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Could go haywire. the federal government needs to make more than 100 million individual payments between february 15th and march 15th, 100 million, that is not done with a clerk in an office somewhere whose hand doesnt get tired. that is a computer system, built to stop making half of them. there is a real question if the government can re-program the software, to choose which bills to pay and ignore. if there is a glitch, it could assure the bond holders that we would never miss a payment. it t...

Individual payments between february 15th and march 15th, 100 million, that is not done with a clerk in an office somewhere whose hand doesnt get tired. that is a computer system, built to stop making half of them. there is a real question if the government can re-program the software, to choose which bills to pay and ignore. if there is a glitch, it could assure the bond holders that we would never miss a payment. it throws them into a panic because they can no longer trust our work. as far as ...

Clueless. he didnt have any connection to the school at all. he may have gone there as a child. in fact, he probably did according to friends, but he didnt work there, he had no association with people there, so that doesnt seem to go anywhere. his mother we know didnt work there either and had no current affiliation with the school. we do know that nancy lanza was worried about her son. he was a recluse, he stayed at home, spent hours in front of the computer. she was trying to help him get a j...

There either and had no current affiliation with the school. we do know that nancy lanza was worried about her son. he was a recluse, he stayed at home, spent hours in front of the computer. she was trying to help him get a job, trying to help him get an internship some place. but doesnt seem to have succeeded. in fact, theres no real record of him doing anything other than taking a few college courses since he graduated high school. spoke to one friend today who said through nancy lanzas help, ...

Company that owned the company. a couple weeks i went to exit to pay. i noticed there was one booth that said cash. there was one ethiopian woman in it. the other five booths had been converted into automatic exits. i was doing the math as a left. i thought, thats probably three shifts a day, 16 ethiopian american women who have just lost their jobs. and somebody else probably -- somebody else insuredly has gotten new jobs, one designing the software for that system which probably was done colla...

On it, our top people. >> reporter: you got it. >> they started out with books and they sell you just about anything. >> reporter: when you read articles about jeff bezos, "fortune" magazine, he is is business "person of the year". he is quoted saying yes he started out that way but he likes to be counted on and he likes his customers to count on him. it is a philosophy you see at this company that plays down to everything they do. these men and women that you see taking every item out, theyre a...

Leave and take precutions and people who fail tod do that they are out of luck. >> there are arguments now that power companies were unprepared and lipa used an old computer system and they were not prepared for beyond what you would expect. >> that is a interesting conversation to have. i mean, poem should not have no celebrity for three weeks to a month. sandy was bad but not like the sunshine sunshine that hit in eastern asia. and people who lose 10s of thousands and hundreds of thousands in ...

Activity and diet will need to be done. >> alisyn: a lot of people rely on yelp reviews. now there is word that some companies may have been paying for fake positive reviews. yes, brian, its true. several reports are claiming as many as 30% of the on-line reviews are fake. >> steve: are you kidding me? >> alisyn: yelp says its using a new filter to catch them. customer also see this alert latched onto any company link to do fake reviews. >> steve: thats too bad. im an old yelper. meanwhile, i lo...

Passengers with united airlines say theyre being stranded at airports across the country because of a computer problem. the a.p. saying passengers were told by pilots and airport agents that the computer system is down and they dont know when it will come back. united tweeted there is a computer issue affecting some of the flights and its working to fix that problem. well watch that for you. china is unveiling new leadership. this was announced as a communist partys new secretary today. xis apoi...

Ago. the fbi investigation might have been primarily a law enforcement matter, until very recently, and thus not subject to reporting requirements. though it seems like any investigation into security breaches of the cia directors computer system or communications by definition implicates counterintelligence. david, i want to go back to you. youre speaking about how it goes up the chain of command within the intelligence bureaus. but a separate question, under the law, if were serious about the ...