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From: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: minor Siggraph question
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Date: 17 Jul 89 12:10:10 GMT
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In article <1840@ucsd.EDU> brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor) writes:
>Has Siggraph abandoned the use of the &*%^^&*%^&* card readers for
>admission to portions of the conference?  The person I spoke to at the
>conference management place didn't know.
>	- Brian

     I don't know, I kind of liked the card readers in Atlanta.  That way, I 
could check to see if my name had changed since I last entered a tutorial or
the exhibition floor :-)

     Seriously, I think the readers are a good idea for enforcing SIGGRAPH
security.  I assumed they were sort of experimental in Atlanta.  The read
error rate was too high, and I never saw anyone turned away when their card
failed.  I also saw more than one lost card pinned to the message board
with the pin through the magnetic strip...

     If the error rate was reduced, I think this is a good way to count and
control access to events.  I would also take the keyboards off the readers,
since I was always inclined to try to type on the readers, which seemed to
displease the gate watchers.

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