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On the contrary. Computers didn't invent things like flawed program trading - people did. Program trading simply followed algorithms that people wrote. So while a computer may help make dumb decisions happen faster, I think putting the blame on computers when they've been such a driver of productivity is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intel Chief: Why Tech Will Survive Crunch | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

In 2005, when the board of postal-machine maker Pitney Bowes decided to analyze risk more systematically, the company listed 16 categories of risk--from supply chain to reputation--and assigned a senior executive to be in charge of each one in an attempt to drive the new ethos into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reassessing Risk | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

In Philadelphia, Paper Ballot Worries and a Still-Undecided Voter, 1:50 p.m. E.T. At a hurried late-morning conference held by speakerphone in an office high over Center City Philadelphia, members of the election watchdog group The Committee of 70 discussed their main worry this busy Election Day: running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

Actual projections are made by "decision desks" at the networks - small groups of journalists and polling experts who use exit data and actual returns to decide when to announce winners. So even though all the networks have access to the same exit poll data, they often don't broadcast projections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Exit Polling | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

"We are greatly honored by the positive decision and believe that the people of Scotland will be extremely happy with the final product. We will stabilize the dunes. They will be there forever. This will be environmentally better after [the development] is built that it is before," Trump told The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trump to Build Contested Scotland Complex | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

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