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Which shows as always that legislation will always trail behind technology by a good 20 years.tim31 wrote:
Apparently we're required by legislation to keep all this paperwork for ten years. It takes up enough space that could have been another mid sized hotel room.
Does a tech-guru know whether the above complaint (which I do share: reading from paper is more comfortable than from a monitor) can be solved by using a different LCD screen technology?Phantasee wrote:Paper is easier to read, too. I don't recall the study but it's something like this: If you read on the screen will give you only 60% retention compared to print. I'm not 100% sure of why that is but I've found it's much easier to study notes when they're hard copy.
The distinction that needs to be made is how much of that paper is a legal requirement and how much is due to technology limitations.Singular Quartet wrote:Hell, even retail has its huge supply of paper that needs to be kept. I work in a mid-size retailer, and we have FOUR lateral file cabinets full of paperwork, and a few book shelves full of binders. I've got a single drawer just for my stuff (I work as the store technition) and I have to keep all the customer paperwork for three years. That's one lateral file, and a good-damn supply of file boxes, because I need signatures on everything. Hell, my notes on what I've done are all on paper, and I have to keep those, too. Would I like this mess to be paperless? Yes. Is that going to happen? No, because we need signatures, and our system sucks.
And here i thought that it was just a minor personnal thing that i had an easier time reading books than their exact online equivelents.Phantasee wrote:Paper is easier to read, too. I don't recall the study but it's something like this: If you read on the screen will give you only 60% retention compared to print. I'm not 100% sure of why that is but I've found it's much easier to study notes when they're hard copy.
PINs and other other forms of security & authentication are fine at the time they're done, the problem is what happens if a couple months down the road, the records that the bank has doesn't match what you did.Zixinus wrote:On the subject of signatures, how do banks handle identity-verification? I recall a scene (from Washabi, I think) where for withdrawal, a character had to sign a digital signature. Are those so unreliable?