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California Sues Spammer for $2 Million
KilroyTheVeg writes "The Mercury News reports that the California Attorney General, Bill Lockyer, filed suit against Internet marketer PW Marketing LLC, accusing the company of illegally spamming millions of Californians. The Story is here and the Sidney Morning Herald also has the story here.
The suit named PW Marketing LLC (note:subpoena in link is third one down the page) and its owners Paul Willis and Claudia Griffins defendants in the suit which seeks "at least" $US2 million from them for allegedly flouting several state consumer protection laws banning spam mail. All I can say is Make 'em pay, it's the only way to hurt 'em where it counts." Update: 09/30 22:02 GMT by T : Note, that's Sydney Morning Herald.
I'm sick of getting lots of spam...hopefully this will help cut down on it
Lawyers spamming us with
"make money fast!!!
SUE US!!!"
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I live in California and think this is great, but I'm also realistic enough to know that this will be stuck in the courts for years....
That is all.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
some Californian politicians were unimpressed when they're penis didn't GROW FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OVERNIGHT. Also, it seems that some lesbian twins didn't want their 'hot bodies' after all.
Its nice to see that a spammer is getting in trouble for the annoyance that they've caused. However, its one spammer, in one state, in one country. There are so many other spammers, how can destroying even one really make a difference?
If this were to start a trend however, it may help destroy spam comming from North America.
The State of California issued a subpoena for their email list, and then emailed everyone on the list asking if they'd received spam and would like to seek damages?
paintball
All the poor guy did was spam!
What if we arrested multiple mailers to real mailboxes?
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Being sued for $2 million is too good for them, I know something that is more appropriate.
As with banned books, controversial music and NC-17 movies, negative press will definitely hurt them where it counts.
The only way that spammers will stop sending you email is when people stop complaining about it (because that means it's working) and stop replying to it or responding to it in any way. Much like a 5 year old child, the only way to shut them up, IMO, is to just ignore them. Pretend they don't exist.
Stop spam locally, ignore spam globally.
.. but I shudder to think of a world where I couldn't get daily reminders on how to increase my penis size or my breasts. [Most spam sites obviously don't keep gender in their databases]
It will be a brave new world without spam.
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Does this mean that all the money I'm spending on penis enlargement pills will actually end up in California's pocket? (posted anonymously for obvious reasons)
The antitdote to spam has been staring us in the face all along. How do you combat hordes of greedy unscrupulous spammers? Get hordes of greedy unscrupulous lawyers to go after fat cash settlements. Paging Mr. Dershowitz......
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
Not only is Sydney spelt wrong, the link is also broken
Why should they sue them? I bet they can make at least 2 million at home in less than a year using the spammers "work at home" program!
All I can say is Make 'em pay, it's the only way to hurt 'em where it counts."
/. they won't charge the spammers
Just go to overture.com and put bulk email in the search and click on every link you see you will cost spammers several dollars per click the reason i didn't put a clickable link is because they can tell where your comming from and if they see 1000 people come from
http://Lenny.com
4 great justice!
My suspicion is that most of the worst spammers are slimy con-artists types, who run MLM scams, "make-money-fast" deals, and probably run their "business" on a cash-only basis. This old article, assuming it is true, shows the archetype: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/07/131825 2&mode=nested&tid=111
I bet that few of them report their ill-gotten gains to the IRS properly. Seems like one quick IRS operation could put a lot of them out of business in short order, without the need for any new laws to be carefully crafted or executed.
not "sidney," you dolt
Someone needs to get all the information they can on Paul Willis and Claudia Griffins. Get their phone number, addresses, information on their family and kids, etc. Then exploit the hell out of this.
Of course it would be a shame if someone beat the shit out of them too...hehehe.
But what I'd like to know is why my spam, which has hovered around 40 a day for months, suddenly doubled in the past few weeks. Some duplicates, but I'm wondering if there's a connection with the return to school time and spam. Do college students spam? I know Nigerian college students created some innovative scams (aside from the money in the bank one, which is still making the rounds) back in the early days. Are others jumping on the bandwagon?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
From the story:
:o)
"Statistically, California residents are the most responsive consumers to e-mail advertisers who offer various products and services," the PW Marketing advertisement said.
