Law… FEMA Delays 26 Oct 2008 The Houston/Galveston region has been largely ignored nationally in the wake of Hurricane Ike, and this chron.com story is truly amazing. Apparently, according to the article, "federal officials have approved…
Law… Stay of Execution of Sentence Pending Appeal 20 Oct 2008 Last week, the Houston Chronicle had a little blurb about a doctor who is reporting to FPC Bryan after being convicted of allegedly injecting individuals with fake Botox™. (Allegedly she…
Entertainment… No surprises here…. Studios Don’t Like RealDVD 30 Sep 2008 My last post (three weeks ago, natch) suggested that the studios would find some way to sue RealNetworks for its software, RealDVD, even if Real wasn't hacking the encryption. Looks…
Law… RealDVD 8 Sep 2008 According to a blog on Fortune's site, Real Networks (buffering..............) has unveiled a new DVD ripping technology that doesn't hack the encryption on DVDs. This, so it seems, makes copying…
Law… EULA Drama 4 Sep 2008 So the past few days have seen some compartmentalized drama regarding Google's Chrome EULA and the damned GoogleUpdate.exe. Which got me to think about other software's EULAs and what they…
Law… Well, C’mon Now… Look at Other Types of “Facts.” 3 Sep 2008 Not that this is a particularly surprising result, but the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals isn't too fond of using Wikipedia as proof. Essentially, the panel quoted large chunks of…
Law… GoogleUpdate.exe, Chrome, and the Cloud 3 Sep 2008 After noticing that I had been getting a lot of traffic from people looking for GoogleUpdate.exe, I decided to go hunting for what all the fuss was about. From what…
Law… Gonzales Follow-Up 2 Sep 2008 The official report from Inspector General Fine has been posted to the Office of the Inspector General's Website (PDF). It contains little nuggets like: During the OIG's intial interview with…
Law… “Mishandling” Classified Information 2 Sep 2008 According to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and others, former (thankfully) Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "kept classified material at his home and in an office safe." Inspector General…
Law… Exxon Mobil Suit Goes Forward 28 Aug 2008 This morning, there's interesting news coming out of Washington, D.C. (from Bloomberg News and others) as District Court judge Louis Oberdorfer has ruled that a lawsuit (Doe v. Exxon Mobil,…
