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Re:John McCarthy Has Died by redthrowaway on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:08PM (#3151358)
Agreed. I did a quick Google News search and turned up nothing. Could be legit, or vandalism, but there's really no way to know until we have confirmation.

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--EDIT-- Since I wrote this, I've seen one source appear, in Portuguese[1]. It's still unclear whether this story is legitimate, or if they simply copied wikipedia / the buzz surrounding the story.

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--EDIT 2-- Globo is apparently the largest media conglomerate in South America[2] and thus unlikely to publish unsourced stories, so this looks (sadly) to be true.

[1] http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2011/10/morre-john-mc...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizações_Globo

Re:John McCarthy Has Died by vasco on Monday October 24, 2011 @05:47PM (#3151766)
*Portuguese
Re:John McCarthy Has Died by redthrowaway on Monday October 24, 2011 @06:10PM (#3151853)
Fixed, much obliged.