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Re:Chip Credit Cards Give Retailers Another Grievance Agains... by deanclatworthy on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:06AM (#10579781)
As has been pointed out several times in these comments, Americans appear to be living with their head above the clouds regarding these machines. in Finland all the machines are hooked up to 3G and initialised in the morning before customers arrive. It takes less than 2s for the the machine to ask for your pin and I'd say on average less than 2-3s to accept it. Tell me, what is the problem?
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Re:Chip Credit Cards Give Retailers Another Grievance Agains... by jsprogrammer on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:14AM (#10579804)
Please try reading the article and the thread.

TJ's put in the new machines and those machines have the constraints I described above.

Europe, its ilk, and their terminals are completely irrelevant.

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Re:Chip Credit Cards Give Retailers Another Grievance Agains... by serge2k on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @04:03PM (#10583931)
> Europe, its ilk, and their terminals are completely irrelevant.

Not really. It's a valid comparison to figure out what the cause of the problem actually is.

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Re:Chip Credit Cards Give Retailers Another Grievance Agains... by jsprogrammer on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @04:25PM (#10584056)
The only explanation that would be remotely plausibly acceptable was if some long-running encryption process was occurring between the card and the terminal.

More likely it is just poor specifications and poor execution.

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