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None at all - unless you count the money and time you'll spend defending yourself if they sue.

I have a webpage at http://www.whitis.com/mailwiper.htm about MailWiper, who were selling supposed anti-spam software and advertising by sending spam. They then moved into the spyware business, loading spyware onto machines, and selling SpyWiper, a tool purported to get rid of spyware. They've since been tied to Spamford Wallace, and driven out of business by the FTC who filed charges on them.

They sent me a cease and desist. And one to my upstream, and one to *his* upstream. I took the page offline for a few weeks while I sorted it out, then put it back up.

There is no possible way they could win a lawsuit - but if they filed it, I'd have no choice but to defend. And that takes time and money.

All of this is from a US perspective. I've heard that in Europe, truth is *not* a defense, but I can't say for sure.

What, like SpyWiper and Spamford Wallace? His credentials are very well known, and I have never had any doubts about his decency.

He's currently under a TRO to keep him from marketing his "spyware removal tool" which was advertised by spam and spyware, and which appears to do lots of harm but to be no help at all in removing spyware.

Who would have thought that a slimeball like him would lie to people that way?

His partner in the Spy Wiper business is Rob Martinson. Rob, like Spamford, is also salt of the earth. You can read his history in this article "A Hated Man".

Also not mentioned in the article is that another well known spammer, Walt "Picklejar" Rines, is also involved.

My page is at http://www.whitis.com/mailwiper.htm. To the people who believe Spamford when he says "I didn't break the law, I'm just doing something that you want to make a law against" I'd point out several things. First, all spammers claim to be innocent. Rule #1, spammer lie.

Fraud has been illegal for a long time. Businesses can be sued for damages caused by negligence, even if they *aren't* trying to cause harm - and Spywiper appears to be designed to cause harm. This isn't Spamfords first time to find something that he claims isn't illegal and get in trouble for it - he was part of the reason for junk fax laws. He's also lost several lawsuits over spam. I believe that some of them left penalties to be assessed later if he is caught spamming customers of the companies that won those suits. I suspect that if they were to check, they would find Mailwiper spam that puts him deeply in debt.

The "honest citizen" that you are defending isn't honest. He's just a con man. Always has been, always will be.

Technically, free speech is protected in the US - true enough. However, you can still be sued for telling the truth, and if sued, you have to defend yourself (a fairly expensive process) or you *will* lose the case. I've been doing some research in that area recently, after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from a lawyer. I have a webpage which describes how a company named MailWiper (supposedly selling anti-spam software) has been advertising via spam, with links to other sites showing that their sister company (supposedly anti-spyware) has been forcing spyware onto peoples computers and telling them "To get rid of this, you have to buy our anti-spyware software." The spammer apparently doesn't like the free publicity I've given him.

The page is at http://www.whitis.com/mailwiper.htm. Despite the fact that everything I say is true, and many other sites also discuss the companies business practices, if the spammer does sue, I will have to defend. I would certainly expect to win the case - but I'll have to hire a lawyer to do it.

This is JuggleGeek's resume. I will rip it to shreds because he is viscous and very much an unskilled arrogant jerk that constantly makes paranoid statements, espouses half truths and makes arrogant comments on Slashdot. JuggleGeek: An NT 4.0 Lover. A bit behind the times, don't you think? His work is so cheap and unprofessional they use Win98. He claims to be a programmer. His "workstation" OS of choice: Win98. Nice.

HAND CODED HTML! WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT COULD STILL HAPPEN?
You mean "Thought it would happen," not thunk. Thunking is something a "programmer" should know about. Most people hand core or use code to generate HTML. Big fucking deal

WELL, IT'S MOSTLY HAND CODED. BUT TO BE FAIR, I HAVE USED
HOMESITE 2.5, AND IT IS PRETTY NICE.
So it is not hand coded. Make up your mind. Moron
MOSTLY, I LIKE HAVING A QUICK ONE-KEY METHOD OF SEEING HOW
THE PAGE LOOKS AT ANY GIVEN POINT.
HACKER : STEPHEN WHITIS
You cannot hack HTML. That is an amateurish, juvenile thing to say. You can author HTML, no more. Its as easy as using a typewriter

Stephen "JuggleGeek" Whitis's Resume Page (p1 of 3)
- Moron error. Possessive form of Whitis is Whitis'.

