Apr 29 2009

Socializing Home Improvement and Editing Letters

by Mike Phenow

Here is the previous post, as updated and submitted to the Osseo / Maple Grove Press for publication:

In my water bill from the City of Osseo, I found an insert containing the following text, accompanied by the city’s logo:

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Apr 14 2009

Socializing Home Improvement

by Mike Phenow

In my water bill from the City of Osseo, I found an insert containing the following text, accompanied by the city’s logo:

Thinking Home Improvement?

Siding - Windows - Roof - Kitchen - Baths - Garage - Driveway - and more!

4% or 5% Loans up to $25,000

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Apr 13 2009

Best. EULA. Ever.

by Mike Phenow

The Photoshop Action Pack Ironclad License
Agreement (PAPILA)

You can use these actions for anything you like, and you can give them to your friends and co-workers (or even your enemies, if your experience of the actions leads you to believe that that’s where the real worth of this software lies). However, if you give them to someone else, you must include the whole package - the installer, documentation, sample workflows - and a kiss on the cheek. You must then stand on one foot and cluck like a chicken. (Man, I can see why people want to be lawyers. Once you’ve got someone under your licensing power, you can make them do anything. But I digress…)

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Apr 5 2009

Flagrant Treason in the Guise of “Cyber-Security”

by Mike Phenow

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Bill-Grants-President-Unprecedented-Cyber-Security-Powers-504520/

Every person in this country with half a brain should be charging the capital and throwing batteries at these scum.

“…the president would have broad authority to designate various private networks as a “critical infrastructure system or network” and, with no other review, “may declare a cyber-security emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from” the designated the private-sector system or network.”

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