Yes, it was reasonably common. 16MB and 64MB are more common admittedly, and when a 16MB module was soldered and a 64MB daughterboard was added, it was a reasonable configuration.
No, it doesn't. Getting cash in and out of a store, ordering floats, EOD process for systems to do GL postings for cash - are such a huge business expense. So much longer than asking your payment switch to run the Acquire/Settle process.
Why do PIN pads revert to signature if a PIN isn't provided? People are too stupid to remember their PIN. It's not a red herring.
No no no no no. It's a fallback only in case of an unreadable chip. In 95% on implementations, it is a card scheme rule to try chip CVM first, and a forgotten pin will lead to abort/block (if 3 times)
Online PIN is more prevalent than you think in the UK. It's why there is such a big push for T1 retailers to go to P2PE and DUKPT. (BTW - Online PIN is retailer implementation specific, not card specific. Cards still need to do offline PIN.)
I will. Any retailer/acquirer that accepts less will pay bigger interchange fees and be held more accountable. If they are unsure they can guarantee identity to a reasonable degree (i.e. for subscribers or B2B customers) then they will be hit so hard by the Card Schemes.
Its your payment switch, not the terminal. Guessing you have a PSP rather than a dedicated switch? Swap PSPs if you are sure its not your net connection. The protocol is very lightweight and shouldn't be that slow.
Slightly incorrect - most Card Scheme rules require fallback to swipe in confirmed chip faliure. The MagStripe is under PCI-DSS though, and the reader should be disabled until the HSM confirms that what it has read is not a payment card, then if your PED is smart, another application may be allowed to read the stripe (i.e. Electric and Loyalty cards)
The ones that charge the same for card as cash?
BUT WAIT - they must be passing on the fortunes they spend in cash handling on to card customers! how unfair!
Now how about more of you merchants finally move forward with contactless payments?
Well:
- The hardware is expensive as fuck
Nope. Certified terminals in the UK can be bought for around £100. Even market sellers and car boot sellers use it from their phones/ipads.
- The hardware breaks frequently
Nope - its more resilient than any other piece of POS hardware I've architected.
- The standards are still in flux
Total bullshit. EMV are strict and stable.
- There's almost no benefit to the merchant unless the merchant takes a lot of fraudulent cards
Thats why UK high volume retailers are stopping accepting cash? So they can increase margins and throughput by speeding up transactions?
- Contactless is going to cost more, if it doesn't already (Apple and Google aren't charities)
Thats the biggest bullshit of the lot! Apple and Google aren't merchant banks. Interchange fees on contactless are lower, sometimes nil, in order to encourage their use over cash.
Not disagreeing with you totally - but using that argument to shoot down the one before is literally replying to "This is the best: It works for me!" with "NO! This is the BEST! It works for me!"
- By the same token, the IntelliJ derivatives MUST be the BESTEST BEST, they work for ME!
Yep. I used to be Chairman of our university's union executive committee, and we would always run a 'Re-open nominations candidate'. RON also had a minimum poll of around 20% of the expected turnout (multiple ballots were held simultaneously for different positions), meaning that if turnout was so poor in one ballot, no candidate could win by default.
We also used Singe-Transferable votes, so you could vote your candidate, and express if he doesn't win, you want the nominations reopened.
Don't personally think GTK is ruined, but this is a story about Gnome's UI so it follows that GTK may also follow the widget styles, so GTK does seem relevant in this context.
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They have made what - 4-5 points in total this season. In other words - they are at the absolute bottom of the field
They have 10 points. Force India, Renault, Sauber and MRT have less points. They are decidedly middle-of-the-field.
and 80 MB is not a normal size for ram.
Yes, it was reasonably common. 16MB and 64MB are more common admittedly, and when a 16MB module was soldered and a 64MB daughterboard was added, it was a reasonable configuration.
No, it doesn't. Getting cash in and out of a store, ordering floats, EOD process for systems to do GL postings for cash - are such a huge business expense. So much longer than asking your payment switch to run the Acquire/Settle process.
Maybe this is country specific then - most UK scheme rules mandate it - all POS's can configure it though!
Why do PIN pads revert to signature if a PIN isn't provided? People are too stupid to remember their PIN. It's not a red herring.
No no no no no. It's a fallback only in case of an unreadable chip. In 95% on implementations, it is a card scheme rule to try chip CVM first, and a forgotten pin will lead to abort/block (if 3 times)
Online PIN is more prevalent than you think in the UK. It's why there is such a big push for T1 retailers to go to P2PE and DUKPT. (BTW - Online PIN is retailer implementation specific, not card specific. Cards still need to do offline PIN.)
I will. Any retailer/acquirer that accepts less will pay bigger interchange fees and be held more accountable. If they are unsure they can guarantee identity to a reasonable degree (i.e. for subscribers or B2B customers) then they will be hit so hard by the Card Schemes.
Its your payment switch, not the terminal. Guessing you have a PSP rather than a dedicated switch? Swap PSPs if you are sure its not your net connection. The protocol is very lightweight and shouldn't be that slow.
Slightly incorrect - most Card Scheme rules require fallback to swipe in confirmed chip faliure. The MagStripe is under PCI-DSS though, and the reader should be disabled until the HSM confirms that what it has read is not a payment card, then if your PED is smart, another application may be allowed to read the stripe (i.e. Electric and Loyalty cards)
No - no its not. And never will. Offline auth is done by the chip on the card. Online auth will use DUKPT.
The ones that charge the same for card as cash? BUT WAIT - they must be passing on the fortunes they spend in cash handling on to card customers! how unfair!
Now how about more of you merchants finally move forward with contactless payments? Well: - The hardware is expensive as fuck
Nope. Certified terminals in the UK can be bought for around £100. Even market sellers and car boot sellers use it from their phones/ipads.
- The hardware breaks frequently
Nope - its more resilient than any other piece of POS hardware I've architected.
- The standards are still in flux
Total bullshit. EMV are strict and stable.
- There's almost no benefit to the merchant unless the merchant takes a lot of fraudulent cards
Thats why UK high volume retailers are stopping accepting cash? So they can increase margins and throughput by speeding up transactions?
- Contactless is going to cost more, if it doesn't already (Apple and Google aren't charities)
Thats the biggest bullshit of the lot! Apple and Google aren't merchant banks. Interchange fees on contactless are lower, sometimes nil, in order to encourage their use over cash.
Correct See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hold on, let me just check the maths in the summary...
1 service = 120
2 services = 240
3 services = 360
Yep - all checks out.
Not disagreeing with you totally - but using that argument to shoot down the one before is literally replying to "This is the best: It works for me!" with "NO! This is the BEST! It works for me!" - By the same token, the IntelliJ derivatives MUST be the BESTEST BEST, they work for ME!
Read the comment properly - the standards changed again on the new MBPs - can't upgrade it yet.
You must be a MS MVP...
Try upgrading an SSD on the early 2015 macbook pro... No third parties have made one compatible yet.
He's thinking of Time Capsule, a NAS built into a WiFi router, which identifies to Time Machine to make backups easier in a home network.
Arghhh.... I can feel apk's footsteps coming down the hall...
Yep. I used to be Chairman of our university's union executive committee, and we would always run a 'Re-open nominations candidate'. RON also had a minimum poll of around 20% of the expected turnout (multiple ballots were held simultaneously for different positions), meaning that if turnout was so poor in one ballot, no candidate could win by default. We also used Singe-Transferable votes, so you could vote your candidate, and express if he doesn't win, you want the nominations reopened.
Don't personally think GTK is ruined, but this is a story about Gnome's UI so it follows that GTK may also follow the widget styles, so GTK does seem relevant in this context.