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Those things can sit in a tray all day long - they don't have a timer. Also, their storage tray can allow the water to evaporate, making the temperature they're held at not within the food safety requirement of 155F. I would have sicced the health inspector on them if I was you, but it's far too late now.

My worst case of poisoning was Shoney's strawberries. There was a light foam around them. When I was eating them I didn't realize that was their industrial-strength soap. That evening I was nearly immobilized. I got over it the next day, but that was scary. Next time, I'll head for the hospital and get a toxicology test, followed up by a lawyer depending on the results. There was also an incident with a manager at this location that had spoiled bananas on the food bar. She refused to sample them, remove them, admit spoilage, or offer anything in return. It's been over 2 years. I will never return to that location.

Also, I suspect that you spelled your own company's name wrong.

antique automobiles
See also: used cars.

auto mechanic
See also: car parts.
See also: engine repair.

Seriously though. You don't have to use data mining for that. All you need is a directory. It's an idea that web portals have been toying with for a long time (ten years ago, aol, webcrawler and yahoo all had rudimentary versions).

http://www.google.com/dirhp
http://dir.yahoo.com/
http://www.superpages.com/
http://www.switchboard.com/
http://www.yellowbook.com/
http://www.whitepages.com/

the proposed .tel TLD would allow individuals and companies to keep all of their contact information in an easily accessible location.

Wow! If only someone had thought of that before!

Administrative Contact:
Center for Consumer Freedom (WXZCXFOFKO) bowers@ConsumerFreedom.com
1775 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20006
US
202-463-7112

. Ah, there's the number for Bergman, 202-463-7100, same answering machine as Center for Consumer Freedom. Interesting how this address is just a few doors down from the white house - couldn't be a lobbyist firm could it? Maybe source watch got it right after all.
Must be tough keeping all those organizations strait.

...ah the things that Speakeasy's unlimited long distance has done to my spare time...

Administrative Contact:
Center for Consumer Freedom (WXZCXFOFKO) bowers@ConsumerFreedom.com
1775 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20006
US
202-463-7112

. Ah, there's the number for Bergman, 202-463-7100, same answering machine as Center for Consumer Freedom. Interesting how this address is just a few doors down from the white house - couldn't be a lobbyist firm could it? Maybe source watch got it right after all.
Must be tough keeping all those organizations strait.

...ah the things that Speakeasy's unlimited long distance has done to my spare time...

Administrative Contact: Center for Consumer Freedom (WXZCXFOFKO) bowers@ConsumerFreedom.com 1775 Pennsylvania Ave NW Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20006 US 202-463-7112

Must be tough keeping all those organizations strait.

...ah the things that Speakeasy's unlimited long distance has done to my spare time...

Administrative Contact: Center for Consumer Freedom (WXZCXFOFKO) bowers@ConsumerFreedom.com 1775 Pennsylvania Ave NW Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20006 US 202-463-7112

Must be tough keeping all those organizations strait.

...ah the things that Speakeasy's unlimited long distance has done to my spare time...

You think so? The truth of it is this: Most websites are not well thought out. Many websites don't even include important keywords anywhere in their page title, heading tags, or even the page content itself!

It's so easy to blow past 90% of your competition on most keywords, it's silly. Only a small fraction of the hottest search buzz keywords are difficult to optimize for, and even in areas with heavy competition, there is a long tail that's fairly easy to grab.

You want to optimize your site, here's the whitehat way, and it's a piece of cake:

• Know which keywords your potential customers are using, and include them in your page titles, headings, and content -- you don't have to do any spamming, just be sure that your landing page is exactly tuned to your customer's searches.
• Develop a site that is worth linking to! Hire a decent designer. Make sure the site works on more than one browser. Provide quality content. Offer a good value.
• Run a blog (update it frequently), provide an RSS feed, and send out pings. Be sure your blog is something that people will actually want to read. Obvious spam doesn't attract inbound links.
• Make sure your site is listed in all the obvious directories, including the local listings like superpages and Yahoo! Local.
• Make it easy for people to link to you. Provide a "link to us" page with (valid) sourcecode.
• Run an AdWords campaign, and be sure to target a wide variety of keyword variations.
• Link to your customers, and ask them to link back to you. Happy customers are an easy way to get hundreds of great inbound links -- more than enough to put your site at the top of most search results.

You don't have to be a blackhat or break the bank to get results.

Here in Tampa wee (*snicker*) have a urologist named Dr. Cockburn. I wish I was kidding.

A friend of mine works for Quest Diagnostics, and has actually talked to the guy before on the phone. The Dr. is apparently a bit of a dick (*snicker*^2) about his name - tries to say that it's pronounced "Coe-burn"...which is just stupid, nevermind wrong - coe != cock. This friend of mine delights in really accenting that second hard k dipthong when talking to the good Dr. To me, it's great advertising, but hey, everyone's got their thing.

That's not true, you don't have to pay money to be in the yellow pages, it's free. In fact I believe they actually query several sources to get their information .

If you want to put an advertisement in there though you have to pay.

Listing in the yellow pages

I'd have to say that most of these services are already way behind. Check out Verizon's map based search (as mentioned). They have a Java and HTML version.

The Java version I've linked rocks. I've used it to find all of the sushi places within driving distances of my place :)

Verizon Map Based Search

Opening a restaurant called MickDonalds wouldn't be acceptable nor would a WaltMart.

