Posted on 08/06/2016 1:34:34 PM PDT by PROCON
We use DocuSign extensively to sign our contracts. No need to print out, ink sign, then scan back in — all done with secure electronic signature.
If you do print out and ink sign, you can take a picture with your phone and send it to us. We accept that as the signed contract. No scanner necessary.
Lastly, most modern office printers double as scanners and often as fax machines. Or you can scan and directly email.
Lots of ways around it without having a fax machine.
There are few things that need to be done fast.
Without checks and cash, a substantial portion of the population become slaves and pariahs.
Lot of people are concrete in their understanding of money. Bits do not do it for them. I have seen this happen often enough and recommend cash and checks.
I’m impressed with how immaculate everything is. I wish that my house was that dust-free.
You obviously don’t work in high tech. We can negotiate a master services contract and scope of work, execute it and have our crack engineering team solving your problem in less than a day.
With paper ballots, punch cards you can have witnesses do the count and sign-off per precinct, doesn't take that long. With electronics you don't have hanging bytes.
What computer or external drive within the last 10 years would accept 8” floppy disks? Amount of data?
Fountains of Wayne. Much underrated band.
That is true. But there is nothing that makes an 8" floppy inherently more hack-resistant than a USB thumb drive. Neither of these is stored in a machine.
Nope. First, the receiver has to be a FAX machine; and, they operated on the telephone circuit. Odds are you would have connected to an ordinary telephone. Second, a FAX machine can be setup to identify the receiving station. It won’t send if the ID is invalid.
You must have had a bad drive. I used then quite a lot with very few problems.
I get it. I did work in high tech years ago. We had it faxed. Don’t have to go any faster than that.
I get it. I did work in high tech years ago. We had it faxed. Don’t have to go any faster than that.
Why would the Japanese be in love with fax machines?
The funny thing is, that with fractional reserve banking, even if you put your trust in paper checks, your money isn’t in the vault. It’s all a ledger entry, nothing more. So it doesn’t matter if you trust ink in your checkbook or the bits that show up on your screen...they are all backed by the same nearly empty bank vault! It’s been that way from WAY before bits and bytes stored value.
Yeah, that 1800s machine probably had a miserable resolution.
Except the rather nearly complete absence of 8-inch floppy drives in the general public.
I have 100s of thousands of equipment that take floppies. Until someone offers to buy me new equipment to the tune of 1 million bucks I’ll stick to floppies.
Yes we understand that it is all smoke and mirrors.
But what is in the account and is usable is concrete.
Many people need concrete.
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