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...notify the user, reset the password, and the whole issue is usually resolved within a few hours. But when thousands of users are hacked at once - and then their friends are hacked, and their friends' friends are hacked - it can take a few days for Facebook to fix the problem. That's what happened on April 29 and 30, when users found themselves accidentally logging in to a website called FBAction.net. Designed to look exactly like Facebook, the evil doppelgänger took their info and hacked their accounts...
...Once considered black art, technical analysis is now widely accepted on Wall Street as a method of predicting stock market moves. The problem is most technical analysis relies on measures of momentum. When stocks are going up, technicians tend to think that will continue, and visa versa. And in reality, that is how the market works. Studies have shown that stocks do tend to generally move in same direction for a while, before swiftly shifting course. But technical analysis can lead to overly optimistic views of the stocks at a time when they have been rising rapidly. And that could...
...reasons we work so hard on community control measures is not that you can stop the flu from spreading eventually, but if you slow it down, it can reduce the burden on your health care system at any one time. And that is something that will be a problem whenever we face a major crisis, and should this virus come back strongly in the fall it would be an issue...
Rants I can understand—breaking a bone sucks, and it’s understandable to want to talk about it. Attempts at introspection, on the other hand, are where the problem kicks in. Public Twitter user jquaglia, for example, writes, “Do you ever have one of those days when you feel like every wishbone you pull breaks the wrong way?” Deep, man, just deep. Such self-indulgence has always existed on angsty teenage blogs like Livejournal, but now it is condensed and made absurd by its brevity. Speaking...
...collect Luntz’s head; a shootout. That’s what readers get—and that’s all.As homage, “Nobody Move” never rises beyond pale imitation. It’s clear that Johnson knows the tropes by heart. The problem is that everyone else does too. The pleasure of homage, especially with a genre like noir, is in the author’s personal touches. Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men” comes immediately to mind—move the action...