Actually, on I-20 between Terrell and Canton, Texas, there's a barbeque joint named "McDonald's", or possibly "Mac Donald's", that has nothing to do with any golden arches. It's a fair assumption that they serve hamburgers and fries as well.

The signs for the joint are rather small, and make no reference to any other hamburger joint. And I haven't been able to locate the place online -- the closest I've come is a place called the Interstate Cafe that looks like it's in the right location (Superpages link).

It's entirely possible that the joint has been contacted by the "other" McD and entered into some sort of agreement. But they probably got their lawyers involved from the get-go, a suggestion noted by many in this discussion.

I didn't hire a lawyer when I got my own Cease and Desist letter. I did the same thing as this poor guy... sent my own non-vetted letter back, and contacted the media. My situation worked out fine -- I never heard back from the lawyers -- but I'll be more careful if it ever happens again.

Hrm...

I see your point, but I want to add some additional definition to muddy the waters...

Privacy isn't a natural right. I do consider it stronger than a generic privilege, so I would like to call it a governed right. That is, privacy may not be inherent to existence, but it should be to our government. Privacy is something I would rather not lose.

I concede on the criminals point. We do take away rights - governed or natural.

I still think that privacy is a method rather than an object. Some information should be free - indeed I can go to SuperPages and look up a phone number or a name from a number. I can go to Google, type in a phone number, and bring up a name and driving directions.

With the phone number as an example, I have the option to request a level of privacy - an unlisted number. Privacy becomes the mechanism by which you cannot find my phone number without having been granted certain privilege. The privilege to find an unlisted number comes with additional responsibility and, most importantly, accountability. This is where the government comes in.

The government knows your phone number. They know your social security number (hopefully), bank account numbers, your credit card numbers - all the pieces of information that you may wish to be private. If, then, we assume that privacy is a right - govered or natural - then the government must take steps to secure our information if we wish it so, and if privacy is a right, the presumption must be that we do wish it.

Incidentally, they have an obnoxious feature on their website where you can punch in someone's name/number and their cell phone number, and their home address. Click more info and you can see a map of where their home is. I know we've been over this before on slash though so I won't go on a big paranoid rant. I'm sure there's a way to remove your name from the database (yeah right).

Slashdot is not an authority

There were glitches in the initial rollout of iTunes Music Store. Mainstream news web sites did report them. Do you deny analogies between the iTMS rollout and some companies' "release candidate" processes? Perhaps an analogy of movies opening first "in select cities" might suit your view of the situation better, no?

Who cares?

You rhetorically accused me of not owning any Macintosh computer: "What's that? You don't have a Mac?" I responded that I do own a Mac, but it's still not suitable for iTMS. If I had $1000 to spend on recorded music, I would spend it on CDs from a local pawn shop instead of spending it on a Macintosh computer just so I can get iTMS.

Personally I think that the superpages.com map based search is the best thing since sliced bread, I use it extensively to find businesses near me. The google search and the superpages search are different attacks at the same problem, I think that they complement each other well, but the superpages search is likely to turn up more information..

Superpages map search

Found it.

Its not Pembrook Pines florida but Hollywood Florida which is near by.

Its Superpages listing is here (at the bottom of the list)

The FTC already filed a complaint and had a preliminary injunction against Childs back in April. See the press release for more information. The article mentions he lives by Riverside drive in an apartment, could be with Linda Lightfoot, the woman mentioned in the complaints with him?

my name address and phone number are flying through the air for anyone to pluck out

You mean like this ?

Oh, and don't forget, you've attached that information to the outside of your luggage, so that any disgruntled baggage handler with a score to settle because he dropped your 80 pound suitcase on his toe can come find you and settle the score.

Face it, your name, address, and phone number are in the public domain now. Nothing you can do will stop it.

If I read this correctly, it seems as if you have never actually sat down and read an actual Playboy in your life! Had you actually done so you would have found

It's been quite a while since I last saw an issue of Playboy in its entirety. It was at about age 13, and the copy was pilfered by a friend from his old man's closet. Since then, I've taken a cursory glance at a few issues, and their web site, but I haven't read either in its entirety. I've also watched a few seconds of their sattelite channel while checking out a friend's DSS receiver. What I saw was mostly what I remembered from pawing through the printed magazine back in the 80's: lots of commercial style nudie pictures.

* Interviews (with many interesting people)

* Advice Columns (where people ask and receive answers for a variety of things, such as sex advice, dating advice, advice on electronics purchases, etc)

* General articles on a variety of topics: Literacy, freedom, rights, current events, and many other items of interest

I'm not claiming that these things don't exist, just that they didn't leave a lasting impression on me.

* And oh yeah, in the middle, about 20 pages of very tactful, and artfully done, nude imagery (no sex, very tastful)

Magazines, unlike books, have a strong tendancy to open towards the middle. However, that tendancy doesn't explain my experiences with the web site or sattelite channel.

Had you have mentioned Hustler, or Club, or one of those other, lesser known magazine, I would be more inclined to agree (but hey, even Hustler has good articles).

B&N bookstores in New Hampshire also have Penthouse and Perfect 10. I'm not sure about Hustler. Salem, NH also has an adult novelty store called Midnight Madness Novelties for Adults that probably stocks some even more hardcore titles.

But we're getting away from my original point here, which was that if porn alone was not obscene in Salem, NH, then political criticism of the police plus a little porn certainly was a step ahead in the legality department.