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The Fool posted:It exists, but good luck getting small local businesses to use it. The management company I rent from offers credit card payment, but it has a $30 fee. So I mail checks for the cost of a stamp. My power company here does the same thing, but they're only a little greedy at like $3. But in a city of 315k and and even larger surrounding metro area, that's gotta be like a free $100k+ a month for doing nothing of real value.
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It's not so much the 60 cent fee, but the fact that credit card transactions can be charged back, and going through the dispute process is a massive pain. Checks and ACH transactions are much harder for the payer to reverse.
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Buttcoin purse posted:I can't bring myself to watch this whole video, watch this for 10 seconds and I think you'll get the picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I Ok, fine, it is a computer, but also really just an OS with some hardware.
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I remember those old mac/pc attack ads with John Hodgeman being pretty entertaining
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Buttcoin purse posted:Has there ever been a good advertisement for something which is as essentially boring as an operating system? Could you be any more wrong? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b71rpN1iJKA
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Microsoft’s ineptness at making those internal-consumption promo videos has been such a pervasive constant for so long that they have to have been doing it intentionally.
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Data Graham posted:Microsoft’s ineptness at making those internal-consumption promo videos has been such a pervasive constant for so long that they have to have been doing it intentionally. Are you saying you didn't host a launch party for Windows 7? Even with instructional videos like this to help you plan it? Come on, the video even was even shot with an inappropriate and distracting (but very trendy, circa-2009) shaky-cam technique! What more do you want? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ
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Chandler and Rachel learning about windows 95.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Some techies were trying to push electronic voting from home in Finland, too, but the recent problems with election interference from some unnamed parties have put that particular discussion to bed for now. You can't forge paper slips as easily as you can break into a badly secured voting system, and we all know that they're gonna have some "unforeseen" security flaws in them. Nordic countries having perfect residential rolls from 17th century onwards of course plays a role, too. Voting from home is a dumb idea because one of the central tenants of voting is that you are alone and by yourself when you vote so it's impossible for anyone to influence your decision in that moment. Once you take away at-home voting as an idea, switching from paper to electronic voting is 900x more stupid.
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E-voting on completely trustworthy, provably correct, unhackable voting hardware and software with a solid audit trail would probably be quite nice. It's also slightly less likely and a bit harder to arrange than lasting world peace, so I don't think it's worth the effort to try.
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DariusLikewise posted:Voting from home is a dumb idea because one of the central tenants of voting is that you are alone and by yourself when you vote so it's impossible for anyone to influence your decision in that moment. Once you take away at-home voting as an idea, switching from paper to electronic voting is 900x more stupid. Vote from your phone while taking a poo poo, problem solved.
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Ein posted:Vote from your phone while taking a poo poo, problem solved. lmao if you don't believe that there is a large amount of Republican dads out there that would kick down the door to the bathroom while their adult children are poo poo-voting to ensure they vote for Trump
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electronic voting being hackable isn't really any worse than the current system where they throw away your ballot after you leave because you aren't white
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:electronic voting being hackable isn't really any worse than the current system where they throw away your ballot after you leave because you aren't white Yes it is. because they don't even have to throw away a physical thing to do that with electronic voting.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:electronic voting being hackable isn't really any worse than the current system where they throw away your ballot after you leave because you aren't white When I vote where I am you get a unmarked ballot, verify it is unmarked with the person that gave it to you, go into the little cardboard booth and mark your vote. Then it folds back up in a specific way and you and you only put it into a locked box that is not to be tampered with or unlocked until all voting has been done. I don't know how places screw up paper voting but there you go.
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If it were that easy to futz with paper ballots, the really nice guys would just do that instead of legislate ways to make it harder for certain kinds of people to vote.
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doctorfrog posted:If it were that easy to futz with paper ballots, the really nice guys would just do that instead of legislate ways to make it harder for certain kinds of people to vote. One of the oldest election systems in the world -- when Cardinals choose a new Pope -- actually has pretty drat good security, it turns out. The ancient traditions prevent quite a few types of electoral shenanigans. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/04/hacking_the_pap_1.html
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Powered Descent posted:One of the oldest election systems in the world -- when Cardinals choose a new Pope -- actually has pretty drat good security, it turns out. The ancient traditions prevent quite a few types of electoral shenanigans. One modern touch is hanging heavy curtains over the windows in the chapel to foil LASER microphones.
