I mean broken clocks are right twice a day and this guy just might be.
You could take crypto for high risk processing, I guess. then all the risk would be on the merchant's side and they couldn't blame the processor. Different risk, but still. No charge backs, but risk of hacks and all your money disappearing, yes. or at least money not converted back to USD immediatly. Oh and high barriers of risk for customers as well who have to convert currency to whatever dumb crytpo they choose and spend before hack. Would that be preferrable? Not sure, but They could try.

Again.... Un-freaking believable. The concept of risk is not something they understand, which make sense as then invented crypto.

Yup no idea.

Slashdotters are old as dirt.

Next story: How to build your digital gravestone with Free software.

Yeah ok. I guess the scam makes sense now. I thought he might have been able to just keep the scamming to a minimum by selling Samsung with a cool gold sticker, but if he just took all the money and only made 1.3 million, I understand why he didn't stick to the low level scam. He made the right scummy choice. Its incredible that they bothered prosecuting him for 1.3 million.

I don't like that the police have access to this much computer surveillance at once. I'm not supporting a company thats making it happen. Police over and over again prove that they are basically Cartman from Southpark.

Yes that explains the complexity, but not the ongoing bad naming of the options.

Undefeated in UTF-8 battles. Never met a non latin1 encoding it couldn't mangle.

Hitting a bit of the "Crúiscín Lán" during a "brain storming" event, I see. God Damn I wish I worked there.

Sorry, the vast majority of numbskulls on here don't bother researching beyond a rage inducing headline written by the equally logic impaired. The narrative they choose to believe is that advertisers censor. And payment providers charge more because they hate nudity.

They can't be taught logic. like:
  money good. Advertisers want money. Advertisers make rule to make more money.
Bank also want money. Bank also make rule to make more money.

Because of fraud.

"We're talking about payment methods that can only be attained by an adult." You know that isn't correct, right? With everyday stores being cashless, its not uncommon for parents to give cards to kids.

But the super secret code names apple has been stowing away, will bring them glory! Glory and Fame! All shall bow to the might of snapchat and their secret code names for things that no one wants!

Given the state of the laws on Technology, we should see that come to pass where Anonymity is legally banned. While other smaller companies may be able to set up shop, or you can deploy your own VPN somehow without tracing it to yourself, any public for profits will have to comply with the law. So this is a neat tech implementation that may not end up mattering much in the near future.

J2ME suuuuccccked. Google did the right thing to it. Meego was a nice beautiful UI on a lake of shit beneath it tied to boat anchor hardware, as hard as it is to accept. From talking with devs that created it, it was a nightmare inside created by various mixing of older distros and coding paradigms.