June 29, 2001
June 27, 2001
Reuters: Student sues professor over class demonstration (former Pace law student sues Torts professor and university after he pulled away a chair as she sat down)
June 26, 2001
AP: Freelance writers win case over electronic reprint rights (New York Times Co. v. Tasini, No. 00-201 (June 25, 2001) (175K PDF))
Cease and desist letter from law firm to humor site that threatened to kill Barney (even more ridiculous than another firm's letters to flyingbuttmonkeys.com)
June 22, 2001
June 21, 2001
The American Humane Association's Film and TV Unit rates movies based upon the treatment of animals during production. Check out their reviews of Freddy Got Fingered and Joe Dirt.
June 20, 2001
CNET News.com: Rental-car firm exceeding the privacy limit? (car renter fined for speeding detected by GPS device)
June 19, 2001
June 15, 2001
June 14, 2001
CNET News.com: Trojan horse targets Word users (yet another security hole attributable to sloppy Microsoft code)
June 13, 2001
As if X-10's new "popunder" ads on the N.Y. Times web site and elsewhere weren't annoying enough, the company now lets you opt-out of the annoying ads -- but you have to let them place a cookie on your hard drive in order to opt out. (Actually, they'll put a cookie on your hard drive when you visit their web site, whether or not you opt out.) Yet another argument for an opt-in rule, if you ask me.
June 11, 2001
AP: Can McVeigh killing be hacked?; San Antonio Express-News: Net security experts expecting bootleg video of McVeigh execution; search eBay for McVeigh execution video
June 08, 2001
St. Petersburg Times: Clothes make the inmate (jail trusties say their new uniforms make them look like the Hamburglar)
June 07, 2001
June 03, 2001
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