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https://www.timeanddate.com just about everything you want to know about sun and moon data for any location. Also a world clock, time zones, timers, calculators, even weather.

https://filezilla-project.org/ FileZilla FTP client

https://adionsoft.net/fastimageresize/ What the name says and super fast, super small output. supports multiple image formats.

https://www.xponentsoftware.com/xml-editor.aspx for fast loading huge XML files. editing not very full-featured and search is slow, but xml schema validation is fast.

https://afdc.energy.gov/stations#/find/nearest Alternative energy locations with map. USA, Canada. electric/charging type, CNG, LNG, Hydrogen, propane, biodiesel, ethanol. route selection.

https://fire.airnow.gov/ Fire and smoke map. USA, Canada.

Dont need code, just looking for overall strategy. while I never liked the idea of hardware locked activation, I dont see a viable alternative but would be great if there is one.

The article says you dont have to wait for June 1. Has anyone implemented this? What the process like.

I emailed their support recently with a question which they have not answered. All I got was an auto-reply with a ticket number.

I am thinking I should just order directly from Comodo/Sectigo.

Do you have recent information about ksoftware?

The current release of my product is code signed, both installer and .exe inside it, but my 5 year cert expired (Comodo) and am evaluating the cost benefit of renewing, which is same as getting a new one, at least with Comodo they start you over from scratch. I am in USA and am incorporated in my state, so Comodo required a copy of my registration which has both company and my name and phone. They telephoned me with a couple basic questions. They also required I list my business a free online yellowpages business directory. That was it. Not too bad, but they stretched out their processing time line and were initially a bit misleading: at first they implied I had to go the dunn and bradstreet route, which is pricey, but when I objected they backed off.

What documents were you referring to regaring identity verification?

I should have mentioned that while purchased by some big companies, there is usually just one user so would not be worthwhile to set it up for remote installation. It is a very niche, specialized program.

So what does it take to get IT to approve software, particularly if no code signed installer? I was always a dev contractor so was never part of those decisions/policies.

OP here. think what happens is stripe embeds the payment element in a cross-domain Iframe which means it is impossible for me(my server code) to access that data. And that seems to be the whole issue with PCI compliance, namely, my website is not in fact collecting CC data. From there I infer that stripe got certified PCI Service Provider Level 1 which allows them to handle just about all of the PCI processing and the vendor(me) just has to click an approval button annually to be PCI compliant. Does all this seem correct?

No, user is redirected to fastspring.com. I guess it depends on whether my server code can access the CC data. I somehow got the impression that it cannot. So how is the payment element actually connected to stripe?

From the stripe website: "a payment field that originates directly from our PCI DSS–validated servers. With safer card acceptance methods like these, we’ll populate the PCI form (SAQ) in the Stripe Dashboard, making PCI validation as easy as clicking a button."

Since the credit card payment data never touches my server, why is PCI compliance a part of the conversation? With Fastpring I don't deal with PCI because credit card payment is done on their server and it sounds like that is equally true with Stripe Elements. So what am I missing here?

I am in US and have an idependent insurance agent that offers healthcare plans for every insurance company licensed in our state. They compared my plan with all the others, taking into account the types of service I use, what is covered when travelling, etc. Anytime I need a specialist I call the agent for a list of in-network doctors.

A good insurance agent should do most of 1-4, but your service should make their job easier. So I see this as more for them than for a consumer. And also because after a plan is selected, copays and deductibles are essentially fixed so consumer would have no need to price shop.

I read both the Doctorov and Stoller articles but did not seen any proof that Booz-Allen receives the addon fees. Has an audit of their books revealed this?

Good ideas. Easy to add something to the download page when they first purchase.

Cannot disagree in concept, but the reality and logistics of doing that can get complicated. Going back a few versions, there were issues with the installation and also online license activation which I was always able to resolve without changing anything at my end, but it was considerable time on my part so really do not want to deal with that for free. Not to mention I would have to spend additional time reading the support logs to refresh my mind how I did it. Also, it is a .NET 2.0 program and I had to help a few customers that had not enabled .NET 2 when they installed Windows 10, so that could be yet another support issue to handle.

I posted earlier today and I don't see it in the Ask HN group, but maybe my vision is going bad. Here is the title: Ask HN: Should vendor offer replacement installer if I did not buy suport?

Are you saying React needs javascript?

Clinical trials and particularly their design is a technical issue -I was a research statistition at one time so this is of interest to me technically and medically.

If you get shingles you wont be doing any hacking for awhile, so health issues are relevant. There are many HN topics on Coronavirus and other health issues. Someone recently asked how to deal with depression and no one challenged that.

Already been done. did a search for "automated store no cashier"

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cashiers-futu...

https://pixevia.com/automated-stores

Walmart and others are experimenting with it.

When grocery stores began offering curbside pickup, I thought the future would offer a way for the customer at home to communicate visually and orally with the store picker so the customer gets exactly what they want -"no not that apple it is bruised -take the one to its right." I think it might be a doable business model but not interested in investing my energy in it.

I get some downloaders of my trial software from Russia on my website. Would it be helpful to pop a message to them and what should it say? I already use an API to get the downloader's country via IP address so it would be easy to do this. One issue is I have no way to know if downloader is with the Russian government because the trial does not require registration of any kind, or even an email. The software is business related. I have a few sales from Russian IT consultants.

Sockeye salomon returning from the Pacific via Columbia R. to the Stanley basin in Idaho dropped from over 25000 to a few dozen. That is not adapting, rather, approaching extinction. https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/sockeye-salmon-return-...

<<buy something you can not buy without crypto.>> Such as?

large ocean yacht racing boats can go much faster than the wind: https://www.kqed.org/science/8503/how-do-these-boats-sail-fa...

Also this: "According to the World Ice Racing Circuit, ice boats can sail four to five times wind speed. In March 2009 a land sailboat reached 126 miles per hour on a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert" from: https://www.straightdope.com/21344013/how-can-racing-yachts-...

I think I read somewhere that an ice sailboat did 143 mph.

Is this surprising to anyone? It's the industrialized world: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/earthday/gall_earth_night....

they wrap my installer inside their installer which includes some sort of toolbar I am checking out before I finish installing it because I read some reports it is malware.

OP here. thanks for the suggested links which I will try. I hope I don]t offend any open source folks here but this is commercial software with a EULA that clearly states the software may not be redistributed without written permission so it is a license violation and has cost me some $. I found out from a potential customer that alerted me to this and said he thought my software being on sleazy download sites creates a bad image for me. I am a tiny, 1 person bootstrapped operation so I really don't want to go the DMCA route if I can avoid it.

<has everyone just gone crazy? > Absolutely: Ford logged 100k preorders for the F150 Lightning https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-f150-lightning-electric...

This truck is so software bloated.

does this 89.0 have the annoying update now dialog, or at least a setting to block it? In version 72.02 that I am using it pops up with every new tab and there is no setting to block it.

Do you mean the code is simple or the software is simple/easy to use?