I use a DNS server I know and trust, not the one given via DHCP.
Yes, at some point you are never sure. My bank moved and how do I know that that building really is where they are located? I never verified it. I just assumed that is the case.
Handling money costs money. That is the reason Europe stopped using cheques. In Belgium tracking customers is pretty limited. When I go to my supermarket, they are not able to track my buying habbit when I pay with a credit card, as they are not allowed to do so. The CC Co,pany knows where I was, but not what I bought.
In Belgium the CC Company is not even allowed to do an analysis on the way the card is used (In NL it is allowed) So in Belgium you can not target people who use it mainly on Internet or mainly for tanking or mainly when traveling, which is possible in e.g. NL.
The only way they can trace you is if you use a store card and they are not allowed to sell that data. Sure, some companies will do so regardless and sooner rather than later will either have to adapt or close.
The sole reason why they like automatic payment so much is the cost of handling cash. You have to count it several times. Once when you get it from the customer. Once at then end of the shift. Once at the end of the day. Once before you bring it to the bank/ Once at the bank. And at each point you are able to make a mistake. Paying with plastic? One paymet at the customer and the rest is automagically done.
So that is one reason. The other obvious reason is fake money.
The third one is that it is reality that the majority of big bills is used to do things that you do not want the governe,ent to know. Not even talking about drugs or terrorism. This is basically to doge taxes. And doging taxes,eans mine are higher as they still need the same amount of income.
So if I want to buy alcohol and cigarettes, I go to the supermarket and pay with my CC. They will never know, as they do not know if I bought that or milk.
So what you need is stricter privacy laws that are in favour of the people, not of that of business.
I would agree with this if payments can be done faster and no cost for the customer.
As handling cash money costs money as well, there should be no handling fees when I transfer money to anybody else. Even between different banks. And it should be instantaniously.
I live in Belgium and I do not get charged when I transfer money.Transfering to a bank within the same money unit depends to what bank, but mostly this is free. rest the part where it needs to be faster.
To business account it takes 3 working days. That is stupid and silly and only because the US wants to follow who gets what. Between private persons it is the same day. At the same bank it is instandly.
That last one should be a default. E.g. I sell my car. It is a bag of rust, but I was able to still get 1150EUR for it. Sold it for export and so I had to take money from a stranger. All 50EUR bills, hoping none of them were fake.
Here is what I would have liked: 1) Price is agreed. He does a trandfer, I see it arriving with me. Sale is closed and done. They could even do a 'transfering x%' bar, for all I care. I have done this with a friend who was at the same bank: Phonecall:"What is your bank account?" BEXX XXXX XXXX XXXX. "Transfering now" OK, I received it.
So easy that is how we do it when splitting bills. One person pays with credit card and the others just transfer the money to that one person. As we are friends, the fact that it takes a few days is not an issue, but I would really like it to be faster and obviously it needs to be free.
As long as that is not the case, no go.
"But the governement can follow you". They already can without that and you should stop using/. or anything electronic for that matter.
Obvious that the system is flawed. Perople will not pick up their phone. People will not have a phone. People will not answer correctly. People will not have been called. People will change their mind. So obviously it is flawed. That is why they always give you the percentage of error.
And no, you should not use them to make decisions. Even if 99% says they should, it does not mean that is correct.
The fact that many people do not know how to use surveys does not mean they are wrong. The fact that they probably needed to do 10x the number of calls is irrelevant. They also did not call several other millions of people.
A sampler of 1000 is pretty good. I would not conclude that with 51% more people want one or the other, as the 1% is about the error margin. So clearly the person did not know how to interpret a survey and used it as a conclusion.
You talk as if the issue is that Apple needs to pay or not. If they are ordered to bring up evidence, they need to do so. It is called cost of doing business. The fact that this is expensive or cheap is irrelevant.
Imagine that the government would pay for every cent that this would cost would not change anything. Even if the hack was already available at apple and it would cost nobody anything because they just can give the 'secret password' to bypass, it would not mean anything.
