The demise of the mag stripe
The highlight of my day? Why, that would be finding that my crushed cardboard (it’s a recycling thing) fit into one standard bag, and that I shouldn’t have to chase stuff around in the ditch, tomorrow. We have to get our piles to the curb (or its rural equivalent) the night before. In less than twenty-four hours, I’ll be back to stockpiling. For next month. After all, I have to do something with my Amazon boxes.
I checked the news; nothing happened today. Or yesterday. In fact, life is rather tame. Mundane, even. The biggest item was from NS, where the fisheries officers seized some lobster traps set out by the First Nations fishers. Based on other years, this will escalate.
In technology, we’ve learned that the magnetic strip on a credit card will (one day) be phased out. Seems we have better encoding mechanisms available. However, don’t expect fraud to be made obsolete. I’m following this one, because I don’t understand the ramifications, and I want to know more. That’s how I roll. In passing, I can’t remember the last time I swiped the stripe.
I received a request for info: what laptop to buy, and how much for the software. Truth? I have no idea. Haven’t bought a new machine in ages, and software is out there. Free stuff. You just have to develop your own support system. I did the usual Amazon query, and it seems that buying a box with media is almost a thing from a bygone era. Now, they rent the stuff, one year at a time. Hence the “365” logo.
