The finished product is expected to be about the same size as a Rubik's cube and, said its creators, would let owners get at its innards to make their own modifications and write their own games.

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Without complicating the issue of modifications, suffice it to say that the banks have their own interest in not having servicers modify loans, some of which, not surprisingly, are loans they themselves made.

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