I've paraphrased the following quite liberally so you'll want to do your own fact checking before reaping any of it.
Herman Miller Inc. cant figure out how to sue to protect its intellectual property (IP). It's products (high end executive office furniture) as well as those of other company's is being faked (often badly) in 2nd life. The crumby models are thought to reflect poorly on the IP holder. Creator of 2nd life (Linden labs) claims its an ISP as as such would be immune to a lawsuit. And the avatars peddling the knock offs could be anybody. Further, sueing those who might consider themselves fans of your companies products is bad PR.
-From General Council Magazine
Median Total Cash Compensation for a company's General Council by major region:
*West - Including Montana, rocky mountain states, Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico - NO DATA AVAILABLE
*Pacific Coast - $350,000
*South East ("the south") - $420,000
*North East - $438,000
*Central - (plains states, Texas, Michigan Ohio and Indiana) - $456,000
An interesting pattern of higher pay on the middle of the country?
-From General Council Magazine
After having her identity stolen by a hospital employee after the birth of her Son Mrs. Sloane attempted to repair her damaged credit. She ultimately had to sue Equifax and was awarded $351,000. About 1/3 actual damages and 2/3 "pain and suffering" and Equifax must foot her $181.000 legal bill.
-From General Council Magazine
Labels: big business, business, culture, economics, internet, law, technology
Now what happens when they start tracking you because they think you might hurt someone?
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One of the big things on the web these days is context sensitive content. The prime example is Google Ads that try to come up with ads that match the page content. Like a lot of such technologies its tough to get it perfect every time. And sometimes it goes totally wrong.
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LSI gets a patent for the linked-list". Which is about as dumb as giving Amazon.com a patent on the book.
Labels: computer science, government, insanity, law, McDonalds, patents, technology
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The Internet is for Porn
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Links to the MAX Blog:
Links of Note:
Montana Bloggers:
This great list was stolen from A History of Montana by Kodak.- Bah Weep Grahna Weep Ninny Bon
- The Bastardization of Me
- Best Buddies
- The Best of the Bozeman Chronicle Police Reports
- Better Living Through Blogging
- Big Sky Blog
- Big Sky Country
- Big Sky Humanist
- Big Sky LiveJournal Community
- Billings Blog
- Bitterroot and Bergamot
- The Bitteroot Life
- Blog.JohnBedard.Com
- Bouncerblog
- Bozeman-mt
- California to Montana
- A Chicken Is Not Pillage
- City Lights
- Collected Nothingness
- Common Sense: for merica
- Daily Life in the Last Best Place
- Dark Creek
- Dave Budge
- David Knobel's Life 2.0
- A Day in the Life of Jer
- Democracy for Montana
- Descend the Spiral Misanthropy
- A Different Lemming
- Digital Scrapbook
- Dirt between light bulbs
- Don't Make Me Get My Flying Monkeys
- Downtown Billings
- DrochKnight Design
- GazOutdoors
- G.F. Fire Fly
- Giddy Up
- Goatopolis
- Government News for Montana
- Granny Insanity
- Granite Peaks
- Greater Falls
- Greetings from Montana
- Life in a Fish Bowl
- Life, or what passes for it
- Lifted Lorax
- Livingston, I Presume
- The Lovely Wife
- Love Not Fear
- Left in the West
- Lewis and Clark and Whatelse
- Life in Northern Town
- Miss Bonkrood
- Mistresninos
- Mommy Talk
- Monkey Cage
- Montana Conservative
- Montana Diva
- Montana Forum
- Montana_Graffiti
- Montana Jones
- Montana Nuggets
- Montana Opinions
- Montana Politics
- Montana Ramblings and my Thoughts Here
- Motto
- Musings from the Milne's
- My View from Big Sky
- The Odd Neighbor
- An Offering of Myself to the World
- One for the Chief
- 100% Columbian
- An Online Piece of My Mind
- On the Record
- Para-Bellum.net
- Patia Stephens
- Peace of my Mind
- Plowman Family
- Pop Snark Hooligan!
- The 'Possum Blog
- Pragmatic Revolt
- Raven's Nest
- The Raving Norseman
- Rebels Are We!
- redivivus again
- Red Lodge Bookblog
- Reports from Dark Acres
- Reverend Ref
- Revolving Duck
- Right On Helena!
- See Life Differently
- Serenity Now!
- A Soldier's Perspective
- Something So Clever
- Sirotablog
- So What Now?
- Speedkill
- Steel Tears
- Subversified
- Tales of the Burning West
- The Tea Break
- Teresa Bodwell's Journal
- Things in Billings Montana
- Third Herd Blog
- This be my Shiny Page
- A Thought over Coffee
- thoughtstreaming
- T.L. Hines
- Tori in Big Sky Country
- The Town Blog
- Traeger Farm and Kennels
- Treasure State Judaism
- Two Good Legs