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MickC @ April 21, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Last December there was a big brouhaha over Yahoo’s refusal to hand over the contents of a dead Marine’s Yahoo Mail account to his parents.
Now Findlaw is reporting that Lance Corporal Ellsworth’s kin will get that access:
An Oakland County probate judge signed an order Wednesday directing Yahoo! Inc. to provide the contents of the e-mail [...]
MickC @ April 20, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Last year we said that we would follow the KCTV5 story wherein KCTV5 reporter Dave Helling claimed to have bought 500 of ammonium nitrate from McGraw’s Fertilizer in Tonganoxie, Kansas, in an effort to show that terrorists could get their hands on enough of the material to create a bomb. What he had actually [...]
MickC @ April 20, 2005 # One Comment
One way that the unscrupulous have of gaining access to your personal information is to use “social engineering” to trick you into clicking on a link that will take you to a different website than the one you think you should be going to. If you get those emails that say “Go to https://www.ebay.com/some-long-string-of-numbers-and-letters [...]
MickC @ April 20, 2005 # 14 Comments
Symantec said Wednesday that it has been granted a $3.1 million default judgment in its California lawsuit against an accused software pirate.
In April of 2004, Symantec charged that Sam Jain and several co-defendants created fake pop-up ads telling consumers that their Symantec software was preparing to expire and needed to be renewed. People who fell [...]
MickC @ April 19, 2005 # No Comment Yet
UN refugee head on Darfur visit
One wonders, of course, where the rest of the body is, and why someone thinks that Darfur is safer than the UN.
MickC @ April 18, 2005 # One Comment
Rosa Parks settles with OutKast.
Under the out-of-court settlement announced on Thursday Parks, 92, will receive an undisclosed amount of money that means her “living and health needs … will be secure,” former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer, her guardian, said.
The settlement came with OutKast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Arista Records LLC and LaFace Records. Under it, [...]
MickC @ April 16, 2005 # No Comment Yet
For two months last year, rescuers searched for Lori Hacking. For the first two weeks, the woman’s putative husband, Mark Hacking, professed no knowledge of what had happened to her. Then he broke down and confessed that he shot her in the head with a rifle and then disposed of her body and [...]
MickC @ April 15, 2005 # 5 Comments
[UPDATE: This case was thown out.]
Every once in a while we find a lawsuit that is such a breathtakingly stupid waste of judicial resources that we feel compelled to mention it in this space as well as at the Institute of Reproductive Geology. This lawsuit found via Fark falls into that category.
Rhonda Nichols alleges in [...]
MickC @ April 15, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Just an update on Tyler v. Hewlett-Packard Co. This case, you will recall, deals with an allegation that HP failed to advise its customers that the smart chips of certain HP inkjet printer cartridges causes the cartridges to stop working, regardless of print quality or the amount of ink that is left within the [...]
MickC @ April 12, 2005 # No Comment Yet
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