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Techno-thriller paranoid take on it- $25k chips can only plausibly be used in high stakes room , which is probably considerably less anonymous than the general
by waterlesscloud 16y ago
Techno-thriller paranoid take on it- $25k chips can only plausibly be used in high stakes room , which is probably considerably less anonymous than the general floor. Assume everyone playing with high stakes chips are photographed and kept in a database, probably a relatively small db at that. Facial recognition software would be a given in such a case, and even if identities are not kept with faces, the face of someone using 25k chips could easily be checked against everyone who has ever bought or won 25k chips. Might not even need software for that, just manually check if the list is short enough.
Now you don't need rfid at all, just good records.
There's only one place to get 25k Bellagio chips, and only one place to cash them in. Those chips have to be considered worthless in all practical ways.
- acgourley 16y agoWhile we're being paranoid - why not use them to frame someone.
- jrockway 16y agoThat sounds like it will work: Person A: Great work. This week, you're being paid in casino chips. Person B: What the fuck? OK, fine, $25,000 is $25,000, I guess. Person A: <pets kitten while laughing maniacally> Later that day: Casino Employee: OH HAI. What can I do you for? Person B: I won this $25,000 chip and would like to cash it in. Employee: OK, no problem. Let me just scan it with my scanomonizer over here. <Extremely loud alarm activates, police in cool sunglasses jump out from various hidden crevices.> B: Curses, Person A! Later that day in the police interrogation room: Detective: Where'd you get that casino chip, B-boy? Person B: From Person A. Even later that day: <At Person A's stolen casino chip storage room.> Person A: I love looking at my stolen casino chips. Good thing there is nobody around to see me! Detective: SURPRISE! You're under arrest! Person A: Curses, Person B! In conclusion, this is a bad idea.
- hugh3 16y agoThis one-act play is significantly more entertaining than either of the Ocean's Eleven sequels.
- iuygtrftghyujik 16y agoSomething like this happened in Belfast a few years ago. Terrorists (or loveable rouges if your American) robbed a bank and accidentally stole $50M - they hadn't realised how much was in the boxes. The bank simply changed the design of the notes making them worthless. But when the bank issued the range of stolen serial numbers it forgot that a small local firm had paid it's wages in cash from the same batch earlier that day. For weeks there were Police raids on small corner shops when a little old lady used a 'stolen' note.