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California Bans Mobile Phone Spam

Argyle writes "News.com is reporting that California has banned the spamming of pagers and mobile phones with unwanted text messages."

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  1. California Laws by z_gringo · · Score: 1, Troll

    Here is another example of well-meaning, yet relatively irrelevant laws being passed. California seems to be really good at that, although some of their "unusual" laws seem to work out quite nicely.

    Did I just say "relatively irrelevant"?

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  2. Mirror of article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In case of slashdotting:

    Calif. bans mobile phone spam

    By Lisa M. Bowman
    Staff Writer, CNET News.com
    September 20, 2002, 9:52 AM PT

    California's mobile phones should soon be officially freed from unwanted text messages.

    On Thursday, Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill that would prohibit companies from spamming mobile phones and pagers with unwanted text messages. The law, sponsored by Assemblyman Tim Leslie, R-Tahoe City, goes into effect in January.

    Davis said he endorsed the plan because he didn't want unsolicited messages on mobile phones to reach the same level of mayhem that spam e-mails have.

    Click Here!

    "These days, telemarketers and advertisers are intruding on everything--our home phones, our cell phone, our fax machines and our pagers," Davis said in a statement. "Today, California cuts the line on unsolicited faxes, phone calls and text messages."

    Representatives from the wireless and text messaging industry did not immediately return requests for comment.

    Davis also signed two other tech privacy bills, including one that would mandate stricter junk fax laws and another designed to speed the creation of a "do not call" list.

  3. California is going a lot to preempt .. vermillion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I get faxes. I get voice mail. I get calls. And I also hear the souls of the dead who were murdered by Islam.

    DEATH TO ISLAM
    Hi clitoris choppers. You Islamic fucking animals. I hate you you pull-start camel jockey. Towelheads, Camel Jockies, Sand Niggers, Ackmids, Abeebs, Carpet Flyers, Dune Coons, Rag Heads, Sand Scratchers, Habeebs, Abba-Dabbas, Camel-Humpers, Demi-niggers, Fig-Gobblers, Hucka-luckas (hucka hlacka ghalcka ghugh), Lefties (If you steal, you lose the right hand so, since they are thieves...) Ocnods, Pull-Start-ables (imagine pull starting Ossama's dirty rag like a Briggs and Stratton), Roach-Ranchers (habibs cant kill roaches by a tenant of Is-slum), Sand Moolies.

    Take home a bucket from KFC. Kabul fried chumps. Abra ca dabra! Shazam!

    Shut up all you dirty fucking islamic pigfucking swinehundts.

    Take your fucking Koran and cram it up your ass. The sooner the earth sees Islam leave it, the better off it will be. Your Koran is Goat Piss.

    I hope if there is a God and a Hell, you have to drink the liquidy shit from a Pig's ass, and Jewish Rabbis defecate on you.

    I hate the stupid ISLAM fucks who read into the trash they come up with. Saddam Hussein [who needs to take a dirt nap] is higher on my sanity list than fucking Muslim "clerics." In fact, I like Saddam more than most of the other Arab leaders because he is secular. We should fucking nuke the Saudis and Mecca and Medina and turn it into rubble, then tell Saddam to remove the heads of all the buttfucking "royalty" in the area.

    I want to wipe my ass with Mohammad's shroud. I want to grind his body up into bone meal and fertilize my garden with it.

    Our tortured dead scream out in HORROR, asking for vengeance:
    1. Kill all Camel Jockeys.
    2. Kill all Mohammedans.
    3. Kill all Dune Coons.
    4. Kill all Rag Heads.
    5. Kill all Towelheads.
    6. Kill all Arabs.
    7. Kill all Camel Rooters.
    8. Kill all Osama Bin Laden supporters.

    Nuke their countries to hell.
    Nuke them again.
    Death to Islam.

    I piss on Mecca. I wipe my ass with the Koran. I shit upon Mohammed. I wipe the cum for a freshly fucked pussy with Mohammed's shroud then throw it in the pig sty so it can mire in pig shit as it decomposes.
  4. Keep at it by 0x0d0a · · Score: 1, Troll

    Keep at it! ...finish getting rid of those outside irritations and band cell phones entirely!

