Wednesday, April 3, 2002

The Safety Myth

Matt Labash
Photo-radar cameras are designed to catch speeders and save lives. Only, there's not much evidence that the speed limit is any safer.

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Dion's new CD crashing party for some users

Celine Dion's latest release is generating heated discussions on Internet message boards. But the subject under fire is not the star's music — it's that the CD will not play on computer CD drives.

Discussion at Slashdot.

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Stock Options' Perverse Incentives

Whitney Tilson
It's time to make companies account properly for the true cost of stock options — a step that will give investors a truer picture of economic reality and encourage companies to replace stock option incentive programs with those that encourage actual stock ownership.

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Alphabet Soup

BPDG wants the FCC to mandate DRM for ATSC DTB receivers...

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A hypothetical situation...

Bob Crosley
If Al Qaeda members were walking into US resturants, shopping malls, bus stations, etc. with bombs strapped to their chests in a concerted effort to kill as many Americans as possible, what would be our reaction as a nation?

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Dot-DNS could be the first step to loosen ICANN's grip on Net

[Bob] Frankston says ICANN should create a new top-level domain — he would call it dot-DNS — that would have a single trait. It would consist solely of numbers before the dot. For example, a domain might be called 123456789012345.dns or 543210987654321.dns.

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Mickey Mouse and Foghorn Leghorn

Jeff Elkins
The Mouse must be protected at all costs.

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Why Are Drug Firms Silent Online?

Nina Shariff
Companies that divorce themselves from the discussion build a stronger defense for product liability challenges, said Brian Waldman, a partner at law firm Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn.

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Tech Power Alters War's Mission

Steve Kettmann
There's a tendency on the part of an awful lot of people, not just the military, to say that war is all about killing and bloodshed. And to a certain extent, to do something about the bloodshed is not a correct idea to be pursuing, and it might even be dangerous.

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