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MickC @ June 30, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Don’t Date Him Girl draws lawsuit for defamation.
Really it was only matter of time because all of the ingredients are there:
Anonymous posting
About dating and/or sexual experiences
Of specific individuals
Including their picture, if you have one.
This suit could be interesting. The owner of the site disclaims liability from anonymous postings on the site under the Communication [...]
MickC @ June 30, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Quick post to point to a new website of mine:
Stock-spam.com
Why make a site to track stocks touted in spam?
The easiest explanation is that I wanted to show how it’s a bad idea to invest in stocks that you see touted in spam email. Yet another reason is show off what ColdFusion can do. Still another [...]
MickC @ June 27, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Now, I’m in favor of Internet romances, and I know of people who have had some very successful ones. But you have to be very careful about what you’re doing. There are some real nutjobs out there.
Today’s case in point comes from the city of San Antonio, Texas, where WOAI reports: Teenage Girls [...]
MickC @ June 23, 2006 # No Comment Yet
The Supreme Court, in Kelo v. New London Development Corp., declared that the power of eminent domain allows a governmental entity to take private property and give it to a private entity for such reasons as “making more taxes”.
Now the federal government is barred from this type of activity. The text of the Executive [...]
MickC @ June 23, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Suit Claiming Google Profits From Child Porn Dropped
MickC @ June 23, 2006 # No Comment Yet
TIME.com: A Countersuit in the MySpace Case? — Page 1
The defense attorney for Pete Solis, the 19-year-old Texas community college student charged with sexually assaulting the girl dubbed “Julie Doe” in her lawsuit, told TIME that if the Texas courts accept the premise that MySpace is liable because the two met there, then his client [...]
MickC @ June 23, 2006 # No Comment Yet
You’ve got (fe)male:
FOURTEEN staff at Britain’s driver and vehicle licensing agency have been sacked and 101 disciplined after they swapped so many pornographic emails that it clogged up the organisation’s mainframe computer.
Hopefully, this will remind us that everything a computer does draws some amount of processing time and capacity that could be used for something [...]
MickC @ June 22, 2006 # No Comment Yet
I like to buy stuff online when I can. And in fact, I buy lots of stuff online.
My latest purchase is a voice modem. I still have DSL so it’s not for the blazing fast 52k connection speed that I could get over my phone line. No, it’s so that I can [...]
MickC @ June 22, 2006 # One Comment
My oldest son, Timothy, is also our most thoughtful son. By that, I mean that he thinks. A lot. He knows a lot too. When you put those together, they tend to be a dangerous combination for a six year old.
We try to teach our kids about water safety. One [...]
MickC @ June 22, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Some months ago, I tested John Kerry’s website to see if they were using confirmed opt-in for their mailing list. They weren’t, and they’ve been mailing “Mr. Waffles” ever since. So, today I open my email and find “Here’s How They Voted” about Big John’s attempt to have Congress assume the mantle of [...]
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