This is not about money, this is about whether or not they must do what is asked. Apple says no AND say it is not even possible.
They missed what chance? What would they gain? The way the duopoly works is that you blame the others and that is about it.
All you need to do is say once in a while what you know people want to hear and then when it becomes law, change it to what you were paid to do. All the while pointing fingers.
This goes for both parties.
Meddling with womething liek Snowden will gain them nothing. The best scenario is that he is found guilty and people will say that it was setup and they loose. The worst is that he is set free and they loose, becuse they said he was a traitor. And you can interchange best and worst.
Politics is not about right or wrong or even being fair. It is about power. If it was about being fair BOTH parties would fight to do this all the time, not only for one person.
Being in Europe, what we know sometimes is the range that you will be paid. E.g. you will earn between 2.000 and 3.000 for job X. That means you will not earn less than 2.000 and never more than 3.000. It also means no matter how good you are, how many hours you work and how qualified you are, if you want more, you need to change jobs (internal or external)
This wil be different from company to company and others will have nothing like that at all.
I have also never discussed my saliry with anybody, except when I was changing jobs and/or companies. It might be completely different depending on country, company or reason to talk about it.
That said, my managers will know what I earn as that is visable in their budget. If he doesn't, it means he doesn't care.
I have know what each N-1 was earning. I was the one who decided on bonusses and increase in wage and what not, so it was my job to know.
The several people I have know with staff I know also have knowledge of the wage of their staff. It might be a part on firering a person or not if you need to downsize (and sometimes the cheapest is the best option, sometimes it is the worst)
But no, not everybody talks freely about their wage in Europe. Depends on the company and/or country.
First I though that it would have been the company that leaked it. I am still trying to get used to the idea that people are stupid enough to post anyting online. To me this shows thqt she is a person that you do not want in your company.
Now how would this go in Socialist Belgium with tons of Unions (More than 50 employees and your company has a Union Rep by law)
1) Oral warning that you are not the spokes person of the company and are not allowed to give info about the company. 2) Second oral warning with somebody from HR present. 3) Written official warning 4) Second written offical warning 5) Getting fired.
That said, even if this was the first thing she ever did; sending an open letter to the CEO will get you fired, no matter how well organized the Union is. It is clear that there is a trust issue and employment is no longer an option.
However, we are talking about banks in the US, not about some poor nation.
To me it seems it is there to make people spend easier and thus more. That will mean more credit is used and that means people will pay more interest and the bank makes more money.
Where I live (Belgium) we have pre-paid cards that do not even have a magnetic strip, nor any embossing, so chip, Internet or no payment.
When I was in the states, I was so confused with the system that when I came home I saw that I wrote the tip for the restaurants on the tickets I took home with me. Sorry, I really wanted to tip, but I was as confused as Florida voter.
I have one and it is advertised to make payments for small amounts easier. This means till 25EUR.
1) For some people 25 is a large amount 2) It means that people can steal 25EUR multiple times 3) The ease of use is very limited in my opinion. As I am in Europe, I just put the card in the machine, enter my pin and take my card out. Same procedure in restaurant.
So where is the gain? Taking it out of my wallet, putting back into my wallet. Entering the pin code. To be secure, you need to keep your card in a RFID secure wallet, so all that is left is putting the card into a machine and entering the pin vs. holding the card somewhere.
PGP is great. It has one slight issue: you do not see it anywhere. The reason? It is not pre-installed.
It would be trivial to add it to Outlook, Gmail, Hormail and any other mail service or program by default. Now it needs action on the users side.
I would like Email to have PGP by default. Not to hide any content from others (because two people is one to many to keep a secret) but sender verification. Is it my bank that send me the email, or SpammerJohnny who found out you can make your own From in Outlook?
If it would be included by default in email programs, it would be uses. Not by 100% and some would turn it off, but by enough to get others to use it.
It could solve a LOT of the spam email issues, especially phishing mails. No, it will not solve everything; it will be better then what we have now: nothing.
I am not going to hold my breath. It will never happen. At most, each will try to push their own system that willl not work, leaving us worse with what we have now: nothing and no way to improve it.
