Wristbands

The lumni wristbands make our GA bands look alot cooler. One step up from scum of the earth.

Did anyone get a Lumni wrist band? I saw a photo of one today. I got my bands but no Lumni ones...

Actually, this would be useless.

first off, the inexpensive, passive, non-powered RFID chips used in festival bands only work within a few centimeters of a scanner.  So you would have to to place cell phone within an inch or so of the persons wrists, and some people might regard that as inappropriate touching.  Second, if you have ever scanned into and out of Centeroo, you know that sometimes you have to place your bracelet directly on the scanner and try four or five times to get it to read.

third, suppose you actually got your phone to read someone's code...now, how are you going to use that code to buy from a vendor?  Are you going to say gee I lost my bracelet my but my rfid code is 286354H7629720A1? Nope, because the transaction is only made based on the scan of the bracelet - no readable bracelet, no drinkable beer. Are you going to manufacture a new RFID with the stolen code in your tent at Lockn?  Nope, because you can't. So the stolen code is perfectly useless.

and by the way, for others, if you register the bracelet for cashless vending, the bracelet does not have any of your credit card information on it.  It just has a long, unique identification number.  That's it. It gets paired up with your cc info on the vending computer system, not on your bracelet.  In order to steal credit card info from the cashless vending system, you have to hack the vending computers, not the bracelet, and this would be more comfortably done from a coffee shop in Prague rather than a sweltering beer garden in Virginia.

im not advocating for or against the cashless system, just trying to clear up some fundamental misinformation about how it works.  No one is going to hack your cc info with a portable NFC reader or cell phone because it does not yield any useable information.  Someone might put a skimmer on the ATM machines which will then deliver hundreds of ATM card numbers and passwords by the end of the weekend, but I have yet to read a paranoid post about that.  

Read your 2600 magazine if you can find one.

Not sure if payment plan had anything to do with it or not. Do know that if it is as exclusive hospitality as it was last year (not) then non wristband ers aren't missing much.

Sounds like the Marlboro trailer was better. Free shirt, bottled water and pack of smokes. Not bad even though i dont smoke cigarettes.

My wristband was in Austin, TX as of 8:08pm this eve.



I'll keep you posted.

We ordered 5 tkts thru the Lumni program. Too broke to afford VIP or SVIP after that. I think that was in November of last year. We gots no speshul "Lumni" wristband.  

I sent an e-mail asking why my GA RV pass was going to "not found" on the USPS web page & received this somewhat lame excuse:

Hi Gavin,
I would be more than happy to assist you. The tracking number displayed on your shipping confirmation email only confirms your order has left our facility. This information is not passed to USPS and tracking is not available. IF you have not received your order 1 week prior to the event, please contact us with the receipt number for assistance.

I think she meant to say "This information HAS NOT passed"...... not "This information IS NOT passed".
Just checked it again, and "Not Found" is reverberating my emotions again today. Arrgghhh..

Still no early entry print at home tkt has been received. Nice to read that others are getting their stuff. Patience is truly a rewarding ....

Thirteen to go folks!
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