solving the wrong problem

Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn at garlic.com
Sat Aug 6 18:43:41 EDT 2005


Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> A variant on the moviefone.com model might work better for these folks
> -- have the person buy the tickets with a credit card, and use a
> machine to check that they are in physical possession of said card
> when they enter the theater. Most people will not loan their cards to
> strangers, so the model works reasonably well without excess amounts
> of supervision by humans.

some of the work 5-6 years ago on self-serve boarding pass machines were
along the same lines ... it would have to be the same card as used to
purchase the ticket. now it is any card that can be related to you and
your name ... since there is still somebody at the head of the line that
checks that the name on the boarding pass (that was just printed) is the
same name on some gov. issued picture card.

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