Of course, what they don't tell you is that the responses you get are "stop spamming me you $$%^*&&^%&*!!"
You may recall this: Click here First Washington, now California. It's good to see another step in the right direction.
Cut the bastards hands off for theft of service!
"Statistically, California residents are the most responsive consumers to e-mail advertisers who offer various products and services"
When enterred into Babelfish, returns:
"Statistically, California residents are the most stupid."
paintball
From:
Subject: Spam Email
"All your spamboxes are belong to us."
% for(;;) sendmsg()
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Slashdot: We're libertarians, except when it comes to spam.
Your Rights Online: California Sues Spammer for $2 Million
:)
Posted by timothy on Monday September 30, @03:20PM
from the hit-hit-hit dept.
KilroyTheVeg writes "The Mercury News reports that the California Attorney General, Bill Lockyer, filed suit against Internet marketer PW Marketing LLC, accusing the company of illegally spamming millions of Californians. The Story is here and the Sidney Morning Herald also has the story here. The suit named PW Marketing LLC (note:subpoena in link is third one down the page) and its owners Paul Willis and Claudia Griffins defendants in the suit which seeks "at least" $US2 million from them for allegedly flouting several state consumer protection laws banning spam mail. All I can say is Make 'em pay, it's the only way to hurt 'em where it counts."
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The Future of Game Dev (Except in St. Louis)
Posted by jamie on Monday September 30, @02:21PM
from the stanley-is-steamed dept.
ksquire writes "Ben Sawyer, of Digitalmill, has published an interesting article at Avault.com about the past, present, and future of game development. Sawyer argues that the game industry is going more and more toward 3rd party development tools and '4th party' publishing -- meaning that game developers are essentially tool developers for game enthusiasts to create mods (also using tools like Alienbrain or Discreet's GMAX). I'm really curious as to whether the Slashdot community thinks we'll see a future era of standardized game tools and developers courting modders, or if we'll continue to see more specialized game engines. Maybe a greater PC / Console split?" Meanwhile, over in St. Louis, the Free Expression Policy Project has filed an amici curiae brief by 33 media scholars saying that "Most studies and experiments on video games containing violent content have not found adverse effects." They're trying to stop the county from banning violent games -- Wired has the story.
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MIT OpenCourseWare Now Online
Posted by timothy on Monday September 30, @01:29PM
from the home-schooling dept.
peter303 writes "A sampling of MIT's OpenCourseWare selections appered online today. The courses cover a full range of departments, but only a couple apiece. The material ranges ranges from just syllabi and calendars to extensive on-line course notes and interative demos. To succeed, OpenCourseWare must also be an advantage to MIT faculty and students, as well as the outside world. I think this may be possible, because it gives a uniform appearance and access point for online material, plus tools to build these."
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Boston's Big Dig Delayed Because of Programmers?
Posted by chrisd on Monday September 30, @12:38PM
from the twelve-billion-beautiful-dollars dept.
dalewj writes "This article in the Boston Globe explains that Boston's Big Dig will be ready to open on time, if the software developers and cable layers can get their act together." Turns out honeywell's software isn't quite ready.
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New Trailer For The Two Towers
Posted by timothy on Monday September 30, @11:49AM
from the admirable dept.
Drakkar writes "As most of you know, the new trailer for the Two Towers was online last night for AOL users, but the link was given on the official site, LordofTheRings.net. It's in real player format. A new trailer with higher quality will be up tonight, midnight ET. This new piece of film is awesome. (the song at the end of the trailer isn't from the TTT soundtrack, it's from the movie Requiem for a Dream)" xTK-421x points to more links: "Now available is the new 3 minute trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Available here in MOV and here in RM. Reported first at Aint It Cool News."
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Public-Domain Bookmobile Hits the Road
Posted by jamie on Monday September 30, @11:00AM
from the draft-behind-it-for-extra-bandwidth dept.
