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Comment Re:It has to do with the culture of the sport (Score 1) 1275

by hc5duke on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @10:45AM (#24673665) Attached to: Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud

When have you seen a 24 year old female gymnast, much less a 40 year old one?

How about this 33-year old who won a silver? Yeah, it doesn't happen often, but no less often than the 40 year old female swimmer you mention.

CNBC Software Flaw Worth $1 Million? 151

Posted by Zonk on Monday June 11, 2007 @03:11AM from the that's-quite-a-bug dept.

Strudelkugel writes "BusinessWeek tells the story of one obsessive fan who unraveled a software glitch worth one million dollars. Jim Kraber was a regular CNBC viewer, and when the opportunity arose he took the 'Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge' very seriously. At one point, he was spending 12 hours a day on the contest, using three computers to trade 1,600 different portfolios in a theoretical stock game. His efforts got him into the top 20 finalists, but in the last round of trading he noticed some unusual patterns. 'One trader had a stream of near-perfect picks, consistently placing huge bets on shares that soared in after-hours trading. Kraber suspected the trader and perhaps others were getting help from someone who was changing their picks after the stocks' increases — and he quickly notified CNBC ... Kraber says CNBC rebuffed him at the time, but now it looks like he may have been right.'"

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