Good Morning Silicon Valley, one of my favorite blogs, included the following quote from Apple's CEO Steve Jobs in an article yesterday.

On the possibility of Apple competing on the cheaper end of the computer markets: "There are some customers which we chose not to serve. We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that. But we can continue to deliver greater and greater value to those customers that we choose to serve. And there's a lot of them."

Even though I use a Dell laptop and don't own a black turtleneck, maybe great minds sometimes think alike?

According to an online article on the ABC News website today, "a review of court records by ABC News found dozens of lawsuits, on behalf of hundreds of people, filed in the last two years against the major criminal records database companies, alleging that background checks contain inaccurate information about criminal convictions."

Representative Robert Scott of Virginia is sponsoring a bill that recognizes the many quality problems with the FBI's criminal records database and seeks to protect citizens seeking jobs from errors in the system.

HR 7033, the Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act of 2008, seeks to protect citizens from the poor quality of data already being provided under existing employment-related access to the Interstate Identification Index (also known as the NCIC criminal records database or Triple I), without creating any new permissible access purposes to the database.