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Comment Re:This will not safeguard private data (Score 2) 38

If that's your standard for those emails with confidentiality statements (they are not disclaimers), you already have a problem because your device and maybe email provider already read them to determine if they are spam. Also, unless the email body has been encrypted, they've been sat in SMTP server queues in plain text where nefarious people could read them.

Those "disclaimers" aren't really worth anything.

Comment Re:The FAA is greatly to blame (Score 1) 191

There's a difference between passing a pilot as fit to fly and passing a new aeroplane as fit to fly. In the former case, the only thing that rides on it is one person's career and you could argue that it is in the airline's best interests that its pilots know how to fly its planes. In the latter case, the financial wellbeing of an entire huge company might be at stake. There is no way a plane should be certified by employees of the company that makes it.

Comment Re:Conflict of interest - then who should pay? (Score 1) 88

No. Investors are people who have bought a share of the company and hope to be rewarded with a share of the profits. It is in their interests to see that the company accounts are correct and that the directors are doing a proper job.

The people who buy shares hoping to sell them to somebody else for more money at a later date aren't true investors, they are speculators. It is in their interest that the company is perceived to be worth as much as possible.

Unfortunately, there are too many of the latter type of "investors" and too few of the former, to the point that it often distorts the way a company is run by the directors. Share price is taken to be the most important metric of "success" to the point that choices that would lead to a more sustainable business are eschewed in favour of choices that lead to a bump in the short term share price.

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