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Dodgy Home Appraisals Are Making a Comeback
2014-12-02 15:10:23| Real Estate - Topix.net
Home appraisers are inflating the values of some properties they assess, often at the behest of loan officers and real-estate agents, in what industry executives say is a return to practices seen before the financial crisis.
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Australia: Direct Action is like a dodgy laundry powder that never gets the climate clean
2014-10-31 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Direct Action is the brand name of the freshly minted Australian Government policy to try and reduce the countrys emissions of greenhouse gases. But with a name that sounds more like a dodgy box of laundry powder, Australias Direct Action is unlikely to leave the country looking any cleaner or smelling any fresher in the climate change stakes. Thats because instead of removing the many stubborn stains that fossil fuel use leaves on the planets climate systems, Australias box of Direct...
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TeliaSonera reveals possible dodgy deals at Kcell
2014-09-29 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Swedish telco's Kazakhstan unit launches investigations after finding 'deficiencies' in its internal policies, procedures.
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Reid throws down gauntlet to 'dodgy car salesman' Salmond
2014-09-16 08:12:03| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
The former Defence Secretary likened the First Minister to a dodgy used car salesman who failed to look a customer in the eye, as he campaigned in Glasgow. Addressing a group of supporters at Glasgow Harbour, across the river from BAE Systems' Govan yard, he said: "The First Minister has not come and looked the workers in the eye, despite repeated requests.
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The ultimate remote admin: NASA will reformat Opportunitys dodgy flash memory from 125 million miles away
2014-09-02 17:56:55| Extremetech
It would seem, despite being outfitted with the finest flash memory that money can buy, even Mars rover Opportunity isn't immune to worn-out NAND cells. After a dozen unplanned reboots in August, most likely caused by the faulty flash, NASA is moving ahead with a complete reformat of the rover's volatile memory. Back in 2004, Opportunity's sibling rover -- Spirit -- was brought back from the brink of death with a similar reformatting maneuver. Considering Opportunity has now been roving the surface of Mars for over a decade, and all it has required is some small software updates and now a format, I'd say the little rover has done rather well.
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