3.) Location data is convenient. As much as I hate Google tracking me, I'd much prefer knowing about restaurants near me when I'm hungry, than ones in Malaysia.
When I am hungry, I can type in 'City' and get it.
What I dislike about it is how it is NOT used to help me. Filling out an adress and they ask for a state? Whare I live we have no states.
And looking at Google: I understand that you want me to use google.TLD, but do NOT assume that I want to see something in a certain language depending on my location. I want it in English, just like my browers main and only manguage is. Next to that, I work in a bi-lingual city and they WILL get it wrong. So for the love of whatever you pray to, use the language setting in the brower, or are you already take so much data, you can not use that?
Concerning TOR, I won't be using it, because I am sure it does not matter. I rather know I am being followed than hope that I am not.
It might take off if it becomes something that is default. A bit like pgp. Not that hard to use, but nobdy uses it, because it is not already installed (and I would want to use it only for the signature, so I know my bank is my bank). So a bit like Linux. No pre-install, no desktop year. Pre-install and everybody uses it killing WIndows (Android/Apple)
I can imagine that the waiver would also talk abut the content. Although they will try to be carefull, it could still mean that the post-it note with the password you need gets destroyed.
The same people who fall for 419 scams or any other of them. These people are stupid, like your gradma, your mom or your little sister or enough people who are not on/.
Now how many do you need to make this profitable? For all I know, 1 or 2 can be enough to make a profit and that could be the cat playing with the device when the SMS comes in and presses it by accident.
And are you REALLY surprised this happens? Then you must never have worked with security. Perhaps you have programmed security on systems, but that is not the same.
Security in IT is a technical solution to a social problem and time and time again, IT tries to keep out that social part.
Now why would an SMS work? 1) People do not expect an SMS to be send by a virus, as the sender needs to pay (in Europe at least) 2) They panick when they see it is from their bank and do not want to do anything bad. 3) They follow the instrictions from their bank (they think) 4) They have NO idea what APK is, means or whatever 5) They have no idea what sideloading is and just follw the instructions 6) They will keep following instructions, because they believe it is from their bank and they do not want to do anything bad against their bank. 7) Still following their banks instructions 8) Be happy that they did not piss of their bank.
The majority of people will believe everything their bank tells them to do blindly, because they still think the bank has their best interest at heart. People trust others and for a good reason. Bad people abuse that trust.
BTW, I know what I am talking about. I work for Microsoft and I noticed there is a Virus on your computer. Please give your number, so I can call you to solve this.
Do you know about the Red Cross/Cressent Moon? Have you heard about Docters without frontiers? Have you heard about medical care that is free for all in the country?
The thing is, many people do it because they want to help, not because they have to help and push their religion at the same time. SUre, nice advertisement, but claiming that you are the only one doing so is the same as lying, that you now do in name of religion.
If God is the only reason to re-enforce the concept of Good and Evil, then there is something seriously wrong with God or with the person or both.
There are plenty of people who are able to see the difference between good and evil, without the need of a God or Gods. There are studies that show why we like babies (in general) or puppies. The result has more to do with DNA and evolution than with religion.
When we see how much evil is done 5while the people doing it thought it was good) by people who are religious over the centuries in all the different religions, you must assume that the concept of Good and Evil trough religion does not work.
ANY tool will have far more legimate uses than illegal use (except perhaps a bong). The fact that it makes something easier is not a reason that it should or should not be banned or severely limited in usage or regulated.
As I have my own domain (and others here might have as well) I use a simple way of using email. 1) A spam account at gmx.com for rubbish. Many would use Google, I like GMX better, because it isn't google. 2) A fristname.lastname@example.com that is only used when I am looking for a job. If I don't, all mails will be dropped. 3) An email address for friends that will be filtered for spam 4) An email address for every website that is important to me. e.g. shlashdot.org@example.com or bigbank.com@example.com.
The last one will not only give me a way to tell if it is really my bank or not, so less possible falling for fake mails. It is also possible to see who sell their email addresses and I will drop the mailbox. Till now after several years the only company that has done this is Ebay.