At Belle Haven Elementary School in Palo Alto, right about... *now*, the Internet Archive Bookmobile is starting its ten-day, cross-country trip to the Supreme Court. They're putting the hammer down (itinerary) (blog) to make it to Ohio for the Bookmobile Conference. Then they'll drive into Washington, D.C. on Oct. 8, the day before the nine Justices hear the copyright-extension case Eldred v. Ashcroft. The contraption is a Ford Aerostar with decals, satellite dish, wireless LAN, laptops... and a printer and binder to do on-demand printing of any of the thousands of public domain books on the internet. (The webpage says 20,000 but the decals claim 1,000,000... maybe they have 50 fonts
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Interviews: Ask Dr. Vinton Cerf About the Internet
Posted by Roblimo on Monday September 30, @10:00AM
from the more-honorary-degrees-than-some-people-have-socks dept.
If anyone can claim to have "invented the Internet," (or at least to have co-invented it) it's Vint Cerf, who never makes this claim himself. But he's certainly had a hand in shaping most of what we call "the Internet" today, and is now working on taking the Internet or something like it to Mars and other planets. A Google Search for "Vint Cerf" brings up thousands of responses, so you should have no trouble coming up with a unique, interesting question for him. (As is usual with Slashdot interviews, we'll send 10 of the top-moderated questions to Dr. Cerf about 24 hours after this post, and publish his answers shortly after he gets them back to us.)
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Developers: GNU/Hurd Gets POSIX Threads
Posted by Hemos on Monday September 30, @09:28AM
from the hurding-instincts dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Neal Walfield announced the first release of RMGPT, which is (or rather, aspires to one day be) a complete, portable implementation of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 threads also known as POSIX threads. With this new pthreads library, it will soon be possible to run complex software packages on the Hurd, including the GNOME and KDE desktops, the OpenOffice suite, and the Mozilla web browser. Find more information here, including the humorous meaning behind RMGPT, and insight into a future Hurd release..."
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Resume Tips For Jobs
Posted by Hemos on Monday September 30, @08:35AM
from the get-yer-job-on dept.
JerseyTom writes "SAGEWire reports that with the economy speeding up, more and more people are freshening up their resumés. They've printed an article by Tom Limoncelli, co-author of TPoSaNA, that offers specific advice for geeks writing resumes." 'Course, I'm not sure how much I believe the economy speeding up - but still good information.,
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Developers: Undelete In Linux
Posted by Hemos on Monday September 30, @07:33AM
from the using-the-tools dept.
Manuel Arriaga writes "[To the editors: I am not a professional programmer, nor will I ever be one. My income does not depend on my computing/programming skills, and hopefully it never will. So promoting free software I wrote does not help me in any financial way, no matter how indirect. libtrash is free software (GPL2), and I distribute it for free from my website. I have nothing to gain from the increased exposure, except for knowing that I am helping others. And I know slashdot isn't freshmeat... With that out of the way:] I have seen this topic discussed in the LKML multiple times by now, and many more people asking in the newsgroups why "I can't recover my deleted file on GNU/Linux". Here is my answer to that question. libtrash gives Linux a real "trash can". And it has been doing so (with varying degrees of stability) for more than one year now. If you consider it appropriate, make this information public on slashdot."
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AOL: Lindows Is Misleading People
Posted by Hemos on Monday September 30, @06:41AM
from the don't-believe-the-hype dept.
jgeelan writes "According to this breaking news item, AOL has apparently said over the weekend that it is going to ask Lindows to change its promotional material after concluding that Lindows is misleading people into thinking that it has a strategic relationship with AOL."
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Red Hat 8.0 Reviewed
Posted by Hemos on Monday September 30, @06:01AM
from the reviews-in-the-news dept.
Jon writes "Eugenia from OSNews is giving Red Hat 8.0 a run for its money. She posted a very detailed and balanced review for the new version of Red Hat, which aims to be a "business desktop". Very interesting article and discussion over at OSNews." Several people also sent in the stories from InternetNews as well as LinuxPlanet.
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Patent Office Proposes Reform
Posted by Hemos on Monday September 30, @05:26AM
from the reform-themselves dept.
leabre writes "The NY Times (subscription required) is running a story about how the Patent and trademark office is trying to reform itself. Among some of the reforms sought, is higher fees for the initial processing fee, higher fees for more than 20 claims, higher fees for the more work the examiners have to due (lower fees for less work and fewer claims), 2000 more examiners, and required continued relevance of the examiner in their field (certification and re-certification). My favorite quote "...Mr. Rogan says excessive claims not only slow patent processing but contribute to poor-quality patents." They are trying to crack down on abundant claims and too-technical jargon which they claim overworks the examiners, reduces the quality of the patent, and other things. Worth a read."
