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byPowercntrl ( 458442 ) writes:
Is there really any reason we can't just make pennies out of plastic instead? Personally, I haven't used cash in ages anyway so I'm really neither here nor there on running out of pennies, but it seems like if the problem is just that they cost too much to manufacture, make them out of something cheaper.
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
Or just scrap them as a denomination. I'm in the UK where pennies are worth fractionally more. It is now worth considerably less in real terms than the 1/2 p coin when that was scrapped. I, personally in favour of scrapping copper coinage completely. Round the tally to the closest 5 and be done with it.
byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:
I don't even regularly carry cash anymore. Phone generates a random credit card number for anonymity when shopping, that's good enough.
byViol8 ( 599362 ) writes:
"Phone generates a random credit card number for anonymity when shopping"
Huh? How can you pay with some random card number? And no payment method is anonymous , you simply move who knows from the shop to apple/google and your bank still knows you spent money either way.
Also I don't understand people who pay with a phone when contactless bank cards are simpler to use and faster. Just smacks of showing off.
bypsmears ( 629712 ) writes:
Also I don't understand people who pay with a phone when contactless bank cards are simpler to use and faster. Just smacks of showing off.
For most people I know that do this, it's just one less thing to carry - they'll have the phone with them anyway, so why carry cards/cash as well?
byViol8 ( 599362 ) writes:
Because not everywhere accepts apple or google for payments and if you're phone is lost or stoken you're screwed. Also it means giving apple or google your bank details in the first place.
byjonbryce ( 703250 ) writes:
In the UK, everyone, and I mean everyone accepts Apple Pay and Google Pay. I never carry cash when I go outside now.
bypostbigbang ( 761081 ) writes:
And you've surrendered your soul and privacy to tracking. You've become a loyal tool of the state, your history laid bare to the government or the next hacker looking to forever phish you with bad emails, snarf your wallets, and find out about those tawdry condoms you're buying. Welcome to The Hive. You've succumbed.
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byiAmWaySmarterThanYou ( 10095012 ) writes:
You're online, posting at slashdot with a 6 digit uid.
Your computer has an IP, you pay for that access with a credit card associated with your name, address and bank account. Your email is hosted somewhere that also knows who you are. Your every search, purchase, post, article read, hooker hired, porn viewed and everything else you do is logged in a government database somewhere.
What privacy are you talking about? No normal person has any privacy on the net. 99% of privacy nuts fool themselves into thinking they do running a government owned vpn.
It is possible to be anonymous on the net but so restrictive almost no one would do what's required.
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bypostbigbang ( 761081 ) writes:
Or I'm on Tor, the email on an obscured host.
Privacy is fleeting, we'll agree. And some of us try, because it's the right thing to do, rather than give it up to the man.
And we do so diligently, stay out of the system, whatever system that might be. And we don't leave tracks, and leave no trace. Yes, there are sniffers everywhere. The good news is that most of them are stupid, and have only hazy ideas of how to harvest the petabytes of info they already have.
But we're not "nuts". We're entirely deliberate. And often, we're successful. Conversely, sometimes we're not. You can profile my /. entries, sift me, but you don't know who I am, not that I care if you do. Rather, I fight the invasion, a matter of dignity and the right to be as anon as I please, not how you please. You can call this a fantasy or obsession, I prefer: Diligence.
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byiAmWaySmarterThanYou ( 10095012 ) writes:
Tor was broken years ago. There are white papers floating around about how easy it is when you have effectively unlimited government resources. Go ahead and Tor if it makes you feel better. It's better than nothing but if you have something to hide and privacy is more than a policy concept to you you're not safe with Tor.
Like you I do put in some basic effort to limit the privacy damage but I don't delude myself into thinking there's some magic bullet technology that will actually work and not just make
bypostbigbang ( 761081 ) writes:
You're a bully.
You move the cheese, breast-thumping about "unlimited government resources". Your delusion is believing your own BS.
Tor exit nodes are known. Your data, where stored, is for sale somewhere; we know this. If you are stored in fewer places, there is less to rob, the benefit of thinking about actual liberty and what privacy adds to it.
That you don't care anymore is your problem and sad demise. My data, what little there is, is tough to join together by purpose, not sloth. Your paranoia is not my
byiAmWaySmarterThanYou ( 10095012 ) writes:
I'm a bully? Lol, ok, because, uh, I 99% agreed with you?
You're weird, dude. Totally mental.
bypostbigbang ( 761081 ) writes:
Maybe too many testosterone patches? You should really pull them off when they're expired.
byThumpBzztZoom ( 6976422 ) writes:
He's an idiot. Look at his username. Actual smart people don't need to tell you they are smart. You have to get really, really far down the intelligence curve to get to the point you make a user name like IAmWaySmarterThanYou. He's basically the prototype example of Dunning Kruger. And he reinforces his own ego by changing the goal posts, ignoring logic, ignoring every time you prove him wrong even when it's his own information that does so, until you realize that he's too stupid to ever accept being wrong,
bypostbigbang ( 761081 ) writes:
Thanks for your kindness in revealing this.
byBig Hairy Gorilla ( 9839972 ) writes:
He may not actually be smarter than you but he's right. Data and systems are becoming monolithic, data from one system can be correlated to data from another system often by using public domain information. Data can be scraped from Facebook and other places, where people seem to reveal all manner of (what should be) private information. So... there really no way to avoid, no where to hide. If you are using a public VPN, like Nord, you just shift who gets to capture your info.
(the only way to do it is by set
byiAmWaySmarterThanYou ( 10095012 ) writes:
You can stop with the non sequitur ad hominem.
I was agreeing with you and twice you go off on me with weird stuff about bullying and testosterone.
byWarlockD ( 623872 ) writes:
I have to agree here. Tor or FreeNet get bad raps but they undoubtedly have this goal. True internet privacy is such a high bridge to get to nowadays. You practically have to air gap a separate computer though a firewall just to make sure that computer isn't spiting out things you don't want. People say "sure use Linux" and I do, just you cannot trust even Linux browsers not to have some JavaScript backdoor or some flaw, etc.
I just wish this wasn't some weird contentious issue. "Bad people" who reall
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