“There is just something wrong about having to pay for identity theft... a problem created by credit card companies themselves... and now they want money to help me save myself from this problem! Why should i have to pay someone else to monitor my credit? Should'nt the EVIL card companies provide it?”
Yes. Yes, they should. But they don't want to, because that might cut into their profit margins. Another reason why once we're out of debt, we're getting out of the credit card game entirely. - Stephen Shores via twhirl
I am shocked to learn about all the companies that keep your background and finance history. We thought it was just the three credit reporting agencies right? Guess what there is also choicepoint and scores of others that keep a tab on your every information from birth to date! People talk about privacy & identity in social media -- I think these companies scare me much more than my email/friend list being leaked/hacked from some web 2.0 sites. - Akshay
Oh, and BTW Choicepoint also acts as a private investigator to the govt.(via Wikipedia) - Akshay
There is much wrong with the credit industry, from LIBOR based rates to using the FICO scores to calculate creditworthiness. Not sure what the fix will be, but an ideology shift is required. - Sally Robinson
One small thing you can do is ... opt out from receiving pre-approved offers at https://www.optoutprescreen.co.... Seems legit. Not sure if it'll stop those banks who already have your info and keep sending you new offers (or the same) every f#$%ing week. - priyang
@priyang yep! I have signedup for that but it still does not eliminate all the junk. And the information trail goes beyond just the credit rating companies. Did you know that the insurance companies share a lot of information via choicepoint? The real problem is the lack of accountability of your own data. I have no clue where all my sensitive information is recorded and further propagated. I feel that isnt right! - Akshay
i was a victim of id theft...it took 8 months of my time and money to clean it up. - .LAGizmoto
@.LAG shucks! that really sucks! So what did you have to do in order to clean it up?How did you find out about it? Did you have to spend a lot of money as well? 8 months is agonizing amount of frustration man... sorry to hear that. - Akshay
my id theft story: i'll post it on my blog and hit the URL back here shortly...I think it's instructive. - .LAGizmoto
“I wish Google news archive provided a summar of all the article for a particular date in history. I was trying to find all the events that happend for a particular date way back in 70s and it is so difficult to get the information...”
“What is the mean time to reciprocate? When you add someone on a social network -- on an average how quickly do they add you back? Is it different from one network to another? I usually find that FriendFeed and Twitter friends respond almost within a 10 min window! Amazing init?”
I had a couple of people just reciprocate within 10 minutes. I think one was a bot, though. :) - Stephen Shores via twhirl
It truly varies, I find on FriendFeed reciprocation often happens
within minutes to hours. Compared to Facebook where individuals are more selective with reciprocation. - Mike Fruchter
Generally a few hours on Friendfeed or Twitter, but a few days on Flickr, LibraryThing or Last.fm. - Brome
We've started taking the insurance and registration out of our cars when we park them overnight. The big thing in Dallas now is stealing paperwork. These guys are &#%$heads. - Harvey Simmons
that sucks man. mine was broken into last month too. - AJ Batac
For some reason, I was having a string of tire issues too. Even had the donut on the car and the little bastards still took the jack. I think they might have been pissed because there wasn't anything worth stealing. :) - Yolanda
Sorry to hear that, Akshay. My car had been broken into twice before I moved to a different part of town. First time they stole nearly $1,300 worth of audio equipment. Second time they just took my cheap Sony head unit. Probably out of spite. - Akiva Moskovitz
You know my last tag was "JAVA 1" yeah! seriously that IS my last name. Well, on the bright side in a few months hopefully I can register a shiny new toy with a tag "Dr. JAVA" :-D and this time I am gonna WELD it to my car -- I dont care if it drops in value. I cant afford to have that tag stolen! :-) - Akshay
Talking about car thieve b*s: a friend of mine stays in dowtown Baltimore. These a*@#$%es stole the car muffler and since they knew that the muffler would be soon replaced with a brand new one -- came right back and stole it AGAIN the next week!! - Akshay
Now *that* is evil, Akshay. Rat bastards! - Yolanda
Too bad your stereo was already stolen...otherwise you could have set it up to play "na na naa naa naaaaa naaaaaa, ha ha haa haa haaaaa haaaaaa" in Cartman voice 2 minutes after someone breaks in to steal something. - priyang
Last name's Java? I like you already! :) - Stephen Shores
“Just realized that my friends on facebook, linkedin, orkut, friendfeed and twitter, etc. are partially overlapping sets. However, all of them are part of my social identity. Some folks I have never met while others I have known for years - all part of my big circle of friends nevertheless.”
A mashup for wikifying Google Trend's top search keywords. Moreover you can "disqus" and comment on recent hot topics being search for right now! - Akshay via Bookmarklet
