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Yahoo Shuts Down Their PayPal Competitor
LostCluster writes "MSNBC and ZDnet are both reporting that Yahoo and HSBC have announced a shutdown plan for their PayDirect service which was their rival to PayPal. Since CitiBank abandoned their c2it service last year, PayPal now seems to be a monopoly by default." There are other players in this field, though, like bidpay and worldpay.
He corrected the submitter by naming several competitors. He could've gone further by removing the submitter's comment entirely, though.
The advantage to me as a consumer is that I don't have to give my CC# to a complete stranger. The burden of proof is on the vendor but it is still a hassle to get everything fixed if your card number is stolen.
It's has been and will continue to be my position that people sufficiently illiterate to confuse the words niggardly or reneged with a racial slur are the ones who need to be removed. Changing the language to avoid offending the ignorant is NOT a good thing.
This is one of those words that we could easily remove from the lexicon if we could get over the absolutist position that ALL free speech is a good thing
Or better yet, we could all learn the proper definitions of the words.
Oh wait, that assumes the liability of effort onto the part of the ignorant. You're right, let's outlaw uncommon words that sound vaguely similar to common offensive words. I hearby renege all uncommon words and niggardly parse to you all a cleansed vocabulary.
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