President Bush Tries to Pardon Himself
Cuil (Cool) New Search Engine
As with most new search engines, it's not that impressive out of the box. It doesn't seem to return much in the way of more relevant results than any other page, but the makers of Cuil (pronounced COOL) are saying that they index more pages than any other search engine. Because their algorithms analyze the content of the .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Google, Internet, Search EnginesOnline Dating Services Can Lead to Fraud
I have always said that the more someone knows about you the easier it is to destroy you. Hence we have an example of people defrauding lonely love seekers through e-dating sites.
It's easy to manipulate if you know a few personal details about someone. Salespeople have been doing it for as long as there's .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Consequences, If You Only KnewChallenge a Forclosure to Stay in Your Home
At least one person was able to challenge a foreclosure because the bank that tried to foreclose didn't actually have the legal right to do so.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Banks, ForclosureOne More Reason To Be Against Digital Rights Management (DRM)
From Ars Technica:
Yahoo e-mailed its Yahoo! Music Store customers yesterday, telling them it will be closing for good—and the company will take its DRM license key servers offline on September 30, 2008.
Once the Yahoo store goes down and the key servers go offline, existing tracks cannot be .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]New Bankruptcy Laws Bite Lenders
Originally, the bankruptcy laws were a catch-all for handling aggressive and dishonest lending allowing people to completely remove their debts once every 7 years. That way, even if someone made mistakes or was suckered in by bad credit deals, they could escape them under some circumstances and start over.
Lenders weren't happy with this and wanted it to .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Bankruptcy, BanksComcast and Countrywide Vie For “Worst Company In America” Award
The Consumerist is having a contest for "Worst Company in America" and the top contenders have come down to Comcast and Countrywide Home Loans.
The winner will receive a "golden poo" award which they can proudly display in their central office or on their website. Get over there and cast your vote!
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Comcast, Countrywide, WCiAUniversity of Maryland Leaks Social Security Numbers
They sent out mailings that had the SSNs on the outside envelope. But don't worry! They're offering a free year of credit monitoring!
Whee.
Instead, do something useful and take advantage of Maryland's Credit Freeze law to actually protect yourself rather than get ripped off by credit monitoring
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Identity Theft, SchoolsDNA Matching Has Problems – FBI Tries to Cover It Up
Some DNA lab workers have found that, while DNA is truly unique, the process of looking at only a small set of "loci" to make a match between people has flaws. In one case, a match was made in DNA testing between one person who was black and one who was white.
Not surprisingly, the FBI has been hard .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Criminal Investigation, DNA, EvidenceGPS Beats Radar Gun
Here's a new twist on how having a tracking GPS in your car can be a GOOD thing. A teenager who was pulled over for speeding was able to prove that he was following the speed limit using the tracking data from his GPS unit.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: GPS, Police, Tickets and Fines