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She is also a little slow. After being married for almost 4 years, she just asked me if I am crazy. She should know that I am! She is crazier that I am, she married me.

Are you an obsessive compulsive?

RSI injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

She is also a little slow. After being married for almost 4 years, she just asked me if I am crazy. She should know that I am! She is crazier that I am, she married me.

Are you an obsessive compulsive?

RSI injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

When looking at a contract/disclaimer, things are analyzed, fairness, etc. If you buy a software package, it does not work, you still can get a refund.

Law is not black and white. There are such things as unfair enrichment. Look at Vault v. Quaid. Part of the court decision included that it could not be negotiated, etc.

NSI is a monopoly, which should entitled the other party to argue that they must be hold to a higher standard.

RSI injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

NSI has done this before with many others. I have seen this happen, with them just dropping names that had been registered. Not even dealing with a transfer.

NSI should be hit with a large damage award on GP.

I'm not crazy about name squatters, but I don't really blame greatdomains.com on this one. They requested an available domain, they got it. NSI screwed up by giving them an domain that was already taken.

RSI Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

I didn't see the humor in this. On mywebite, I had gotten the same type of feedback.

The CEO threatened to sit on my arms because I was not typing fast enough. My ex-manager at (Mattel/MSI/TLC) monitored my internet usage from home, followed me around the office, complained about taking time for treatment. So forgive me if I lack a sense humor. Maybe it's the pain from the surgery getting to me.

RSI Injured gee wins against mattel, Mattel still retailiates!

I didn't see the humor in this. On mywebite, I had gotten the same type of feedback.

The CEO threatened to sit on my arms because I was not typing fast enough. My ex-manager at (Mattel/MSI/TLC) monitored my internet usage from home, followed me around the office, complained about taking time for treatment. So forgive me if I lack a sense humor. Maybe it's the pain from the surgery getting to me.

RSI Injured gee wins against mattel, Mattel still retailiates!

I had my second surgery for this on Tuesday!

For you to say this tells me that you don't have a clue as to what you are talking about!

If you sprain your ankle, do you still run on it?

If you want to learn more, read my site

RSI Injured gee wins against mattel, Mattel still retailiates!

My site complains of my treatment after being diagnosed with tendinitis. Mattel is continuing with their retalitory countersuit even after paying over $140k in a judgment against them.

RSIs are not usually just from posture, but is from many things combined.

RSI injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

My site complains of my treatment after being diagnosed with tendinitis. Mattel is continuing with their retalitory countersuit even after paying over $140k in a judgment against them.

RSIs are not usually just from posture, but is from many things combined.

RSI injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

It does not just effect the way that you make a living. RSI will effect your whole life!

I have been living this!

RSI injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

Chip in the eye. Plug me into my computer. Great resolution, no desk space, no problem on the plane with the person in front of you reclining. No need for a boss screen display.

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

Last month WCVB-TV, Susan Wornick, et. all won against Metabolife using the Anti Slap statutes. This was in the San Diego Federal Court.

Metabolife sued for slander based on a news piece that Susan had done. This appeared in the Boston Globe.

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

What is going on here is an abuse of process. The big guy is trying to use their $$$ to litigate them into the ground!

Mattel is doing the same to me. They paid over $140k in a judgment, but they continue with a countersuit. When this is over, I will be entering a new lawsuit against them for retaliation (under the ADA, FMLA, etc) and abuse of process.

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

What is going on here is an abuse of process. The big guy is trying to use their $$$ to litigate them into the ground!

Mattel is doing the same to me. They paid over $140k in a judgment, but they continue with a countersuit. When this is over, I will be entering a new lawsuit against them for retaliation (under the ADA, FMLA, etc) and abuse of process.

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

Mattel has been trying to silence me by forcing me to spend money on lawyers and litigation. They have been trying to get a $50,000 per blab penalty against me! This was in the Boston Globe.

I am fighting this! There will be a hearing in Cambridge, Mass on January 10, 2000.

