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Data off of Facebook is now accessible to any person with the Facebook torrent which was created by a hacker with a lot of free time. Ron Bowes wrote a web crawling code that scraped the Facebook directory for information about 171 million Facebook users. This torrent file is about 2.8 GB and is available to anyone online. Facebook said the Facebook torrent is no big deal -- it just contains details on users anyone can get from a Facebook search. Numerous feel like this is just an additional example of how easy it is to hack Facebook with all of the privacy issues they've been having lately.

NADA (the National Automobile Dealers Association) is a mighty force politically, and it lately had the chance to fight for an auto dealer exemption from CFBA (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) oversight. NADA spokesman Bailey Woods told Automotive News that House and Senate committees made the right decision, as the CFPB would make dealer financing for automobile loans more involved and ultimately more costly. Early returns seem to indicate that auto dealers should be dancing in the aisles of Congress.

Banks have personnel loans to take Social Security

Consumers have more protection from rate of interest hikes, heavy late fees and other penalties in new Federal Reserve Credit Card rules approved June 22. Credit card companies have tried to stay a step ahead of the law with deceptive new fees and penalties since the 2009 credit card law was passed. The latest additions to the Fed’s credit card rules become effective Aug. 22. The provisions close some loopholes and complement rules in 2009 credit card law already in effect.

I went to ISU at Summer 1984 and graduate at Dec/1987 in
electrical engineering.

Retrospect, it was 20+ years. 3.5 year at ISU left me with some sweet memories.
There were a couple of seniors who organised party regularly.
Ong/Wong(you drive the big camaro)will bring his Hi-Fi set and his frinds(Suresh, Chew(the moustache guy, architect)...Ah ha...remember Highland Ave?
yes.....Lam and his wife(architect).....were Ong good friend.
It was nice to party in the bitter winter in Iowa!

if Voo Thart Fah(people just call me Voo) from Sabah does ring

One week ago, Google added the ability for users to change the background image on their main search page. The Google background image, this morning, was the default on the search page. This move has left numerous users asking how to remove the Google background. Removing the Google background image, though, was not exactly simple. Before Google returned the primary page to the white background, but numerous users chose alternatives rather than seeing the image.

More than two years ago, Guillermo Del Toro, the acclaimed director of Pans’ Labyrinth and the Hellboy films, was attached to direct the film version of The Hobbit. It is the prequel to the wildly successful Lord of the Rings series, written by JRR Tolkien. Peter Jackson convinced Del Toro to move to New Zealand to bring the film to fruition. A new director is needed as the financial woes of MGM studios has caused too many delays, and Del Toro's role as director has been put on the killing floor.

”24” season 9 is a reality that Jack Bauer, as awesome as he might be, couldn’t torture into happening. What about the movie based on “24”? That movie won’t be out for a while, even though it is listed as “in development”. Will Jack Bauer continue to have a very bad week – or will the “24” movie be just as good as the “24” finale?

Resource for this article: 24 finale full of drama - 24 movie to be the same

There were calls for a Betty White SNL episode, and that desire has been met. Individuals want to see a lot more. A new Facebook campaign aims to get Betty White picked to host the Oscars. The octogenarian is having a career renaissance, having had several large successes over the last few years, and after her turn in the Proposal with Sandra Bullock, she has become increasingly popular with the younger crowd.