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Wired.com reports that "pro-democracy activists on the Web are asking supporters to use relatively simple hacking tools to overflood the regime's propaganda sites with junk traffic...
...just low price," Wang says. "There is innovation in the product as well." Acer is entering the cell-phone business, and Wang makes no excuses for churning out low-margin netbooks, considered inferior devices by computerati because of their cramped keyboards and limited performance. "Our competitors consider these junk - the more you sell, the more you lose," Wang says. "We don't judge. We do what the customer really wants...
...that it's possible to pick winners. Arnott makes a living trying to do just that--his firm Research Affiliates manages the PIMCO All Asset Fund, which switches money between asset classes as conditions and prices change. For the past few months, his favorites have been high-yield (junk) and investment-grade corporate bonds and convertible bonds. Siegel favors simplicity--and stocks. "My feeling is that stocks over the next 10 to 20 years are going to give above-average returns," he says...
...pictures, the site asked me to upload a headshot. Sure, no biggie. Then it started asking for my cell-phone number and making all these ridiculous offers for sweepstakes and other stuff no one should want. I'd skip an offer; another would come up. It was all junk. That's when I realized this was shady. I finally got to Dinda's page - no pictures...
...junk problem at most colleges doesn't usually rise to that level of drama. It's more a persistent, slow-burning question: What are we going to do with all this ... stuff? Over the past decade, schools like Princeton, NYU, Cornell, Harvard and Ohio State have each instituted some sort of program to collect unwanted items and either donate them to charity or sell them at the beginning of the following term...