Brian Gongol
Sliding scales for capital gains?
Would a sliding scale for capital gains taxes -- very, very high for very, very short terms, down to low for the long term -- change the incentive structure that encourages boom-and-bust cycles? Perhaps.
Perhaps nobody in America gets a better free ride than professional sports team owners
There's talk of giving away the Metrodome for $1 just to keep the Vikings in the Twin Cities
For all the love lavished on Apple, Microsoft is still very strong
"Freakonomics" authors wonder if the United States is underpopulated
Anyone who's been to western Nebraska should find it laughable when people on the East Coast complain about it being too crowded there. There's still lots of room left.
Adobe says it's going to try to stop webcams from spying on people
A computer-science student just figured out that there's been a vulnerability in Adobe's Flash program that can allow crooks to hijack the webcams found on most laptop computers today -- allowing them to spy on people without their consent. It's important to always assume that any webcam you ever see -- on any device, including the cameras on today's cell phones -- could be live and streaming anywhere.
Evidence mounts that there is some kind of global warming -- from whatever source it may come
Danish study says mobile phones don't cause cancer
Facebook could face a European fine for holding on to data they were supposed to erase
