I was reading about “StarForce”:http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30/anticopying_malware_.html last night on BoingBoing; StarForce is secretly installed as a hidden device on Windows computers which, in an attempt to prevent pirating of games, ends up breaking the machines it is installed upon.
Between the time I read the article and now, StarForce has threatened to sue BoingBoing claiming Cory’s [...]

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An “article in Wired”:http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70100-0.html clued me into the existence of “this searchable interface to Enron corporate email”:http://orange.sims.berkeley.edu/~atf/enron/enron.cgi. A few minutes searching pulls up some interesting stuff, like…er…”Enron’s email retention policy”:http://orange.sims.berkeley.edu/~atf/enron/enron.cgi?artid=232395.
bq. …Imagine if we were required to sift through and digest 12-24 months of e-mail traffic. This has happened to a number of companies in litigation [...]

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…”ME-L”:http://www.thudfactor.com/ tells me that Pinky and the Brain “are coming to DVD”:http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=4475.

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On the subject of abortion, Kaye Grogan says:
bq. The gruesome statistics of how many innocent babies have been slaughtered, has now reached 47 million from 1973-2005. More lives lost than all wars combined.
Of course, World War II killed about fifty-five million people. “There’s more at Sadly, No!”:http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002300.html.
But here at Thudfactor, there’s no such thing [...]

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Here’s an odd one; Blizzard has cited a World of Warcraft player for Sexual-Orientation Harrasment because she was recruiting for a GLBT guild. Blizzard has a policy against “both clear and masked language which insultingly refers to any aspect of sexual orientation pertaining to themselves or other players.” But the person in question was not [...]

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