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by rstupek 12y ago
You probably don't. You also don't get grandma to run her own power plant, telephone switching network, etc. As long as her "stuff" is portable, it really doesn't matter who provides the service
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by rstupek 12y ago
You mean 90 senators (out of 100)
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by rstupek 12y ago
Yeah companies able to continue to lose millions offering their below cost product makes it hard to compete in many markets.
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by rstupek 12y ago
Well if 97% of those professionally qualified to test it have one opinion, wouldn't it be prudent to hear the opinions and data for the 3% who don't? Sometimes the 97% can be wrong. A classic example of this is the scientist who
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by rstupek 12y ago
You don't the publicity is more important than the amount of commerce transacted on it? Every one of these companies get the press when they indicate they accept bitcoin. I remain skeptical as to how many are doing any sort of volume
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by rstupek 12y ago
Having been in the merchant system for a long while, there's really nothing the merchant can do to prove you knew what you were doing and agreed to the charges. As a consumer I can like it, as a merchant it really pisses me off someti
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by rstupek 12y ago
Believe it or not a chargeback doesn't have to be for things you consider fradulent. We see people all of the time chargeback for services provided. All you need to do is issue the chargeback. 99.99% of the time it will go through
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Amazon launches SSD in response to Google?(venturebeat.com)
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New Data Questions Netflix’s Assertion That ISPs Are At Fault For Poor Quality(blog.streamingmedia.com)
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by rstupek 12y ago
Well they didn't exactly invent the secure 2FA it has been an RFC for a while.
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by rstupek 13y ago
Except that is's possible that the custom hardware that you speak of will end up costing more money as an end user wanting to buy one of these devices. The hardware that they were using was off the shelf, high volume hardware and thus
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by rstupek 13y ago
Checkout!=Wallet. Checkout was a merchant solution
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by rstupek 13y ago
Google Checkout was a paid solution which google shutdown, leaving merchants stuck looking for alternatives. The fact you're paying for a solution from google (or anyone for that matter) doesn't ensure continued survival of the so
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by rstupek 13y ago
No, Wallet isn't the same thing. Checkout was a merchant solution (not a user solution) which wallet doesn't fill.
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by rstupek 13y ago
Google Checkout was abandoned and wasn't free