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MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse w/Charger
Posted by michael on Monday September 30, @04:44AM
from the still-pumped-from-using-the-mouse dept.
dkgamez writes ""To make a long story short, here I am, with my dream - a cordless-optical-rechargeable mouse. You can't imagine how good I feel right now.""
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The First Automotive Easter Egg?
Posted by Hemos on Monday September 30, @01:32AM
from the burn-out-the-engine dept.
automandc writes "The October dead-tree issue of Popular Science is reporting that the new BMW M3 contains what they are calling the "first automotive easter egg" in its transmission control software. Apparently, the proper combination of commands to the electronically controlled manual transmission will cause the car to rev up to 4000rpm and drop the clutch (premitting burnout, which is normally impossible). According to the article, use of the feature more than 15 times voids the warranty in Eurpoe. Other limitations of the "acceleration-assist" feature are discussed in this Car and Driver article. According to popsci, U.S. laws won't allow the warranty limitation, so the U.S. version of the software only revs to 1500rpm, but dealers will install the european software if you ask. The only other mention I could find on the web is here."
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UCSB Bans Windows NT/2000 in the Dorms
Posted by chrisd on Monday September 30, @12:28AM
from the you've-got-to-be-kidding-me dept.
nick58b writes "The people in charge of the networks for all of the on-campus dorms at UCSB banned the use of Windows NT and 2000 on their networks citing security and network problems associated with them. While there are problems with NT/2000, Windows 98 and ME computers are still permitted. Students using these are "recommended" to upgrade to XP Home Edition. In other news, sales of Windows XP are way up at the campus bookstore."
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Secret Service Goes War Driving
Posted by michael on Sunday September 29, @10:35PM
from the dirty-job-but-someone-has-to-do-it dept.
JSC writes "Looks like the Secret Service is taking a page from the WarDriving handbook. Your tax dollars at work includes springing for the Pringles can for the antenna."
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-- You are such a fucking fag
Sure, make them pay. But then, chop them up into small pieces, put the pieces into gallon jugs of gasoline, set the gas on fire and throw the burning jugs into SF Bay on national tee vee.
Spammers have proven to be so stupid that only the most Flagrantly Over the Top Demonstration of Hatred will teach some of them a lesson.
That's right, spammers: you're all incoherent stumble-bums, whose ravings are not listened to in polite society. When we can legally kill you, we will.
Quit playing Monopoly with Bill. Switch to one of many non-Microsoft products today.
And for his next trick, the California Attorney General will squeeze blood from a turnip, unless those "make money fast" spam emails really were true, hmmmm... Don't get me wrong, sue away. Personally I wish they would make the spammers donate organs until they can pay up if/when they lose.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Libertarians have never enjoyed theft. Since email spam is theft (advertising is NOT protected speech, and even it were protected, I wouldn't have to pay to hear it), spammers are thieves, mere common criminals, not first amendment martyrs.
Try again, DMA troll.
Quit playing Monopoly with Bill. Switch to one of many non-Microsoft products today.
is here (PDF format).
I have an email address that is currently based in California.
This doesn't seem to be a class-action suit, so who gets the cut?
Linux - Because Mommy taught me to Share.
Get the facts before you indulge in the usual childish knee-jerk Slashbotliberal head-in-the-sand retreat from reality. The liberals are liquidating the working poor of the United States by forcing affordable cars to be horrifically unsafe. Your average affluent white liberal elitist can afford a good, safe SUV to keep his children alive, but not the poor family across town. No, that poor family can't afford anything but an "economy car" -- death on wheels! That poor family has a three times greater chance of having their children exterminated in a collision with that fat, elite, liberal SUV when that drunken tenured professor of multicultural folkdancing comes driving home from a faculty cocktail party full of good liquor paid for with your tax dollars!
Yet again, the liberals show their true, cannibalistic colors.
How dare you restrict me to two posts a day. This is communism and anti-free speech.
Stupid Linux, cock-sucking, fucks.
