Please note: This is a business model I did not come up with – but probably should have...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071209183248224
Improving Your Credit Score By Buying Someone Else's
Sunday, December 09 2007 @ 06:32 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Businesses & Privacy
PogoWasRight.org note: this is perhaps a bit off-topic, but it is so wild that I thought it might be of interest to readers.
Check out this wild LA Times article about a San Diego company, TradeLine Solutions, Inc., that, for about $1200, effectively sells better credit scores to people with bad credit scores by putting their customers' names on paid-up mortgage loans. The company's website says its business model is "100% legal." But, according to the Times, the company's chief executive Ted Stearns concedes that other folks may not see it that way: "Are there people out there who are going to say that it's mortgage fraud?" Stearns asks. "Sure, there could be. " He goes on to say that though it's "possible" that his customers might face legal problems, but noted "that it is really hard to enforce the law."
Source - Consumer Law & Policy Blog
I believe this area would support several business models. All based on the original Rothschild model.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/016762.html
December 09, 2007
CRS Report - Open Source Intelligence
Via OpenCRS - CRS Report, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Issues for Congress, December 5, 2007 (27 pages, PDF).
"Open source information (OSINT) is derived from newspapers, journals, radio and television, and the Internet. Intelligence analysts have long used such information to supplement classified data, but systematically collecting open source information has not been a priority of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). In recent years, given changes in the international environment, there have been calls, from Congress and the 9/11 Commission among others, for a more intense and focused investment in open source collection and analysis. However, some still emphasize that the primary business of intelligence continues to be obtaining and analyzing secrets. The collection and analysis of OSINT information will be ultimately judged by its contribution to the overall intelligence effort. Collecting information from open sources is generally less expensive and less risky than collection from other intelligence sources. The use of OSINT may result not only in monetary savings but also in less risk than utilizing sensitive technical and human sources. OSINT can also provide insights into the types of developments that may not be on the priority list for other systems or may not be susceptible to collection through other intelligence approaches — innovative applications of new technologies, shifts in popular attitudes, emergence of new political and religious movements, growing popular discontent, disillusionment with leadership, etc. Supporters of OSINT maintain that the future contribution of the Intelligence Community will be enhanced by its ability to provide detailed information and incisive analyses of such developments."
Yes, we know this – but there are some funny (because they happened to someone else) examples.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/10/0726251&from=rss
Corporations Face Problems with Employee Emails
Posted by Zonk on Monday December 10, @02:42AM from the think-before-you-send-is-a-great-adage dept. Communications Businesses
TwistedOne151 writes "Law.com has an article outlining how the casual attitude of many employees toward work e-mails has resulted in some thorny problems for corporate in-house counsel. 'It has now become routine even in civil investigations for computers to be subpoenaed so lawyers can look at e-mails and hard drives. And one thing always leads to another. "We have forensic software that shows multiple levels of deletions. It shows thought processes. We can learn far more than from just a document alone," said [Scott] Sorrels. "E-mails have taken over the world."'"
Getting Junior his first guitar?
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/ShowMeHowToPlaycom---Learn-How-To-Play-An-Instrument/
ShowMeHowToPlay.com - Learn How To Play An Instrument
ShowMeHowToPlay.com is a site that helps you learn an instrument online.
http://www.showmehowtoplay.com/
Remember, this is how Woody Allen got his start.
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/Overtsreamnet---Giving-Your-Videos-Subtitles/
Overtsream.net - Giving Your Video's Subtitles
Overstream.net is a site where you can add subtitles and captions to any of the videos you find on YouTube, Google Video, MySpace video, and Daily Motion. OverStream.net is a great site that allows you to add subtitles in any language.
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