16 Sep 2002
Mon, 16 Sep 2002
New Audi S4 Introduced in Paris
The new Audi S4 has been introduced at the Paris Motor show. Nothing like a 4.2 liter V8 producing 344 HP and 0-62 mph in 5.6 seconds. The new Audi S4 :: news.kak.net :: your source to audi-news
The new car doesn't appear to differ much from the A4 in external appearances save for the checkered grill and what appear to be ground effects on the bottoms of the doors.
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BBC Reports on Changing Roles of Journalists
The BBC reports news staff take on tech skills.
"One particular development he noted was the democratisation and liberated nature of news brought to the world by websites that push and pull news from the street, at grassroots level. These sources are unconventional but are often first with the news."
I think they meant to say weblog. Why they didn't say it, I'm not sure. Perhaps that headline should read tech staff take on news skills? Or lack thereof. Heh.
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Massive Credit Card Fraud Suspected
MSNBC says that a massive credit card heist is suspected at a small e-commerce company.
'There wasn’t a system in place to say, "you’ve generated 140,000 charges, that’s more than your normal volume," Hynek said.'
Ouch. On the one hand, it'd be nice if the credit card company had a trigger that understood that 140,000 charges of the same amount over many cards was fraud. On the other hand, my sister-in-law tried to buy a computer online last week for about $1500 and the credit card company denied the charge because they thought it was fraud. The amount of time that it took to contact all involved parties meant that the computer was sold out by the time the credit approval was granted. She's not too happy.
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