This was similar to a trick that a few smaller (less serious) hobby-ISPs did back in the days of 14.4k/28.8k modems to take advantage of the "reasonably priced" business plans for ISDN. They'd register multiple businesses at a single address to qualify for the plans, then balance new egress connections across the pool using squid and other magic. Fun times...
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How is it being enforced in Australia?
A webcam photo by the website or a specific third party service, ID verification through a "trusted third party" process, or a checkbox to confirm age?
How much information does the website get over and above "user is over 16 years old", and how much does the government get, if any?
Explain your reasoning, please.
With DPRK it seems pretty simple: Are citizens permitted to leave the country of their own accord? The answer of course is no, and that is extremely telling. Combined with choreographed & escort-only tourism, one really has to question it.
My opinion: Odds are likely that it really is a shithole in many ways and in many places (and for many reasons, sanctions included). That said, people will still live their lives within those constraints, because that's what people tend to do. We won't get accurate and verifiable information from their government about citizen health and longevity, causes of death, etc. so OP's propaganda must be taken as just that.
At some point NK's system will fall, and some historians and archeologists will get to do their thing, and we'll gain some more insights.
I find it pretty useful to help get me over mental hurdle of starting something. So it's faster than me procrastinating for another day. ;-)
Many governments get access to source code for critical systems as a condition for their use / part of contract negotiations. It's also quite likely that Microsoft and all its services in China is operated as a Joint Venture.
China did have Red Flag Linux (with Government support) for a while, too.
If it helps to accurately fill in the details correctly in the backend system, which are then properly validated or escalated for human review/intervention (and let the human requester choose the escalation path too, as opposed to blindly submitting), then it sounds great.
Guided experiences, leading to the desired outcome, with less need for confused humans to talk to confused humans.
I want the same for most financial approvals in my company. Finance folks speak a different language to most employees, but they have an oversized impact on defining business processes, slowing down innovation, frustrating employees, and often driving costs UP.
Hmm. You are right, but they might not need it for every region. Steam is probably big enough that existing regional companies would come to it and be eager to form partnerships. They could become more of a payment processor aggregator, focused on a low risk market segment. And of course they can do CCs directly too - that's the easy part.
The challenge will be to get consumers on board. I know that I groan every time I need to enter my CC details online these days.
They would face anti-competitive behaviour from Peepal though. So it's a risk.
Internally, they are probably already working on ways to appropriately segment their catalog based on payment provider. "Sorry User, you cannot purchase title X using Paypal. We recommend $Competitor instead."
It sounds like some payment processors are treating mastercard's contractual requirements as a hard risk in this case - maybe it's justified, maybe not. Try getting corporate lawyers to be risk averse in the finance world. Mastercard doesn't seem to want to soften their wording but talks platitudes in public statements. Shrug.
They could do it with significantly fewer people, for themselves and even for GOG, Itch and potentially others. Their use-case is digital payments for games, which is limited in scope and risk. PCI and compliance is a PITA, but manageable.
Do you get billed every 4 months, or why frame it that way? Or is this a weird danish thing, like your numbers? :-)
Suddenly reunification with the mainland was on the table after years of tactfully avoiding the topic.
Whose asset is this trump character, anyway?