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eBay, Buy.com and possibly Amazon have joined Yahoo! on the hit list of high-profile Web sites to suffer denial of service attacks in the past two days -- leading security experts to warn that future attacks may be impossible to prevent.
Unless one side or another decides to appeal, Friday's decision could mark the final chapter in a case once said to be a definitive one for antitrust law in the 21st century.
From faulty satellites nearly causing World War III to the Millennium Bug, poorly executed IT has had a lot to answer for over the years
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