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Web profile no defense to statutory rape

Honest belief that a female is over 18 is generally a defense to a statutory rap charge, but apparently relying on someone's web profile is not enough. Ars Technica reports that a federal judge threw out a suit by a man who sued SexSearch.com, an X-rated personals service. "John...

Tags: Web, Minor, Communications Decency Act, SexSearch.com, John Doe, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-30

AOL doesn't care about privacy

As I'm sure you have already heard, AOL dropped the queries for 500,000 users directly into the hands of "researchers" AKA the public. But to protect themselves and the identity of their users, the userid was anonymized. I would hope AOL was smart enough to know that anonymizing...

Tags: America Online Inc., John Doe

Blog posts 2006-08-07

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U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

When HIPAA and Twitter collide: Can you blab away your privacy rights?

Absolutely notThe most the hospital should do is cite HIPAA and promise a private resolution. That is all they need to do in public. If they do resolve the problem to satisfaction, most people who are willing to complain about a health problem in public would acknowledge that in public....

Tags: Regulatory compliance, HEALTHCARE, Regulations, Twitter Inc., hospital, HIPAA, patient

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers

Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...

Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Can open source police open source?

Can open source police open source?we need an international lawthat will allow the governments to go afer the GPL violators and use the proceeds to reimburse the authors.*sigh*There's plenty of people who are "here today, gone tomorrow" ripping off all sorts of code, be it open source or proprietary, not...

Tags: UNIX, GPL, open source, BSD

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Massive Mail 1.2.9 (Mac)

Massive Mail is an application that allows you to generate customized email messages for any group in Address Book. Massive Mail was created with the idea of easing the task of sending invitations, newsletters, congratulations to a group of people without having to hand write the same message for each...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dante Palacios, Massive Mail, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-09

Ethanol, our trash and our economy

This story has everything: suspense, victory, tragedy and a cliff-hanger. We still can't be sure how it's going to turn out. It all turns on Blue Fire, a California company aiming to build commercial-scale ethanol production plants, turning trash into sugars which can be fermented thence into ethanol....

Tags: Southern California, Biofuel, Trash, Landfill, Plant, Blue Fire, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-14

One-year-old (unpatched) Windows 'token kidnapping' under attack

One-year-old unpatched Windows 'token kidnapping' under attackMS should patch this but you do your readers a disservice by not mentioningMS should patch this but you do your readers a disservice by not mentioning that this requires IIS to be installed on the machine. Since the default install of Windows does...

Tags: cloud computing, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, NonZealot, Microsoft IIS Server, Microsoft Corp., BAD MS, vulnerability, escalation flaw, Web application, desktop user, attack

Discussion threads 2009-03-16

News to know: Windows Mobile 6.5; Red Hat; CRM; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Matthew Miller: Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints, where's the beef? Image Gallery: Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots Garett Rogers: Microsoft responds to Android with Windows Mobile...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Red Hat Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., CRM, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-17

TouchBook 1.1 (Mobile)

TouchBook is a replacement for the default Address Book or Contacts application. TouchBook provides access your phones and addresses in a completely fascinating way: type or scroll, also including a favorites and a today screen! TouchBook lets you use your fingers or the stylus to scroll through the list...

Tags: Screen, Mobile, Ryhor Burakou, TouchBook, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, Cellular Phones, E-mail, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Networking

Software downloads 2008-12-25

Which sites will make the IE8 Compatibility Hall of Shame?

Which sites will make the IE8 Compatibility Hall of Shame?Couldnt they havereported the IE8 user agent as separate from the past IE browsers? Since it IS standards compliant, the page should display the way it would for the rest of the browsers: standards compliant.I'm trying to think of any negative...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

Discussion threads 2008-12-21

Google: it’s time to get Real

In my previous post, I alluded to some of the issues that might prevent an average consumer -- "Joe Sixpack", John Q. Public, or Jane Doe from migrating to Linux on the desktop. One of them, without any doubt, is the lack of a way to...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Linux, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-05

AuctionPad 1.3 (Mobile)

AuctionPad gives your Palm Computing Platform device useful tools which add to your online auction experience. AuctionPad's main screen lists all of the auctions you are currently tracking, alongside live countdown timers. In an instant you can see which auctions are about to end. Additionally, you can set Date Book...

Tags: Payment, Mobile, Item, Auction, Digivello, AuctionPad 1.3, Operational Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-07

Election Talking Points: A discussion place

Election Talking Points: A discussion placeSpoken like a true believer in ...a constitutional republic.RE: Election Talking Points: A discussion placereally this post is for an opinion location,It really becomes a bunch of BSGuess doe to reports about the debate it help McCain,everyone has to put two cents of nonsense,Ok...

Tags: Mortgages, Palin, Election Talking Points

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

BPA health scare gets more serious

BPA health scare gets more seriousThis will never be bannedWhy even waste the space for this article? This compound will never be baned. A company's bottom line is way more important than a person's health and americans are to apathetic to do anything.The extent of this will be...

Tags: Food & Beverage, BPA health, BPA, food

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

California court bars unmasking of Web critic

Court reverses a previous ruling to subpoena Yahoo for the names of people who posted to its financial message board. A California appeals court on Wednesday said an anonymous Internet poster does not have to reveal his identity after being sued for making "scathing verbal attacks" against executives...

Tags: Web, Yahoo! Inc., CBS Interactive Inc., Krinsky, Internet, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance, Reuters, Corporate & legal

News items 2008-02-06

EU court: File sharers don't have to be named

EU court: File sharers don't have to be namedWhat the ???So in the EU if you sue someone for a wrongful death in civil court no one has to give you information? Sounds like the EU alright...Rights of the individualI dont want to argue the specific point being discussed...

Tags: Real Estate Value, FILE SHARERS, copyright-holder, EU Court

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

MailMergeApp 1.5.2 (Mac)

MailMergeApp is an AppleScript Studio application that makes it amazingly simple to create 'merged' mailings using the built in Address Book and Email programs in Mac OS X. The single greatest thing about this application is that it uses the Mac OS X Address Book as your contact list, so...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Objective Labs, MailMergeApp, E-mail, Apple Mac OS, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-01-10

Google Knol: Wikipedia killer or knowledge management app?

Google has launched a tool called Knol, which is a service that aggregates knowledge from individuals. Google says: The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But...

Tags: Google Inc., Knowledge, Wikipedia, Google Knol, Knowledge Management Software, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-14