That still takes time (which is money) and money (in the form of bank fees) out of me.

I'm still going to prefer the retailer who doesn't surcharge me over one that doesn't; it's that simple.

And full of Texans. :(

If we could count on the retailer to lower their prices to remove the inflation of the surcharge, it'd be a different story, but you know as well as I do that won't happen.

For quite some time, I used to offer companies with whom I'd developed a long standing relationship on the Internet a cheque or US money order to pay for goods so there'd be no Paypal/credit card fees in exchange for a better price. (I'd have even split the difference on the fees).

Every one of them were like, "No, that's the price."

I stopped trying.

There's a lot more to be considered, surely. But my visits to Best Buy/Target/whatever would probably be altered.

Actually, when the store owner has to start paying his employees more money to put shit back on the shelf, he may start rethinking if that money on the credit card fees is more worthwhile.

I use a credit card for two reasons.
A) If someone swipes/steals that information, they're stealing VISA's money, not mine. If I use a debit card and they steal my info, they drain my bank account, my mortgage bounces. That's bad.
B) Rewards programs. I get thousands of dollars a year in rewards. I put /everything/ on my credit card. Only thing I don't is my mortgage and that's just because I can't. I pay it off every month. Companies that are going to make this less advantageous for me are going to get less of my business.

Well, realistically, I'd probably not have gone in the store in the first place if they implemented it, because I'd have hopefully done my homework.

That said, I think it would be important that store owners have a chance to hear their employees go, "yea, I had to put 3x as much stuff back on the shelf today because people keep saying no thanks when they try and charge items to their credit cards".

Other than groceries, I do very little shopping in-store now anyway -- I do most of my shopping online.

I wouldn't think twice about having the clerk go, "there's a surcharge for credit", to which I'd respond, "OK, thanks anyway." and leave.

I'm pretty sure my Linksys router doesn't have that vulnerabil -- HA JUST KIDDING, WHO WANTS MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER?

I'm not hydrophobic, I have gay friends!

That's all of Canada.

Robelus can eat my ass and the CRTC is a joke.

Example: Rogers' best Internet plan is $130/mo. 250G of data. You will exceed that in less than 5h at full speed.

Fucking assholes.

Alternatively, unless the standard already in place is not extendable or horribly broken, instead of making up their own shit behind closed doors, why couldn't they have approached the community, and got involved.

"Hey, we have some ideas we'd like to try out and would like to help extend the standard, here are our ideas:" ... inclusion as opposed to blind exclusion.

Agreed. I learned to rip my blu-rays and content a long time ago.. HDCP is just an irritating technology that further promotes idiotic technology.

I think it's adorable you think iOS is 'on top'.

Canada. We have chip & pin and it's pretty prevalent.

... as far as you know.

Just because they only leaked the password doesn't mean they don't have the usernames that go with them, intend on cracking the passwords, and then just looking up the matching hashes somewhere else to link accounts to passwords.