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MickC @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A number of years ago, my sister was almost arrested by the police in Odessa, Texas. It wasn’t because of anything she had done, but because she happened to have the same name and also happened to be exactly one year older than another person who did have outstanding arrest warrants.
KXAN is reporting about [...]
MickC @ July 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Eddie Davidson has escaped from a minimum security federal prison in Florence, Colorado.
Since Florence also houses medium and high security (plus the Administrative Maximium Security or “Supermax”) prisons, I would expect that he might be changing houses when he is caught.
The Denver Post, also 9news.com
You can keep up with things (to a very small degree) [...]
MickC @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Threat Level post:
A central element to the agreement is a provision giving affected customers a one-year subscription to spam-blocking software. The Trend Micro Internet Security Pro retails for about $70. TD Ameritrade said it struck a deal with Trend Micro to service the settlement agreement for about $6 million, the parties told Walker in court [...]
MickC @ July 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Our Towns - Build a Wiffle Ball Field and Lawyers Will Come - NYTimes.com
This is just sad.
MickC @ July 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Bradley LaShawn Fowler is seeking $60 million from Zondervan, and $10 million from Thomas Nelson Publishing in lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
He’s going to have a very, very, very long, uphill climb.
First with the petitions:
Fowler v. Thomas Nelson
Fowler v. Zondervan
Fowler’s suit claims the publishers’ text revisions to [...]
MickC @ July 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Dallas Morning News reports a new email scam making the rounds.
The body of the e-mail says the AG is contacting everyone and includes the following paragraph:
“We wish to inform you that your transaction with the United Nations concerning your package that is on hold now is a legitimate transaction and you must try and [...]
MickC @ July 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ken Magill has a new article with quotes from the ESPC’s Trevor Hughes including this gem:
The FTC’s opt out clarification “complicates things in that it demands simplicity when simplicity may not be the status quo,” said Hughes.
The FTC is demanding simplicity? Well, DUH! CAN-SPAM is a law that is supposed to protect consumers [...]
MickC @ July 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Doe et al. v. Ciolli, et al. is better known as the “AutoAdmit case”. This is a case brought by two women (Doe I and Doe II) against a group of people who allegedly engaged in libel against them on a website (AutoAdmit). If the allegations are true then the responsible defendants are [...]
MickC @ June 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Msnbc.com is reporting that:
The federal government today struck back in force against a lawsuit that has raised an alarm over the world’s biggest particle collider. In 40 documents comprising hundreds of pages, attorneys and government officials contended that “scientifically, there is no basis for any conceivable threat” from black holes or the other theoretical horrors [...]
MickC @ June 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Trial halted after judge’s explicit images disclosed
Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, acknowledged in an interview that he had posted the materials, which included a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm [...]
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