Word: crashes
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...driver's seat. Truckers texting behind the wheel were 23 times as likely to get into an accident or near miss as those focused on the road, according to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, which collected data from 6 million miles of driving. The group warned of a "crash epidemic" if the problem is not curbed. Dialing a phone was also hazardous, though talking did not raise accident rates...
...early on Aug. 6, frustrating millions of users. For the culprits, all it took to snarl the popular social-networking site was one of the oldest tools in the Internet hacker handbook: the distributed denial-of-service attack (commonly shortened to DDoS), a method that has been used to crash some of the Web's largest sites, including Yahoo...
...asset management firm in New York, and by the end of the next month—once Bear Stearns had wound-down the funds as officially worthless—all of my colleagues, from the most senior money managers to the lowliest analysts, had sat through a number of crash courses in our conference rooms 40 floors over Midtown, covering the inner-workings of “mortgage securitization.” This process governs how a home buyer’s payments make it from Main Street to Wall Street, and what happens when the flow stops
...Twain is supposed to have said, "but it rhymes." What's happening right now is not a repetition of 1932, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped 90% from its peak three years earlier and the unemployment rate exceeded 23%. But now most definitely rhymes with then: the crash, the severe economic contraction and crisis, the graceful new Democratic President (and First Lady), the possibility of a serious reshaping of not only our economic and financial systems but the ways that Americans think about their country and themselves...
...continued to send dispatches back to various publications and websites in the U.S. using a rotating set of email accounts registered under outrageous pseudonyms. On Facebook I took on an alias worthy of an old-school rapper. Certain that every word was being monitored, I embarked on a crash course in Internet and PC security, schooling myself on the possibilities of deep-package inspection, VPNs and onion-routing. It was not long before I began to wonder at the online company that I was keeping. What was this world that I had entered? Who exactly, other than pedophiles, committed civil...