery store.
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
