tyco

I looked into Worldcom, Enron and Tyco back then as investments and didn't like their books.

My dad did design work for division of Tyco that made syringes.

Yes, because Halliburton, Tyco and Accenture are the model corporate citizens...

See: Worldcom, Adelphia, Enron, Tyco and countless other examples.

Somewhere around here I have a printed copy of a white paper from Tyco (mostly known for IC socket mfgr, although they make a lot of other connectors) on the topic of silver vs gold, mostly as applies to IC sockets.

Then again this whitepaper is around a decade old and gold prices haven't exactly dropped back to $230/oz since then, meanwhile Tyco and everyone else still ships mostly tinplate and goldplate IC sockets and I don't recall ever seeing silverplate IC sockets in any mouser/digikey product list.

Anyone else notice that in the Tyco contactor picture it's labelled "Coil 3.14 Ohms"?

On the face of it, it sounds like a much more blatant fraud than Dennis Kozlowski, the former Tyco CEO who served about 8 years in prison, or Bernie Ebbers (what is it with guys named "Bernie"?), who is still serving a 25 year sentence for defrauding WorldCom investors.

This is untrue: "All very true, except that with a share of Google, they're all the same and you arguably know what you're buying..." We've had many, many corporate scandals over the years: Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, etc.

Tyco International/Tyco Toys, ITT Corp/ITT Tech, Apple Inc/Apple Corps (after Feb 2007).

The past decades were by no means free from such poisonous personalities (see: Tyco), but we seem to have reached a whole new level.

Considering the time frame for WorldCom, Tyco, and Enron it was especially surprising, but the author states he was 20.