I read and replied when Justin posted the article but clumsily erased the snarky thing. Thanks Tom and Justin, indeed worth reading.

My union bros know what Blue Sky is. In this case, the vendor says instituting RFID will bring you blue skys... somewhere down the road. Plenty of blue sky in Shulman's note. Could this be a boondoogle for Shufflemaster? The house ponies up for chips, readers, system software, service contracts and vendor IT guys to whack the black boxes when the system goes down. Was there a real problem of any size before chipped chips were brought along? Ought to be to interesting to see how this all plays out. What was it Benny Binion said? "Give 'em a good gamble and good food."

Ask Flamingo and Hilton how great life was when they used MindPlay 21! Here's an industry forum thread about that: http://www.gamingfloor.biz/forum/showthread.php?t=2206