RIAA Wants to Depose Dead Defendant’s Children; But Will Allow them 60 Days to “Grieve” In Michigan, in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow the family time to “grieve”, after which time they [...]
Archive of entries posted on August 2006
Thinking: Solving a Substitution Puzzle
Recently BrainBashers offered this puzzle: If Poland is 44 miles away, Canada is 42 miles away and Mongolia is 56 miles away, how far away is Peru? Try it yourself before reading on, I’ll wait. No, I’m serious, try it. It’s not that difficult. Basic algebra. Eighth grade? Ninth grade? When is algebra taught anyway? [...]
Marketers
“Marketers are like dogs: They jump up on top of you and try to lick you everywhere, and it’s just painful to have to ward them off at every corner,” said Jason Catlett, a privacy advocate with anti-spam group Junkbusters. “Surfers are an individually minded lot, so the marketers are using browser technology to extend [...]
Netflix Update: July 2006
Not a bad month, eleven DVDs, none were broken but two had to be cleaned with a few parts of a chapter still unable to be read. Average return time was 15.26 hours; longest time was 34.88 hours, quickest was 4.87. Three movies were shipped the next day, resulting in the ten dvd average time [...]
Suffering
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller