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

Mattel has been trying to silence me by forcing me to spend money on lawyers and litigation. They have been trying to get a $50,000 per blab penalty against me! This was in the Boston Globe.

I am fighting this! There will be a hearing in Cambridge, Mass on January 10, 2000.

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

This is just enough to hold Windows 2005 and Office 2005. That's if M$ does not add too much garbage to it.

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

We all know, if there is a moon base established, it will end up getting blown out of orbit and starting another series.

Hold it, this seems like I have seen this before...

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Isn't there a computer mis-use/unauthorized act in the United States? What about invasion of privacy?

The damage is what ever you define it as. There is value to your personal information. If there was not, then why would they collect it? Some number can be determined. It is the same type of problem in a slander or libel suit. But in this case, you can disgourge them of the money that they have made in this manner.

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel continues to retaliate!

With neurocomputing, when they talk about a BSOD, they really mean it!

FATAL ERROR is really a fatal error.

More bad humor for those who need it

Opinion is not libelous, when the underlying facts are provided.

In the case of a public figure, they must show malice or reckless disregard. Just being false is not sufficient.

I have learned much since Mattel is going after me for libel based on my website. They have no case, and they will lose. They only did this to shut me up, since I complained that they (Mattel/TLC/MSI) violated the ADA, FMLA, workers comp, and MGL c.151b. The entire case is at http://www.sorehands.com/mattel

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates

Opinion is not libelous, when the underlying facts are provided.

In the case of a public figure, they must show malice or reckless disregard. Just being false is not sufficient.

I have learned much since Mattel is going after me for libel based on my website. They have no case, and they will lose. They only did this to shut me up, since I complained that they (Mattel/TLC/MSI) violated the ADA, FMLA, workers comp, and MGL c.151b. The entire case is at http://www.sorehands.com/mattel

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates

Opinion is not libelous, when the underlying facts are provided.

In the case of a public figure, they must show malice or reckless disregard. Just being false is not sufficient.

I have learned much since Mattel is going after me for libel based on my website. They have no case, and they will lose. They only did this to shut me up, since I complained that they (Mattel/TLC/MSI) violated the ADA, FMLA, workers comp, and MGL c.151b. The entire case is at http://www.sorehands.com/mattel

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates

There are no bugs, just unexpected, unplanned, features.

Actually, I have put features into software that I did not tell users about. Some of it is for diagnostic purposes, some is for later work.

Putting in code to send information from or about your machine without authorization is another thing.

This might make an interesting criminal trial.

Injured software engineer wins against Mattel. Mattel still retaliates.

I will be patenting that five years ago.

The only problem I could not solve with time travel is the English language. Messes with tense, big time!

Mattel retaliates against injured geek!

Even just talking about state laws, there are so many consumer protection laws now, which one would apply?

I know in Mass. it's MGL c.93A which requires a certified letter and 30 days. After that, the consumer may be able to obtain 3x damages plus attorney fees. YOur state's milage may vary.

Now, what about international law?

In a situation where a company is located 1000 miles away, is it practical to file a suit over $100 dollars?

One good way to protect yourself is to use a credit card. Most will help with disputes.

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!

After an attorney told me about the hours he spent recovering from another Windows crash, I told him to file suit.

We all know they have a disclaimer.

I told him, I should ask for a refund, based on the disclaimer, saying to get a refund if I did not agree with the terms. We all know how quickly M$ has refunded the money for people not running Windows, but the machine came preloaded. When they refuse to do that, we use that against them for the disclaimer of bugs. They can't have it both ways!!

Mattel still retaliates against injured geek!

A couple of years ago, I spoke to the author of a compiler review. I had read his review and it said great things about the Watcom compiler, but it ranked three in the score. He told me that when he submitted the review to the magazine, Watcom had the highest score. We both believed that the scores reflect the advertising dollars.

Mattel retaliates against injured geek!

Is it whining to stick up for your right? Is it whining to let others know what a company that claims to support workers rights in China, retaliates against workers demanding their rights in the United States? Is it whining to let people know about wrongdoings?

