” The scammer claimed they had been doing business with a company named HBS Systems Inc. in Richardson (which the attorney called and verified is a real company), that HBS had violated a copyright on some software, had admitted to this, and had settled on $2.9 million as a settlement. [read post]

 While most observers typically assume that such expanded authority would come in the form of a privacy-specific bill—be it a broad “baseline” privacy bill or one specifically focused on online data collection for advertising purposes—the authority Leibowitz yearns for could just as easily come in the form of increased rulemaking authority as part of a broader bill that allows the FTC to preemptively regulate practices that are not deceptive… [read post]

… Major Philosophers rarely or never cited Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Protagoras, Epicurus, Zeno of Citium, Plotinus, Epictetus, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Avicenna, Averroes, Roger Bacon, John Calvin, Baruch Spinoza, George Berkeley, Henri Bergson, Alfred North Whitehead and Søren Kierkegaard, all named in that earlier list of major philosophers, fill that bill. [read post]