[Eee Pad Transformer General] craftyhack:
We all are, that is my point, and I was asking nicely, I said please :). All of the money that we allow to leave the country to be made up for via taxes and/or deficit hurts us. For some fun, look at www dot usdebtclock dot org... you can look up any other country or state govt there too, pretty interesting, on the bright side we aren't the worst, but we are pretty bad. Printing new money from nothing backed by nothing dilutes the value of the dollar as well, and not only delays the inevitable, but makes it worse when it does come to a head. Anything anyone can do about it anywhere... they should, the aggregate effect is a potential reversal of what is going to happen to our economy pretty soon, to which there are a million contributors, but apathy or a feeling of "this one thing won't make a difference" aggregates as well to accelerate bad things happening (hyperinflation, etc.).

Anyway, apply logic to this registrant's other domains that have nothing to do with each other. How many small businesses incorporate in one country but will only sell to another, and that small business happens to go into retail on about 15 different and completely unrelated types of goods.

Most of these places also will indeed sell or use your CC for fraud as well, I believe valid CC packages (a package is enough to use on most sites to make a purchase) where in bulk, CC packages are worth $5-$10 a pop currently, depending on how fresh or exposed they are(the ones from this site will be worth less because they are already exposed, where an unexposed package is defined as one that came from an undetected breach of a valid datastore and the packages have not yet been used). Current popular use of these packages is to order and overnight a high value package to an empty house. Unfortunately even without a 3 point match (term for the validating identity and method of payment against the probability of it being fraud), like bill to different from ship to and ccv not requested (bad ecommerce site), many sites will still ship, and they will do this over a few days on just the right frequency and value of items to not cause any of the credit alarms to trip. Unfortunately, one of the auto credit fraud detection methods is high value charges (> a few hundred $, depends on the CC company) after long periods of inactivity, data which they don't have access to. The nice thing is that the transaction will just get declined and they will move on.

There are new methods being considered by law enforcement to change what the CC fraud alarms will do now though, i.e. instead of shutting the number down, they will instead allow charges to continue to go through, but the charge will not go against the original owner of the CC number of course, but it won't matter, because when that package is left at the doorstep of the empty house, who ever goes to pick it up will get to meet a nice FBI agent as soon as they try to pick up the package :). Who knows how long until that sting method goes through though :(.

So basically, if these sites are fast enough, it isn't just the one thing you bought that we will all end up paying for, it is all of the other stuff bought and written off as well, unless you use a temp CC # like those offered by Citibank.

As I mentioned above, expect to see the domain seized very soon and to look like this: www dot ccccpn dot com , or for it to disappear first, and for no one to get what they ordered, and most likely for their CCs to be compromised. Would anyone like to bet a virtual dollar on it :)?

EDIT: Dang, I came here to find out how to get my mouse cursor back on my TF101, and somehow ended up talking about work and I am off and need the break :(. My bad... carry on.

EDIT 2: Getting into this thread got me out of the forest so I could see the tree, I forgot all about the function button row on my KB that includes a button that disables/enables the touch pad. I never use that so didn't think to look there, but my kids love experimenting with buttons... thanks for the distraction... the solution was on the tip of my tongue, I could *barely* feel it because I remember when I first got this thing checking out all of the lovely function buttons geared towards Android/the device, but I only ever use a few of them, ironic how some of what I think are the coolest features of a new toy I sometimes never use! Really looking forward to that TF700, almost heeeere, woo hoo. Saw it at CES, been anxiously waiting ever since. Assuming they have only made improvements vs. the one I saw at CES, which was pretty darn perfect, except maybe the price.