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Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on October 10, 2020, 03:18:11 pm ---
Cloud computing can be a loser's game in some cases.  The benefits that it brings are too often canceled out (and then some) by the downside risk of the provider changing their minds about the business model, or going out of business, or getting hacked and spreading personal data everywhere, etc. etc.

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What many don't realise is that quite an astonishingly high number of these businesses with this shoehorn approach are built with the exit strategy as the primary goal. There is good money to be made in doing some hard work creating a new paradigm. Something which larger companies are unable to do. But the larger company can indeed afford to buy a mechanism that is already pre-built. At the end of the day, the customer is the product.

VK3DRB:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 10, 2020, 11:46:27 am ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 10, 2020, 03:21:56 am ---Some corner cases have really bad consequences if they are not handled. Consider the woman in Melbourne, who left Australia for Indonesia for a very short business trip of a day or two. She parked at the short term parking. She got a sick as a dog in Indonesia, was hospitalised and could not return for two weeks. Her parking fee reached $2000 and the private enterprise company who own Melbourne's Airport would not let her car out unless she paid it.
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Ride in through the swipe gate on a bike, get a ticket, drive out with your car using the same ticket having paid the 1hr rate  ;D

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They now have electronics number plate detection mechanisms. They also make the walk to the car park the long way around so they make a lot more profit after the timed thresholds expire. They start charging motorists from the time you enter, not parked, so if their electronic system for showing spare spaces is not working properly and you spend 15 minutes looking for a parking space, you get charged for that time. Melbourne Airport pocketed $1.1 BILLION in profit from parking in the past 10 years. The Italian 'Ndrangheta would be better off getting out of drugs, meths, prostitution, bootlegging and murder, and go into airport parking where extortion is legal, more profitable and you don't go to jail for it.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 11, 2020, 05:25:24 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 10, 2020, 11:46:27 am ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 10, 2020, 03:21:56 am ---Some corner cases have really bad consequences if they are not handled. Consider the woman in Melbourne, who left Australia for Indonesia for a very short business trip of a day or two. She parked at the short term parking. She got a sick as a dog in Indonesia, was hospitalised and could not return for two weeks. Her parking fee reached $2000 and the private enterprise company who own Melbourne's Airport would not let her car out unless she paid it.
--- End quote ---

Ride in through the swipe gate on a bike, get a ticket, drive out with your car using the same ticket having paid the 1hr rate  ;D

--- End quote ---

They now have electronics number plate detection mechanisms. They also make the walk to the car park the long way around so they make a lot more profit after the timed thresholds expire. They start charging motorists from the time you enter, not parked, so if their electronic system for showing spare spaces is not working properly and you spend 15 minutes looking for a parking space, you get charged for that time. Melbourne Airport pocketed $1.1 BILLION in profit from parking in the past 10 years. The Italian 'Ndrangheta would be better off getting out of drugs, meths, prostitution, bootlegging and murder, and go into airport parking where extortion is legal, more profitable and you don't go to jail for it.

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Yet another reason why I'm so glad Covid put an end to non-essential air travel!

Halcyon:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 11, 2020, 05:25:24 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 10, 2020, 11:46:27 am ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 10, 2020, 03:21:56 am ---Some corner cases have really bad consequences if they are not handled. Consider the woman in Melbourne, who left Australia for Indonesia for a very short business trip of a day or two. She parked at the short term parking. She got a sick as a dog in Indonesia, was hospitalised and could not return for two weeks. Her parking fee reached $2000 and the private enterprise company who own Melbourne's Airport would not let her car out unless she paid it.
--- End quote ---

Ride in through the swipe gate on a bike, get a ticket, drive out with your car using the same ticket having paid the 1hr rate  ;D

--- End quote ---

They now have electronics number plate detection mechanisms. They also make the walk to the car park the long way around so they make a lot more profit after the timed thresholds expire. They start charging motorists from the time you enter, not parked, so if their electronic system for showing spare spaces is not working properly and you spend 15 minutes looking for a parking space, you get charged for that time. Melbourne Airport pocketed $1.1 BILLION in profit from parking in the past 10 years. The Italian 'Ndrangheta would be better off getting out of drugs, meths, prostitution, bootlegging and murder, and go into airport parking where extortion is legal, more profitable and you don't go to jail for it.

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I argued this point once at Sydney International Airport. They wanted to charge me for simply entering and leaving 20 minutes later, despite never actually parking (I was driving around looking for a casual parking spot whilst waiting for an arrival). I was nice about it rather than being an asshole. They let me out for free (and so they should have). They can have all the systems they like, sometimes it just takes a human to exercise a little common sense.

Zero999:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 11, 2020, 05:25:24 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 10, 2020, 11:46:27 am ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 10, 2020, 03:21:56 am ---Some corner cases have really bad consequences if they are not handled. Consider the woman in Melbourne, who left Australia for Indonesia for a very short business trip of a day or two. She parked at the short term parking. She got a sick as a dog in Indonesia, was hospitalised and could not return for two weeks. Her parking fee reached $2000 and the private enterprise company who own Melbourne's Airport would not let her car out unless she paid it.
--- End quote ---

Ride in through the swipe gate on a bike, get a ticket, drive out with your car using the same ticket having paid the 1hr rate  ;D

--- End quote ---
They now have electronics number plate detection mechanisms. They also make the walk to the car park the long way around so they make a lot more profit after the timed thresholds expire. They start charging motorists from the time you enter, not parked, so if their electronic system for showing spare spaces is not working properly and you spend 15 minutes looking for a parking space, you get charged for that time. Melbourne Airport pocketed $1.1 BILLION in profit from parking in the past 10 years. The Italian 'Ndrangheta would be better off getting out of drugs, meths, prostitution, bootlegging and murder, and go into airport parking where extortion is legal, more profitable and you don't go to jail for it.

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Well they can't stop her from leaving, which would be false imprisonment.

If she had insurance, then it should have been covered.

There are ways round electronic number plate recognition, such as obscuring the number plate, which is not illegal, if done on private property.

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