I am currently seeking employment.
Forgone conclusion. That is why resumes are written. Moron.

I am interested in Delphi programming, with an emphasis on internet related applications, user interfaces, and databases. Web design is not a specialty area, but I have basic skills and an interest in developing them further.
Interest in a subject is not a reason to hire you. No one cares what you like. It is about what you can do for other people. Moron. So, you want your next employer to teach you not to suck in web design?

I currently live in Dallas, and have no interest in moving.
I currently have a company "INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE" and have no interest in hiring you.

I am not looking for "traditional" work. Part time work would be considered, as well as telecomuting [SIC] work. The usual 9 to 5 job doesn't interest me, as I have an ongoing project which already takes up a certain amount of my time.
Translation: I'm a loser that cant keep a real job. I don't have the attention span or the responsibility to finish anything. I like to telecommute to further hide my ability to do nothing. I fail to mention the project because its probably killing small animals or fucking sheep.

If you have a project you need done, and the project interests me, I can be hired cheap.

You can be hired cheap because you suck
If you are looking for a full-time, long term, 9-5 kind of guy, then I'm not the one you're looking for. I'm a self taught programmer with 20 years of professional experience. I'm confident that I can be successful with any programming project I take on, but I will only accept offers where the project interests me and the working conditions meet with my non-standard lifestyle.
This isnt a resume. This is a stupid conversation you are having with no one. Self taught means you point out the fact most real programmers will rip you apart. 20 years? Doubtful. Most of your expoerience is more IT than programming. You have never contributed to an opensource project to prove you can submit code, you have no code portfolio. Non-standard lifestyle. FUCK YOU.

I get a lot of emails from headhunters wanting me to consider jobs out of state. I am not leaving Texas. (And I'm very unlikely to leave Dallas.) If your out of state company wants to hire me, then I'll need to telecommute.
You are t

HAND CODED HTML! WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT COULD STILL HAPPEN?
You mean "Thought it would happen," not thunk. Thunking is something a "programmer" should know about. Most people hand core or use code to generate HTML. Big fucking deal

WELL, IT'S MOSTLY HAND CODED. BUT TO BE FAIR, I HAVE USED
HOMESITE 2.5, AND IT IS PRETTY NICE.
So it is not hand coded. Make up your mind. Moron
MOSTLY, I LIKE HAVING A QUICK ONE-KEY METHOD OF SEEING HOW
THE PAGE LOOKS AT ANY GIVEN POINT.
HACKER : STEPHEN WHITIS
You cannot hack HTML. That is an amateurish, juvenile thing to say. You can author HTML, no more. Its as easy as using a typewriter

Stephen "JuggleGeek" Whitis's Resume Page (p1 of 3)
- Moron error. Possessive form of Whitis is Whitis'.

I am currently seeking employment.
Forgone conclusion. That is why resumes are written. Moron.

I am interested in Delphi programming, with an emphasis on internet related applications, user interfaces, and databases. Web design is not a specialty area, but I have basic skills and an interest in developing them further.
Interest in a subject is not a reason to hire you. No one cares what you like. It is about what you can do for other people. Moron. So, you want your next employer to teach you not to suck in web design?

I currently live in Dallas, and have no interest in moving.
I currently have a company "INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE" and have no interest in hiring you.

I am not looking for "traditional" work. Part time work would be considered, as well as telecomuting [SIC] work. The usual 9 to 5 job doesn't interest me, as I have an ongoing project which already takes up a certain amount of my time.
Translation: I'm a loser that cant keep a real job. I don't have the attention span or the responsibility to finish anything. I like to telecommute to further hide my ability to do nothing. I fail to mention the project because its probably killing small animals or fucking sheep.

If you have a project you need done, and the project interests me, I can be hired cheap.

You can be hired cheap because you suck
If you are looking for a full-time, long term, 9-5 kind of guy, then I'm not the one you're looking for. I'm a self taught programmer with 20 years of professional experience. I'm confident that I can be successful with any programming project I take on, but I will only accept offers where the project interests me and the working conditions meet with my non-standard lifestyle.
This isnt a resume. This is a stupid conversation you are having with no one. Self taught means you point out the fact most real programmers will rip you apart. 20 years? Doubtful. Most of your expoerience is more IT than programming. You have never contributed to an opensource project to prove you can submit code, you have no code portfolio. Non-standard lifestyle. FUCK YOU.

