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There is a respectable startup coming out of CMU pushing a more secure version of the credit card pins. They or one of their competitors will catch on soon enou

• ojbyrne 17y ago
  They are already in Canada, as is just about everything else in the article (rotting teeth on cigarette packs, waiters with portable credit/debit terminals). I had the sense not of USA vs. Europe but USA vs. everywhere else in the world.
  • nihilocrat 17y ago
    The article also felt a little naiive to me, but in a completely understandable way, I'm not about to expect someone to know how cigarette packets, credit cards, restaurants, touristy areas, etc. work around the world. He probably would have been either annoyed or appalled by the anti-credit nature of Germany. In Munich, at least, non-touristy venues did not accept credit circa 2006.
    • wheels 17y ago
      That's still common. You can't pay with a credit card in most of Germany for most things. Don't expect it unless you're at a nice restaurant, most grocery stores don't take them, bars don't, certainly not at convenience stores and the like. I can't decide which I prefer. I tend towards convenience, but there's also some comfort in knowing that everything that I've ever bought isn't tracked back to me. In contrast on my last trip to the US I had $20 in my wallet when I arrived and I never had to get cash in the week that I was there.