By Krista on Mar 15, 2007 in Legal, Privacy | 0 Comments
Imagine this scenario. You’ve just been made legally blind by a group of doctors performing lasik eye surgery. You put up a website that mentions the doctors’ names. The doctors get mad and have their lawyer send you a nasty cease-and-desist. You take the site down while you contemplate your options. Then, a few weeks later, you put the website back up with new content and docs.
Do you still have the right to name the doctors on the site? Read the rest
By Krista on Mar 14, 2007 in Gadgets | 8 Comments
Over the last year or so, I’ve noticed that objects in the distance have gotten blurrier. Yes, it’s finally happened - I no longer see at 20/20. So, a few weeks ago, I trekked to the eye doctor and got my first eye exam in ages.
It seems that staring at a computer screen all day isn’t so good for one’s eyes. I have no problems seeing things in front of my face, but driving at night has become more challenging with the glare from headlights and the layer of dirt/smudges on my windshield. But I sucked it up and dealt. It wasn’t that bad. Read the rest
By Krista on Mar 14, 2007 in Legal | 0 Comments
If you’re going to kill your husband, perhaps you should perform your Google searches on someone else’s computer. At least, that’s what Melanie McGuire is learning after the contents of her Google searches are being used against her in Court.
In 2004, McGuire allegedly shot her husband and dismembered his body. This week, she’s on trial for murder. Read the rest
By Krista on Mar 13, 2007 in Legal, Social Media, Web 2.0, YouTube | 1 Comment
Last month, Viacom caused a major stink when it demanded YouTube remove all it’s copyrighted materials. YouTube complied and removed 100,000 videos - including some that weren’t infringing on Viacom’s copyright. Since then, all sorts of copyright bickering has gone on. Read the rest
By Krista on Mar 13, 2007 in Identity Theft, Privacy, Spam | 0 Comments
Apparently, it’s not that difficult to make $2-3 million through identity theft. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve undoubtedly received at least one email claiming to be from some wealthy Nigerian (or other foreign country) and offering you a sum of several millions of dollars if you’d only help them get the money out of the country. To do that, you must send them your bank information.
Not surprisingly, there are a lot of “opportunists” out there who give up their info in exchange for this possibility of wealth. These gullible saps soon become the victims of identity theft. Read the rest