I get a lot of emails from headhunters wanting me to consider jobs out of state. I am not leaving Texas. (And I'm very unlikely to leave Dallas.) If your out of state company wants to hire me, then I'll need to telecommute.
You are threatening your employer with the fantasy you might be having about being head-hunted all the time. You w

HAND CODED HTML! WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT COULD STILL HAPPEN?
You mean "Thought it would happen," not thunk. Thunking is something a "programmer" should know about. Most people hand core or use code to generate HTML. Big fucking deal

WELL, IT'S MOSTLY HAND CODED. BUT TO BE FAIR, I HAVE USED
HOMESITE 2.5, AND IT IS PRETTY NICE.
So it is not hand coded. Make up your mind. Moron
MOSTLY, I LIKE HAVING A QUICK ONE-KEY METHOD OF SEEING HOW
THE PAGE LOOKS AT ANY GIVEN POINT.
HACKER : STEPHEN WHITIS
You cannot hack HTML. That is an amateurish, juvenile thing to say. You can author HTML, no more. Its as easy as using a typewriter

Stephen "JuggleGeek" Whitis's Resume Page (p1 of 3)
- Moron error. Possessive form of Whitis is Whitis'.

I am currently seeking employment.
Forgone conclusion. That is why resumes are written. Moron.

I am interested in Delphi programming, with an emphasis on internet related applications, user interfaces, and databases. Web design is not a specialty area, but I have basic skills and an interest in developing them further.
Interest in a subject is not a reason to hire you. No one cares what you like. It is about what you can do for other people. Moron. So, you want your next employer to teach you not to suck in web design?

I currently live in Dallas, and have no interest in moving.
I currently have a company "INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE" and have no interest in hiring you.

I am not looking for "traditional" work. Part time work would be considered, as well as telecomuting [SIC] work. The usual 9 to 5 job doesn't interest me, as I have an ongoing project which already takes up a certain amount of my time.
Translation: I'm a loser that cant keep a real job. I don't have the attention span or the responsibility to finish anything. I like to telecommute to further hide my ability to do nothing. I fail to mention the project because its probably killing small animals or fucking sheep.

If you have a project you need done, and the project interests me, I can be hired cheap.

You can be hired cheap because you suck
If you are looking for a full-time, long term, 9-5 kind of guy, then I'm not the one you're looking for. I'm a self taught programmer with 20 years of professional experience. I'm confident that I can be successful with any programming project I take on, but I will only accept offers where the project interests me and the working conditions meet with my non-standard lifestyle.
This isnt a resume. This is a stupid conversation you are having with no one. Self taught means you point out the fact most real programmers will rip you apart. 20 years? Doubtful. Most of your expoerience is more IT than programming. You have never contributed to an opensource project to prove you can submit code, you have no code portfolio. Non-standard lifestyle. FUCK YOU.

I get a lot of emails from headhunters wanting me to consider jobs out of state. I am not leaving Texas. (And I'm very unlikely to leave Dallas.) If your out of state company wants to hire me, then I'll need to telecommute.
You are threatening your employer with the fantasy you might be having about being head-hunted all the time. You w

This is JuggleGeek's resume. I will rip it to shreds because he is viscous and very much an unskilled arrogant jerk that constantly makes paranoid statements, espouses half truths and makes arrogant comments on Slashdot. JuggleGeek: An NT 4.0 Lover. A bit behind the times, don't you think? His work is so cheap and unprofessional they use Win98. He claims to be a programmer. His "workstation" OS of choice: Win98. Nice.

HAND CODED HTML! WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT COULD STILL HAPPEN?
You mean "Thought it would happen," not thunk. Thunking is something a "programmer" should know about. Most people hand core or use code to generate HTML. Big fucking deal

WELL, IT'S MOSTLY HAND CODED. BUT TO BE FAIR, I HAVE USED
HOMESITE 2.5, AND IT IS PRETTY NICE.
So it is not hand coded. Make up your mind. Moron
MOSTLY, I LIKE HAVING A QUICK ONE-KEY METHOD OF SEEING HOW
THE PAGE LOOKS AT ANY GIVEN POINT.
HACKER : STEPHEN WHITIS
You cannot hack HTML. That is an amateurish, juvenile thing to say. You can author HTML, no more. Its as easy as using a typewriter

Stephen "JuggleGeek" Whitis's Resume Page (p1 of 3)
- Moron error. Possessive form of Whitis is Whitis'.