Mattel is the one who filed a libel countersuit against me! Mattel is the one who are trying to shut me up by claiming that I am lying. I am not the only one that they used legal action or the threat of legal action (an example) to squelch people.

When I say Mattel, I mean Mattel/TLC/MSI, since they are all parts of Mattel.

Mattel retaliates against injured geek!

They offered their free personality test to me several times. I told them that I did not have one, then walked away.

Injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates.

Large companies and groups try to do this.

In yesterday's Boston Globe there is a piece on the Metabolife Metabolife. Metabolife sued WCVB-TV (the ABC affiliate) and Susan Warnick for libel. The court threw it out.

Mattel is trying to shut me up! I received a $139k judgment against them in a lawsuit. This lawsuit is on my website. Mattel filed and continue with a countersuit for libel by my website. This is because the websitestates that they violated the FMLA, ADA, etc, which are the grounds for the lawsuit that they paid over $140k last month. They want to shut me up.

There are protection for ISPs in cases like this for websites. It is fair to use company names (even if trademarked) when talking about them. This will come out in the courts in relation to meta tags. The judges and juries will have to be educated on tags and search engines.

Injured geek wins against Mattel and Mattel still retaliates!

Large companies and groups try to do this.

In yesterday's Boston Globe there is a piece on the Metabolife Metabolife. Metabolife sued WCVB-TV (the ABC affiliate) and Susan Warnick for libel. The court threw it out.

Mattel is trying to shut me up! I received a $139k judgment against them in a lawsuit. This lawsuit is on my website. Mattel filed and continue with a countersuit for libel by my website. This is because the websitestates that they violated the FMLA, ADA, etc, which are the grounds for the lawsuit that they paid over $140k last month. They want to shut me up.

There are protection for ISPs in cases like this for websites. It is fair to use company names (even if trademarked) when talking about them. This will come out in the courts in relation to meta tags. The judges and juries will have to be educated on tags and search engines.

Injured geek wins against Mattel and Mattel still retaliates!

Large companies and groups try to do this.

In yesterday's Boston Globe there is a piece on the Metabolife Metabolife. Metabolife sued WCVB-TV (the ABC affiliate) and Susan Warnick for libel. The court threw it out.

Mattel is trying to shut me up! I received a $139k judgment against them in a lawsuit. This lawsuit is on my website. Mattel filed and continue with a countersuit for libel by my website. This is because the websitestates that they violated the FMLA, ADA, etc, which are the grounds for the lawsuit that they paid over $140k last month. They want to shut me up.

There are protection for ISPs in cases like this for websites. It is fair to use company names (even if trademarked) when talking about them. This will come out in the courts in relation to meta tags. The judges and juries will have to be educated on tags and search engines.

Injured geek wins against Mattel and Mattel still retaliates!

NO matter what, the earlier data in the stream is not as secure as the later data, how much value is in it? The later data will always be more secure, think of it in terms of compression. In most forms of compression (except maybe a fixed table huffman or repeat character encoding), the ration will increase as the model is improved (by more data sampling, until your model becomes invalid). In most forms of compression, if you lose earlier data, the later data would be lost. That's why there is ECC (but that expands the amount of data in the stream).

A way to enhance the earlier compression, is to use a randomly generated seed table for the encryption which is sent later in the stream. But, if you lose the later data, you lose the entire stream. But then you will have to use a fixed encryption on that packet, and that packet can always be sniffed.

Injured geek wins against Mattel. Mattel still retaliates!

I for one hope that the balloon won't get /.ed. If it does, could it be an alien conspiracy :)

Injured geek wins against Mattel!

Since there will be a competing OS at Comdex, not allow Windows there, or just double the price?

Mattel still retaliates against injured geek!

If you could make coffee with this????

Isn't that why Sun has come out with a beta Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for this?

I know it's actually a micro version, it's not as funny!

Mattel still retaliates against injured geek!

Windows 2000 and Office 2000. Will need bigger ones to help Windows 2001 and Office 2001.

