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The sin of arrogance - Why congomerates fall apart |
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| Topic: Business |
6:01 pm EDT, Sep 7, 2002 |
what goes around comes around. Here's why size isn't a strategy and conglomerates are doomed from the beginning. [ Originally from w1ld. I'd like to see more specific sources so I could research it myself, but my gut tells me it's true. And, of course, it's already clear that CEOs, of any ilk, are grossly arrogant. --Rek ] The sin of arrogance - Why congomerates fall apart |
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The Trials of Henry Kissinger |
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| Topic: Movies |
5:57 pm EDT, Sep 7, 2002 |
Part contemporary investigation and part historical inquiry, documentary follows the quest of one journalist in search of justice. The film focuses on Christopher Hitchens' charges against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal - allegations documented in Hitchens' book of the same title - based on his role in countries such as Cambodia, Chile, and Indonesia. Kissinger's story raises profound questions about American foreign policy and highlights a new era of human rights. Increasing evidence about one man's role in a long history of human rights abuses leads to a critical examination of American diplomacy through the lens of international standards of justice. [ Originally from w1ld. ] The Trials of Henry Kissinger |
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The COOK Report On Internet |
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| Topic: Telecom Industry |
5:32 pm EDT, Sep 4, 2002 |
This issue of the COOK Report explores peering, transit and exchanges for the first time since about 1999. While a lot has changed, a lot remains the same. Estimates of the capacity utilization of the Tier 1 backbones show them to be lightly utilized ... Over the past five weeks we have had conversations ... [which] suggest that the [Tier 1] oligopoly is engaging in behavior that could blow up in a manner similar to the capacity swaps that blew up earlier this year. ISPs are beginning to use tools to do load balancing of their upstream connections in real time. The Tier Ones, by peering in their tight oligopoly, may have rendered themselves irrelevant. Andrew Odlyzko: "I find the prospects of smaller networks being able to bypass the Tier Ones fascinating. The development of tools [that do this] is also very interesting." The COOK Report On Internet |
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Companies that cooked books may be able write off fines |
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| Topic: Business |
5:21 pm EDT, Sep 4, 2002 |
The slew of companies caught red-handed in this year of corporate sleaze face potentially colossal legal claims, but they may enjoy pleasant reprieves next year huge tax breaks from Uncle Sam.
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The IRSs conclusion: The amounts paid by Taxpayer pursuant to the settlement are currently deductible.
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People are going to be upset when they hear companies can deduct these expenses, [ This is totally ridiculous. I rant and rant and rant about how corporations have more rights than human beings. Usually I get some crap about corporations being the money generators in the society and they should (of course) have more rights. Bzzzt! Wrong answer. If this isn't enough to convince you that large corporations and the people who run and support them (government leaders) are morally bankrupt, I don't know what is. Steal money from your investors, get fined, then write it off! Hurray for AmeriKKKa! --Rek ] Companies that cooked books may be able write off fines |
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| Topic: Computer Networking |
2:11 pm EDT, Sep 4, 2002 |
Packet Clearing House is a non-profit research institute supporting investigation and operations in the area of Internet traffic exchange and global IP routing economics. PCH was formed in 1994 to provide high-performance regional and local peering alternatives to the CIX and the MAE, and has grown to become the leading proponent of neutral independent peering switch-fabrics and the leading provider of free route-servers at major exchange points around the world. Today, PCH provides knowledge, equipment, and operational support to organizations and individual researchers seeking to improve the quality, robustness, and accessibility of the Internet. This web site could benefit from redesigned layout/navigation, but the content is useful. Browse around and read through the papers, such as "Introduction to Peering Economics." [ I know a bunch of these folks. . . --Rek ] Packet Clearing House |
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| Topic: Technology |
1:58 pm EDT, Sep 4, 2002 |
"it has come to my attention that some people think I was responsible for the interesting network outage on Saturday night at Defcon 10 where all sites on the internet resolved to only one site and that no-one was able to maintain an association with any access point other than the offending one... While I categorically deny these allegations, the code i used to do it will be up here in a day or so..." The PPT on this page was one of the better talks from DefCon. How to DOS a wireless LAN, how to MITM an ISAKMP key exchange occuring over a wireless LAN... 802.11ninja.net |
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Telecom Wreck Provides an Opening for AT&T |
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| Topic: Telecom Industry |
2:27 pm EDT, Sep 1, 2002 |
The thinning of competition, along with the potential to whisk away customers from its suffering rivals, should allow AT&T to survive its own dubious investment of more than $100 billion to acquire cable assets. ... AT&T is an "attractive long-term deep-value play" ... Many analysts still fear a nightmarish possibility: that WorldCom and the rest of what Mr. Johnstone calls telecom's "living dead" -- companies reorganizing under Chapter 11 -- emerge from bankruptcy, relieved of their crushing debts and hungry enough for customers to cut prices sharply. Telecom Wreck Provides an Opening for AT&T |
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