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.

To crash the OS out wound need to be in the kennel, so do a quick test if that RAM using something like MARCH C.

Given that Linehan had spent months harassing her on Twitter, to which she didn't respond, and she was a child at the time... I can't see any justification.

My sympathies to the woman involved, as Linehan is a shitty person and no-one other than actual pedophiles deserves that kind of label (can I venture a guess that the woman involved was being accused of that because she felt suicidal children suffering from gender dysphoria should have access to psychiatrists, who in turn should be able to use mainstream psychiatric therapies for GD?), but I'm reluctant to say that ambushing someone with a camera and microphone isn't a legitimate occasion to have your device(s) damaged. You're intentionally trying to piss someone off.

It sounds like the failure here was X holding Linehan to account (whether due to their own policy, or the UK not having laws allowing obvious defamation to be pulled down.)

I'm increasingly of the opinion we protect property far too highly over privacy and other basic rights to be treated humanely in the western world. And everyone can be manipulated into doing things like property damage or minor "violence" (pushing back, etc). These things shouldn't carry a criminal sentence, not even even if you're a rotten person.

(Oh, and cops are notorious for being able to do that kind of manipulation to get bogus assault charges against victims they've provoked, it works both ways.)

Break the fucking cameras.

Hmm, two decades ago perhaps. We must be getting old because it doesn't seem like that long ago.

It's more like "dictionary entry of the year". Some things where the two words have to be used together for a specific meaning have dictionary entries, such as speed bump, for example.

Then everyone will start using it as an excuse to attack other people. Especially the cops - they hate being filmed. They will claim it was "aggressive" and justified violence.

A guy called Graham Linehan was just convicted of smashing a girl's phone, when she filled an interaction where she asked him why he called her a "groomer" on twitter, and worse. It was the right judgement, he had no need to do it, and mere annoyance can't be enough or everyone will be smashing stuff they dislike.

If there were better APIs they could do that. An API for sensors, with a maximum safe limit supplied for each one. When a BSOD happens, it could do a little memory test on the affected area.

...no real evidence either way.

Most of the opponents are unions. Their interests will be ignored unless a Democratic government is somehow put into office before the merger completes, which is doubtful.

Paramount opposes it, but every argument they give would also apply to the Paramount takeover of WBD they are arguing for, so... I don't even know why their lawyers submitted this brief.

This year there have been multiple mergers, all heavily against the public interest, where it became clear the deciding point was whether adequate fealty was paid to Trump. Two massive TV station operators were involved in seperate mergers that are only going ahead because they opposed ABC showing a comedian critical of Trump and because ABC "settled" a bogus lawsuit filed by Trump. CBS is going ahead because it cancelled a major Trump critic, also settled a bogus lawsuit with Trump, and the new owner is run by a right wing nutjob relation to Licence Ellison. T-Mobile bought US Cellular after dropping anti-discrimination policies, paying towards Trump's inauguration fund, and funding the "ballroom", despite DOJ objections. And, so on.

The merger will go ahead just as long as Netflix keeps up its steady stream of crappy right wing action movies and right wing comedy specials. And, of course, makes "donations" to Trump "causes".

2024 Corollas aren't like 1997 Corolla's, they're pretty much the size Camrys were back then. The fact it has grown in size, and the fact that there isn't a lot of competition (does Ford even make sedans any more? Best I can find is the Mustang - a quick look at this page shows that "alternatives to the Corolla" are mostly crossovers, the Jetta, Forte, Impreza, Elantra and Civic (of course) being the only similar vehicles considered competition), suggests that the entire market segment is poorly supported by both manufacturers and consumers alike.

While have you seen the amount of SUVs and pick-up trucks on the roads? It's absurd, especially given the vast majority are owned by people who'll never use the things that make them expensive and fuel inefficient.

So one Ford pick-up truck, out of a selection of Ford vehicles that makes up top selling pick-ups and SUVs, outsells the Corolla 4:1? That's a sign Toyota might eventually phase out the Corolla in the US, not a sign the Corolla's market segment is popular.

It sucks, but there you have it. Hopefully things will change, but with this administration in charge, it's going to take a while.