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Sports shooter himself, leading some to question whether the president had ever fired a gun. over the last few days, one major american media company after another has announced that it has been attacked by hackers, twitter says its system was broken into and we have heard the same from three of the nations biggest newspapers. some of these companies suspect that china is behind all of this and nancy cordes has been investigating. >> twitter called it an extremely sophisticated attack, that may ...

Swartz who earlier died of suicide at age 26. he was a remarkable figure. in addition to being a hacker, activist, a writer, programmer and he possessed the extraordinarily rare and powerful combination of technical skill and political acumen. 14 he created ras, tool used to subscribe online. at 16 he created common license. at 19 he co-founded a company. and he founded demand progress, that led the fight against censorship bill. at the time of his death he was under federal indictment for downl...

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Ago. 60 minutes captured these images on the days that followed. >> im going to soak it in alcohol how. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands injury and had record number of amputations. adam adam finnieston was watching from home horrified. >> it was traumatic to see that type of devastation. >> the 40-year-old from florida has a unique skill haiti desperately needed. >> im a third generation doctor so seeing somebody missing a limb is something routine to me. >> routine. >> routine. what was shoc...

For ages 17 and up. critics say thats not enough. they want the government to order that violent games carry warnings like those on cigarettes. >> the game industry has a responsibility to make sure theyre marketing these games for adults. ryan smith is a journalist whose specialty is video games. he says violent games must be rebranded to make it clear they are not for young people. >> maybe with that, like separation, that parents would be more aware of maybe i shouldnt be buying this for my k...

Website that have to work. and then go through the list and make a list of the work that has to be done. >> so this is like anything where you can be a perfectionist, or put a band aid and make it work. how can you as a manager explain to your team and say, hey, we either need this to be perfect 0 are not so perfect and know that theyre following through on what you want? >> i think the most important thing is to make sure i.t. and developers understand the business that youre in. i think theres...

Programmers or engineers, and i suspect a lot of you feel like you dont understand a thing they are talking about. and this makes it tricky. when a programmer says something will take three weeks, if you dont have a background in technology you have to take him ahead his word, right? i invited joe to the joe today to talk about how nontechies can drye their i.t. team. he has a blog, very popular blog. great to see you. >> thank you for having me on. >> i hear this from a lot of people. they feel...

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While shu inmates usually get their own cell, they lose all other privileges. >> so you dont get visits. >> no, not really. no. no, its -- nope. >> im just telling you -- >> i have, but they dont matter. >> im just telling you, in order to be a programmer, you have to show that youre willing to be socially acceptable with somebody else in your cell. in other words, youre a program failure. thats all im trying to tell you. >> okay. >> you dont want to do it, but youre going to do it, okay? >> oka...