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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2624641, member: 27832&quot;]You know, I can&#039;t remember the last time I was in a store and couldn&#039;t check out because &quot;the computer is down&quot;. One or more individual checkout <i>stations</i> are sometimes down (especially with the stores that can&#039;t seem to do maintenance on the self-checkouts [*cough* Harris Teeter]), but at least our permanently-installed infrastructure has gotten pretty reliable around here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those little card readers that plug into your phone? Yeah, they&#039;ve still got a ways to go. But I&#039;m just as happy for them to fail-dead (&quot;not sure everything&#039;s OK, so we won&#039;t let them charge your card&quot;) instead of fail-deferred (&quot;not sure everything&#039;s OK, but we&#039;ll go ahead and process the charge; maybe you&#039;ll get a bogus charge, maybe the merchant will get stuck with a chargeback, but at least <i>somebody&#039;s</i> gotten to walk off with goodies&quot;).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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