Consumerist reports the story of an accountant who tried getting Comcast to remove some bogus charges from his bill (according to the accountant anyway). Comcast called his accounting-firm employer and said he’d tried leveraging his status with them (they consult with Comcast) to pressure the company. The firm fired the accountant. Neither the firm (Price Waterhouse Coopers) nor Comcast have detailed exactly what the accountant said to pressure Comcast; the man says he never mentioned his employer (the firm doesn’t audit Comcast’s books). Comcast says it never asked for him to be fired, though as Consumerist points out, it’s hard to imagine Comcast didn’t want to get the guy in some sort of trouble.
•Not for the first time, a conservative compares court decisions legalizing gay marriage to slavery. (so the Supreme Court not reviewing lower-court decisions is bad) As LGM points out at the link, Matthew Franck’s argument is full of holes. And as I’ve pointed out before, process arguments from anti-gay conservatives are never in good faith. When judges authorize gay marriage, they protest that it overrides the will of the people. When legislatures approve gay marriage, they demand a popular vote. When the popular vote goes against them, they scream about how any approval of gay marriage takes away their rights. It’s not the process, it’s the marriage.
•What’s Uber’s legal responsibility if a driver goes nuts and attacks passengers?
•No, taking pictures of yourself naked does not mean it’s okay for someone to steal them and show them publicly.
•Adobe ebook software used by libraries tracks your ebook reading and stores data (which books, how far did you get) on the servers. As Consumerist reports at the link, this violates the level of privacy libraries normally provide. And yes, I do think privacy matters. Nobody normally needs to know you’re reading about how to leave an abusive relationship, how to cope with problem drinking or even how white people are god’s chosen.
•AT&T is refunding $105 million to customers who got screwed by the telecom’s habit of putting unauthorized third-party charges on phone bills (profitable for AT&T, expensive for customers).
•US history, like reality, has a liberal slant.
