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I Deal In Lead |
The first time I saw them being used all over the place was last November in Kona Hawaii where the restaurants all had them permanently mounted on each table. They brought up menus for the most part, but in one place they brought up a list of the 90+ beers they served with info on each. Now, I see them everywhere, on TV, in every magazine I read, in stores, everywhere. And I like them. They make things a lot easier and smoother for me in a lot of cases. | ||
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Peace through superior firepower |
I've never scanned one and I'm not going to scan any. If I go to a restaurant that wants me to scan QR codes or pull up their menu on my phone, too bad. I have no phone. I need a physical menu, or I'll go somewhere else. Do you really know what's going on in the background when you scan these things? No, you do not. For all you know, you're giving the Chinese access to your data. | |||
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I agree. Its much easier than www.howdoyouspellthiswithsoraz...ellthiswithsoraz.com I would have no issues scanning one on a restaurant menu. I would not scan one attached to a flier on a telephone pole. | |||
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drop and give me 20 pushups |
Have never scanned any and have no plans on doing so...... to many people have too much access to our info already as it is. Computers are going to be ruination of us because we are allowing it to happen. Just like the tracking of your cell phone.. If it is turned on then they can track your everyday movements. ... If not then send me proof......... drill sgt. | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
Never done it … Never will. "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Thank you Very little |
Seeing them now on TV, commercials are putting the codes in for you to scan for more information, pretty smart, ou can hook a potential buyer right there into your product. Think one of the super bowl commercials was nothing more than a QR code, you had to scan it to see what was in it... Regarding Paras aversion to scanning a QR, there are risks, it exists, seems that a QR could be used to direct your device to a malicious site.... Link Fake OR codes In Austin, Houston and San Antonio TX fake QR codes were put on the city parking meters, people would scan them, it would send you to a fake pay site, where you would enter your financial info to pay for parking and bam they have your data. So you have to be careful as there is risk to scanning them, probably not on a box of cereal to get more info, but anywhere a crook might alter the QR the codes can launch application code (Java) or direct you to a fake payment center. Link below has some interesting history on QR Wiki Link QR | |||
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I do not scan. No plans to start. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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You have more faith in restaurants and more importantly the people they outsource their technology to than I do. But yeah...I would definitely also avoid the flier on the telephone pole. | |||
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The success of a solution usually depends upon your point of view |
When i was setting up our company’s mobility program we installed a system that allowed our technicians to use their company issued iPad to scan various various QR codes that we could customize. Want to enter that electrical cabinet, scan the QR code next to the disconnect and up pops the entry requirements for that specific cabinet. Need the calibration procedure for that piece of equipment? Scan the QR code on the side of it. It is a great program with very robust security. What I learned while admining the program is why I do not ever scan QR codes. Way too easy to spoof. “We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna "I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally." -Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management | |||
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QR codes. Another way to scam people. Why anyone with half a brain would do this is beyond me. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
Checkout registers at Publix grocery stores, and also at Walmart, show a QR code. Use the store's app to scan the code and payment is made quickly via a credit card that is linked to the app. I don't really worry about this specific use; the credit card that I use for this sends me a notification, virtually instant, any time that there is a charge of more than one dollar on the card, so I would be able to catch any fraudulent use immediately. I have been using both Walmart Pay and Publix Pay for a few years, have not had any problems. Menu in a restaurant? Nope, not for that. Give me a printed menu or I eat elsewhere. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
When you go out to eat - it's not just only for the food so who in effing hell want's to jack with their phone unless you are 14 years old? I make a point to not touch my phone when out to dinner with the wife or others, to me it's rude to be on you phone during that period of time. | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
There's nothing on my phone that anyone can do anything at all with. The restaurants all will give you a printed menu if you prefer, or just can't figure out how to make it work like a lot of older people. For those who fly, your boarding pass has a QR code on it that gets scanned by the people at the gate. Like them or not, use them or not, get used to seeing them because they're rapidly becoming something you see everywhere. People who are opposed to them remind me of people who said they'd never use the internet, people who said they'd never use a Credit Card and people who said they'd never use a cell phone. If you want to be a dinosaur, that's your privilege. I choose not to be. | |||
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Peace through superior firepower |
Oh, yeah. "Dinosaur". As opposed to all those forward-thinking boobs who gave their CC info to thieves, in the link HRK provided. Do you know who didn't get ripped off like that? The "dinosaurs" With all your enthusiasm for scanning things, you may very well be in for a rude (and expensive) awakening. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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A Grateful American |
"You will eat bugs, you will live in a pod, you will own nothing. That is the future they have for you." "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Thank you Very little |
That may be true, however the issue isn't hacking into your phone, but a QR that seems legit, from a Legit source that ends up directing your phone to a malicious web page that looks real, and getting you to enter information. That is what happened on the link provided earlier about Parking Meters in TX, not just Austin, but Houston, San Antonio and in other countries around the world. Like anything Tech, you just have to be careful who you get it from and what you do with it.. | |||
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Three Generations of Service |
I have a QR code on my phone that I scan at Home Depot to get my military discount. That's pretty much the extent of scanning for this old dinosaur. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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Like a party in your pants |
I don't partake in the scan me thing. I expect a traditional menu when I dine out even when everybody else at the table gladly uses the scan and reads the menu items on there phones. At other types of stores I expect a salesperson. I feel more like my Father everyday. | |||
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Void Where Prohibited |
I guess I'm another dinosaur. I have never scanned a QR code and have no plans to. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
Actually, I won't. I know how to protect myself from it. It's very simple. Don't put anything sensitive on your phone. I was told 25+ years ago I'd get nailed on the net (by dinosaurs) and nobody's even come close so no, I'm not worried at all.
If you're stupid enough to put in sensitive information in a website a QR code takes you to, you really shouldn't be using a computer or going on the net. I'll look at what's there, but I won't enter anything. | |||
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