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2019-02-19 at 9:29 PM UTC in Tax Season is Best Season
Originally posted by -SpectraL Government checks are much like loaded single-use credit cards. You can steal a handful of loadable cards, sure, but those cards have to be scanned and activated in the system before they're worth more than the plastic they're printed on.
Well, in my case, what I was doing was just cashing them at cheque-cashing places, not banks.
Which is why I went into the whole thing about what the numbers represent, and how the scan/verification step works.
At places like that, they DO scan your cheque through a magnetic ink reading machine. It's what transmits the data to their computers, and, will immediately tell them if it's just a bunch of gibberish at the bottom, and, especially, if it's not printed with magnetic ink.
The whole process of validating the cheque is a lot more complex than a simple "SCAN CODE ==> YES FUNDS / NO FUNDS" kind of scenario.
I mean, there's a reason that banks always say that cheques (and bill payments, etc) take something like 5-7 business days to process.
As much as it might feel like it at times, they aren't saying that just to be dicks. -
2019-02-19 at 9:23 PM UTC in The Day Drinking ThreadI'm drinking with myself.
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2019-02-19 at 9:20 PM UTC in Tax Season is Best Season
Originally posted by -SpectraL Actually, that line of numbers does not contain the institution number, the branch number and the account number. For proof, just look at two different checks and the numbers are completely different. The Canadian government only uses one bank to issue checks on, so if that number really did contain that information, they would all be the same, or similar. They're not. That's because it's actually a scan-able barcode of sorts. And that scan is linked to the government's central database in realtime. They can tell immediately if it's a bogus check.
Okay, government cheques MIGHT follow a slightly different pattern. I mean, "The Government" doesn't just have a regular old checking account in "their name" that they write cheques from.
But those numbers are essentially a representation of the the account that holds the funds.
I'm almost certain (again, been a while since I was super into all this) that the only place that is unique from one cheque to the next (assuming same bank account of origin) is the textually typed/handwritten part that dictates the quantity for which the cheque is being administered. -
2019-02-19 at 9:17 PM UTC in Tax Season is Best Season
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2019-02-19 at 9:16 PM UTC in The Day Drinking ThreadI'm chasing Fireball whiskey shots with Strongbow cider.
Also, the TV just mentioned that the show I'm apparently about to watch features "sexually sadistic content".
It was saying "sexually suggestive content", but I totally heard "sexually sadistic content".
Imagine they showed that shit on TV in the middle of the day. -
2019-02-19 at 9:14 PM UTC in The Day Drinking ThreadSo I'm day drinking again today (NOTE for backstory/context: I drink every night, but relatively rarely during the day).
And I feel that one thing we need in SG is an official Day Drinking Thread.
Bump this shit right here every time you're drunk during the day.
Also, because I'm an equal opportunity kinda guy, I do want to say "bump it if you're high" as well, but... I feel like weed might ruin that, because most stoners are stoned all the time (I speak from experience - used to be one). When taking that into consideration, this entire site should just be a "Day Drunk/HighThreadForum".
But if it's an atypical occasion for you to be under the influence of, well, anything... Then come on in and join the party. -
2019-02-19 at 9:07 PM UTC in Tax Season is Best SeasonAlso, why the fuck is there a government cheque issued for one cent?
I just noticed that now. -
2019-02-19 at 9:04 PM UTC in Tax Season is Best Season
Originally posted by -SpectraL Look closely at the 1s, the 3 and the 4, too.
I totally get why you thought of it as a bar code. I even had to google image search some cheques to confirm what I said before I said it. Because it looks VERY barcode-ish.
And, in a sense, it IS a barcode. It's just more of a combination of symbols and numbers, printed in magnetic ink, that act as kind of a bar code.
Heck, I'm still not even fully convinced it's not a bar code.
But my point was just that the numbers just correspond to stable values (institution number, branch number, and account number).
I can't remember for sure what the symbols represent... They might be symbolic representations of those numbers.
It was like 15 years ago that I was doing all this. I'm pretty sure the software I used to print the cheques created the symbols for me (once I put in those three numbers).
Printing your own cheques, believe it or not, is actually totally legal and legitimate. That is, if you're using legitimate banking info. I bought the cheque paper at like... Staples or Office Depot or something like that. And I think maybe even the software too (if it wasn't pirated - can't remember for sure though). -
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2019-02-19 at 7:45 PM UTC in Its kfc chicken tuesday anyone wanna go halfsIn Canada it used to be called Toonie Tuesday (and maybe still is... been a while for me).
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2019-02-19 at 7:33 PM UTC in Tax Season is Best Season
Originally posted by -SpectraL Barcode
A barcode (also bar code) is an optical, machine-readable representation of data; the data usually describes something about the object that carries the barcode. Traditional barcodes systematically represent data by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or one-dimensional (1D). Later, two-dimensional (2D) variants were developed, using rectangles, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns, called matrix codes or 2D barcodes, although they do not use bars as such. Initially, barcodes were only scanned by special optical scanners called barcode readers. Later application software became available for devices that could read images, such as smartphones with cameras.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode
I know what a barcode is, man.
Look at a cheque. Right now, find the nearest cheque and look at it.
There is no "barcode".
At least, not the kind you see on products at the super market.
At the bottom of a cheque are maybe two or three funky symbols (that might kinda sorta look like a barcode), and those three numbers I mentioned above.
The entire cheque is printed with magnetic ink, though, and when places take your cheque, they run it through an initial scan. All that scan does is:
1) Confirm that it's actually a cheque.
2) Save the information contained on the cheque for LATER verification. -
2019-02-19 at 3:40 PM UTC in There are a lot of really nice people that post in this forum...
