Archive for May, 2008

Dell Hates Its Customers, Gets a Smackdown

Dell, once my favorite computer company (and the maker of my last three computers), fell out of my favor when it started engaging in what I considered unethical business practices. I witnessed first hand the amount of effort required to disengage from Dell Financial’s predatory credit lending practices with a college-aged family member. [...]

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Send a Spam, Pay a Fine

Well, its about time …
Ars Technica reports that two MySpace spammers have been given the largest fine in the history of the too-weak CAN-SPAM law:
The US District Court for the Central District of California made a default judgment against Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines for using MySpace to send more than 700,000 spam messages to [...]

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Adults, Get Off the Swingsets

It should be unnecessary to say it, but adults should monitor children’s activities, not engage in them.
The AP reports on a 49 year old woman indicted for initiating a hoax on MySpace that led to a 13 year old’s death. The alleged reason for the hoax? To find out if the [...]

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