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Robert Patrick to reprise evil robot role in Terminator 5 (New Kerala)

EVIL — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:20:44 +0000

London, Apr 2 : Hollywood actor Robert Patrick is gearing up to reprise his role as the evil robot in ‘Terminator 5′.

Mark-to-Market and the Last Honest Man (Columbia Journalism Review)

EVIL — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:59:24 +0000

Jonathan Weil over at Bloomberg finds a great way to illustrate the see-no-evil-hear-no-evil policy being instituted by the accounting-standards board FASB to make banks look healthier.

Google drops “don’t be evil” motto (ZDNet)

EVIL — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:55:59 +0000

Google is reported to be searching for a new corporate motto to replace its famous “don’t be evil” because it has become an easy target for its critics. David Krane, a senior spokesperson for Google, told SVW: “I never liked it. I always felt that it would…

CEO Who Returned Funds Notes TARP’s Stigma (NPR)

EVIL — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:26:57 +0000

New York-based Signature Bank has returned $120 million in federal TARP funds to the Treasury. President and CEO Joseph DePaolo says the TARP program is now perceived as helping “evil” banks, and he doesn’t want that stigma associated with his company.

Bangkok Post : THE EMPIRE LOSES ITS HEIR TO THE THRONE (Bangkok Post – Thailand’s English news)

EVIL — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:31:01 +0000

When Peter Chernin settled into his plush seat at the Kodak Theatre for last Sunday night’s Oscars to see his company’s film Slumdog Millionaire sweep the board, he was holding a secret that would set Hollywood abuzz just as soon as the red carpet had been rolled up for another year.

Afghanistan ‘a serious test’ for NATO: Harper (AFP via Yahoo! News)

EVIL — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:07:24 +0000

The mission in insurgency-plagued Afghanistan is “a serious test” for the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Saturday.

Allen Stanford borrowed £1.6 billion from his investment empire (Times Online)

EVIL — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:48:24 +0000

Allen Stanford, the Texan cricket impresario, borrowed $1.6 billion from his investment empire, it emerged today as his chief investment officer was due in a Houston court to hear charges that she has obstructed regulators.

Stanford receiver found $90 million in assets: FBI (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

EVIL — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:13:10 +0000

The court-appointed receiver overseeing the financial empire of Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has located $90 million in assets so far, an FBI agent said on Friday.

ELIE: BERNIE’S EVIL (New York Post)

EVIL — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:36:15 +0000

Existing punishments just aren’t good enough. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel thinks something new, something creative should be devised to punish Bernie Madoff – who wiped out $15.2 million from the Holocaust survivor’s charitable…

Research: 76% of phishing sites hosted on compromised servers (ZDNet)

EVIL — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:28:02 +0000

In a newly released paper entitled “Evil Searching: Compromise and Recompromise of Internet Hosts for Phishing” Tyler Moore and Richard Clayton provide empirical evidence according to which 75.8% of the phishing sites that they’ve analyzed (2486 sites) were hosted on compromised web servers to which the phishers obtained access through…