I am currently seeking employment.
Forgone conclusion. That is why resumes are written. Moron.

I am interested in Delphi programming, with an emphasis on internet related applications, user interfaces, and databases. Web design is not a specialty area, but I have basic skills and an interest in developing them further.
Interest in a subject is not a reason to hire you. No one cares what you like. It is about what you can do for other people. Moron. So, you want your next employer to teach you not to suck in web design?

I currently live in Dallas, and have no interest in moving.
I currently have a company "INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE" and have no interest in hiring you.

I am not looking for "traditional" work. Part time work would be considered, as well as telecomuting [SIC] work. The usual 9 to 5 job doesn't interest me, as I have an ongoing project which already takes up a certain amount of my time.
Translation: I'm a loser that cant keep a real job. I don't have the attention span or the responsibility to finish anything. I like to telecommute to further hide my ability to do nothing. I fail to mention the project because its probably killing small animals or fucking sheep.

If you have a project you need done, and the project interests me, I can be hired cheap.

You can be hired cheap because you suck
If you are looking for a full-time, long term, 9-5 kind of guy, then I'm not the one you're looking for. I'm a self taught programmer with 20 years of professional experience. I'm confident that I can be successful with any programming project I take on, but I will only accept offers where the project interests me and the working conditions meet with my non-standard lifestyle.
This isnt a resume. This is a stupid conversation you are having with no one. Self taught means you point out the fact most real programmers will rip you apart. 20 years? Doubtful. Most of your expoerience is more IT than programming. You have never contributed to an opensource project to prove you can submit code, you have no code portfolio. Non-standard lifestyle. FUCK YOU.

I get a lot of emails from headhunters wanting me to consider jobs out of state. I am not leaving Texas. (And I'm very unlikely to leave Dallas.) If your out of state company wants to hire me, then I'll need to telecommute.
You are threatening your employer with the fantasy you might be having about bein

This is JuggleGeek's resume. I will rip it to shreds because he is viscous and very much an unskilled arrogant jerk that constantly makes paranoid statements, espouses half truths and makes arrogant comments on Slashdot. JuggleGeek: An NT 4.0 Lover. A bit behind the times, don't you think? His work is so cheap and unprofessional they use Win98. He claims to be a programmer. His "workstation" OS of choice: Win98. Nice.

HAND CODED HTML! WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT COULD STILL HAPPEN?
You mean "Thought it would happen," not thunk. Thunking is something a "programmer" should know about. Most people hand core or use code to generate HTML. Big fucking deal

WELL, IT'S MOSTLY HAND CODED. BUT TO BE FAIR, I HAVE USED
HOMESITE 2.5, AND IT IS PRETTY NICE.
So it is not hand coded. Make up your mind. Moron
MOSTLY, I LIKE HAVING A QUICK ONE-KEY METHOD OF SEEING HOW
THE PAGE LOOKS AT ANY GIVEN POINT.
HACKER : STEPHEN WHITIS
You cannot hack HTML. That is an amateurish, juvenile thing to say. You can author HTML, no more. Its as easy as using a typewriter

Stephen "JuggleGeek" Whitis's Resume Page (p1 of 3)
- Moron error. Possessive form of Whitis is Whitis'.

I am currently seeking employment.
Forgone conclusion. That is why resumes are written. Moron.

I am interested in Delphi programming, with an emphasis on internet related applications, user interfaces, and databases. Web design is not a specialty area, but I have basic skills and an interest in developing them further.
Interest in a subject is not a reason to hire you. No one cares what you like. It is about what you can do for other people. Moron. So, you want your next employer to teach you not to suck in web design?

I currently live in Dallas, and have no interest in moving.
I currently have a company "INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE" and have no interest in hiring you.

