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Lawsuits Against Spammers
apc writes "Pretty good overview of the state of the law
regarding spammers, and some stories about people who have sued them and won. Nice to see the topic getting mainstream attention."
It talks about several different states and several different people who
have won cases. I still think its fairly hopeless, but I also believe forging
SMTP headers should be legally punishable by castration.
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And I assuming the removed body parts would be affixed to the male spammers female coworkers?
Remember, there were no nuclear weapons before women were allowed to vote.
"but I also believe forging SMTP headers should be legally punishable by castration"
I also believe publishing laugable stories about an "XBox emulator" without actually testing it first should be punishable by castration.
...ouch! I mean, who, having come across RFC 821, hasn't thought to themselves "woo ... spoofable ... cool", and tried it out?
I foresee the end of silicon valley, within a generation, at a tender age, if such legislation were passed.
...how about caning?
yes, we have no bananas
Chemical terror attack in Chicago. Hundreds of fatalities already.
Either he's full of shit, or he's watching it with his own eyes, which means he's about to die.
yhbt yhl hand
do you know how i could get a job at CIA?
moderators, please note this time the troll is ontopic. EG: PROPZ TO ALL MY MAD HOMIESEXUAL NIGGAZ!
- Kaos games and encryption systems developer
Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system
Actually, Linux supports Token Ring (you need to recompile the kernel for that) and there is no need to defrag the ext2fs due to it's superior design.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that we would be required to publish our source code for others to use. It was brought to our attention that Linux is copyrighted under something called the GPL, or the Gnu Protective License. Part of this license states that any changes to the kernel are to be made freely available. Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money we spent "touching up" Linux to work for this investment firm would now be available at no cost to our competitors.
The GNU General Public License does not limit your rights granted by copyright law in any way (as it plainly states). You do not have to realease any source code, UNLESS you plan to release work based on the code. With M$ code you cannot even see the kernel code, let alone modify it.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.
You are right. This is unaccepable. This also incorrect. You should fire your lawyers and hire ones that know how to read. The GPL allows any USE of the code, including compiling commercial code with the gcc compiler.
Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with another solution. Although it was tought to do, there really was no option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 2000.
If you don't want anyone outside the company to see your source code or products, then simple DON'T RELEASE them. You are required to release the source only if you redistribute work based on GPL'd code, such as kernel patches.
I think the biggest thing keeping Linux from being truly competitive with Microsoft is this GPL. Its draconian requirements virtually guarentee that no business will ever be able to use it. After my experience with Linux, I won't be recommending it to any of my associates. I may reconsider if Linux switches its license to something a little more fair, such as Microsoft's "Shared Source". Until then its attempts to socialize the software market will insure it remains only a bit player.
Micro$oft's "Shared Source" allows only specific buisness partners to see (but not modify in any way) limited parts of Micro$oft source code. Micro$oft uses it's clients for peer review of their code without giving anything in return.
In the "Shared Source" license you are not even allowed to create a work based on the source, let alone distribute it.
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
The Palestinians are desperately trying to hide evidence of their planned crimes against Israeli citizens through "arrests" that result in their fellow criminals being released the next day. The Palestinians try to smuggle weapons from the terrorist state of Iran, steal their own childrens' organs and blame the thefts on Israelis, and place their own children in the crossfire between themselves and Israeli forces defending their territory from killers armed with guns and explosives.
The Arabs are planning to drive more planes into American buildings, and to infect more good, peaceful people with deadly anthrax and smallpox. The Arab world wishes to wipe out democracy and freedom, and force everyone to worship their moon god, "Allah." Israel is the only hope for the Western world to stop this evil scourge before it kills and destroys everything in its path, but the Palestinians and the collaborationist Israeli left must be wiped out for this to succeed.
Launch hack and DDoS attacks against false propaganda sites such as http://www.palestinechronicle.com and http://gush-shalom.org. Stop the enemy before they kill you. Stop the Arabs.
Please let me know how your interview goes. This will be interpreted as a coded entry because the NSA are fuckwits.
The President of the United States will assasinate Richard Stallman.
With what, body odor? Boring speeches? Starvation while waiting for emacs to load?
With Enermax' power source I can build an almost completely silent machine with still plenty of performance. Try doing that with your 60+W Athlons.
That's not castration, the women can still have children. It's more commonly called 'female circumcision' or 'cliterectomy'(sp?)
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.