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MickC @ February 25, 2005 # 2 Comments
I don’t have much sympathy for people who scroll to the bottom of an End User License Agreement (EULA) and click “OK” just to get on with it. I do have some because it is a legal document and people do tend to glaze over when reading those. But, if you have installed [...]
MickC @ February 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
If this doesn’t win Stupid Lawsuit of the Decade then the eventual winner is going to be a real doozy:
CHICAGO (AP) - An appeals court said a man can press a claim for emotional distress after learning a former lover had used his sperm to have a baby. But he can’t claim theft, the ruling [...]
MickC @ February 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Sony Puts Pizza Ordering in Videogames
NEW YORK (AP) - Demonstrating a deep understanding of what its computer-gaming audience [wants], Sony has built the ability to order pizza into its latest online multiplayer game.
Type the command “/pizza” while playing Everquest II, a fantasy game with 330,000 active players, and get the Pizza Hut Web site, where [...]
MickC @ February 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
I knew you could.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The reputed leader of a violent Honduran gang was using an alias, but the tattoos on his body gave him away.
Further checking revealed the man arrested in Texas on Feb. 10 was Ever Anibal Rivera Paz, known as “El Culiche” - The Tapeworm. Rivera Paz had escaped Jan. [...]
MickC @ February 24, 2005 # One Comment
Microsoft Watch alerts us that Microsoft to Modify Windows XP Product-Activation Policy
Product activation, which Microsoft first introduced with Windows XP in 2001, is Microsoft’s way of requiring new Windows users to authenticate their copies of Windows. Microsoft has required users not covered by volume-license agreements to register their XP copies via the Internet or phone [...]
MickC @ February 24, 2005 # One Comment
If you have been having comment and/or trackback problems, then your problem is easily fixable thanks to candygenius:
Here is the code I have been using in my .htaccess to block them:
# pineapple baby - comment spammer - shhhhh
RewriteCond %{HTTP:VIA} ^. pinappleproxy
RewriteRule .* - [F]
It’s really that simple. Since installing that into the top of [...]
MickC @ February 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Here are my answers in the “WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?” BLOGGER QUIZ
1. Who the hell do you think you are?
I think I am me. Therefore, I am.
2. So, other than blogging, what’s your job? Do you work at some fast food joint, dumbass?
No fast food work here. Although as [...]
MickC @ February 23, 2005 # No Comment Yet
In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln gave a little-thought-of speech to dedicate a new military cemetary after the Battle of Gettysberg. President Lincoln was not even the keynote speaker on that cold November morning, but despite his own self-effacing statement that “the world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here” we still [...]
MickC @ February 23, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Was it the money? Surely he didn’t get paid for this story.
Back on 5 January 2005, Joshua Greene of the Cleveland Free Times (the Cleveland version of the Austin Chronicle) filed this story:
EVER SEEN A SOLDIER STRUGGLE between commitment to his country and to his heart? Ever seen a war rip two lovers apart? [...]
MickC @ February 23, 2005 # One Comment
The legal field has been popping with interesting technology-related lawsuits lately.
From the “Disclosure in Advertising” department we have:
Lawsuit Says HP Printer Cartridges Die Before Use
A Georgia woman has sued Hewlett-Packard Co., claiming the ink cartridges for their printers are secretly programmed to expire on a certain date, in some cases rendering them useless before they [...]
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