- The BOFH Troll
So you've updated the story once already, but maybe you should also add an "http://" before the URL for the "Sidney (sic) Morning Herald" link?
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I have no special gift, I am only passionately curious. --Albert Einstein
As ever, Slashdot folks, your contributions are welcome. Read on...
This matter is simply put: your rectum can receive a large penis easily and fully, and this can be quite pleasurable, if you want it. And you must want it, before it can happen. That is, you must be at ease, in mind and body. The rectum is like a very elastic pipe with a set of muscular rings at the end, the anus. The anus acts as a plug, to stop things from going out, or let them in. It tightens and relaxes like purse-strings on a bag, and is fairly strong.
This muscle is controlled by the mind, and emotions influence how tense it will be at any given time. Good fucking can't happen unless the anus is relaxed, and this may take some learning, some patience, and some time.
Many of us are taught to be ashamed out our rear ends, of the things that happen there, and the sensations of this area. the anus can be an erotic place; most children experience pleasure in shitting, but many adults ignore these feelings, in their rush to get the act over with as little guilt as possible. The rear end becomes an ignored and mysterious place. The anus is usually held tight, and becomes the site of problems like hemorrhoids, yet the feelings are still there. Awareness and conscious control of the anus can be learned, although this takes time to discover.
Look at it as exploring something new, part of your own body. The first thing is, how do you feel about your anus and rectum? Are they a part of you, or do you emotionally push them away? If you feel bad about your ass, that it's a dirty place, this is where your explorations must begin. Explore your anus, to discover how it feels and
that it's not dirty, that you can touch it and not get hurt. You can do this two ways: by yourself or with a friend/partner/lover.
If you explore yourself you have control over you actions. Climb into a tub of hot water (or a shower or on your bed) and relax. Then with you fingertips explore your genitals and thighs, gliding around to feel what it's like. Then bend your legs and slide your fingers down between them lower and deeper, past your testicles. Touch your anus very lightly with one finger. Then with several. Push down a little- how does it feel? If you like that, try masturbating while pressing several fingers on your ass.
Now you've made contact. If it feels good there or if you sense that it will, keep exploring. Don't push yourself to do more than you want at any one time- pace yourself comfortably, but try to tune in on your rear; discover when it's tight and when it's loose, and how you can control this.
At some point you'll want to take the plunge, inserting a finger inside. It's a remarkable discovery that you can do this, and it opens up a world of new sensations. Be aware that the rectum is a sturdy, flexible organ and can't be hurt by fingers, a penis or other similar objects, unless you violently intend to do so: if you don't make your finger force your ass, or your ass force your finger, they will work well together. Sharp edges like fingernails can scratch it, and that's not good, so be sure your nails are well trimmed and filed first. The bottom line is if it can take all your excrement in its many shapes and sizes, it can take smaller things like fingers and cocks.
Usually there's nothing inside the end-part of the rectum; but sometimes there might be small particles. You'll discover that these are harmless and easily washed off after. Or you can clean out your rectum first, douching with an enema bottle and warm water. Many people who enjoy ass fucking do this first by habit, or you can use a quick and easy method developed by Dr. Bill Horstman, a San Francisco sexologist, which consists of douching with a large basting syringe, which can be bought at most supermarkets. It's a big plastic tube, pointed at one end (make sure to file down the tip so it's not scratchy) and a rubber glove on the other. Filled with water, it holds just enough to clean the rectum thoroughly and easily.
Now, I suggest you lie back on your bed (or wherever), and bend your legs to bring your feet up close to your rear. Get into an enjoyable masturbation with one hand, and grease a finger of the other with KY Jelly or another lubricant. Then place it at your anus, and push very gently, slowly. Your finger will go in just a little. If you want to get your finger in farther, you must keep pushing gently and firmly, and release the anus muscle and then you will feel you finger go all the way through, past the thick muscle and into the soft, quiet rectum.
It may feel uncomfortable at first, because you've taught yourself to regard anything in the rectum as dark and dirty, and you'll want to push it out. But take it easy; try letting your finger rest there as you're masturbating. You may feel a little burning or irritation, but this will turn to pleasure if your masturbation is feeling good. If you like, climax with your finger inside, and see how it feels. If all this seems good to you, keep up the exploration. If it bothers you, withdraw and try again later; take you time.
