Federal prosecutors made a case that two computer engineers, Jerome O’Hara and George Perez, helped Mr. Madoff pull off an enormous Ponzi scheme by knowingly creating computer programs that could create fake trades and records.
.. The day he was arrested, Mr. Madoff’s customers believed their accounts contained a total of $64.8 billion. According to the bankruptcy trustee, Irvin H. Picard, investors actually had a loss of about $17.3 billion.
Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself ..
The reason is that once you sign up for Plus, it becomes your account for all Google products, from Gmail to YouTube to maps, so Google sees who you are and what you do across its services, even if you never once return to the social network itself.
.. “Google Plus gives you the opportunity to be yourself, and gives Google that common understanding of who you are,” said Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product management for Google Plus.
The Polish Church’s Gender Problem
For two decades, the church hierarchy exhibited no interest in the “ideology of gender” until suddenly one day it began to speak of little else. The reasons behind such an orchestrated action might be found in the church’s recent problems. Poles have been outraged by the large-scale financial fraud carried out by the commission tasked with the reprivatization of church property that had been seized by the Communist government. Poles also continue to be disturbed by increasingly common disclosures of pedophilia within the church.
Indian Political Parties Are Drowning The Web With Spam Propaganda
Anyone with access to a computer can use comment spam software to set up campaigns similar to the ones enumerated above, and I really hope a very small proportion of the social media budgets of these political parties is being spent on creating this spam.