All email addresses are just aliases.
Filtering into folders is done per type (e.g. mailing lists, commercial, financial,...) by procmail
It has helped me determine if something is a fake mail from BigBank that was my bank and was done very well. As it was in the wrong folder, I knew it wasn't send by my bank and thus deleted.
I even make one that is travel@example.com for travels for that year. That way I do not need to use a different one for various hotels and restaurants I want to do reservations at or rental companies, while all stays together.
What people who do not have access to their own domain and/or unlimited aliases could still use different email addresses. e.g. banking.name@example.net , stores.name@example.net , webistes.name@example.net.
Most places will allow 5 aliases and that should be enough to differenctiate. It will also prevent using an address like LittleHornyBitch69@example.org when you start looking for a job.
If they are stupid enough to operate in the same country or one where extraditing from is easy, they are. If they are in China, Russia or somewhere in Africa, they are relative safe.
Not only rare, but also on both sides of the scale. So a highest in recorded history and a lowest in recorded history would be happening equally frequently rare.
Some additions: In Belgium they are working on having pre-paid card linked to a person. So no more anonymous payment.I am not sure if that is a Belgian push or a European one, so that hole will be closed very soon.
If they would want to do age verification in Belgium, it would be easy to do. We have the eID that can do this. It is an ID with a chip. Readers are readily available, the source to read them is open.
There are also laws that forbid transfer of data to third parties, unless you agree that they can.
That obviously does not remove any tracability and it will NOT be anonymous. I just added the info because of the technical part, as this is/. From that point it is nice and a pity not more websites use it.
Because incoming dollars are different from outgoing dollars. This is Hollywood Accounting 101.
I believe the origin is when they wrote in pencil and to make it clear what the difference was, they wrote incoming amounts with a dot and outgoing ones without one.
So USD100 and USD1.00 used to be the same as they were in different columns.
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I use a DNS server I know and trust, not the one given via DHCP.
Yes, at some point you are never sure. My bank moved and how do I know that that building really is where they are located? I never verified it. I just assumed that is the case.
Handling money costs money. That is the reason Europe stopped using cheques. In Belgium tracking customers is pretty limited. When I go to my supermarket, they are not able to track my buying habbit when I pay with a credit card, as they are not allowed to do so. The CC Co,pany knows where I was, but not what I bought.
In Belgium the CC Company is not even allowed to do an analysis on the way the card is used (In NL it is allowed) So in Belgium you can not target people who use it mainly on Internet or mainly for tanking or mainly when traveling, which is possible in e.g. NL.
The only way they can trace you is if you use a store card and they are not allowed to sell that data.
Sure, some companies will do so regardless and sooner rather than later will either have to adapt or close.
The sole reason why they like automatic payment so much is the cost of handling cash. You have to count it several times. Once when you get it from the customer. Once at then end of the shift. Once at the end of the day. Once before you bring it to the bank/ Once at the bank. And at each point you are able to make a mistake. Paying with plastic? One paymet at the customer and the rest is automagically done.
So that is one reason. The other obvious reason is fake money.
The third one is that it is reality that the majority of big bills is used to do things that you do not want the governe,ent to know. Not even talking about drugs or terrorism. This is basically to doge taxes. And doging taxes ,eans mine are higher as they still need the same amount of income.
So if I want to buy alcohol and cigarettes, I go to the supermarket and pay with my CC. They will never know, as they do not know if I bought that or milk.
So what you need is stricter privacy laws that are in favour of the people, not of that of business.
I would agree with this if payments can be done faster and no cost for the customer.
As handling cash money costs money as well, there should be no handling fees when I transfer money to anybody else. Even between different banks.
And it should be instantaniously.
I live in Belgium and I do not get charged when I transfer money.Transfering to a bank within the same money unit depends to what bank, but mostly this is free. rest the part where it needs to be faster.
To business account it takes 3 working days. That is stupid and silly and only because the US wants to follow who gets what. Between private persons it is the same day. At the same bank it is instandly.
