Ok, I'll try to explain more calmly. First, these football players aren't snowflakes. None of us would last a minute in a college practice, let alone an NFL practice. These guys are modern day gladiators, sacrificing their present and future health for fame and cash, all to entertain us couch potat...

The NFL players are a lot more valuable to the average fan than the old billionaire owners. The NFL is entertainment, and fans aren't tuning in to watch old, white, political, draft-dodging snowflakes whining about their hurt feelings. Don't really understand your point. Fans aren't tuning in to wa...

Quick hijack it. Trump, Hilary, Obama, gender studies, climate change, black lives matter I prefer the NFL anthem controversy because it's much more interesting. And whatever you have to say about Trump, you have to admit he has a knack for making things interesting. Personally, I couldn't care les...

I've used SGOL, IAU, and physical but recently I dropped the SGOL and went with just the latter two. Don't actually remember why I made that move, to tell you the truth. I think IAU was the original recommendation in the Harry Browne book so that's why I went with it. He preferred physical gold, of ...

I wonder if this is related in any way to all the emails I've been getting from Vanguard about switching my account to a brokerage account by November 3. I have no idea what that's all about because I was on vacation in Australia and Hawaii and haven't looked into it yet.

Desert wrote:

Maddy wrote:. . . And old people can't operate Facebook.

Yep.

+2

And people in my generation didn't know how to crank start a car or shoe a horse. So what? It's called progress (not to be confused with "progressive" politics - or at least hopefully not).

The crash, called a kilonova, generated a fierce burst of gamma rays and a gravitational wave, a faint ripple in the fabric of space and time, first theorized by Albert Einstein. The signal arrived on Earth on Aug. 17 after traveling 130 million light-years. A light-year is 5.88 trillion miles. So ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-witness-huge-cosmic-crash-origins-gold-140024492.html The colliding stars spewed bright blue, super-hot debris that was dense and unstable. Some of it coalesced into heavy elements, like gold, platinum and uranium. Scientists had suspected neutron star collisio...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-witness-huge-cosmic-crash-origins-gold-140024492.html The colliding stars spewed bright blue, super-hot debris that was dense and unstable. Some of it coalesced into heavy elements, like gold, platinum and uranium. Scientists had suspected neutron star collisio...

They've been hacked again....

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/12/equifax ... again.html

Apparently, one of their web pages was hacked to download malware which makes me feel not so paranoid about thinking their whole Trusted ID thing was just another hack.

Is it common for institutions with reams of highly sensitive data to use open source software??? Given what they're holding, Equifax's security should be more like the NSA, the Pentagon, and major banks like Chase. It shouldn't be run like a video game company. I'm a little shocked that they were u...

The sum total of our damage from Hurricane Irma. 5 bags of debris and a piece of fence I wanted to take down any way. Seeing what devastation it wrought even farther north in cities like Jacksonville I feel very lucky but my wife chalks it up to praying the rosary. Apparently she prays it better tha...

An interesting article with some technical details of the hack if any IT folks are interested.... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/massive-equifax-breach-caused-by-failure-to-patch-two-month-old-bug/ Apparently a vulnerability was discovered in some open source software (Apache...

An interesting article on Luther for the Lutherans here. Did you know that October 31 of next month would be the 500th anniversary of the nailing of the 95 theses to start the Protestant Reformation (not really according to the article).... http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/luthers_ver...

My sister just checked the Equifax site and had some excellent questions. Her entire family including her two kids, who have no credit history at all not to mention that the family live in Canada, came up as potentially compromised. My sister pointed out that searching a database of 143 million SSN...

ochotona wrote:EF says they will waive credit freeze fees for 30 days

How generous of them.

Nice windfall for Experian and TransUnion who aren't waving fees.

I was one of the hacked IDs according to the Equifax website - so I enrolled in the Trusted ID Premier program. Wasn't sure I wanted to at first. They say the hack occurred through the website. So now they have a link to a new program where you give them all your information on the website. Say what...

Just got back home after evacuating. Our neighborhood in Pinellas county was completely untouched and the power is still on. Pretty amazing because there was damage all around and lots of people are without electricity and water. Biggest worry was the refilling of Tampa Bay after it emptied (an amaz...

As for my own packing, I have a heavy bag holding about 5% of my PP packed away. Good item to remember!! Farjean, I hope your house pulls through intact. Definitely making sure all the beer in the fridge gets used up. And even more important! This is indeed a big storm, but the news stories are con...

Greetings from Port St Lucie- east coast, 14 miles inland. Seems the storm will not cause much trouble here. I'll see beginning 4 hours from now. The neighbor across the street watched our homes being built and hired his own inspector and general contractor to visit every 3 days. He said these home...

Mandatory evacuations in effect now. Current track is pretty close to worse case scenario for us. Planning on going to our stepson's place a little farther inland away from evacuation zones. Told my daughter to assume everything left behind is going to be lost and to pack accordingly. Always best to...

Was there also an Experian hack or is the thread title wrong?

I thought it was Equifax. Used to be my employer, BTW.

The expansion now covers Zone B, which encompasses Brickell, Miami’s downtown area and South-Dade, including parts of Cutler Bay, Florida City and Homestead. Evacuation orders also touch Zone C, which includes parts of Coral Gables, South Miami, Miami Shores and North Miami Beach. That's you now, r...

Stay safe, Farjean. How are you situated as far as emergency preps go? As long as Amazon comes through tomorrow as promised I think we'll be fine. Had some angst yesterday about gas because it was completely gone every where I went but finally found some so I have a full tank in case we have to run...

Well, it looks like my worries that this was going to be a repeat of 2004 after 13 years of zero hurricane activity are coming true. We now have the worst Atlantic hurricane in history bearing down on us. Evacuations orders in the county I live in are now up to Zone A and I live in Zone B but I have...