Word: reporte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soft-landing" outcomes where safety is an issue. (Nonetheless, the Gartner Group estimates that litigation costs over Y2K service and product failures, both real and imagined, could soar to $1 trillion or more.) Duggan's forecast for the impact of Jan. 1, 2000, sounds like a tolerable weather report: "It's going to be like a couple of inches of snow that stays on the ground for a few days...
David Medine, one of the commission staff members who worked on the report, argues that "parents can't be with their children every minute they're on the Internet." He says the commission hoped that the online industry would have voluntarily established privacy guidelines by now. It hasn't. Therefore, he says, "we think it's important for the government to step in and provide those protections...
...advocate using a nom de hack as an alternative to the legislative approach urged by the Federal Trade Commission last week. Privacy Online: A Report to Congress does an exhaustive job of detailing the sneaky practices of many websites. The FTC found, for instance, that 92% of the 1,400 sites it randomly surveyed collected personal information about their users; only 14% ever disclosed that practice...
...protection of kids that most concerns the commission. A number of sites try to trick children into giving their names and addresses and worse. One unidentified "child-directed" site, according to the report, even asked each visiting kid "whether he or she has received gifts in the form of stock, cash, savings bonds, mutual funds or certificates of deposit." It also wanted to know if the parents owned mutual funds. To which I say, Any child who knows that is probably not a child...
...traders overreacting to some short-term setback. I saw two good examples just last week: Eli Lilly and Xerox. (Full disclosure: I'm long on both stocks.) Here you can beat me and the market. You can take a longer view--not least because you don't have to report every quarter to those 98 rich guys...