And you're paying a lot to Visa for this service. Visa/MC announced in fact that they are increasing credit card processing fees to deal with fraud: https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

You're paying far more in credit card processing fees than makes sense for the service and the insurance against fraud provided.

This is not true. The Bundesbank did a report on this in 2019.

(https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/800766/0462923c3587a2d98f2c2db5b71047ae/mL/2019-06-kosten-zahlungsmittel-data.pdf)

The report found that transactions under €50 were cheapest to process with cash. Transactions over €50 were cheapest to do with Girocard, a German interbanking payment system. At no point were MC/Visa cheaper.

You can do the same with the Kobo reader, no need to even root it.

I once was working on a project to use a Pi Zero and Debian with the Pi 7" touch screen to make a little reader - not bad, but I got stuck when I needed to get a 3D printed case made.
I currently do all of my ebook reading (and that's a LOT of reading) via only DRM-free platforms and read them on my little lenovo android tablet.
Doesn't solve the textbook issue obviously, though stuff like OpenStax is a step in the right direction.

I hope FSF has success in this area.

Windows has "faithful"? I'm sure you're right, I just can't imagine anyone who owns windows going out of their way to actually procure it.

>Which has been true since the first person ever sat for a passport or drivers license photo.

Yeah but those were done with very different technology.

For instance, my state added the photo to the driver's license but, by law, didn't authorize or intend to create a central catalog of photos. The law merely said the state could add a photo to the license. Years later when they went to digital licenses, the state just adopted the central database. And as time has gone on, they have increased the quality of the photos captured so they can be used for biometric matching. Several generations of technology improvements have occurred and yet the state still never got authority to keep a central photo archive. Taking a mile from an inch.

In the same way, the passport has you send in two pictures. But there is a world of difference between operating a central passport photo database with facial recognition, and having a paper file somewhere with the 2nd picture sitting in it, which can only be referenced manually by a human.

I see the mods are still not bothering to read the moderation guidelines after all these years.
I think it's time for some *real* flamebait - /. jumped the shark when Rob left. I think it's time I take the hint and bail myself.

I have played with touchscreens, but give me a solid feeling keyboard with LOTS of space any day. I'm still using my Model M from 1995, and got 2 spares for it now, in case it ever wears out.

Sadly true. Most people don't even know the default port for SSH, SMTP or even freaking HTTP! How are you supposed to manage servers if you don't even know your default ports?
Or even the commands to FIND what's listening?

Only if it got the Beltway too - otherwise, well, it could go both ways.

Yes, it's actually really common.
I started looking into myself recently, since it's basically like a tweaky syntax of Perl (to me, anyhow) but with a simpler web output.
Still seems pretty lame though.

Then it's unlikely to be subpoena'd, isn't it?

No, I think I'd rather get an extra ticket or two than deal with a case like the most recent one, with an officer shouting "stop trying to take my weapon" while I'm cuffed facedown on the ground.

Yet another Obama crony with a very loose grasp on the law.

Or just drive the damn car.

I swear, I'm SO sick of this driverless car crap. I don't want one, I don't want to share roads with one, I don't want to even see them.
It's bad enough dealing with humans, the last thing I want is this.

We HAVE a way to get around without you having to drive. It's called public transportation. Get on a damn bus, taxi, or train.

I was expecting a troll - got a hilarious troll-tolling site instead. Very nice :)