What are my options for borrowing money for home improvement? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Apr 20, 2009 - 8 answers

How is the credit crisis affecting places like prosper.com? Would it be smart to borrow/loan money there in an environment like this? With banks seizing up and me having some extra cash, would it be a smart investment to loan money to individuals directly? What about people having a hard time getting a loan from a bank? Is anyone out there using it right now?
posted by empath on Sep 25, 2008 - 5 answers

Paying for medical school -- which money to use? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jul 15, 2008 - 2 answers

What words should English steal from other languages? [more inside]
posted by unSane on Feb 18, 2008 - 91 answers

I have tons of debt and am just not getting ahead nor falling behind, either, but.... I'd like to use my 401K to solve this problem. Of course, there's [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Aug 2, 2007 - 8 answers

so i'm "borrowing" a wireless connection from my neighbors... after having done this with no problems for almost four months, it's now become a pattern that every fifteen minutes i have to repair my connection using winXP's "repair" function. this works great until i have to do it again. what gives? [more inside]
posted by yonation on Sep 25, 2006 - 13 answers

Okay, so I often use free wireless connections...whether they be in coffee shops or occasionally my neighbor's open network. My question is, how much of what I post online/what sites I visit can be seen? Sometimes I post things I don't want to share with my neighbors, also I check email. If other open wireless network users CAN see what I'm looking at, how do I prevent it? The network I use is belkin 54g. This shouldn't be a problem soon, as I am getting my own connection. When I had my own, I left it open so others could share. I assume my neighbor is doing the same thing? But for now, I would like to know that my neighbors can't see the pix I send my long-distance boyfriend and/or what I post on our shared journal. Is this unrealistic? Thank you for your help.
posted by urania on May 23, 2006 - 50 answers