It's not just "easy". Fax is as secure as the phone network we pretend is secure, so if you act on a fax which appears to come from a specific phone number then you have some level of legal protection from liability. If you use a website or email then you are only as protected from liability as your identity verification system.

If I need to deposit a check, I take a photo of it with my cellphone using the bank's app and it gets processed just fine. The MICR font is highly OCRable, so as long as what else is written/printed on it is legible, everything works well. Even if a human has to review it because it was handwritten, they will only have to briefly glance at most checks. The only thing I actually write checks for any more is my rent. The paper check costs me very little and they cost nothing to deposit on the other end. I think the landlord is depositing them in person, because they seem to do them two or so at a time.

You appear to have not read anything above your comment. I can't do a QR code by hand. I need a printer to produce one. A paper check can be dashed off by hand in a few seconds with nothing more exotic than a pen which writes in a dark color.

We haven't even eliminated magstrips. We still have them around for backup. An attacker can disable a chip reader by making a special card that applies epoxy to the contacts when it's inserted, which you can do with e.g. a dremel, forcing subsequent users to fall back to the strip.

That's the US for you. Electoral college, scotus with no term limits, yada yada.

These days we have thick gloves which can activate a capacitive touch screen.

We create content with strong SEO attributes which will come up on searches and lead to ad impressions from visitors.

You don't even need a diagnosis. If you just go to disabled student services you can tell them you're unable to concentrate blah blah blah

Three wheeled vehicles are bad. Even if they make good the vehicle will be crap. It will also be a deathtrap on US roads with a bunch of completely incompetent idiots driving three ton trucks and SUVs.

I am thinking about installing lineage on my old Pixel 5, which I use for audiobooks and which Google no longer supports. However, Lineage is a step backwards in security compared to Google's releases on current phones, and it just can't compare to Graphene's security. I do have a few apps that do not work on GrapheneOS, or that have broken features, but I'd expect to run into similar issues with Lineage.

The rest of us will not want to suffer from the underdeveloped platform.

Right now, the only truly great mobile OS is GrapheneOS. Secure, fast, well-supported, and private. Nobody else compares.

Oh yeah true .. in-office or community center or pharmacy then. Seems like a good benefit (assuming such a low maintenance MRI could ever be made) .. It would need robust safety features to prevent injury of people who forget to take out metal/or forgot they have implants.

Of course there is. Would be cool if they could make an in-home or in-gym/office MRI so that you can scan yourself every few months looking for deltas. If anything looks sus, do a PET-CT. The biggest challenge in making an MRI machine is that you need superconducting magnets, which requires liquid Helium and liquid helium means difficult plumbing and massive bulk. Someone needs to figure out how to build one with liquid nitrogen/"high" temperature superconductors. Or somehow with regular magnets/electromagnets.

I deal with maybe 30 checks a year, written and received. I used to deal with 600+. It took some effort to find a reasonably priced ACH payment processor, but once I did, I never looked back. That said, those 30 checks are usually checks for multiple reasons.

Yes, the real reason why netflix used to have a fantastic catalog at low cost was because at the time, the rights holders didn't take Internet streaming seriously and so cheap deal to Netflix was a low risk easy bit of free money.

Then they took it seriously, didn't get the deals from Netflix they thought they should be able to get and started making their own streaming services instead. Probably the first sign of things was when Starz demanded to be a "premium channel" on Netflix. Frankly if Netflix has accepted that arrangement, they might have been the defacto broker of streaming services in one app, though the user experience suffers, but it suffered anyway.

Linus switches to Windows.

Nobody cares about this but you.

Gotta compete with the Ellison bribes.