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Submission + - Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps dies

johnsnails writes: THE fiery founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, who drew international condemnation for outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and US soldiers, on America's tolerance for gay people, has died. He was 84.

Submission + - Bitcoin exchange boss, Autumn Radtke, found dead of suspected suicide in Singapo (news.com.au)

johnsnails writes: IT SEEMS controversial virtual currency bitcoin has claimed its first life.

THE American chief executive of a bitcoin exchange has been found dead at her home in Singapore.

Autumn Radtke, 28, was found dead in her apartment on February 28 and investigators are awaiting toxicology tests to confirm that her death was a suicide.

Radtke formerly worked with Apple and other Silicon Valley tech firms on developing digital payment systems before taking up the position with First Meta, an exchange for the digital currency bitcoin.

Comment Re:Is this news for anyone? (Score 1) 165

My boss wont give me the budget to specifically test (I do stuff as I go along). Thankfully most of the stuff I write is pretty trivial. For more complex stuff I am using a framework (Yii). Buys me a bit of time to test because I get a full working CRUD pretty quickly that looks/is impressive.

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