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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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