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Re:Your ATM does not use transactions by mootothemax on Thursday January 10, 2013 @07:47AM (#5036597)
Otherwise bad things happen. Accountants lose their charters. Executives go to jail. That sort of thing.

Funnily enough, "Enron" was the first name that sprang to mind whilst reading comment.

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Re:Your ATM does not use transactions by babebridou on Thursday January 10, 2013 @09:31AM (#5036993)
That was due to bad wording on my part, my bad.

I meant that one should accept that at any random moment the data might be inconsistent with the reality, but after the cut-off time the data for the previous period is guaranteed to be consistent.

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