Date: Sat, 6. December 2008 03:05:47

turnkeylinux writes "TechCrunch is reporting that eBay is under fire from users because of a holiday giveaway contest gone awry. On Tuesday Nov. 25, eBay announced its $1 Holiday Doorbusters deals promotion, giving away 100 gifts on a daily basis, all for a $1 fixed price. The gifts ranged from jewelry, clothing, digital cameras, and GPS devices to a brand-new Chevrolet Corvette. The only catch is that there's no announcement on when these items are released or in which category they will be. But cheaters came up with a clever way of winning deals on an automated basis by continuously running scripts to bid on items for $1."pa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/05/1426213amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/05/1426213"/a/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/05/1426213amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/a_inXD4zFiCE1FiqN2eb7wyL-gg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/a_inXD4zFiCE1FiqN2eb7wyL-gg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/G-rO18Ofo0o" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Sat, 13. December 2008 02:49:55

AP - With Congress gridlocked and the economy floundering, the Bush administration declared Friday it would step in to prevent the precipitous collapse of the U.S. auto industry and the disastrous loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs sure to follow.

Date: Sat, 13. December 2008 02:49:55

AP - With Congress gridlocked and the economy floundering, the Bush administration declared Friday it would step in to prevent the precipitous collapse of the U.S. auto industry and the disastrous loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs sure to follow.

Date: Sat, 10. April 2010 03:50:37

AP - North Korea has denied any involvement in a mysterious blast that sank a South Korean navy ship last month near their disputed sea border, a news report said Saturday.

Date: Thu, 6. November 2008 16:06:15

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Date: Fri, 7. November 2008 00:30:24

table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=nz/13i-0fd=Rurl=http://www.stuff.co.nz/4752544a11.htmlcid=1267667834ei=JrETSbiRNIPK8ATSlcHxAwusg=AFQjCNEmN0Q8-V1w7QUkPOKR1leqrj_iVAimg src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=oRb49TIxVVAJimgurl=www.stuff.co.nz/images/770831.jpg width=67 height=80 alt= border=1brfont size=-2Stuff.co.nz/font/a/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=nz/13-0fd=Rurl=http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4753319a6479.htmlcid=1267667834ei=JrETSbiRNIPK8ATSlcHxAwusg=AFQjCNGHvNQxGhhVmBabJi3a2KIsv7NSHAbMan killed in sports car named/b/abrfont size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fThe Dominion Postnbsp;-/font nobr2 hours ago/nobr/b/fontbrfont size=-1Police have released the name of the man killed when a $150000 sports car hit a power pole on the outskirts of New Plymouth yesterday./fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=nz/13-1fd=Rurl=http://www.stuff.co.nz/4752544a11.htmlcid=1267667834ei=JrETSbiRNIPK8ATSlcHxAwusg=AFQjCNEmN0Q8-V1w7QUkPOKR1leqrj_iVAMotor racing figure in fatal Corvette crash/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrStuff.co.nz/nobr/font/fontbrfont class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news?ned=nzncl=1267667834hl=ennobrball 7 news articles/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table

Date: Fri, 16. April 2010 09:50:02

The likelihood North Korea sank a South Korean naval ship near their disputed border rose when Seoul said on Friday an external explosion probably caused the ship to split in two, killing dozens. North Korea - Seoul - South Korea - Asia - Explosion

Date: Thu, 24. July 2008 00:20:04

TMZ Photog Hits Novak With his Best ShotsTMZ.com - 2 hours agoRobert Novak -- the conservative dude on TV who outed Valerie Plame -- hit a pedestrian today in DC, so it was only fair for us to hit him with every possible question about his driving ... especially his driving a CORVETTE. Please keep your comments ...Bob Novak hits pedestrian Los Angeles TimesBob Novak Cited After Hitting Pedestrian CBS NewsNew York Daily News - FOXNews - Washington Post - AOL News Newsbloggersall 255 news articles

Date: Thu, 24. July 2008 00:20:04

TMZ Photog Hits Novak With his Best ShotsTMZ.com - 2 hours agoRobert Novak -- the conservative dude on TV who outed Valerie Plame -- hit a pedestrian today in DC, so it was only fair for us to hit him with every possible question about his driving ... especially his driving a CORVETTE. Please keep your comments ...Bob Novak hits pedestrian Los Angeles TimesBob Novak Cited After Hitting Pedestrian CBS NewsNew York Daily News - FOXNews - Washington Post - AOL News Newsbloggersall 255 news articles

Date: Sat, 16. May 2009 08:03:17

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