I am not looking for "traditional" work. Part time work would be considered, as well as telecomuting [SIC] work. The usual 9 to 5 job doesn't interest me, as I have an ongoing project which already takes up a certain amount of my time.
Translation: I'm a loser that cant keep a real job. I don't have the attention span or the responsibility to finish anything. I like to telecommute to further hide my ability to do nothing. I fail to mention the project because its probably killing small animals or fucking sheep.

If you have a project you need done, and the project interests me, I can be hired cheap.

You can be hired cheap because you suck
If you are looking for a full-time, long term, 9-5 kind of guy, then I'm not the one you're looking for. I'm a self taught programmer with 20 years of professional experience. I'm confident that I can be successful with any programming project I take on, but I will only accept offers where the project interests me and the working conditions meet with my non-standard lifestyle.
This isnt a resume. This is a stupid conversation you are having with no one. Self taught means you point out the fact most real programmers will rip you apart. 20 years? Doubtful. Most of your expoerience is more IT than programming. You have never contributed to an opensource project to prove you can submit code, you have no code portfolio. Non-standard lifestyle. FUCK YOU.

I get a lot of emails from headhunters wanting me to consider jobs out of state. I am not leaving Texas. (And I'm very unlikely to leave Dallas.) If your out of state company wants to hire me,

This is JuggleGeek's resume. I will rip it to shreds because he is viscous and very much an unskilled arrogant jerk that constantly makes paranoid statements, espouses half truths and makes arrogant comments on Slashdot. JuggleGeek: An NT 4.0 Lover. A bit behind the times, don't you think? His work is so cheap and unprofessional they use Win98. He claims to be a programmer. His "workstation" OS of choice: Win98. Nice.

HAND CODED HTML! WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT COULD STILL HAPPEN?
You mean "Thought it would happen," not thunk. Thunking is something a "programmer" should know about. Most people hand core or use code to generate HTML. Big fucking deal

WELL, IT'S MOSTLY HAND CODED. BUT TO BE FAIR, I HAVE USED
HOMESITE 2.5, AND IT IS PRETTY NICE.
So it is not hand coded. Make up your mind. Moron
MOSTLY, I LIKE HAVING A QUICK ONE-KEY METHOD OF SEEING HOW
THE PAGE LOOKS AT ANY GIVEN POINT.
HACKER : STEPHEN WHITIS
You cannot hack HTML. That is an amateurish, juvenile thing to say. You can author HTML, no more. Its as easy as using a typewriter

Stephen "JuggleGeek" Whitis's Resume Page (p1 of 3)
- Moron error. Possessive form of Whitis is Whitis'.

I am currently seeking employment.
Forgone conclusion. That is why resumes are written. Moron.

I am interested in Delphi programming, with an emphasis on internet related applications, user interfaces, and databases. Web design is not a specialty area, but I have basic skills and an interest in developing them further.
Interest in a subject is not a reason to hire you. No one cares what you like. It is about what you can do for other people. Moron. So, you want your next employer to teach you not to suck in web design?

I currently live in Dallas, and have no interest in moving.
I currently have a company "INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE" and have no interest in hiring you.

I am not looking for "traditional" work. Part time work would be considered, as well as telecomuting [SIC] work. The usual 9 to 5 job doesn't interest me, as I have an ongoing project which already takes up a certain amount of my time.
Translation: I'm a loser that cant keep a real job. I don't have the attention span or the responsibility to finish anything. I like to telecommute to further hide my ability to do nothing. I fail to mention the project because its probably killing small animals or fucking sheep.

If you have a project you need done, and the project interests me, I can be hired cheap.

You can be hired cheap because you suck
If you are looking for a full-time, long term, 9-5 kind of guy, then I'm not the one you're looking for. I'm a self taught programmer with 20 years of professional experience. I'm confident that I can be successful with any programming project I take on, but I will only accept offers where the project interests me and the working conditions meet with my non-standard lifestyle.
This isnt a resume. This is a stupid conversation you are having with no one. Self taught means you point out the fact most real programmers will rip you apart. 20 years? Doubtful. Most of your expoerience is more IT than programming. You have never contributed to an opensource project to prove you can submit code, you have no code portfolio. Non-standard lifestyle. FUCK YOU.

