Robert R. Rowley PS

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Change Your Passwords – ‘Heartbleed’ Internet security flaw exposes passwords – Spokesman.com – April 9, 2014

Change Your Passwords – ‘Heartbleed’ Internet security flaw exposes passwords – Spokesman.com – April 9, 2014

Change all of your passwords….A lapse in Internet security has exposed millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive bits of information to potential theft by computer hackers who may have been secretly exploiting the problem before its discovery. The breakdown revealed this week affects the encryption technology that is supposed to protect online accounts […]

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– Spokanes new-home market gains strength

– Spokanes new-home market gains strength

– Spokanes new-home market gains strength.

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Student Loan Problems: One Third Of Millennials Regret Going To College – Forbes

Student Loan Problems: One Third Of Millennials Regret Going To College – Forbes

More and more college graduates are unable to buy their first house due to enormous student loan debt.  Also, that they regret their decision to attend college.  Your thoughts? Student Loan Problems: One Third Of Millennials Regret Going To College – Forbes.

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2013 Q1 Breakeven Horizon Expanded to Neighborhood, ZIP Codes | Zillow Real Estate Research

2013 Q1 Breakeven Horizon Expanded to Neighborhood, ZIP Codes | Zillow Real Estate Research

According to Zillow it takes approximately 4.4 years in Spokane to reach the ‘breakeven horizon’ which is how long you’d have to rent before buying makes financial sense.  Seattle is 3.6 years. Pretty cool interactive US map. via 2013 Q1 Breakeven Horizon Expanded to Neighborhood, ZIP Codes | Zillow Real Estate Research.

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Net Worth Worries: Why You Shouldnt Sweat It – daveramsey.com

Net Worth Worries: Why You Shouldnt Sweat It – daveramsey.com

Net Worth Worries: Why You Shouldnt Sweat It – daveramsey.com.

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Home Owners Torn on Strategic Default: Right or Wrong? | Realtor Magazine

Home Owners Torn on Strategic Default: Right or Wrong? | Realtor Magazine

Question for the day: Is it ‘morally right’ to walk away from your home mortgage loan (a strategic default) merely because the loan is ‘underwater’ and you do have the ability to pay? Home Owners Torn on Strategic Default: Right or Wrong? | Realtor Magazine.

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Personal Information, Password Theft on the Rise | Realtor Magazine

Personal Information, Password Theft on the Rise | Realtor Magazine

Hacked personal information online, including stolen passwords, has soared 300 percent during the first four months of 2012, according to a study by Experian CreditExpert and Opinion Matters.  Personal Information, Password Theft on the Rise | Realtor Magazine.

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Friday’s storms raise questions about safety of cloud computing – The Washington Post

Friday’s storms raise questions about safety of cloud computing – The Washington Post

Storm-related outages at an Amazon data center in Ashburn prompted some congressional officials on Monday to question whether the federal government is moving too swiftly to put important data on private-sector cloud computing servers. The outages affected companies such as Netflix and Pinterest, not the government. But several federal agencies have moved e-mail and other […]

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America’s New Tiger Immigrants: Asians in the U.S. – WSJ.com

America’s New Tiger Immigrants: Asians in the U.S. – WSJ.com

From this weekend’s Wall Street Journal as to why there are currently more immigrants moving to the US from Asian countries than Hispanic countries. “The conventional picture is of an unstoppable wave of unskilled, mostly Spanish-speaking workers—many illegal—coming across the Mexican border. People who see immigration this way fear that, instead of America assimilating the […]

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