As soon as he activated it, FBI agents quickly triangulated his position between two rural towns and had him in handcuffs within an hour Tuesday, according to Nevada authorities.

Bomb Suspect Traced by Cell Phone

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Political leaders in Washington are casting about for measures to ensure that the Enron debacle will never be repeated. Unfortunately, one of the main ideas being considered — requiring companies to treat stock options as expenses on financial statements — addresses an issue that not only had nothing to do with Enron's failure but is, in fact, not a problem at all.

Leave Options Alone

"I think it could be Dow 3,000 or below, and the Nasdaq below 500. People think it can't happen, but it can. That's the way markets work; that's the way economic history works; that's the way companies work."

10 Questions With Prudent Bear Fund Manager David Tice

"Double Robbery Suspect Shoots Two Brentwood Officers; Suspect Dead; A man who robbed two banks, one in Nashville the other in Brentwood, is dead following a shootout with police. "

Shootout in Brentwood, TN

"California state demographers estimate that 609,000 high school graduates will seek admission to the state's two-and four-year colleges and universities by 2010, a 28.6% increase over 2000."

A Baby Boom?

Growth overwhelms state schools

If that estimate is on target, the information technology job market is in the midst of a significant recovery after a sharp contraction last year. "If just half of these jobs are filled, the size of the IT work force will be restored to pre-2001 levels," the trade group said in its report."

Forbes.com: Information technology work force set to grow - report

"A separate study released last week by Information Week magazine said that tech workers' pay had dipped by 11 percent, to $63,000, compared with a median compensation package of $71,000 last year. It's the first time in the five-year history of the study that employees with technology skills reported lower wages, the trade publication said."

washingtonpost.com: For Techies, Some Hope Amid Gloom

"We're going to have something in the way of a major nuclear event in this country," said Buffett, the firm's chief operating officer. "It will happen. Whether it will happen in 10 years or 10 minutes, or 50 years ... it's virtually a certainty."

CNN.com - Buffett: Nuclear attack 'virtually a certainty' - May 6, 2002

The second area in which libertarians have overreached themselves is in biotechnology. ... there are reasons to be skeptical of arguments that say that genetic engineering is just another choice.

Fukuyama raises the specter of September 11th and of society with a genetically engineered class structure as scare tactics to justify the restriction not of the *practice* of genetic engineering, but of the *research* of genetic engineering, something he clearly walks right into with his mention of stem cell research. This *is* the Republican party trying to find a secular argument that allows them to regulate what people are allowed to *think* about.

Do I think its wrong to abort a fetus because of it's sex? Of course I do. I wouldn't mind a law to that effect. It does not follow that research into genetic engineering should be banned. Knowing how is not the same as doing. Furthermore, Fukuyama is more then well aware that it is the distribution of knowledge that most greatly impacts people's relative position in society, and not their genetic makeup. What these people seek to do is place knowledge of biology in a safe that only they are entrusted to open. Fukuyama and Bill Joy are obviously more qualified to safely handle this knowledge then the rest of us. I'm sure they'll use this trust, once won, in the most benevolent manner possible. Yeah, right...

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"I'm a big believer we have to make television more convenient or we will drive the penetration of PVRs and things like that, which I'm not sure is good for the cable industry or the broadcast industry or the networks. ... Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial ... you're actually stealing the programming.

This is a good interview. Another entrenched business model run by smart people with vast resources which is threatened by new technology and wants to preserve its position. We need new business models, and in the video space they are only going to come from the indy film industry which can move quickley....

I wonder how many people in this industry know that southpark started as a file people were sending around on the net...

Interview with Turner exec, PVR/VOD discussed