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Indivara wrote: I'll celebrate when they do away with fax machines and the countless paper forms needed in just about any government procedure.
I second that... totally. And I am not in Japan.
Looks like it is a global issue 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft launched a resource web page for Java developers, described as a one-stop shop for tools and resources that enable Java jocks to productively code, deploy and scale their apps. "As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror"
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Ransomware attacks pose a major cybersecurity threat - but there's action that can be taken to stop the cyber criminals from making you their next victim. Step 0: Write check Step 1: Sign check Step 2: Mail check
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You missed:
Step -1: Learn to spell "cheque" correctly.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Or:
Step -1 (USians only): redefine the spelling of "cheque" as "check". 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I had written it correctly at first, but changed it for the ‘Mercans in the audience.
I can’t win, or even come close. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I can’t win, or even come close.
The three laws of Infernal dynamics:
- You can't win
- You can't break even
- You can't quit the game
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Say, are checkques  still in common use around the world?
I haven't seen one in this country (Norway) for at least twenty years. According to Bank of Norway, thirteen years ago, a total of 400,000 were cashed - one per 12,5 person a year. I guess at least 95% were between business partners; you never saw them among common people at that time. Six years later, in 2015, the usage had dropped to one fourth, one checkque a year per 50 Norwegians, accounting for 0.02% of bank transactions (by value, I couldn't find the percentage by transaction count; I guess that would be even lower). Today? I don't know if the service exists at all any more!
If you today try to pay by sjekk (Norwegian spelling) at your local Norwegian supermarket, I guess that the young guy at the checkout would have to call the store manager asking how to handle it. No one under thirty knows what a sjekk is, and how it is used.
Sure Norway has been in the frontline introducing electronic services, in banking and other functions. Yet, 20+ years after we abandoned sjekker in daily life, I was expecting other industrialized countries to have gone electronic, too. Am I wrong in my assmumption?
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We do use them occasionally in Israel, but the overwhelming majority of fund transfers are performed electronically.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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All of Africa and Indonesia have converted to electronic devices that you must rent, for your convenience 
I do not know if it is legal tender everywhere and it prolly isn't; I seen stores here refuse them.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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AFAIK, cheques aren't legal tender, but they are (were) accepted as payment in most of the world. They are an acknowledgement of a debt, and an instruction to the bank to pay this debt.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Which is prolly why stores can refuse them.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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My almost 94 year old Dad uses checks.
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There’s a new, immersive way to explore some of the first full-color infrared images and data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – through sound. Tinkle, tinkle, little star
John Williams it ain't
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Given the thread 5 posts below this one, I have to say I'm somewhat hesitant. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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In this blog post, we explore the ecosystem of open-source forks, revisit the story so far with how Microsoft has been transforming from products to services, go deep into why the Visual Studio Code ecosystem is designed to fracture, and the legal implications of this design then discuss future problems faced by the software development ecosystem if our industry continues as-is on the current path... Slippery slope deemed slippery
The only checkboxes he seemed to leave unchecked:
- spelling the company name Micro$oft
- bringing up the monopoly trial
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Modernizing, or migrating to modern language features in any language can help make code more readable, efficient and secure. In this blog post, we’ll look at ways to modernize code so it’s better than before. Time to redecorate
The actual mechanisms might be ReSharper-specific, but the concepts aren't
Edit: forgot the blurb before clicking post
modified 31-Aug-22 14:18pm.
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Romans go home!
(I just felt like I hadn't said that recently.)
Having said that... The old ways are the best ways. Don't use new features of anything unless they actually improve things.
Kent Sharkey wrote: can help make code more readable, efficient and secure
more readable -- Only if you know the new feature and don't know the old one.
efficient -- I have never seen that, at least not runtime-efficient. Often "new" features are less runtime-efficient. They may make a poor developer more productive, churning out poorly-performing code more quickly.
secure -- Definitely not. Unless it means that said poor developer can't break things as easily.
Edit: Plus, refactoring often leads to bugs. If the existing code is "less readable" than the newer developers would like, then they must not touch it.
"Progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged."
modified 31-Aug-22 15:36pm.
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Problem - this is extremely low-priority "technical debt", and a regression testing nightmare.Any project manager worth his salt would take heroic steps to avoid doing it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Lipstick on a pig!
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer is finally available for download.
JaxCoder.com
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The system logs the cat's litter time so the owner can be informed of its bowel movement. "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
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The Los Angeles Lakers arena sponsoring and Matt Damon-endorsed cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com accidentally transferred $10.5 million AUD (~$7.2 million USD) to an Australian customer instead of issuing a standard $100 AUD (~$68 USD) due to a pretty unfortunate typo. No backsies!
Makes you wonder what you might do in a similar situation - change your name, or just move and don't leave a forwarding address?
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Threat analysts have spotted a new malware campaign dubbed ‘GO#WEBBFUSCATOR’ that relies on phishing emails, malicious documents, and space images from the James Webb telescope to spread malware. Is nothing sacred?
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A Silicon Valley start-up has developed technology that can change the accents of call centre workers in real time. But they don't see color (on the telephone)
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