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Message From jl
I was SO looking forward to this year! I somehow believed it
would be nice and calm and everything would go smoothly. Not!
I do not know how it's come to be the middle of July, and I
haven't managed to complete one single thing! Every time I turn
around, something else is standing in my way. Unavoidable
things come up and disrupt me for days, if not weeks at a time.
A lot of it has been family-related. In fact, this week, my
eldest daughter is coming for a visit. Hard to complain about
family when you don't see them very often, but they all seem to
have life issues at the same time. That time being exactly when
I'm trying to get something done - like a re-do of iCop!
I lost a month because the townhouse I'd waited over a year for
became available at the worst possible time. And the past two
weeks have been filled with a situation that's made me scream
and tear my hair out.
He also put up web pages that contained iCop's copyrighted
material. In many places it was a word-for-word copy. Even the
layout of the pages was the same, although he did use a
different design. But, when even the metatags are copied ...
When I nailed him for it, he claimed he had used a service
called elance.com and that some guy in Romania (for crying out
loud) “wrote” the copy and sold it to him. This guy has since
disappeared, of course.
He apologized profusely and removed some of the most blatant
plagiarized material. Then, he wanted to ARGUE with me about
the rest of it! Although I have changed site designs, our
material was written by one of BEST copywriters around and I
haven't changed THAT since the year 2000! It's the SAME
material we had when Bozo was an iCop member! There IS no
argument!
But, in the end, I had to get legal counsel to get the jack-leg
to remove the rest of our intellectual property. I can only
HOPE it's the end. I guess that will be determined by what he
replaces it with.
Welcome to the Wild, Wild Web - where a thief and a liar can set
himself up an organization claiming to spread ethical behavior
among online business owners! Pffffft!
To tell the truth, I'm STILL considering a lawsuit to shut him
completely down. This has happened before - maybe it's time for
me to make an example of someone.
It's also a travesty to allow an idiot like this - or anyone
doing what he has done - to head up an organization like iCop.
It gives us ALL a bad name.
In our last issue I asked you to look at a web page regarding
flash cookies used for targeted advertising. The URL was:
tips.webdesign10.com/flash-cookies-privacy
I just asked you to read it and let me know your opinion on the
subject. I didn't get a single response!
This tells me you probably simply don't care.
In a way, I understand that. I think we're so used to having
our privacy invaded, we're forgetting we have a RIGHT to
privacy. Companies continue to do as they please without regard
for the rights of others.
However, there may be light at the end of the tunnel. According
to the Washington Post on June 25, 2008:
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The company had been planning to harvest the stream of data from
each Internet customer for clues to their interests and then
make money from advertisers who would use the information to
target online pitches.”
You can find the full article here:
I now recommend using a P.O. Box as the contact address on your
business web sites. That wasn't always the case. Nine years
ago, although iCop would accept a P.O. Box, I recommended using
your actual physical address.
But, things change. And, over the past nine years, our world as
grown ever more dangerous. I'm a fairly fearless person (no
better sense, I guess) but even I have changed to using a P.O.
Box.
I still recommend labeling it as “Mailing Address.” Someone
once sarcastically stated that would go without saying. Of
course it does. That isn't the point.
The point is that a P.O. Box STILL triggers suspicion in many
folks - and with good reason. Fly-by-night businesses have used
them for years. At least labeling it as “Mailing Address”
indicates you also HAVE a physical address.
But, again - times are changing. Today, unless you have clients
or customers coming to your place of business in person, there's
simply no reason to advertise your physical address to every
pervert and jack-ass out there.
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At a morning press conference, the Attorney General said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. "Al-gebra is a problem for us," the Attorney General said. "They desire solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values. They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as "unknowns," but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country." As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, "There are 3 sides to every triangle." When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes."
White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more
intelligent or profound statement by the President.
Thanks to The Nitpicker
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