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		<title>BugSpy.net Database of Open Source Bugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Programming Error: Visa Customers Charged $23 Quadrillion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Visa prepaid cardholders were stunned when they opened their bill Monday to discover a $23,148,855,308,184,500 charge.&#160; That’s $23 quadrillion, which exceeds the combined GDP of every country on the planet. Josh Muszynski, 22, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was one of the unlucky Visa customers.&#160; Adding insult to injury, he was also charged a $15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death by Delete</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TheDailyWTF describes how poor database design and user error bankrupted a small chain of pet stores. “MegaPetCo” was upset that its website ran incredibly slow.  Consultant Rick discovered MegaPetCo was using a single shared database for its website and everything else in its business &#8212; sales, payroll, HR, inventory, tax records, invoices and maintenance tickets.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PayPal Charges $81 Billion for Tank of Gas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And we thought gas prices had fallen… When Juan Zamora refueled his car at a Conoco service station in Richland, Washington, the gas pump showed a total fee of $26.  But in a freak computer glitch, the PayPal debit card he used recorded the transaction as $81,400,836,908, i.e., 81 billion dollars.  “That’s a B, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experts from more than 30 U.S. and international cyber-security organizations jointly released a consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and cyber-crime. The impact of these programming errors is significant.&#160; Just two of these errors resulted in more than 1.5 million website security breaches during 2008.&#160; These breaches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Answer is 42, aka The Importance of Testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This programmer discovered the hard way the importance of testing: in 1998, i made a C++ program to calculate pi to a billion digits. i coded it on my laptop (pentium 2 i think) and then ran the program. the next day i got a new laptop but decided to keep the program running. it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programmer&#8217;s Creed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A creed is a statement of belief or faith often recited as part of a religious service or organizational gathering.  The word &#8220;creed&#8221; derives from the Latin credo (I believe) or credimus (we believe).  Perhaps the oldest is Apostle&#8217;s Creed cited in Christianity.  However, the Rifleman&#8217;s Creed is arguably the most famous, made popular by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 Famous Software Disasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.&#8221;  &#8211;Paul Ehrlich Software errors cost the U.S. economy $60 billion annually in rework, lost productivity and actual damages.  We all know software bugs can be annoying, but faulty software can also be expensive, embarrassing, destructive and deadly.  Following are 20 famous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 Famous Software Disasters &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part 2 of &#8220;20 Famous Software Disasters.&#8221; See also Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4. 6.  Wall Street Crash (1987) Cost: $500 billion in one day Disaster: On &#8220;Black Monday&#8221; (October 19, 1987), the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 508 points, losing 22.6% of its total value. The S&#38;P 500 dropped 20.4%.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 Famous Software Disasters &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part 3 of &#8220;20 Famous Software Disasters.&#8221; See also Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4. 11.  Skynet Brings Judgement Day (1997) Cost: 6 billion dead, near-total destruction of human civilization and animal ecosystems (fictional) Disaster: Human operators attempt to shut off the Skynet global computer network.  Skynet responds by firing U.S. nuclear [...]]]></description>
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