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NewsNew design improves performance of flexible wearable electronics Pin
Kent Sharkey22-Jun-17 14:41
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NewsCIA penetrated by insider network of candy thieves Pin
Kent Sharkey22-Jun-17 14:34
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This goes on more than you think. Many e-commerce systems rely on an element of trust. For example do you really think Tesco checks every transaction? However many hundreds of thousands they get every second? Some systems are designed to batch process payments that fall within a given threshold. This snack machine will probably be holding onto the transaction and will process it when the connection comes back. This decision is a balance of the risk of potentially losing 50p for a Mars bar vs the machine being out of action or considered "unreliable" if the network is temporarily down.

There was a similar scam recently where crooks would buy high-value luxury items from airplanes while in flight. As there is no way of maintaining a proper connection while the plane was in the air there is no way to live-verify the cards mid-flight so (as above) the system pends the transaction to be processed when it does have a connection and gives the customer the benefit of the doubt. Obviously when the customer is a crook with a cancelled card or not enough funds the system fails, but it's all about the balance of the potential for fraud vs lost genuine sales.
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Dan Neely26-Jun-17 2:19
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NewsLinus Torvalds explains how Linux still surprises and motivates him Pin
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NewsIt's cheaper to infect 1,000 computers with malvertising than to buy a beer six-pack Pin
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NewsThe tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative tech torpedoed by corporations Pin
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NewsStephen Hawking: it’s time to get off planet Earth Pin
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