Mattel still retaliates against geek!

This is like expecting MAMBLA to stop child porn.

They are composed of and funded by companies that make money from SPAM! They are a voluntary organization, if the company does not like their position, the company can leave.

The only way to stop spam is to provide LEGAL penalties for company that spam (on a federal level) and provide for statutory damages, so that they would have to pay without a showing of actual damages. Set it up so, the corporate veil is pierced. Then each time they send it, it will cost them lots of money! Requiring the registration companies to handle the responses for SPAMMER will help

Mattel still retaliates against injured geek!

Use this method for used diapers, chicken bones, or trash that you would have to pay to get rid of!

If you send a used diaper, it would be giving them a message as to what their mailing is!

Mattel still retaliates against injured geek!

I'm not sure if I would trust it. It may get me slapped by not translating correctly. It may translate, "hello miss, are you hot?" to "?hola chica, tu esta caliente?" instead of "hola seniorita, tu tienes color?"

I know my spanish is not that good, but you must the the idea.

Injured geek wins against Mattel!

You can add additional levels of security and require 32 character random passwords that change hourly making the sytem more secure. The problem is the more security you add, the more difficult for a typical user to use the system.

I was just discussing this with an attorney in regards to setting up a website. You can't depend on a typical user using PGP (many can't even spell PGP). He did suggest a form via https, but then it will not be secure, but it will be on the server unencrypted until the process encrypts and emails it.

I suggested a java applet, that will encrypt the data before sending it to the server. Then the server can send it to the lawyer.

There is no absolute security, but you have to balance the ease of access to the security of the data.

Injured geek wins against Mattel!

Companies bully geeks (and ordinary people too) all the time.

I'm for one not giving in to Mattel or their lawyers. They have been trying to bully me into taking down my site. They have tried to not have me take down the site, but just remove most of the pages, and so on and so on......

Injured Geek wins against Mattel!

Companies bully geeks (and ordinary people too) all the time.

I'm for one not giving in to Mattel or their lawyers. They have been trying to bully me into taking down my site. They have tried to not have me take down the site, but just remove most of the pages, and so on and so on......

Injured Geek wins against Mattel!

Having the memory image will help. What would help more, is to know how the memory image got there!

We will then know, where it crashed. What is more important, is why it crashed! By the time it crashed, the real cause of the crash could be 10 layers away.

Any more information will help though.

What would be better, is not crashing. :) Linux crashing? Is that a Windows emulation feature?

Injured software engineer wins against Mattel!

There is already a keybaord for the Palm. It's not as small as this new one though.

I'd like an adapter so that I can use my Northgate Keyboard with it.

Injured software engineer wins against Mattel!

There are also nagivation graphics that cause problems. Try running w/o images for a while and you will realize some of the problems. Besides that, you'll much faster and miss much of the banner advertising.

Injured worker wins against Mattel!

Outstanding??? How could a teacher give a good grade to something that bad?

I may not be a grammar scholar or a writing teacher, but I do know that this piece had a few grammar problems.

What the Austin radio station have not mentioned is that the teacher asked for a scary story. If this was "i get me want bike from store i so went driving the new one under street to light" then, we never would have heard of how bad of a teacher this student had.

Injured worker wins against Mattel!

So, what freedom do we have left?

When we go to the airport, we have to show identification, get sniffed, magnetised, and x-ray'd. This is all without being accused or suspected of a crime.

When leaving an airport parking lot last night, the parking lot attendant demanded my VIN (then called the police when I refused), since I had a temporary license plate.

When you go into Best Buy, with a laptop, they demand to inspect your bag. To protect "us" from shoplifters. Even though anything of value is secured anyways.

Where is our Freedom?

Injured software engineer wins against Mattel!

Forget a Boeing 727. I'd hate going through airport security every night just to go home.

Give me a type 44 TARDIS, with a working chameleon circuit. It woudl work with any decor. :)

Injured software engineer wins against Mattel

Neeed more laughs?