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AOL's Chat Client: No Privacy + Total Exploitation
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AOL has posted new terms of service for AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), that includes the right for AOL to use anything and everything you send through AIM in any way they see fit, without informing you. A sample passage: '...by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.
UPDATE: Due to pressure from the online community AOL is softening its terms of service. |
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Microsoft finally abandons their goofy passport scheme
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| Remember Passport? This was one of the many "world changing" schemes Microsoft wanted to push. In this case, the big mega-corporation suggested that you, the gullible consumer, entrust all your personal information, credit cards, passwords, etc., to Microsoft, accessible with a single password. For some strange reason, nobody other than a small number of stupid/coerced corporations and vendors actually embraced this wholly boneheaded idea. Then of course, the whole scheme was cracked and shown to be insecure. And now, for some strange reason, Microsoft is giving up on foisting this crazy idea on users. When a company can't keep their own products secure, it's a bad idea to promote equally incomplete personal privacy schemes. This idea apparently didn't even get past the red states! |
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Bush: World will soon end if we don't stop frivolous lawsuits
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Bush's second term will focus on domestic policy, specifically "creating private Social Security accounts," "revising the tax code," "limiting the size and number of lawsuits, and changing immigration laws." The PR plan to sell these policies is underway.
In the next few weeks, White House officials, including Karl Rove, are planning to meet with Republican activists to coordinate the campaign. Several groups are raising money for an ad campaign that will likely be carried out by some of the same '527' groups active in the presidential campaign. Bush is asking the Heritage Foundation and other well-funded conservative groups to help, with ads and commentary on television and in targeted publications.
Lastly, to circumvent critics in Congress and the media, the president will travel the country and warn of the disastrous consequences of inaction, as he did to sell his Iraq and terrorism policies. |
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Bumper Sticker Store
We got snookered by this one too... In the Too-weird-to-be-fake category comes the republishing of some pictures in "1983" where young programmer, 
While promoting what he calls the "digital lifestyle," Bill Gates showed how vulnerable all consumers - even the world's richest man - are to hardware and software bugs as he stumbled through a number of embarassing moments when his products crashed and burned during a keynote presentation at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show.
Hardees, with much pomp and circumstance has unveiled their new "Monster Thickburger", two 1/3 pound beef patties smothered in layers of cheese, bacon, mayonnaise and butter. At 1,420 calories, Hardee's CEO proudly proclaims, it's "
McDONALD’S has been accused of super-sized hypocrisy after banning fat people from new TV ads.
In the most crass effort yet, merchandisers have stooped to producing some of the world's most tasteless products. Just 