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06 May 2010 20:42

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Biz: The biggest losers on Wall Street today emphasize the weirdness

  • 37% Procter and Gamble’s much followed free-fall during the momentary crisis; it quickly bounced back
  • 1¢ the value of Accenture’s stock at
    2:48 p.m. EST, down from $40; it, too, quickly bounced back source
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06 May 2010 20:29

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Biz: A traders’ whodunit; which idiot #(&@(* up the stock market?

  • what In a five-minute period,
    the Dow Jones Industrial
    went down by nearly a
    thousand points.
  • why It’s been suggested that
    a trader hit the wrong
    button and sold WAAAY
    too many stocks.
  • who Good question; some are
    pointing the finger at
    Citigroup, but whoever it
    was is fired. source
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05 May 2010 21:38

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Offbeat: University of Utah kids learn the hard way about dirty words

This dirty joke got some student journalists in hot water. After this image was thrown up on Fail Blog, the school HELD THEIR RECORDS. Now they can’t graduate. source
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05 May 2010 13:10

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U.S.: Oops: The U.S. closes a loophole in its no-fly list

  • 24
    hours     the size of the
    intervals     airlines used
    to re-check no-fly lists
    before today
  • yes
    sir     Times Square suspect Faisal Shahzad managed to board a plane before the list was updated
  • two
    hours     the size of the new intervals to check for individuals with “special circumstances” source
  • » Our take: Why aren’t they using a high-security equivalent to Twitter to do something like this? Why isn’t it updated to the minute? It seems silly that it’s not.
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05 May 2010 10:00

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Tech: Facebook drops a major security ball, and then some. Holy crap

  • We’re looking at your Facebook chats now. We got curious. TechCrunch noticed this major flaw in Facebook’s Gibson this morning, one so massive that Facebook’s chat mechanism is already down for maintenance. In the social networking world, this is equivalent to a zero-day exploit, so we’re very glad that Facebook is at least being quick in fixing it. But still. WTF guys? This is incredibly bad form. source
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28 Apr 2010 10:59

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World: Gordon Brown not a fan of “bigoted women,” winning elections

  • She’s just a sort of bigoted woman who says she used to be Labour.
  • British Prime Minister Gordon Brown • Regarding a woman she met when he was out with the commoners today. Eight days before a major election. Too bad for him, because he was wearing a mic when he said it. Nick Clegg’s looking like a more viable option by the day, while Labour’s looking like a major fail. source
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23 Apr 2010 13:25

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Tech: Blippy’s credit card breach has Twitter in disbelief



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24 Mar 2010 09:57

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Politics: UK Conservative leader: Yeah, we, uh …, support, uh …, gay rights

  • Man, talk about a stumble. David Cameron, who’s been leading a push to portray the Conservatives as a modernized party in the UK, tripped over his own words in this interview with Gay Times, to the point where he told the magazine to shut off the camera so he could collect his thoughts. This is how to make your party look modernized. source
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19 Jan 2010 21:34

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U.S.: Health care’s death knell? Scott Brown is happy to see you, D.C.

  • cause Clearly in a favorable spot due to his status as the 60th-vote blocker in the Senate, Scott Brown took victory over Martha Cloakey in the Massachusetts Senat race tonight.
  • effect Know that supermajority vote the Democrats had for a number of months that ensured they could get some stuff done (and that they wasted)? It’s gone, boys. source
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17 Jan 2010 09:46

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U.S., World: FBI fail: Feds compare Bin Laden to a Spanish politician

Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares, right, is perhaps a bit ticked that someone thought to use his mugshot to update Osama Bin Laden’s mug. source
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