I get a lot of emails from headhunters wanting me to consider jobs out of state. I am not leaving Texas. (And I'm very unlikely to leave Dallas.) If your out of state company wants to hire me, then I'll need to telecommute.

HAND CODED HTML! WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT COULD STILL HAPPEN?
You mean "Thought it would happen," not thunk. Thunking is something a "programmer" should know about. Most people hand core or use code to generate HTML. Big fucking deal

WELL, IT'S MOSTLY HAND CODED. BUT TO BE FAIR, I HAVE USED
HOMESITE 2.5, AND IT IS PRETTY NICE.
So it is not hand coded. Make up your mind. Moron
MOSTLY, I LIKE HAVING A QUICK ONE-KEY METHOD OF SEEING HOW
THE PAGE LOOKS AT ANY GIVEN POINT.
HACKER : STEPHEN WHITIS
You cannot hack HTML. That is an amateurish, juvenile thing to say. You can author HTML, no more. Its as easy as using a typewriter

Stephen "JuggleGeek" Whitis's Resume Page (p1 of 3)
- Moron error. Possessive form of Whitis is Whitis'.

I am currently seeking employment.
Forgone conclusion. That is why resumes are written. Moron.

I am interested in Delphi programming, with an emphasis on internet related applications, user interfaces, and databases. Web design is not a specialty area, but I have basic skills and an interest in developing them further.
Interest in a subject is not a reason to hire you. No one cares what you like. It is about what you can do for other people. Moron. So, you want your next employer to teach you not to suck in web design?

I currently live in Dallas, and have no interest in moving.
I currently have a company "INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE" and have no interest in hiring you.

I am not looking for "traditional" work. Part time work would be considered, as well as telecomuting [SIC] work. The usual 9 to 5 job doesn't interest me, as I have an ongoing project which already takes up a certain amount of my time.
Translation: I'm a loser that cant keep a real job. I don't have the attention span or the responsibility to finish anything. I like to telecommute to further hide my ability to do nothing. I fail to mention the project because its probably killing small animals or fucking sheep.

If you have a project you need done, and the project interests me, I can be hired cheap.

You can be hired cheap because you suck
If you are looking for a full-time, long term, 9-5 kind of guy, then I'm not the one you're looking for. I'm a self taught programmer with 20 years of professional experience. I'm confident that I can be successful with any programming project I take on, but I will only accept offers where the project interests me and the working conditions meet with my non-standard lifestyle.
This isnt a resume. This is a stupid conversation you are having with no one. Self taught means you point out the fact most real programmers will rip you apart. 20 years? Doubtful. Most of your expoerience is more IT than programming. You have never contributed to an opensource project to prove you can submit code, you have no code portfolio. Non-standard lifestyle. FUCK YOU.

I get a lot of emails from headhunters wanting me to consider jobs out of state. I am not leaving Texas. (And I'm very unlikely to leave Dallas.) If your out of state company wants to hire me, then I'll need to telecommute.
You

This is JuggleGeek's resume. I will rip it to shreds because he is viscous and very much an unskilled arrogant jerk that constantly makes paranoid statements, espouses half truths and makes arrogant comments on Slashdot. JuggleGeek: An NT 4.0 Lover. A bit behind the times, don't you think? His work is so cheap and unprofessional they use Win98. He claims to be a programmer. His "workstation" OS of choice: Win98. Nice.

HAND CODED HTML! WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT COULD STILL HAPPEN?
You mean "Thought it would happen," not thunk. Thunking is something a "programmer" should know about. Most people hand core or use code to generate HTML. Big fucking deal

WELL, IT'S MOSTLY HAND CODED. BUT TO BE FAIR, I HAVE USED
HOMESITE 2.5, AND IT IS PRETTY NICE.
So it is not hand coded. Make up your mind. Moron
MOSTLY, I LIKE HAVING A QUICK ONE-KEY METHOD OF SEEING HOW
THE PAGE LOOKS AT ANY GIVEN POINT.
HACKER : STEPHEN WHITIS
You cannot hack HTML. That is an amateurish, juvenile thing to say. You can author HTML, no more. Its as easy as using a typewriter

Stephen "JuggleGeek" Whitis's Resume Page (p1 of 3)
- Moron error. Possessive form of Whitis is Whitis'.

