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The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

Posted by michael on from the bright-ideas dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Business 2.0's fourth annual review of the most shameful, dishonest, and just plain stupid moments of the past year. Yes, SCO is represented..."

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  1. Number 16 - Spike Lee by curtisk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm glad that idiot is listed so high, that lawsuit was just wrong. I guess he owns the market on "Spike" huh? I was hoping the network won, but it turns out there was a settlement, wonder how much it cost to have Mr. Lee grace the network with "his name" - what a tool

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  2. Re:From the article... by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Interesting
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    30 On the plus side, all the applicants were buying Eclipses


    "Anyone, feasibly, given enough time and enough resources, could hack into any system."--Brad Hill, CIO of Dealerskins, a Tennessee firm that hosts websites for car dealerships, confessing in September that the company had exposed 1,000 customers' car-loan applications on an unprotected website. The Dealerskins "hack"--selecting "Source" from Internet Explorer's View menu to examine the webpage's HTML code--takes about a quarter of a second.
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    Nice to know that my internet financial transactions are safe since they're being handled by professionals. (Professional idiots, apparently.)

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  3. Did they mention... by ziggy_zero · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Clear Channel's recent decision to replace O'Hare airport as a landmark for the traffic updates in Chicago with the Allstate Arena due to a marketing agreement?

    Clear Channel is worse than the devil.

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  4. Memory by Sean80 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    What bothers me is that there's no community memory about these sorts of things. Say I have a guy who walks into my office looking to fill a job position I have. How do I know he isn't some scum who ripped off a bunch of little old ladies last year when he was a stocktrader on the floor on the New York Stock Exchange? How do I know he's not the marketing guy who named his car 'Le Masturbation'?

    Maybe that's a role played by HR consulting firms that I'm simply not aware of, but my understanding is that those guys typically search criminal records and so forth.

    Who's up for a web site that catalogs this sort of behaviour, easy to search, for use during recruitment? Otherwise these guys just prey on our lack of communal memory.