Always aim for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land in jail.
Stock trader gets two years in prison for pumping up with Fitbit
A US stock trader has been sentenced to two years in prison for running a pump and dump operation involving wearables vendor Fitbit, albeit one that earned him only a few thousand dollars. Robert Walter Murray was given the federal prison term after pleading guilty to one count of securities fraud. He had faced a maximum of 20 …
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Monday 12th March 2018 19:49 GMT Notas Badoff
The power to cloud men's minds
Some people are just more susceptible.
There was a SF short story about a nebula that just happens to drift into the Solar System, and the composition of the cloud just happens to dramatically lower human intelligence. As the lights begin to go out, the last few bright sparks try to determine just how big is the cloud, thus how long the dark ages will be. They fail...
Not "The Black Cloud". And not "The Shadow". I just don't know why I can't bring the title to mind... er...
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Tuesday 13th March 2018 06:29 GMT G2
Re: The power to cloud men's minds
try reading the Helliconia trilogy by Brian Aldiss... it's set in a binary star system that causes extremely long seasons that last for centuries. The Winter book sounds similar to your description but in Aldiss' book it's the extremely long Great Winter that affects the human civilization, not a nebula.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helliconia
(with double "L"s!)
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Tuesday 13th March 2018 02:44 GMT veti
Re: Yet Trumps buddy...
The "dumping" happened at least a week before the announcement - we don't know exactly when, but that's when the sale was made public.
If you're going to smear people, at least get the facts right.
And a brief look at the company's stock price (here) shows that it was already in decline for some weeks before then, so selling doesn't look all that suspicious. Even after the announcement, the hit to the stock was hardly crushing.
I'm not saying it was all aboveboard and there's nothing to see here. I'm saying this is one way fake news spreads: claims get exaggerated and repeated by people who can't be bothered to check the facts, because they "feel" true.
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Tuesday 13th March 2018 05:47 GMT Dodgy Geezer
Re: Yet Trumps buddy...
I don't think you understand. If a poster mentions the word 'Trump', it is correct to accuse him (or his friends) of anything nasty. Because we have all been told to hate him, and we need to keep finding good reasons for this every day.
Besides, he's the sort of person who would do nasty things. So, if he didn't actually do them, that just proves that he's too stupid to think of them - because he'd certainly do them if he thought of them....
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Tuesday 13th March 2018 07:10 GMT John Smith 19
Meanwile its BAU for HFT firms with their automated man in the middle attacks.
His real crime was showing how easy it was to fool the SEC into thinking he was part of the company.
You can get away with anything if you don't make a federal regulator look stupid*
*Yes, even the FCC. Sweet Pai makes himself look stupid. The FCC doesn't look stupid. The rules that allow someone like him to be parachuted into the top spot make the Federal Government look stupid in turn.
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Tuesday 13th March 2018 08:31 GMT Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse
Ugh...
Any chance we now stop calling Shrekli by his sobriquet of "Pharma bro" please? In know he gave it to himself to pump his own ego, but basically the guy is a sad twat who is now entirely caught in a web of his own making. I just get the feeling that continuing to use this term when referencing him is pandering to his own over inflated sense of worth whereas I think most of us would be happy if he just disappeared up his own rear end until the end of time.
If we can't dispense with it, can we at least apply another more fitting? I'd like to start the bidding with "jailed fuckstick".
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Wednesday 14th March 2018 16:55 GMT David 132
Re: Darwin Award?
Yeah, in the spectrum of criminality this seems to be on a par with "hand-forging 1p pieces" in terms of effort:risk:reward ratio (as in "I've spent WEEKS on it, but am proud to say I now have a perfect facsimile of a 1penny piece, so good that it'll fool anyone, muhahahaha".)
Any other examples of ill-conceived crime?
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