> From: Wim E. van Bemmel
> > Isn't a somewhat safer approach to hand the item to the person sitting
near
> > a machine with lots of buttons on top and a money drawer underneath?
Prefer-
> > ably with a bribe in an amount typically marked on the item in
question?

I don't think that was the point.  The question is how
else could the anti theft technology be used?

For example, tracking a moving object?  A lawmower
or goat perhaps? <g>

Cheers,

Win Wiencke
Image Logic Corp
ImageLogic@ibm.net