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Comment Re:How wasteful (Score 1) 206

"How many product packages will need to be re-designed?"

No more than are currently slated to be done, I'd guess. They are constantly changing sizes and counts and amounts, and each change should be its own barcode update. And major brands already have 2D barcodes. So, meh.

Comment Re:Invalidates existing lookup apps also (Score 1) 206

Any app that has quality data behind it will be *well* ahead of the curve on this. I have 3,938,006 items after a year, and I gave up. You have to be in the industry to get this much data handed to you.

Sure, I could get hundreds or thousands of AWS instances to crawl the largest retailers, but they typically have anti-bot tech running. You can, and I have, crawl one site and get banned by other sites based on your cloudflare reputation.

Comment Re:Empty promises (Score 1) 206

No. When you say "The difficulty is gathering up all the data" you are understating the problem by several, several orders of magnitude. The "reams of extras" can be put there by the people who make the product, or, in your example, crowdsourced, essentially.

Reading a barcode isn't rocket science, open source can do it well, and there's no room in an open standard for junk data that can't be ignored. URI, ignore, problem solved.

Comment Re:These Laws are Going to Cause a lot of Turmoil (Score 2) 40

Coding should be mature enough that we can handle it. If the answer is using more mature languages like Rust instead of bare-metal C, that's the price of progress.

I'm fully onboard with requiring damages as a result of vulnerabilities, I think you're saying merely having a vulnerability shouldn't be the trigger for enforcement.

AFAIK, and we love our car analogies, auto recalls happen because something has happened enough times, not that some engineer has found a potential problem. That model seems okay.

Comment Re:Anyone try it? (Score 1) 174

Wrong. The target audience is anyone who wants a burger but... Regardless of what comes after the "but".

I have tried the Impossible Whopper, and it's just as bad as the regular Whopper. I'll have the same effect on burger production, none.

Still, I support any move away from real beef. I'm not interested, but I support it as if I were.

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