Archive for March, 2002
Live Netcast for the “Very Bad Hotel” guys
In early January, I wrote about the PowerPoint presentation that was spreading like wildfire around the Net (the comment is at the bottom; there’s also a USA Today story about it here). It was about two guys who tried to claim their “guaranteed room” at the Doubletree Club in Houston.
Well, looks like they’re cashing in […]
Laurence Canter resurfaces. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
The only possible reason he could be showing up in this C|Net interview is to try to rehabilitate his image, possibly to introduce yet another brilliant (ahem) scam on Internet users.
Don’t know who Canter is? He’s half of the duo who introduced spam to Usenet back in 1994. One of his infamous posts is here […]
Google is a fickle mistress…
Talk about a lack of patience. Back in February, Evan Williams (co-founder of Pyra, and co-creator of Blogger.com) linked to my site. Within a few hours, Google was indexing my site daily. What a rush! But then March 7 rolled around, and I skipped a day of posting. By Saturday, Google had not only stopped […]
This is the third time
This is the third time in a row that the “souvenir” I bring back from London is a sinus infection. Needless to say, I’m moving a bit slow. Hopefully the horse pills the doctor has me taking will get me back to normal by tomorrow. In the meantime, I’ll be taking it easy.
Eisner: Honest Abe would agree with us…
Found two more great law/technology blogs (by way of Jenny at The Shifted Librarian): Larry Staton’s blog at http://www.statonlaw.net/weblog/ and Will Cox’s at http://users.bestweb.net/~cwcjr/radio/. Both are worth visiting.
Larry has a good response to Michael Eisner’s OpEd in today’s Financial Times.
Here’s my $.02: the Constitution to which Eisner refers is not about eliminating the possibility of […]
Libel or slander? Damages or jail? You be the judge…
Two former employees of Varian Medical Systems who have posted more than 14,000 messages about the company on 100+ message boards were fined $775,000 for damages to Varian back in November. In addition, the court imposed a permanent injunction on the two, barring specific libelous postings about Varian employees and their personal lives.
Attorneys for Varian go […]
Who’s watching you?
I wrote a column for this month’s ABA Law Practice Management Magazine about spyware and how to fight it. Turns out the fight between spyware and counter-spyware applications is getting uglier; this article at MSNBC details how some spyware apps are deliberately breaking the counter-spyware appliations.
You can visit Trapware’s home page for more information about […]
Digital Rights: Would you like
Digital Rights: Would you like some?
If so, then make sure you read Dan Gillmor’s article. And after you read it, if you are inclined, then take some action. Waiting for Congress to figure out how how the digital world is supposed to work is like letting Colonel Sanders babysit your chickens….
[Ernie the Attorney]
Starting a company? Use your head.
I ran across this article in Inc Magazine about two months ago. I meant to link to it back then, and am just now remembering. The best part of the story behind the rise of Cranium (if you haven’t played the board game, you don’t know what you’re missing) is the backgrounds of the co-founders: […]
Computer vulnerabilities
Following up on yesterday’s link to Mike Deem’s comments about rolling bowling balls down mountains, I thought this post from Mike Chandler provides some good fodder for discussion. Mike took a machine, loaded it up first with Windows 2000. He was hacked within a few hours. He reformatted the machine, loaded it up with Red Hat […]