That last one should be a default. E.g. I sell my car. It is a bag of rust, but I was able to still get 1150EUR for it. Sold it for export and so I had to take money from a stranger. All 50EUR bills, hoping none of them were fake.
Here is what I would have liked:
1) Price is agreed. He does a trandfer, I see it arriving with me. Sale is closed and done. They could even do a 'transfering x%' bar, for all I care. I have done this with a friend who was at the same bank: Phonecall:"What is your bank account?" BEXX XXXX XXXX XXXX. "Transfering now" OK, I received it.
So easy that is how we do it when splitting bills. One person pays with credit card and the others just transfer the money to that one person. As we are friends, the fact that it takes a few days is not an issue, but I would really like it to be faster and obviously it needs to be free.
As long as that is not the case, no go.
"But the governement can follow you". They already can without that and you should stop using /. or anything electronic for that matter.
Obvious that the system is flawed. Perople will not pick up their phone. People will not have a phone. People will not answer correctly. People will not have been called. People will change their mind. So obviously it is flawed. That is why they always give you the percentage of error.
And no, you should not use them to make decisions. Even if 99% says they should, it does not mean that is correct.
The fact that many people do not know how to use surveys does not mean they are wrong. The fact that they probably needed to do 10x the number of calls is irrelevant. They also did not call several other millions of people.
If you want more about sample size : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A sampler of 1000 is pretty good. I would not conclude that with 51% more people want one or the other, as the 1% is about the error margin. So clearly the person did not know how to interpret a survey and used it as a conclusion.
You talk as if the issue is that Apple needs to pay or not. If they are ordered to bring up evidence, they need to do so. It is called cost of doing business.
The fact that this is expensive or cheap is irrelevant.
Imagine that the government would pay for every cent that this would cost would not change anything. Even if the hack was already available at apple and it would cost nobody anything because they just can give the 'secret password' to bypass, it would not mean anything.
This is not about money, this is about whether or not they must do what is asked. Apple says no AND say it is not even possible.
They missed what chance? What would they gain? The way the duopoly works is that you blame the others and that is about it.
All you need to do is say once in a while what you know people want to hear and then when it becomes law, change it to what you were paid to do. All the while pointing fingers.
This goes for both parties.
Meddling with womething liek Snowden will gain them nothing. The best scenario is that he is found guilty and people will say that it was setup and they loose. The worst is that he is set free and they loose, becuse they said he was a traitor. And you can interchange best and worst.
Politics is not about right or wrong or even being fair. It is about power. If it was about being fair BOTH parties would fight to do this all the time, not only for one person.
Being in Europe, what we know sometimes is the range that you will be paid. E.g. you will earn between 2.000 and 3.000 for job X. That means you will not earn less than 2.000 and never more than 3.000.
It also means no matter how good you are, how many hours you work and how qualified you are, if you want more, you need to change jobs (internal or external)
This wil be different from company to company and others will have nothing like that at all.
I have also never discussed my saliry with anybody, except when I was changing jobs and/or companies. It might be completely different depending on country, company or reason to talk about it.
That said, my managers will know what I earn as that is visable in their budget. If he doesn't, it means he doesn't care.
I have know what each N-1 was earning. I was the one who decided on bonusses and increase in wage and what not, so it was my job to know.
The several people I have know with staff I know also have knowledge of the wage of their staff. It might be a part on firering a person or not if you need to downsize (and sometimes the cheapest is the best option, sometimes it is the worst)
But no, not everybody talks freely about their wage in Europe. Depends on the company and/or country.
First I though that it would have been the company that leaked it. I am still trying to get used to the idea that people are stupid enough to post anyting online. To me this shows thqt she is a person that you do not want in your company.
Now how would this go in Socialist Belgium with tons of Unions (More than 50 employees and your company has a Union Rep by law)
1) Oral warning that you are not the spokes person of the company and are not allowed to give info about the company.
2) Second oral warning with somebody from HR present.
3) Written official warning
4) Second written offical warning
5) Getting fired.
