Arvig
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Dentist Richard Malouf Builds Backyard Water Park While Charged With Massive Fraud (AOL Real Estate)
Oct 10th 2012 8:38AM @gg: I see only Amanda gets their usage of the word "obscene". Again I will point out that they mean "obscene" as in the fraud done by this dentist. NOT "obscene" as in "perverted". Do people honestly not comprehend all meanings of the word "obscene"?
Dentist Richard Malouf Builds Backyard Water Park While Charged With Massive Fraud (AOL Real Estate)
Oct 10th 2012 8:35AM @D: I again ask if you read the article. One man quoted in the article said it borders on the "obscene". They OBVIOUSLY don't mean obscene as in something perverted. They mean "obscene" as in the gross misuse of funds he gained from fraud and unneeded dental surgery on children. There is more then one way to define "obscene". Yes, maybe AOL Real Estate quoted that to get hits on the article, but again all they did is quote the article itself.
Dentist Richard Malouf Builds Backyard Water Park While Charged With Massive Fraud (AOL Real Estate)
Oct 10th 2012 8:33AM @Glenn Ferris: Uh-huh. Okay, you must be trolling. That or you didn't read the article at all. Then again I'm leaning toward trolling and/or just delusional since you claim near the end to be "Clark Kent". Well Glenn "Clark Kent" Ferris, on the odd chance you're not trolling, lets look over your "points".
1) The time to get permits is before one starts a building project.
2) The article clearly states that the man has been doing unneeded surgery such as braces on children that didn't need it, along with defrauding medicade. The American dream isn't built on fraud. I'd think a man that wears a big "S" on his chest when not disguised as Clark Kent would know this.
I could continue, but since I suspect I'm indulging a message board troll I'll leave it at that. :P
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Galley Gossip: How do flight attendants survive on such a small salary? (Gadling)
Nov 29th 2011 8:36PM @dickn2000b: You missed the point. Yes, the pay is 20 and hour. But they are only getting maybe 80 hours a MONTH at first. If one isn't getting a lot of hours, then it's irrelevent what the hourly wage might be for the most part. I could pay you $1000.00 an hour, but only have you work for an hour a month. Guess what, depsite your huge hourly wage, you'd only make $1000.00 a month, $12,000 a year. Yet using your logic you shouldn't complain because you're making $1000.00 an hour. :P
Your hotel room safe: not as safe as you think (Gadling)
Sep 7th 2011 2:11PM @1JayFresh: I'll post this one last time. 1) Your comment only makes sense if one assumes this is literally the only site on the Internet with any connection at all to hotel safes. I'm quite sure other travel blog sites have posted this, either now or in the past. This very article links to one dated 2009. I haven't read that article but obviously this isn't the first ever article about hotel safes on the Internet. 2) Most crooks whom are targeting hotel safes probably already know to try a set of factory default numbers like 0000 on a lark, on the off chance management is lazy or forgot a safe. 3) I'd think it better to inform everyone that although probably very uncommon, it is possible that a hotel safe might not be changed from the default password by management so that the crooks aren't the only ones who know this.
Otherwise, I think it's a lot better to POST the information, then keep everyone in the dark thinking that somehow people who DO want to steal via safecracking don't already know this.
Your hotel room safe: not as safe as you think (Gadling)
Sep 7th 2011 2:04PM @john: Uh-huh. As opposed to only one guy who stayed in a hotel in Ontario and some crooks knowing it? :P
It's not like crooks do nothing but log onto an AOL travel blog on the off chance they give tips on how to break into hotel safes.
THAT and all they suggest is to check safes to see if the hotel management are too lazy to change the reset/default password keycode. I'd think a crook who's actually breaking into rooms to loot the safe would know to try 0000 on a lark just in case.
You know..basic logical assumptions..oh skip it.
Your hotel room safe: not as safe as you think (Gadling)
Sep 7th 2011 10:36AM And how absurd for someone to read WAY too much into the article and somehow get that they are saying ALL safes use 0000 as a default code. Oh well, I guess people wish to read what they WANT from a short blog post, as opposed to what was really posted.
Your hotel room safe: not as safe as you think (Gadling)
Sep 7th 2011 10:34AM @Vik: The article doesn't say that EVERY single safe uses 0000 as the reset password. IT ONLY says that someone found one at a hotel in Markham, Ontario that used that. It then advised people to check to be sure it isn't set for 0000. Your comment would only make sense if the article came to the conclusion that every safe is set to 0000 and can't be changed. It does not say that AT ALL. So the article is quite true since it reported about ONE safe in Ontario being set for 0000, and thus that one should check to see if that works on a room safe. If it does, then store things somewhere else. If it doesn't, then all is well most likely with the room safe.
So anyway, good job making the wrong assumption and reading WAY too much into this article.
Your hotel room safe: not as safe as you think (Gadling)
Sep 7th 2011 10:29AM @John: Actually, one would think that for the most part, people reading articles on a blog dedicated to travel would oh I don't know, be interested in travel and either CAN afford to do so, or are saving up so they CAN do so. You know, the logical assumption about such a blog site.
Your hotel room safe: not as safe as you think (Gadling)
Sep 7th 2011 10:26AM @Kittymack: So you're saying it would be better if they DIDN'T post this information, so that the crooks who ALREADY know all about it can exploit it? How many crooks would prefer it if that they DIDN'T post this so they could continue to exploit it?
Anyway, your comment is also very illogical due to 1) Other sites, not just this blog will probably post this, or have in the past, 2) I suspect most thieves robbing from hotel room safes get their information from places other then some AOL blog.
Otherwise, this was probably already common knowledge to the very people we don't want to know about this. At least now people whom aren't in a hotel to loot room safes know to check them as well.
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