Archive for May 2005
More personal information stolen. This time from Wachovia and Bank of America. No worries though, only 700,000 customers affected. On the plus side, those affected get a free credit report.
Star Wars Episode III has been leaked to the Internet. I’m shocked. It’s just a workprint with watermarks and timecode, but word on the street is that it is watchable. All the DRM, copy-protection, laws, threats, etc. can’t keep the MPAA’s own from illegally distributing certain movies. You can download a sample here, here, or here, compliments of Waxy.
For those that think they have little privacy in their cube, consider this. According to an article at Cnet, 5% of US companies use GPS to monitor their employee’s cell phones. 8% use it to track their vehicles. 75% monitor websites visited. 36% track "content, keystrokes and time spent at the keyboard." 50% store/review employee computer files. 55% store/review employee emails. The list goes on and on… phones, cameras, etc.
CHEK IT OUT I GOT THIS 3MALE FORWARD 2DAY!!!11111 OMG I THINK IV3 SEN IT BFORE AND MAYB U HAEV 2 BUT ITS PR3TY FUNY ANYWAYS!
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00 .
With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of Beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.