You can now run a sysinternal tool off any computer just by visiting http://live.sysinternals.com/ pretty cool.  For more details on the sysinternal tools check out http://technet.microsoft.com/sysinternals.

In the bay area there have been a couple well noted ATM scams lately Lunardi and Arco.  We should all take note ATM systems are not safe.

Could you tell the above ATM has a card reader?  Read the full article at ATM Scam.  Or ATM Skimming

Perhaps it's time to start entering our banks again.

It seems that we developers have a new hobby Arm Chair Architecture, and this time poor Twitter seems to be our target.

Jeff started with Twitter: Service vs. Platform,

Followed by Dare's  Some Thoughts on Twitter's Availability Problems,

And then.. Robert Should Services Charge Super Users.

Finally all this noise  provoked the definitive source to opine on the issue Twittering About Architecture

This reminds me of our little Fizsbusz issues of the past.  Many developers ready to offer solutions for problems they don't fully understand.  Remember it's computer science.  If your first response isn't a question your doing it wrong.

ps its great to see Dare blogging again!

Moody's Investor Service, which already has egg on its face for all those great ratings it gave to subprime-backed mortgage bonds, has a new problem to deal with. It reported that a computer coding error may have led to some debt products receiving a higher rating than they should have received.broker universe

That is going to be a hard mistake to live down.  How much fault would you say that kind of error was for our current liquidly crisis?

I was happily watching Tipping the Rift when, I started the next episode I received the following message.

"your netflix account has been used to watch movies instantly from 4 different computers"

DRM is never cool.  Netflix tech support says this was caused by AVG(free?)  8 and the way they are setting up a virtual registry for Internet explorer.  One more check on the no more AVG list, I guess.

According to Ruters and the WSJ Microsoft has been putting out gentle feelers out for a Facebook acquisition.  If MS did buy Facebook would the loyal Facebook users stay or go some where else?  MySpace wasn't adversely affected when News Corps acquired them.