[lesterbuck]

I must be missing something in your comment. Because something may have legal errors in its statement, you make some wild blanket statements about what computers can do. Wow. Just wow. I could probably find thousands of similar statements before the Federal e-sign law took effect.

"there are a lot of situations where things cannot be done through a computer"

I hope you meant a huge "yet" in front of your ridiculous blanket statement. Or were you working in the patent office last century and thought all the inventions were finished?

Something about a little post from a new company has people flagging an entrepreneur's story. This story is of interest to me as a hacker (I have a good friend in the notary business, and he wanted me to do some integration for him with the state) and I'm sure it's interesting to many other hackers. I met another guy at Microconf doing notary services online. But because you have some universal grasp of the complex and changing legal situation, and must take it upon yourself to protect consumers from actually learning about a new way to notarize documents, the entire topic should be flagged for removal. Heaven help us all if this is what Hacker News has become...