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.

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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

... of a thing to begin with.

It came to fame when some Java guys finally discovered convention over configuration, built yet another web framework around it and bedazzled the world with a 15 minute presentation of Ruby on Rails. The marketing of the ruby on rails FOSS project was the true genius behind all the hype. However, Ruby itself was still struggling with basics such as utf 8 and other details, so people stuck with php, Python or whatever else they were using at the time.

Rails never really caught on in a larger scale. If it had, Ruby would be a thing today. I think it's safe to say that TypeScript has taken its place.

Pointing a phone camera in someone's face without consent also gets people upset. There are plenty of clips on YouTube in various contexts where it escalated into violence. Having a camera constantly perched on your face will too and it's an entirely self inflicted situation when people start throwing punches.

He didn't need them to see and he certainly didn't need to have a camera attached to his face with no means to remove it. He learned the hard way that people have opinions about that. Especially in Europe where the concept of privacy and violating it are more prone to prompt a reaction.

Pointing spy glasses at others is an open invitation for them to be ripped off and destroyed in front of the owner. Or violence. Even in America where the concept of privacy is optional they're intrusive. I expect the reaction in Europe, particularly in France and Germany will escalate into violence even more quickly. And frankly people stupid enough to wear this garbage should have known better.

... was writing some Rake files (Ruby's equivalent to Gradle) to build a very large project comprising many different components in C++, Java and other stuff. As a language it seemed very pleasant, not far removed from other high level scripting languages like Python. It wasn't producing super fast code but it was fine for our purposes. I liked that it could have blocks that could implicitly return values. I liked that it was terse and some decent JSON support through a gem. I thought the acyclic build system was really nifty and far easier to understand than Gradle (with groovy or kotlin).

But I don't think I would like to use Ruby (or Python) for anything serious. If I want high level scripting I'd probably just use NodeJS, and if I wanted something more I'd use an actual structured language, preferably one with decent package management.

The drug's commercial name is Leqembi, and it's drug name is Lecanemab (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecanemab).

And la Presidenta is probably on it. The problem with his right hand is likely caused by the intravenous application. And the newly installed signs around the WH are what you do for Alzheimer's patients so they do not get themselves lost. His rage posts at all hours of the night indicates someone who is up all night, another symptom of that drug. The people in his "Dear Leader" cabinet meetings treat him like an Alzheimer's patient because that is what is normally done for an Alzheimer's patient, i.e. bombard him with constant happy talk lest he go bonkers in front of them, or worse, in front of cameras which would cause people to ask his cabinet embarrassing questions such as "Is he nuts or are you?"

The problem with you Maggots is that you refuse to realize what is right in front of you. With la Presidenta, his behavior has always been so stupid that it is sometimes hard to distinguish from mental degeneration. And what happens to the Maggots once Dear Leader goes 'round the twist? Answer: deny he's mentally incapacitated because Project 2025 can still supply him with stupid shit to sign, which is indistinguishable from the stupid shit he would normally come up with. He's just a useful idiot who thinks he's president.

You *hope* they'll refund you. They *hope* that the sum is so small that nobody will go to the effort of reclaiming it. I'm also sure it this small sum is actually a way for them to identify & hit whales for bigger sums through crowdfunding appeals. If you were stupid enough to go to the next level and actually "invest" in Aptera through their crowdfunding activities, well sucks to be you. You ain't seeing that money ever again.

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I'd say the similarities in name aren't by accident. I wish Jolla good luck they had a nice product but 400 euros for a crow funded phone from a company know for it's volatility probably doesn't inspire confidence in long term viability. Just saying.

Is Cobol "still a 'serious' programming language?" Is Fortran "still a 'serious' programming language?"

Is EditorDavid still a serious editor? Was he ever?

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.