- Дата: 20-10-2022, 15:37
The Dallas Morning News and different Belo-owned newspapers added the barcodes subsequent to major articles and common features like stocks and weather. Because of the weak obfuscation of the info, meant solely to protect the corporate beneath DMCA guidelines (like the DVD protection Content material Scramble System), the software program for decoding the CueCat's output quickly appeared on the internet, followed by a plethora of unofficial applications. The CueCat's critics stated the machine was finally of little use. Within the Wall Road Journal, Walter Mossberg criticized CueCat: "To be able to scan in codes from magazines and newspapers, you have to be reading them in front of your Computer. That is unnatural and ridiculous." Mossberg wrote that the system "fails miserably. Using it is just unnatural." He concluded that the CueCat "isn't worth installing and utilizing, regardless that it's accessible free of cost". According to Web technologist and Interhack founder Matt Curtin, every scan delivers the product code, the consumer's ID and the scanner's ID back to Digital:Convergence. Then one may scan bar codes on groceries, bar codes on books, and custom bar codes in ads in magazines, newspapers, Verizon Phone book, and RadioShack catalogs.