{"id":10535,"date":"2016-02-04T08:38:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10535"},"modified":"2016-02-04T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:38:51","slug":"153366-old-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2016\/02\/04\/153366-old-school\/","title":{"rendered":"153\/366: Old School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in the US, we’re slowly transitioning to the European system of chip-based credit cards (I got email at work saying that my new card there will actually be chip-and-PIN, wonder of wonders). This is not uniformly distributed yet, though, so about half of the retailers I deal with regularly want the chip, the other half want the old-school swipe. If you guess wrong about a particular store, the terminal will blat loudly and annoyingly at you, so I end up asking cashiers all the time “Are you guys doing the chip thing yet?”<\/p>\n

One local store apparently got sick of that, and modified their terminals with Post-It notes:<\/p>\n

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Credit-card terminal at the Niskayuna Co-Op.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(I took this when I brought my camera with me on the walk to the store to pick up a few things– trying to replace a little of the exercise I’m no longer getting with Emmy gone. The other thing I took a bunch of photos of on the way was old-school rooftop TV antennas. It’s a theme!)<\/p>\n

(I thought I had queued this to publish yesterday, but I was apparently wrong…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here in the US, we’re slowly transitioning to the European system of chip-based credit cards (I got email at work saying that my new card there will actually be chip-and-PIN, wonder of wonders). This is not uniformly distributed yet, though, so about half of the retailers I deal with regularly want the chip, the other… Continue reading 153\/366: Old School<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}