That said, even if this was the first thing she ever did; sending an open letter to the CEO will get you fired, no matter how well organized the Union is.
It is clear that there is a trust issue and employment is no longer an option.
Try http://hackme.houghi.org/ Bonus points if you are able to delete partitions.
However, we are talking about banks in the US, not about some poor nation.
To me it seems it is there to make people spend easier and thus more. That will mean more credit is used and that means people will pay more interest and the bank makes more money.
Where I live (Belgium) we have pre-paid cards that do not even have a magnetic strip, nor any embossing, so chip, Internet or no payment.
When I was in the states, I was so confused with the system that when I came home I saw that I wrote the tip for the restaurants on the tickets I took home with me. Sorry, I really wanted to tip, but I was as confused as Florida voter.
I have one and it is advertised to make payments for small amounts easier. This means till 25EUR.
1) For some people 25 is a large amount
2) It means that people can steal 25EUR multiple times
3) The ease of use is very limited in my opinion. As I am in Europe, I just put the card in the machine, enter my pin and take my card out. Same procedure in restaurant.
So where is the gain? Taking it out of my wallet, putting back into my wallet. Entering the pin code.
To be secure, you need to keep your card in a RFID secure wallet, so all that is left is putting the card into a machine and entering the pin vs. holding the card somewhere.
That difference vs the risk is not worth it.
PGP is great. It has one slight issue: you do not see it anywhere. The reason? It is not pre-installed.
It would be trivial to add it to Outlook, Gmail, Hormail and any other mail service or program by default. Now it needs action on the users side.
I would like Email to have PGP by default. Not to hide any content from others (because two people is one to many to keep a secret) but sender verification. Is it my bank that send me the email, or SpammerJohnny who found out you can make your own From in Outlook?
If it would be included by default in email programs, it would be uses. Not by 100% and some would turn it off, but by enough to get others to use it.
It could solve a LOT of the spam email issues, especially phishing mails. No, it will not solve everything; it will be better then what we have now: nothing.
I am not going to hold my breath. It will never happen. At most, each will try to push their own system that willl not work, leaving us worse with what we have now: nothing and no way to improve it.
When I am hungry, I can type in 'City' and get it.
What I dislike about it is how it is NOT used to help me. Filling out an adress and they ask for a state? Whare I live we have no states.
And looking at Google: I understand that you want me to use google.TLD, but do NOT assume that I want to see something in a certain language depending on my location. I want it in English, just like my browers main and only manguage is. Next to that, I work in a bi-lingual city and they WILL get it wrong.
So for the love of whatever you pray to, use the language setting in the brower, or are you already take so much data, you can not use that?
Concerning TOR, I won't be using it, because I am sure it does not matter. I rather know I am being followed than hope that I am not.
It might take off if it becomes something that is default. A bit like pgp. Not that hard to use, but nobdy uses it, because it is not already installed (and I would want to use it only for the signature, so I know my bank is my bank). So a bit like Linux. No pre-install, no desktop year. Pre-install and everybody uses it killing WIndows (Android/Apple)
As long as they give Bieber and Kayne a voice, we should be getting money from them and we take that by downloading stuff.
I can imagine that the waiver would also talk abut the content. Although they will try to be carefull, it could still mean that the post-it note with the password you need gets destroyed.
The same people who fall for 419 scams or any other of them. These people are stupid, like your gradma, your mom or your little sister or enough people who are not on /.
Now how many do you need to make this profitable? For all I know, 1 or 2 can be enough to make a profit and that could be the cat playing with the device when the SMS comes in and presses it by accident.
And are you REALLY surprised this happens? Then you must never have worked with security. Perhaps you have programmed security on systems, but that is not the same.
Security in IT is a technical solution to a social problem and time and time again, IT tries to keep out that social part.
Now why would an SMS work?
1) People do not expect an SMS to be send by a virus, as the sender needs to pay (in Europe at least)
2) They panick when they see it is from their bank and do not want to do anything bad.
