July 17, 2002

Gov't. regs, yea or nay

Here's a heartfelt op/ed from Andy Grove, expressing dismay at what's happening in corporate America, with ideas for solving the problems. On the other hand, here's a précis of objections to current suggestions in Congress from the business community.

Digital photography is being used by prosecutors in more and more domestic violence cases, according to this story in Salon. A Newport Beach cop estimates that nearly 25% of all US police departments have swapped Polaroids for digicams. Another cultural item: "Who are those guys?" No, not the posse after Butch and Sundance, but the guys behind the Nigerian e-mail fraud.

Go read this. Verisign is attempting to monopolize the market in lapsed domain names, and we've seen just what lousy proprietors they can be.

Posted by Linkmeister at July 17, 2002 05:09 PM
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government regulation? like, the blind leading the blind? the evil leading the evil? i mean, when you have a VP who was a CEO of a majorly scandalous company for ten years, but claims he didn't know about the questionable practices? i don't think he's stupid, so that leaves, evil.

these guys couldn't regulate a stream of weewee into a urinal, in my opinion.

Posted by: kd at July 17, 2002 08:23 PM

Different subject -- but I don't know how to enter a new post Stevie (snicker, snicker) ...

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Posted by: Monique at July 17, 2002 08:33 PM