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In other news, I still tweet by texting 40404 because their phone app sucks. Also I miss phones with slide-out physical keyboards.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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DariusLikewise posted:When I vote where I am you get a unmarked ballot, verify it is unmarked with the person that gave it to you, go into the little cardboard booth and mark your vote. Then it folds back up in a specific way and you and you only put it into a locked box that is not to be tampered with or unlocked until all voting has been done. I don't know how places screw up paper voting but there you go. i'm mark zuckerberg, and I think we can make this better...... with data
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Chillbro Baggins posted:In other news, I still tweet by texting 40404 because their phone app sucks. Lol what on both points.
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Chillbro Baggins posted:In other news, I still tweet by texting 40404 because their phone app sucks. Huh and same
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It's Twitter via SMS interface. 40404 is the number you'd text commands to. https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/create-twitter-account-mobile
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Yeah that's why tweets were capped at 140 characters. SMS capped at 160 so 40404 allowed for a command and text
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Arms_Akimbo posted:Yeah that's why tweets were capped at 140 characters. SMS capped at 160 so 40404 allowed for a command and text And when receiving tweets via text, there were twenty characters for metadata.
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DariusLikewise posted:Voting from home is a dumb idea because one of the central tenants of voting is that you are alone and by yourself when you vote so it's impossible for anyone to influence your decision in that moment. Once you take away at-home voting as an idea, switching from paper to electronic voting is 900x more stupid. All voting here in Oregon is vote by mail, and it works really well. Paper voting from home solves so many problems with people trying to block access to voting that even assuming your example happens it still is vastly better than requiring going to an actual polling place. I do agree that electronic voting is nothing but bad and dumb, though.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:All voting here in Oregon is vote by mail, and it works really well. Paper voting from home solves so many problems with people trying to block access to voting that even assuming your example happens it still is vastly better than requiring going to an actual polling place. While that's nice, that doesn't stop some dad from saying "We got our ballots, it's time to all vote together to make sure you do it right."
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Cojawfee posted:While that's nice, that doesn't stop some dad from saying "We got our ballots, it's time to all vote together to make sure you do it right." Is that a real issue where you live? Households with people over 18 still paralyzed by disobeying dad?
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DON'T HOUSE SHAME ME
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tactlessbastard posted:Is that a real issue where you live? Households with people over 18 still paralyzed by disobeying dad? You know were talking about the US right?
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Cojawfee posted:While that's nice, that doesn't stop some dad from saying "We got our ballots, it's time to all vote together to make sure you do it right." Yup, that's a thing. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/steve-curtis-former-colorado-gop-chairman-sentenced-for-voter-fraud/
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tactlessbastard posted:Is that a real issue where you live? Households with people over 18 still paralyzed by disobeying dad? Unfortunately not all voters are protected, with stairs in their house.
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I have mentioned I have a lust for MD-DAta stuff, and finally LGR did a video it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwtCBj5jEs
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Chillbro Baggins posted:In other news, I still tweet by texting 40404 because their phone app sucks. gently caress a keyboard, give me a Sony Xperia Play 2  Full complement of face and shoulder buttons, two analog pads and access to the same back catalogue as the PSP, this thing should have changed the game, but it came out at the exact same time as the Vita and got zero support from the company. Every time I see a news article about some upcoming 'gaming phone' I get my hopes up only to have them dashed. flavor.flv has a new favorite as of 21:55 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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I can't even get a device that's a newer version of my Nvidia Shield Portable  It's the perfect
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evobatman posted:I can't even get a device that's a newer version of my Nvidia Shield Portable I've got good news... 
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Plinkey posted:I've got good news... I've got better, NSFW news.
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Trabant posted:I've got better, NSFW news. I don't get it. The image would end up being too shaky to even watch.
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