Prologue: Lenovo makes laptops. Sometime in late 2014, it started selling laptops with preinstalled Superfish, reverse-image-search software (useful?) which was […]
Tag Archive for ‘Corporate Malfeasance’
Typepad is going down
When I wrote about WordPress last year and mentioned possible contingency plans in re: what blog-hosting service to replace it […]
Keeping a wary eye on some potential phone-locking fuckery from Verizon
I got the following text message yesterday: Hi, it’s Verizon Prepaid. We’re updating our Unlocking Policy effective 07/07/2025. 60 days […]
The Nate thing: the most heinous crime is lying to investors, apparently
Setting yourself up as an online shopping middleman, adding another layer of awkwarness and profit extraction to as many transactions […]
The tote-bag strap color lawsuit
Portland: L.L. Bean is suing a company that makes customized promotional products for selling bags that it says are too […]
This video game soundtrack came with some truly ham-fisted DRM
My last Nintendo console was a NES, so I know very little about Nintendo’s more recent offerings (other than what […]
How not to prevent video-game piracy
The problem: someone is cracking video games. (Well, third-party game DLC, if you want to be pedantic about it.) Apparently, […]
Ray of Infamy 