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April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site 280

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 06, 2009 @02:43PM from the where-not-to-do-business dept.

Upstart online brokerage site Zecco had an unfortunate April Fool's day snafu that they are claiming was an honest mistake. Users logged on to find larger balances than they should have, sometimes millions of dollars extra, and many of those users started trading with the nonexistent money. Happy April Fool's Day. "... when Zecco realized it, the company apparently started to force sell, even at a loss, charging the losses to the customers along with a '$19.99 broker-assisted trading fee.' Oops."

Comment IE6? (Score 5, Insightful) 532

by Bedemus on Thursday March 12, 2009 @09:38AM (#27165805) Attached to: Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox

The load time of IE6 is irrelevant. It's a nearly 8-year old browser, service packs notwithstanding. Lynx starts up faster than just about anything, but you don't see people bringing it up, because it doesn't belong in this discussion.

Comment Re:She's Right (Score 1) 371

by Bedemus on Thursday December 18, 2008 @02:09PM (#26162551) Attached to: Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote

Apart from the fact that Windows Mobile has had album art and gapless playback (then again, it only had the latter if the stack and hardware was set up correctly) even before the iPhone hype existed.

Of course, the rest of the Windows Mobile media player need a fair bit of work, but it was hardly a leading edge feature unless you came from an earlier generation iPod.

That more or less proves Apple's case, though. They got the fundamentals right first with the iPod, and added the fluff afterward. Interestingly, this is the complete opposite of what they're normally accused of doing.

Cost-Conscious Companies Turn To Open Source 249

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 01, 2008 @12:00PM from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

Martyr4BK writes "BusinessWeek has a slew of special reports today on open source software discussing the benefits for buyers who are cost conscious and open source being the silver lining for the economic slump. They even have a slideshow of 'OSS alternatives' like Linux, Apache, MySQL, Firefox, Xen, Pentaho, OpenOffice.org, Drupal, Alfresco, SugarCRM, and Asterisk. These are all good examples (we use a bunch of them already); what other open source software can I use to drop my company's IT costs, and maybe get a decent bonus for the year?"

Comment Re:Ockham's Razor tells me.... (Score 1) 963

by Bedemus on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @02:22PM (#24678121) Attached to: Why Corporates Hate Perl

Not that I really care about whether one commenter takes me seriously, but you raise an interesting point.

I can only assume by this that you're referring to the way that PHP's creators insist that they're adhering to function over form, stealing and borrowing ideas from other languages and APIs, and often exposing the functions of the underlying libraries without modification.

I guess all I can really say to that is that when you take that approach to an extreme, then you're left with nothing approaching a programming language at all.

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