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Has a programmer ever embezzled money by shaving fractions of a cent from many bank transactions?
There's a popular story that describes a programmer having altered a program at a bank so it diverted fractions of a cent from every transaction to another account (or some variation like multiple ...
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Is there a “red shift” in U.S. elections — a significant shift to republican votes between polls and voting? Does this imply fraud?
This questions on Politics SE introduced me to the concept of the red shift. In short, the claim of a red shift boils down to a statistically significant difference between outcome of final exit polls ...
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Is voter fraud practically non-existent in the United States?
The issue of voter fraud comes up very often at election times. In the media, it is nearly always pictured as a really important and urgent problem. It ranges from whether photo identification should ...
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Did older car odometers rewind when driving backwards?
I've always heard that way-back-when, the simplest way to rewind a car's odometer was to drive backwards (at least in some models). Is this true? Did those manufacturers miss such an obvious gaming ...
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Are contactless payment cards/phones insecure?
I've heard claims that contactless cards and NFC is no less secure than chip and PIN as indicated below.
According to Barclays:
All our new Contactless debit cards
include the latest advanced ...
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Was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle responsible for the Piltdown Man hoax?
Was the genius behind Sherlock Holmes also behind one of the most infamous forgeries in history?
source:roystoncartoons.com
In what could be described in retrospect as basically a shallow grave ...
