Comments on: Charlie Rose tonite: Bill Ackman and Joe Stiglitz

By: Big E

Big E — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:14:02 +0000

Barry, turn off “pingbacks” in WordPress. It’s basically used for link spamming..

By: DL

DL — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:02:36 +0000

It’s obvious that the bondholders at the big banks have a stranglehold on the U.S. government. What’s less obvious is how they acquired that power, and how, exactly, they exercise it. Do the bondholders simply provide (to the politicians) briefcases filled with $100 dollar bills? Or is it more complicated than that?

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:44:29 +0000

Watched the first half this morning. The big take away I took was the brief comment about the current market trading. With Bear and Lehman gone there is less competition. The broker dealers are basically naming their price (implied GS). This was mentioned on how some of the “banks” are enhancing their earning through their trading desks and not through more traditional means.

Another item I saw which I really hadn’t followed is the amount of FDIC insure bonds that these banks are issuing.

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:41:25 +0000

dh,

do some more research, ‘keylogger’ need not be installed.

in a way, when you ‘type’ you’re playing an electronic xylophone..

those freqs can be picked up remotely by someone on the street outside of your house

remember, the 21st C. is here.

see: http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=electronic+keystroke+logging+by+frequency

JC! even wikipedia will tell you..

Hello! R.I.F. http://www.rif.org/

By: dead hobo

dead hobo — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:01:39 +0000

Myr,

I don’t know. MACS are /were basically Linux.Basic security in Linux makes it a lot safer if you don’t sign on as the administrator. I’m not as fluent in Linux anymore so I really don’t know. I suspect a keylogger could be installed regardless if someone weren’t careful or had a nosy friend.

By: Myr

Myr — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:50:54 +0000

@dead hobo

Any thoughts about the need to do the same thing for MACS?

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:43:25 +0000

dh,

just remember: on the web, there Always a string.

if you want ‘safe computing’, buy an Abacus.
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/

By: dead hobo

dead hobo — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:38:50 +0000

I suppose if I were really paranoid, I could be running all that a virtual PC, such as VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC.

By: dead hobo

dead hobo — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:36:51 +0000

These Russians made me glad I installed Sandboxie on my PC. Now my browser operates in sandbox that looks like a real PC to the program running inside it. If anything bad were to enter, it would stay in the sandbox, which gets secure deleted via Eraser, automatically, when I close it. KeyScrambler Personal kills any keylogger that might have sneaked in. Plus normal internet security software is installed. I am invincible.

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:45:40 +0000

VD,

if it were so. more like another log on the fire to fan the flames of ‘Internet insecurity’..

Welcome Internet2/”Secure Computing”.
~~

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge — even to ourselves — that we’ve been so credulous.” — Carl Sagan