Friday, October 4, 2002

categories: Financial, Legal, Biz Besieged Stewart quits NYSE board Houston Chronicle - Lifestyle entrepreneur Martha Stewart resigned from the New York Stock Exchange board of directors Thursday, a day after a Merrill Lynch employee pleaded guilty to charges from an investigation into whether Stewart illegally relied on insider information t ... Stewart leaves NYSE board seat Seattle Post Intelligencer US: Martha Stewart to quit New York SE board Bluebull.com Forbes - Washington Times - KLTV - CNN - and 694 related » Google Business News iSay - Bu-bye Martha. You can't control everything. My advice is to get smart and give it up, admit your mistake, pay the penalty, put it behind you and move forward (write a book). Otherwise you face ruin. Think about it.   8:22:02 AM  Google It!  comment

categories: Financial, Legal Top executives risk lawsuits over Goldman IPO list Forbes - Some of America's best-known executives may face lawsuits demanding they give up the profits made on initial public offerings they were allocated by investment bank Goldman Sachs. SEC aims to stem abuses at Wall Street investment firms Seattle Times Corporate clients got new stock deals Detroit Free Press Guardian - The Scotsman - The Street - Independent - and 155 related » Google Business News   8:13:12 AM  Google It!  comment

categories: Biz Veritas Corp. CFO Resigns Newsday - Veritas Software Corp., whose name is Latin for "truth," said Kenneth Lonchar resigned as chief financial officer after admitting he lied about having a master's degree in business administration from Stanford University. Veritas CFO quits over lie about MBA Boston Globe Veritas CFO fired over education lie Houston Chronicle The Register - eWeek - CMPnetAsia - ZDNet - and 63 related » Google Business News   8:11:04 AM  Google It!  comment

categories: SciTech Rob Flickenger shows OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) plus promiscuous network mode can pollute a wireless network (wired, too) At the OS X Conference, we all started seeing connection refused errors, but it seemed to vary by domain, time, and network. Turns out that Mac OS X 10.2(.1) running a firewall and software in promiscuous mode (in which all network addresses can be sniffed) can pollute a network. 80211b News   8:08:24 AM  Google It!  comment

categories: SciTech WorldCom suffers more Well, I thought something was up. I though a few sites have been a little slow, and email to some people was taking especially long. Well, I now know why, that is the fact that the WorldCon err WorldCom owned UUNet is having some problems, but there is no clear... Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes iSay - Outages here too for the past several days. Yesterday DNS took me down for 18 hours. Sucks, don't it. (New England colloquial)   7:59:19 AM  Google It!  comment

categories: Legal, Politics Bill: Copyright Power to People Another digital copyright bill debuts in Congress, this time seeking to expand consumer freedom to copy digital works for their own and others' not-for-profit use. Michael Grebb reports from Washington, D.C. Wired News   7:44:29 AM  Google It!  comment

categories: Culture Artists Trade Oils for Inkjets An exhibition at the University of Texas at Dallas turns art-making on its ear: Artists in this show produce one-of-a-kind works on inkjet and laser printers. By James Magary. Wired News   7:42:31 AM  Google It!  comment