Once you get used to having your finger inside, you can discover new things. Stick you finger all the way in. Then feel around inside, gently, (and for guys especially:) as you masturbate, until you touch on a silver-dollar sized, round lump behind you testicles. this is your prostate gland, and you'll know when you've touched it because it'll feel hard and nice. If there's a sharp pain, however, withdraw your finger and go see a doctor, because it means your prostate might be infected. Otherwise, try moving your finger up and sown against the prostate as you masturbate. This will probably feel very good. Also you'll notice that you can squeeze and unsqueeze your anus around the finger.
Now you'll want to learn to loosen it enough to let in larger sizes. It may seem at first like you anus has a separate personality, doing things in its own way. But this is only because you've separated it in your mind. If you get to know it better, it'll eventually make friends with you, and the separation will disappear. After using your finger to meet it, get to know your anus more intimately. You can trace warm wet rings around its outside; after inserting a finger you can massage it, pressing outward in a circle, tensing and calming it, trying to curl your finger around its side, feeling its touch through the skin - while exploring, if you act like you're shitting, pushing out, this will help even more. Practice stretching and tensing/calming your anus around your finger; you want to do this until it can be widened easily and painlessly.
Next you can insert two (or more) fingers, seeing how far you can bend them apart. Later, you might want to try a dildo (a straight, smooth, round tipped object like those found in sex shops). It's a good idea to use something that won't break, such as plastic or rubber. Glass objects can sometimes shatter, and a candle could snap in the
middle leaving half stuck inside, so be careful... you don't want to become the next weird newsworthy object of humiliation! Otherwise, feel free to indulge, since you can only hurt your rectum with sharp objects or violent jabbing motions.
You might want to move right on to experimenting with a partner, and this is also another way to learn about your ass. Say to them "I'd sure like to enjoy anal pleasures, but I'm not used to it and a little afraid," Then your partner can turn you on, after douching if necessary, and that they can place their fingers at your anus during sex. They can also suck and tongue your anus if they like, or insert their finger(s). These are called analingus and postillioning, and can be soothing, warm, and exciting. A nice thing is for your partner to masturbate you as their finger is inserted in your rectum.
If neither of you can get this far, because your anus just won't relax, it means you're anxious somewhere, or you simply don't know how to relax it yet. This is not always the easiest thing to learn, and there's no reason to feel bad about it, since the anus is very likely to just follow old habits of not opening up. It takes time. Take risks only when you really feel safe, and don't allow yourself to be forced open. It helps to talk about this, and how you're feeling.
One especially nice act that can relax your rear is for your partner, during sex, to simply trace soft rings around the opening, pressing with one or two lubricated fingertips, going around and around. This usually has a calming, wholesome effect.
If, after much gentle trying over a period of time, your anus just won't loosen, I would suggest you might have a mental wish not to be entered that you aren't aware of. If this might be, explore the possibility in your mind and with your partner; you may want to see a counselor or sexologist, or you may decide that anal intercourse just isn't for you.
If you do progress in your explorations, the time will come for your partner to insert his penis. If this is what you both want, let it happen as it will, without planning on doing it. Be easy about it, trying one of the positions I've described. It may take several (or many) tries, so relax and feel the sensations. If it hurts, and it might, just ask him to withdraw gently. Some pain may happen, and this is usually normal, just as in vaginal sex can be painful at first. If it's a strong or sharp pain, back off, but you'll discover that the mild pain turns to blissful delight during sex. As he enters, you may experience a violent urge to go to the bathroom, or you may imagine you're going to piss or shit right there. This is a fantasy of your mind and body, through lack of use and conditioning; if you respect these feelings and have patience, they will change through practice. Also, if you're sexually excited, these feelings and any tightness will lessen considerably. The best rule is to take it in steps, going easy and smooth. It may seem difficult for a while, but you may be surprised by a rapid change from discomfort to sweet pleasure.
There is a special position for you if you want to take entire control of the act. This way you can go fast or slow as you like. It involves your partner lying on their back. Then you squat down over their hips, facing them, and guide their penis to your ass. Then you simply sit down on it, gently and as far as you want to go. You make any motions with your hips, or you can just feel what it's like.
