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  1. Re:Financial Meltdown on Judging You By the Online Company You Keep · · Score: 4, Informative
    The core issue for the Housing Crisis wasn't a lack of knowledge in what the true risk was. Mortgage Brokers were knowingly take risks that were guaranteed to fail. I personally know a couple that were giving a loan with mortgage payments exceeded their monthly GROSS income. The brokerage firm purposely filed falsified documents to acquire said loan with the intent to bundle it into a derivatives package and resell. They're only care was to score a big immediate pay-off for them and the lender and not worry about the long term solvency of the actual loan itself.

    This was especially rampant in Florida which was the ramped up center for land speculation following the "2000-2002 Stock Market Crash."

  2. Re:meh on New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny" · · Score: 1

    I thought "Mostly Harmless" closed the series nicely and IMHO, it should have ended there.

    As far as Adams' humour is concerned; it also failed to show up in his own "Dirk Gently" series.

  3. Re:interpret and damage and route around on Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers? · · Score: 1

    ABP also blocks some desireable content on WebApp driven sites like FaceBook. So some users will stop using it because of that.

  4. Google did something right too on Your Browser History Is Showing · · Score: 1

    I tested it in Chrome's Incognito Window and the site was unable to detect my browser history. When I tested Chrome in regular mode, it found all kinds of good stuff.

  5. Re:Yay! on A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs · · Score: 1

    Chrome gave me the option to pull up Google's Cache of the site

    http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:http://www.allpinouts.org/

  6. Re:ATM != desktop computer on Cybercriminals Refine ATM Data-Sniffing Software · · Score: 1

    How is it easier to develop an ATM on Windows than on Linux?

    Windows devs are a dime a dozen and therefore cheap to hire.

    Ergo, they got what they paid for, sloppy programming full of holes

  7. Re:root in Knoppix: "sudo passwd", then "su" on What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use? · · Score: 1

    Next time I fire up Knoppix, I will have to give that a try. Thanks

  8. Re:Funny you mention Linux on What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use? · · Score: 1
    Yes. As in File Permissions, sorry. I didn't even think about that for some reason, but I'm not really sure how to login as root in Knoppix.

    Booting with Knoppix and using the automatic default logon renders all Windows Security useless so I never worried about it before.

  9. Funny you mention Linux on What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use? · · Score: 1
    One user's hard drive was making the dreaded "click-click, whir-kerchunk" noises during start-up causing it to lock up.

    I booted the desktop with an old Knoppix 3.4 Live CD and used SAMBA to copy her critical files to another windows computer. Every click and kerchunk of the dying harddrive only momentarily slowed the transfer of data.

    I tried to do the same thing on an Ubuntu drive that had bad sectors, but the security on the files prevented them from being accessed.

  10. Re:Would you trust StalkDaily? on Twitter Gets Slammed By the StalkDaily XSS Worm · · Score: 2, Interesting
    According to TFA, Two instances of Malware and one instance of the Seneka Root Kit

    A Malwarebytes scan comes up with three instances of malware. One is the Seneka rootkit (ouch!).

    Also according to the code and analysis posted on TFA showed that the script was ran on the client side, i.e. the user's computer, that exploited an XSS exploit on Twitter's website.

    I think that satisfies the definition of a Black-Hat Hack & Infecting users' PCs.

  11. Re:Obvious user question on Google's Amazing Browser Experiments · · Score: 1

    One IT person for roughly every 1000 computers.

  12. Re:CDE? on Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock" · · Score: 1

    Zenwalk has had it awhile as well.

  13. Re:Hacker? on FEMA Phones Hacked, Calls Made To Mideast and Asia · · Score: 1

    Excellent comment!!

  14. Re:Ewwww.... on Mandriva Joins the Netbook Market With the GDium · · Score: 1
    I have to agree. Why carry two things with you if you don't have to. It is kind of backwards.

    I can see to small extent using a G-Key for desktops, but in work environment roaming profiles work much better.

  15. Re:Hmmm on Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    Interestingly my first post is marked as troll?

    I'd hazard a guess that the last line made a moderator's panties tighten up in a wad. It did sort of darken the the whole tone of the comment.

  16. Re:It's like divorce on $50 to Get XP On a New Dell · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's a pretty sad statement about a product when people are willing to pay MORE not to use it.


    Forget about Apple Mr. Gates, you're doing a good job of self-destructing.

  17. Re:Correction on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 1

    I guess the reports of its fragility were grossly over embelished.

  18. Re:Correction on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 1

    ... people are willing to pay a premium price for a premium product.

    Seems to me it's for premium coddling by lock-in when you can only add Apps from the Apple Store to be gently installed by iTunes. Free, stable and arguably better products like Opera Mini will be locked out for UK users. Even a BlackBerry phone allows the latter.

    As for quality, you can drop a Blackberry, pick it up and continue your phone conversation. How much is that iPod replacement glass cost?

  19. Re:"it's better than nothing" on Microsoft Pushes Devs With Wider IE8 Beta · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You're absolutely right. American Businesses are more worried about reaching the most people, if non IE users, like myself, can't render their page correctly, I am insignificant consequence to mass marketing to them.

    It's a shame that it took a European company like Opera Software to force European Regulators to stop the Microsoft's take over of the Web.

  20. Re:Repairing em' on The Mac In the Gray Flannel Suit · · Score: 1
    I avoided that "whole scripted Q-n-A" for Laptop power supply. I told the guy I used one from another laptop and the Laptop A worked. The "bad one" didn't send juice to either laptop because the battery was discharging.

    I was surprised that I still didn't get the Well, I need you to ...

  21. Re:Started the download 20 minutes ago on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1
    Server? Well that changes everything.


    I still use the terminal too for certain tasks, but gone are the days when we had to almost everything worth doing in it.

  22. Re:Started the download 20 minutes ago on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1
    Not exactly ... I think you missed my point that ... aren't we being way to overcomplicated for this streamlined Linux Distro?


    Personally, I'm tired of writing code in a terminal window every time I want to do something constructive with Linux. Cuts into my guitar playing time.

  23. Re:Started the download 20 minutes ago on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1
    Geez, We are talking about Ubuntu aren't we?


    Open the Update Manager | Click Check

    The New Distro will appear as available | Click Upgrade.

  24. Bombs away - I did my part. on XKCD Inadvertently Causes Googlebomb · · Score: 1
    It's now at 264,000 and climbing.

    This must be life after being /.'d

  25. Re:Let's see here ... on Circuit City Rewards Execs As Stock Tanks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny. Brilliant!