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No worries. Indeed direct debit would be awesome - at least for the marginal subset of "companies doing business in Germany"

That may be true for you & me, but probably not relevant to the millions of PEBKAC internet users out there, who can't even tell IE from FF.

n.b. we were talking about DIRECT DEBIT (which is something else entirely from debit cards). You basically allow a company to directly withdraw money from your bank account (assumi…

I found a few of their examples had errors in them. Plus a general dislike towards the Samwer brothers. (I know that this shouldn't affect business)

Very good point there! Sadly we (as usual) have found our own way of doing things :-/

Oh man... I love that Stripe is finally coming to Europe. BUT seriously (going on a disappointed rant here): Belgium & the Netherlands get into private beta and Germany gets nothin…

Either that was a) one hell of a marketing stunt to launch your book on the same day as Stripe launching in the UK OR b) you are one lucky man! Anyway: Godspeed with your launch!

Believe me, I am empathetic to the pain this is causing you. I can understand the anger you are feeling. But I don't think that I am trivializing things. The fact is, that phishing…

As much as I can understand you being upset that Chrome shows a warning for your site, I don't think that the approach they are using is unreasonable. I'd take bets that those crit…

In my experience over the last few weeks, younger Germans (my age, 30 years & younger) are blissfully ignorant ("I don't have anything to hide" - sounds familiar ?) to the impact o…

"These business men are here to tell you why you are going to break your leg tomorrow" - I love that :-)

> Why not? That is exactly the WRONG question. Government power & influence needs to be restricted to the bare minimum necessary - for the security(!) of its citizen. We can all cl…

Wait... That's what I am paying my taxes for? That's where my money goes? I am NOT against Linux being more widely used. And I like the idea that the city uses Linux to save money …

They probably need the CPU cycles somewhere else. Maybe a lot of calls going on right now...

Title win!

I would have probably said (with some imprecision): Electrical circuits either carry a current (binary 1) or they don't (binary 0). [Ignoring the fact that you could also measure t…

It is a legit Moz.com message: https://twitter.com/Moz/status/341379361175400450

Got informed by a user of a weakness in web interface AFAIK

I posted this already. To answer your question: The email clearly reads "We were not hacked"

Full text of the email, because there is no announcement on the blog so far ------------------------------------------------ On Friday, May 31st, we discovered that an encrypted po…

Any reasons behind this?

I am not saying, that your perspective is wrong - I certainly feel that you have made a good point there. But maybe we (You & I) just aren't in their target audience and while it d…