I was deeply into it as well (though not at your level). I was so happy when a question I asked was printed in Action Pursuit Games (something like should I upgrade to nitro or stay with CO2?).
They weren't late, though? If they wanted people to show up 5-10 minutes early, make the training at 5:50 or 5:55. Don't say 6 and really mean earlier.
Exactly. "Early" is generally understood to mean before the "time in question" -- the time that serves as the frame of reference when an engagement will occur.
Asking participants to arrive early would, at least to me, strike as a caveat to those who might otherwise arrive late -- but not at the "time in question".
On time is on time, which is AT the stated time. Not before, not after.
Wow this is awesome. I had to integrate Alipay into a checkout process in ~2010 and it was a complete nightmare - and not even as a result of the language barrier. The API was just so so bad. Glad this is in Stripe now.
I generally agree, but if the retailer is large enough they almost certainly pay a percentage of their cash payments to a Brinks-like company to securely handle the transfer of the money.
But at least in the latter case, not incrementally by much for my cash purchase. Every cash purchase does require a bit more work in counting the bills, but the time to deposit the cash doesn't change if it's to a night depository, and again just a little if face to face with a teller.
Unless the purchase is small, there's also a time cost in getting the signature, although that's small if the company is big enough to collect it with their POS terminal, and there's also back end reconciliation work to be done, manually if the place is small, like a non-chain restaurant.
No payment method is free of overhead and friction.
I want to know an explanation of why credit card data was stored. Is this standard? Shouldn't they only need it long enough to process the transaction - there's no reason to store it, correct?
Was the data stolen in transit (should be entirely encrypted) or stolen while at rest?
Is there any evidence the transaction was stored, except insofar as storage was necessary to carry out the heist? The credit card data could have been intercepted while being input (e.g. by a keylogger).