I am currently seeking employment.
Forgone conclusion. That is why resumes are written. Moron.

I am interested in Delphi programming, with an emphasis on internet related applications, user interfaces, and databases. Web design is not a specialty area, but I have basic skills and an interest in developing them further.
Interest in a subject is not a reason to hire you. No one cares what you like. It is about what you can do for other people. Moron. So, you want your next employer to teach you not to suck in web design?

I currently live in Dallas, and have no interest in moving.
I currently have a company "INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE" and have no interest in hiring you.

I am not looking for "traditional" work. Part time work would be considered, as well as telecomuting [SIC] work. The usual 9 to 5 job doesn't interest me, as I have an ongoing project which already takes up a certain amount of my time.
Translation: I'm a loser that cant keep a real job. I don't have the attention span or the responsibility to finish anything. I like to telecommute to further hide my ability to do nothing. I fail to mention the project because its probably killing small animals or fucking sheep.

If you have a project you need done, and the project interests me, I can be hired cheap.

You can be hired cheap because you suck
If you are looking for a full-time, long term, 9-5 kind of guy, then I'm not the one you're looking for. I'm a self taught programmer with 20 years of professional experience. I'm confident that I can be successful with any programming project I take on, but I will only accept offers where the project interests me and the working conditions meet with my non-standard lifestyle.
This isnt a resume. This is a stupid conversation you are having with no one. Self taught means you point out the fact most real programmers will rip you apart. 20 years? Doubtful. Most of your expoerience is more IT than programming. You have never contributed to an opensource project to prove you can submit code, you have no code portfolio. Non-standard lifestyle. FUCK YOU.

I get a lot of emails from headhunters wanting me to consider jobs out of state. I am not leaving Texas. (And I'm very unlikely to leave Dallas.) If your out of state company wants to hire me, then I'll need to telecommute.

HAND CODED HTML! WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT COULD STILL HAPPEN?
You mean "Thought it would happen," not thunk. Thunking is something a "programmer" should know about. Most people hand core or use code to generate HTML. Big fucking deal

WELL, IT'S MOSTLY HAND CODED. BUT TO BE FAIR, I HAVE USED
HOMESITE 2.5, AND IT IS PRETTY NICE.
So it is not hand coded. Make up your mind. Moron
MOSTLY, I LIKE HAVING A QUICK ONE-KEY METHOD OF SEEING HOW
THE PAGE LOOKS AT ANY GIVEN POINT.
HACKER : STEPHEN WHITIS
You cannot hack HTML. That is an amateurish, juvenile thing to say. You can author HTML, no more. Its as easy as using a typewriter

Stephen "JuggleGeek" Whitis's Resume Page (p1 of 3)
- Moron error. Possessive form of Whitis is Whitis'.

I am currently seeking employment.
Forgone conclusion. That is why resumes are written. Moron.

I am interested in Delphi programming, with an emphasis on internet related applications, user interfaces, and databases. Web design is not a specialty area, but I have basic skills and an interest in developing them further.
Interest in a subject is not a reason to hire you. No one cares what you like. It is about what you can do for other people. Moron. So, you want your next employer to teach you not to suck in web design?

I currently live in Dallas, and have no interest in moving.
I currently have a company "INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE" and have no interest in hiring you.

I am not looking for "traditional" work. Part time work would be considered, as well as telecomuting [SIC] work. The usual 9 to 5 job doesn't interest me, as I have an ongoing project which already takes up a certain amount of my time.
Translation: I'm a loser that cant keep a real job. I don't have the attention span or the responsibility to finish anything. I like to telecommute to further hide my ability to do nothing. I fail to mention the project because its probably killing small animals or fucking sheep.

If you have a project you need done, and the project interests me, I can be hired cheap.

You can be hired cheap because you suck
If you are looking for a full-time, long term, 9-5 kind of guy, then I'm not the one you're looking for. I'm a self taught programmer with 20 years of professional experience. I'm confident that I can be successful with any programming project I take on, but I will only accept offers where the project interests me and the working conditions meet with my non-standard lifestyle.
This isnt a resume. This is a stupid conversation you are having with no one. Self taught means you point out the fact most real programmers will rip you apart. 20 years? Doubtful. Most of your expoerience is more IT than programming. You have never contributed to an opensource project to prove you can submit code, you have no code portfolio. Non-standard lifestyle. FUCK YOU.