    YACH -- Yet Another Cell Hater

  5. Jive word of the day: Abortion by JiveMofoDude · · Score: -1, Troll

    Abortion: n. An absolute failure; Something which does not come to be;

    "Ain't no way, no how dat boy be mine. He's such an abortion, he slidin' back up his mama's leg and leavin' a slug trail!"

  6. Re:California is going a lot to preempt .. vermill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    here is another example of censorship. the parent expresses grief with islam, he talks of california, and berkeley is rife with terrorst supporters. its ontopic. but you , the censoring moderators, take the crys of greif and anger and supress them

    This is just another example of spineless crap moderation here on /.

    Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, SLASHDOT's editing/moderating [read: censoring] "community"(*) ALL AGREE on ONE THING:
    CENSORSHIP WORKS!

    (*)Note, the word community used often on Slashdot, this is referring to a proto communist commune.

    So, you busy little plebian proletariats, get busy, you have some censoring to do! FUN! Do the bidding of your fat, undisciplined masters who never subject themselves to peer review!

    Good job you little neo-commies. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of /.].

    I have a Gun and the Constitution [Not the urinated-on pissed-on hacked fucked up one WashingTOON thinks exists, I mean the real one, with Jefferson and Madison at my side], please, give me an excuse to use them both.

    A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
    Crack Pipe Moderators
    Crack smoke wafts though air
    Dumb shit moderator!
    Try to suck less, please

    The Humorless Moderator
    Crack smoke wafts through air
    Humorless moderator!
    Why do you hate me?

    The Proletariat
    Slashdotting Commie
    Moderator fears new idea!
    Censor him quickly

    The reason China blocked Slashdot is that when Jiang Xemin saw at how good "The Editors" at Slashdot are at suppressing the community, he knew that if more of his party members saw this degree of suppressive efficacy, he would be deposed, for the good of the people, of course, in favor of Rob Malda as the all new supreme dictator and premier of China.

    It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Sir Winston Churchill (Especially when your democratic peers twist democracy into a reason commit censorship, to squash dissenting or unpopular opinions, and refer to them as trolls, flaimbait overrated or offtopic when they aren't any of the said)

    The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. - Jay Leno.

    The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government. (Death to those who defile the root documents of a free nation to make economic freedom Supercede Freedom! Freedom First! Free market Second!)

    Occam's Razor "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily." "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" "Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora" "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem" Translation: " "Simple explanations are preferred to complex ones" Modern fucking translation "JUST DO IT."

    Reading Slashdot at anything above -1 is like trying to put a shit filter on your ass.

    Get busy moderating this down, you little pack of obedient prefects of the corrupt state! You are the vanguards of purity, and dissent is not allowed!

    HAIKUS
    MODERATORS Crack smoke wafts though air - Dumb shit moderator - Try to suck less, please
    KAZAA Fuck R I A A - Network sold behind their backs - Stupid fucking cunts
    Haiku: to the Slashfags. Fuck slash editors - The cumlicking fags they are - I shit upon them
    TACO pondering GOATSE: I stare at the goat - His huge gaping ass so wide - And I want to eat
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    Stinky Kathleen Fent Cockeater Taco, - Proposing to Fent online, - I fingered her too.
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    Slap my Ham, rub it off, fuck Spank fast wank it hard - Jerk that dick to Pokemon - Party at Taco's
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    Cock BIRD The Dead Penis Bird - Nailed to the member always - Never falling off
    BSD Stare into the night - Sun is setting on your sys - BSD *NOT* dead
    Michael Michael User Simms - Sifting through all our comments - Censoring bastard
    Klerk Trolltalk hard to read - Information desires - Wideness for us all
    Cobalt Really tired now - Off to masturbate to sleep - See you at the day
    Humorless Moderator Crack smoke wafts through air - Humorless moderator - Why do you hate me?

  7. Is California ban happy? by SLot · · Score: 1, Troll

    First cigarettes, now spam.

    Sheesh.

    I'm awaiting the day when meat is banned in California. At that point, perhaps it's citizens will tire of dining on fruit & veggies, and demand that every restaurant serve big chunks of raw animal.

    In a smoking section.

    Until that day, I'll avoid California religiously, and continue praying for the day that Los Angeles slides into the deep, making Vegas that much closer to the beach.