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So if you were to gain access to a stranger's account, you'd have to transfer the money to an existing, old and actively used account. Which is likely to be your own or your friend's.
Seems like a huge risk, so the hackers just sell the account to some idiot willing to try it.
I bought an expensive T-shirt a long time ago from a rather legit looking apparel company (nice website, LTD company/bank account).
Learned the right words on Reddit, hit up Instagram and started looking for and messaging people. Got a few replies, went with the one who had the most legit looking photos.
After a few questions on WhatsApp (yeah, really, lol) got directed to the website and bought the right item... via direct debit because their payment processor was "down".
Big risk on my part, I guess, my plan if popo called was to just say "hey I only ordered a t-shirt!"... I did not think it through very well.
Got it pretty fast (Royal Mail tracked and signed) and found a gift pack of "Revels" inside. How nice of them!
It seems rather risky for them, wouldn't it take just one guy to talk? Or maybe the seller was new to the business.
Tbf, setting up a company, bank account and shipping, all while staying anonymous is extremely easy (but not legal) in the UK compared to the rest of EU.
The one I remember, though I can't for the life of me remember it's name, was operating around Benelux, mostly Belgium, France and Netherlands.
The truckers I knew mostly used it to find nearby matches for return trips (so they don't make a return trip empty). I don't know what happened to them.
Short of an UEFI-implemented solution (which itself would create problems like total control over your hardware), there's nothing out there that can't be bypassed. And no company is going to do that when the Internet addictions are bringing in billions.
Best way is to treat it at the core, of course, but that's not going to happen, either.
I distinctly remember a service/app with the same purpose in Europe in 2013.
There's Cargomatic and mentioned by mkoryak, OpenMile. And probably others. Money will definitely help here, though.
I was going to ask who buys them but they I remembered my neighbors don't even have a computer. Just smartphones and tablets...
Now, I don't like laws banning stuff, but these handheld 150-2000 mW lasers can seriously damage someone's eyes. And I'm not going to risk blindness or poor eyesight for the rest of my life because some idiot thought it looked cool.
What's a legitimate use for them? It seems to me that they exist only because "high power, fuck yeah". 50mW is enough for pointing at stuff, and you need industrial lasers to cut something.
Shining them in the sky and at people is already illegal, technically, but this is a real case where preventing purchase would be better.
And this Dell isn't even 10 bit IPS, which is what monitors for professional graphics use, it's the standard 8bit IPS, very likely made by LG.
It's curved though.
I really wonder how many low end models some companies actually produce - I've always been sure they're just using them to push people to buy the mid-range one.
Because Intel's ME/AMT sure as hell isn't any better.
If you got 40 years to give away to some assholes who don't care about you, be my guest.
ARM is owned by SoftBank, for what it's worth.
I gotta ask the opposite, why does the UK want such an FTA so much?
Could it be, gasp, that they realized they're actually fucked without one?
And with people like May, with their imbecilic policies and ideas, leading it? Please...
Furthermore, I like the idea of a united Europe, and I'd hate if the UK would allocate resources to undermine that (if Russia can, the UK certainly can).
I'm tired of all the "England this, England that". Yes, there's an amazing history, but you can't repeat it. Look at the world today for God's sake.
England isn't a global superpower, it doesn't have colonies, it doesn't have the population to compete with superpowers, its overseas territories are a money drain, and there's nothing of value being made in the UK that isn't being made in the US, China or the EU.
The recession will be hard. It was a stupid decision made by stupid people.
Hopefully things will normalize in 4 decades.