I get a lot of emails from headhunters wanting me to consider jobs out of state. I am not leaving Texas. (And I'm very unlikely to leave Dallas.) If your out of state company wants to hire me, then I'll need to telecommute.
You are threatening your employer with the fantasy you might be having about being head-hunted all the time. You w

So, when a spammer forges my domain, as happened recently, everyone they spam is supposed to bitch and whine to me? Fuck you. I already have to deal with bounces, and now I'm supposed to deal with your complaints, because it's too darn hard for you to do anything other than hit reply and complain to me - a victim.

I have a page about forgeries to my domain at http://www.whitis.com/mypillsrx.htm

The same spammer was recently discussed in an article, with a /. discussion following it. See this link.

Details at the URL below.
http://www.whitis.com/mypillsrx.htm

The same spammer forged a number of other domains, including mine. I have a page about it at http://www.whitis.com/mypillsrx.htm. There is also another article available at AVN Online.

Eddy Marin, a well known spammer with a history that includes convinctions for cocain dealing, money laundering, and who was involved with pornography, seems to be behind the spam.

In the meantime, his pet lawyer, Mark Felstein, ( check out the cute picture) is suing several people who fight against spam for blacklisting "anonymous members" of his newly created EmarketersAmerica organization, and several anti-spam sites all over are being under DoS attacks.

The spammers are winning because the good guys are playing fair and honest while the spammers have no morals are are making up their own rules.

A joe job is the term used when a spammer forges domain names or email addresses as the sender so that after he sends a million spams, the bounces go to someone else. Innocent people have to deal with the bounces, while the spammer hides his tracks.

It's happening to me right now.

This page discusses how mypillsrx.com is forging whitis.com addresses, as well as addresses from several other domains, to send their spam.

I hate to be the one to point it out to you, but the state of California just did.

However kneejerk popular these spam laws are, that doesnt make them right. Please dont bother citing Rowan v. Post office because that case concerned the sending of unsolicited obscene PORN through the mail not all junk mail.

I could argue with you about he scope of Rowan vs Post Office, but I'll leave that for someone else.

I will, however, point out that unsolicited faxes have been illegal for some time. Unsolicited telephone sales have had a number of restrictions for some time, and a national do-not-call list has now been created.

You seem to think that spam is free speech, protected by the first amendment. But courts have consistently ruled otherwise. The fact that spammers try to force their advertising costs, as well as the ads, onto unwilling recipients *does matter* when the law looks at it.

As to your "model spam law":

A "Do Not Email" list would be great for spammers - they would love to get that list of email addressees.

Opting out of every spammers mailing list would take you the rest of your life - and new spammers and new mailing lists would continue to crop up.

I'm not sure if you would consider a forged address to be OK or not. You say that "fake unreplyable email names" should not be allowed. If the spammer forges someone elses address, as is happening to me, is that OK? It's replyable - but the mail goes to someone other than the spammer. It's happening to me, right now. See http://www.whitis.com/mypillsrx.htm for details.

I have issues with your other points, too, but these are the more important ones.

Right now, Eddy Marin, a relatively well known spammer in the US, with a long criminal history, is sending out spam which uses fake addresses at my domain as the sender. (ie, forged in the From line.) I'm implicated, through no fault of my own. He isn't forging my domain on all of his spam, he is also forging other domains. The spams want the recipient to click through to http://69.60.4.240/?p=6062 (the ?p= number changes fairly often, but the IP is a constant.) That ends up resolving at http://www.mypillsrx.com, where they sell various kinds of drugs, writing you a "free prescription" for whatever you buy.

I'm getting the bounces from their crap. So far, I've had no complaints about "whitis.com sending spam", but I know other forged sites that have received those complaints. And the spammer, his upstream, and every place I've tried complaining have been totally non responsive. The spam, and the forgery, continues, even as we hold this discussion.

I have a web page about it at http://www.whitis.com/mypillsrx.htm.

According to you, this is all my fault, because I'm "just not good at dealing with it." You just have no clue about the havoc that spammers cause.

Just because hiding your email address and using throwaway hotmail addresses works for you doesn't mean it's an option for everyone.