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Op-Ed: It's Time To Fix Our Broken Password System
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/17/161290236/op-ed-its-time-to-fix-our-broken-password-system
the-password-fallacy-why-our-security-system-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it
http://www.theatlantic.com/techn…
Reply to @Skeeter:
No concern. Just providing info for you if you weren't aware. I just copy and paste like you do and then edit out unnecessary things after the "?" from the pasted stuff. no problem with me, whichever way you provide links.
@Skeeter
90% of the time you can just post
http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2012/09/14/fear-greed-record/
instead of below which often times contains information pertaining to your browser and how you looked things up, personal info, etc.
http://buzz.…
Reply to @Investor:
I didn't notice this message, until I purged a bunch of other messages.
should be a black x on the close and hover of the fund popup box. Theoretically the close on other popup boxes shouldn't have changed.
OAKBX - test.
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Reply to @Old_Joe:
as long as you note that you cannot paste links that have "discussions-3" or http://http//
also as you noted - if clicking a link does not seem to work.
open the link in a new tab or window (often done by right clicking your m…
Reply to @MikeM:
I suspect it is the corporate firewall caching as you stated.
http://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/1695#Comment_1695
http://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/index.php?p=/discussion/comment…
Investor regarding your suggestions for unequal sizes of ▲ ▼ - fixed.
I added font-family: Serif; per your suggestion.
+1 investor (icon creator and unicode character specialist)
clapping in the distance.......
Reply to @mclaugh:
its common for an older version to work for things, and the next not to work, and the next to work. and viceversa. (depending on whether they add a feature or a bug to the version or discontinue something).
once again if you…
As an aside. The thing I am not to keen on is the charting on the y-axis. It would be nicer if the scale were equal for each $5K increment were equal for the y-axis. It makes it look like a smoother ride. I guess it is probably % increase based …
Reply to @hank:
no offense taken hank.
fair enough but ...
thats why there is a comment section :)
if anyone votes and want to put the reasoning behind their vote. they have a forum. It stills give you a picture, whether it was done by picass…
Reply to @Old_Joe:
I hope that members are downloading the user guide, excellent graphics and a great explanation of features that can enhance the use of this forum. And perhaps it will convince more people to become members and post …
Reply to @hank
thx Hank and Catch22
unlike Chip and Old Joe who have also worked on this project upgrade who have recovered I assume, I am still clearing out the lactic acid from my muscles after this race. I suspect I will be fully recovered sh…
Reply to @Old_Joe:
Here's my logic.
Show all and Show unread is primarily useful if you have unread discussions interspersed throughout the discussion topic page. The toggle allows you to see unread discussions without necessitating a page rel…
Reply to @hank:
Links for summary pages:
both of these are not embeded - choose whichever one you like best.
I seem to remember you liked the second option
http://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/mysum.php
http://www.mutualfundobserver.co…
no need to post both places - one message will suffice.
but feel free to make any and all comments.
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I trimmed a bunch of messages in this discussion (duplicate messages and resolved issues) to make this thread readable.
▲ ▼ these will scroll you up and down
and these will open close Categories, bookmarks, and check out the poll on right side panel toward the bottom above who's online
The only potion that I knew of that worked was "Love Potion #9"
Does that mean E-bay will also ban people prognisticating on which direction the market will head (i.e. up or down), seems like that would also fall into the same category as astrolo…
I haven't noticed a problem but if you can reproduce one every time I could see what I could do.
New posts "yellow" disappears if you are logged in and if you click mark all read.
but if you use the back button the yellow may reappear because you …
Reply to @Maurice:
yes propublica has the story - but listening to the guy on the podcast, who actually exploited the loophole made it worth the listen, whiny or not.
I haven't had much time to read. I just started this book - so far very go…
Reply to @chip:
@chip you should take a look at the new vanilla site - and see the functionality. I still think it would be worth upgrading version of forum
adding links, and whole wealth of other features.
and a bit of modifications to the user…
Reply to @hawleyl:
as long as you do not upper-case all the characters you can post things such as pst and etf and it will not do a fund lookup.
e.g. this pst will not link to a fund or an etf
e.g. pst Pst pSt pST psT but the final all…
Heard some comments on the radio - never been to India.
Apparently the person in charge of maintaining the power got a promotion after this.
Someone on the radio suggested that if this happened in China, the person in charge would have been demoted…
Reply to @Old_Joe:
I think it might help some people, and some people never read documentation or user guides. I haven't done anything on the site since writing some software for viewing mangers. I find I derive no pleasure from writing document…
@bee - the latest contribution to a post always has a yellow circle with a red dot in the center.
if you are logged in - the black and white icon near the name means it is unread by you since you last accessed discussion.
the yellow icon with t…
@bee said
As often is the case, a thread maybe started by one contributor but may be responded to by others who have commented. I was wondering... if JohnN were to start a thread and catch22 were to make a comment to JohnN and then I , bee, were to…
wordpress blog exploits
http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2012/06/compromised-wordpress-blogs-phishers.html
http://blog.trendmicro.com/compromised-wordpress-sites-drive-users-to-blackhole-exploit-kit
Apple goes public with iOS security features
http://www.scmagazine.com/apple-goes-public-with-ios-security-features/article/243935/
Small banking Trojan poses major risk Size doesn't matter, after all
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/04/small_…
