What alternatives would you consider? Big Magento fan here but it takes some hair pulling to understand how to write extensions in the beginning - relatively high learning curve.. It is a bit of an overkill however.
Cool to see but stupid idea, who in their right mind would use this for production?! By using such a "technology", you lose SEO strength due to urls-not-being-like-this.html and even worse, what can stop me from publishing a fake press release on there site/spamming porn and getting that URL indexed? And what are the benefits? To also bring SOPA into this, couldn't I share copyrighted material on someone's site like this? How could they control that?! Besides blocking each URL manually. Just seems dumb. As a concept, cool, but for production.... Yikes?!
I find it very saddening that so many people here are speculating that Ilya committed suicide. It's disrespectful to speculate, especially in such a case. Get a life.
It's not printed on the bulb unfortunately but it was like $7-$8 at walmart. I suspect it's not the leds that failed but the regulating electronics - I'm saving it to try to re-use the leds someday, maybe for direct-drive off a battery.
The $15 one above looks like much better quality and 1/3rd the price of the philips. I'm not dropping $40 ever on a led bulb.
Why? All this allows you to do is to initiate a transfer to someone using their phone or email, rather than making you know their routing number & checking number.
Presumably, I can't call the bank and tell them to transfer from someone's account using their phone/email address.
Do you have a problem giving your Paypal address out? I don't: I give mine out and people can use it to transfer money in. How is this any different at all?
Anything that makes it easier, faster, or more convenient to transfer money is going to increase fraud. This is not hyperbole, it's simply a matter of degree.
The credit card networks make up for this by charging a sizeable fee on every transaction and passing the cost of reported fraudulent transactions back to the merchants, who presumably feel the convenience is worth the cost.
In this scheme though it's not clear who is going to bear the cost. Paypal had Ebay to basically force people to use it for their transactions.
Who is going to pay the fraud costs in these transactions? Do federal laws that limit liability for other card network transactions apply to email payments by bank? Are personal and business accounts treated the same way?
Do you have a problem giving your Paypal address out?
Yes I don't use PayPal, although its as much because I have heard of so many people not actually getting paid the money they were sent.
But this isn't really about you and me, we know how email and phishing scams work so we are not the biggest ones at risk.
How is this any different at all?
For one thing, Paypal currently does face huge costs due to fraud, so even if it's the same, it represents more of it.
There is now (and there almost always has been) so much fraud in banking it's treated as an expected statistical loss. Something like 0.5% of transactions is one statistic I've heard. Banking has been pushed online, and currently the highest-risk website transaction of all is setting up a new biller, address, account number, etc. in the online bill-pay. There's malware that will script this process for you.
So now the transaction destination is just an email address... hmm, what could possibly go wrong? :-)