3) They follow the instrictions from their bank (they think)
4) They have NO idea what APK is, means or whatever
5) They have no idea what sideloading is and just follw the instructions
6) They will keep following instructions, because they believe it is from their bank and they do not want to do anything bad against their bank.
7) Still following their banks instructions
8) Be happy that they did not piss of their bank.
The majority of people will believe everything their bank tells them to do blindly, because they still think the bank has their best interest at heart. People trust others and for a good reason. Bad people abuse that trust.
BTW, I know what I am talking about. I work for Microsoft and I noticed there is a Virus on your computer. Please give your number, so I can call you to solve this.
Do you know about the Red Cross/Cressent Moon? Have you heard about Docters without frontiers? Have you heard about medical care that is free for all in the country?
The thing is, many people do it because they want to help, not because they have to help and push their religion at the same time. SUre, nice advertisement, but claiming that you are the only one doing so is the same as lying, that you now do in name of religion.
If God is the only reason to re-enforce the concept of Good and Evil, then there is something seriously wrong with God or with the person or both.
There are plenty of people who are able to see the difference between good and evil, without the need of a God or Gods. There are studies that show why we like babies (in general) or puppies. The result has more to do with DNA and evolution than with religion.
When we see how much evil is done 5while the people doing it thought it was good) by people who are religious over the centuries in all the different religions, you must assume that the concept of Good and Evil trough religion does not work.
Correlation is not causation.
ANY tool will have far more legimate uses than illegal use (except perhaps a bong).
The fact that it makes something easier is not a reason that it should or should not be banned or severely limited in usage or regulated.
As I have my own domain (and others here might have as well) I use a simple way of using email.
1) A spam account at gmx.com for rubbish. Many would use Google, I like GMX better, because it isn't google.
2) A fristname.lastname@example.com that is only used when I am looking for a job. If I don't, all mails will be dropped.
3) An email address for friends that will be filtered for spam
4) An email address for every website that is important to me. e.g. shlashdot.org@example.com or bigbank.com@example.com.
The last one will not only give me a way to tell if it is really my bank or not, so less possible falling for fake mails. It is also possible to see who sell their email addresses and I will drop the mailbox. Till now after several years the only company that has done this is Ebay.
All email addresses are just aliases.
Filtering into folders is done per type (e.g. mailing lists, commercial, financial, ...) by procmail
It has helped me determine if something is a fake mail from BigBank that was my bank and was done very well. As it was in the wrong folder, I knew it wasn't send by my bank and thus deleted.
I even make one that is travel@example.com for travels for that year. That way I do not need to use a different one for various hotels and restaurants I want to do reservations at or rental companies, while all stays together.
What people who do not have access to their own domain and/or unlimited aliases could still use different email addresses.
e.g. banking.name@example.net , stores.name@example.net , webistes.name@example.net.
Most places will allow 5 aliases and that should be enough to differenctiate. It will also prevent using an address like LittleHornyBitch69@example.org when you start looking for a job.
If they are stupid enough to operate in the same country or one where extraditing from is easy, they are. If they are in China, Russia or somewhere in Africa, they are relative safe.
Not only rare, but also on both sides of the scale. So a highest in recorded history and a lowest in recorded history would be happening equally frequently rare.
Some additions: In Belgium they are working on having pre-paid card linked to a person. So no more anonymous payment.I am not sure if that is a Belgian push or a European one, so that hole will be closed very soon.
If they would want to do age verification in Belgium, it would be easy to do. We have the eID that can do this. It is an ID with a chip. Readers are readily available, the source to read them is open.
There are also laws that forbid transfer of data to third parties, unless you agree that they can.
That obviously does not remove any tracability and it will NOT be anonymous. I just added the info because of the technical part, as this is /. From that point it is nice and a pity not more websites use it.
Because incoming dollars are different from outgoing dollars. This is Hollywood Accounting 101.
I believe the origin is when they wrote in pencil and to make it clear what the difference was, they wrote incoming amounts with a dot and outgoing ones without one.
So USD100 and USD1.00 used to be the same as they were in different columns.