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...past, Facebook has been fairly sensitive to its customers when adding new features that were initially unpopular. The addition in 2006 of a news feed—a box brimming with information about friends’ actions, such as changing relationship statuses or uploading photos—was criticized for infringing upon user privacy. Founder Mark Zuckerberg responded by asking people to “calm down” and then introduced settings that allowed users to limit the information that would appear in other users’ feeds. Last summer, people were given an option of switching...
...businesses it plans to launch soon is a futures exchange where traders can bet on the box-office success of movies. It will never be one of Cantor's biggest businesses, but it offers a lot of symbolism. The firm gained regulatory approval for the exchange a week before the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center that killed 638 Cantor employees, which was headquartered on the top floors of the north tower. Cantor had to scrap the movie exchange shortly after the attack. But the firm's executives never let the idea go. A little more than...
...reviewed 10 enhanced techniques for interrogating Zubaydah, and determined that none of them constituted torture under U.S. criminal law. The techniques were: attention grasp, walling (hitting a detainee against a flexible wall), facial hold, facial slap, cramped confinement, wall standing, stress positions, sleep deprivation, insects placed in a confinement box, and waterboarding.(View pictures of life inside Guantanamo...
...would like to place Zubaydah in a cramped confinement box with an insect. You have informed us [the Department of Justice] that he appears to have a fear of insects. In particular, you would like to tell Zubaydah that you intend to place a stinging insect into the box with him. You would, however, place a harmless insect in the box. You have orally informed us that you would in fact place a harmless insect such as a catapiller in the box with...
...additional sentence at the end of this paragraph is redacted in the copy made public Thursday. Later in the same memo, Bybee concludes that "an individual placed in a box, even an individual with a fear of insects, would not reasonably feel threatened with severe physical pain or suffering if a caterpiller was placed in the box." Bybee adds, however, that the interrogators should not tell Zubaydah that the insect sting "would produce death or severe pain...