There are two other ways you can take more control, which are useful not only if you're new at it, but also if the male has an extra large penis. You can use your hand as a stopper, wrapping it around his penis where you like so
only so much is let in (or he can use his own hand). Also you can use a position allowing only limited entry - a good one is where you lie flat on your stomach, with him lying on top; by pushing down with your pelvis or tightening your buttocks you can limit penetration even more.
After insertion, give a luxurious amount of time in becoming used to it. Let him worry about what to do, and you just pay attention to the warmth and you just pay attention to the sensualness of it. Try masturbating - this is a regular part of intercourse, and may surprise you with its explosive intensity.
Enjoyment in being the ass-person comes with letting go, into the experience. It's not being passive in our cultural sense, since your partner can be lying still with your making all the motions. Rather it's receiving and giving, their care and yours, your bodily/emotional desires and theirs, in various combination. It's reaching and
creating with your excitement, so that your union becomes fusion of give and take, in and out- a greater wholeness of being.
You can be entirely still or jumping all over, or anywhere in between. Most of the body motions are easy to learn, such as thrusting and grinding. It can get a little complicated at times, however, since if you both move your motions must be coordinated. The easiest thing to do is rotate your rear in a circular way, as he thrusts. A
tricky and subtle still is to learn how to squeeze your anus, tight and loose, to fondle his pleasure more and start vibrating, glowing ripples up and down your rectum. You'll know if you're moving in good ways, because you'll feel a rhythmic flow inside and out. You'll begin to forget where you are, as your movements melt into your partner's.
The more the government gets involved and stops these e-mails from being sent, the less we'll see, in my opinion.
It won't stop JoeBobSmith from sending the Get Rich Quick e-mails, but it could stop the "legitimate" company spams. I get about four e-mails (each) a day from E-Mode, Classmates.com, and credit card companies.
Plus, stopping these companies could help reduce the overall spam; if they are not collecting e-mail addresses to sell, there will be less lists to buy.
Ohh and unsubscribe? Tried that. I have a feeling that when you click the "unsubscribe" links, you are putting yourself on a "I am here!" e-mail list that is even more likely to get spam..
- It's not the Macs I hate. It's Digg users. -
Government has no right interfering in the business activities of spammers. If people don't like spam, they can choose to use services that block spam as much as possible.
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White sport socks and all.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
... would be the next logical step.
Hopefully this lawsuit will be the first of many. If enough states jump on the bandwagon & make it easier for private individuals to sue, this crap can at least be pushed out of the US (or any other country that set a good precedent). A few class-action lawsuits with only 10-20,000 offended parties receiving $100-500 apiece plus legal fees would go a *long* way to making spam economically unfeasible.
Tracking spammed e-mail addresses and affected ISPs would be the biggest challange, but a database set up to process forwarded spam (such as (uce@ftc.gov) could provide plenty of evidence as to the extent of the problem and damages. Set up a system so persons who use it reap the rewards of successful spammer prosecutions & you have the perfect incentive to get people to report this superficially "harmless" crime.
A/S/L ?
Yeah, California is really going after the spammers to protect the people. The 2 million they are trying to get will go straight into their coffers (or pockets) so all they are doing is making themselves rich in the name of the people. Where did all the money from the tobacco lawsuits go? Certainly not into healthcare or education. It went to balance budgets and programs that states wanted to keep going.
I hate spam as much as the next person, but I'm not interested in seeing greedy states like California get rich off of our problems without solving them. If you think there is going to be even one less Email in your inbox after this then you are kidding yourself. In fact, there may be more spam to make up for the lost money.
These kind of actions I hold the utmost distain for, even worse than armed robbery. It's just so fucking slimy and underhanded. The levels to which these people will go would be considered incredibly resourceful if they weren't so pathetic.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
This has been my position all along. There's a lot of obstacles to going after unsolicited commercial email. The Direct Marketing Association quickly gets involved, since overly harsh penalties can excessively punish people that want to direct market to known consumers but screw up somehow. They have lobbying ability and tend to stifle legilslative debate.
And then there's the entire problem of *enforcement*. If I'm running a bulk emailing operation out of my basement and its now illegal, why don't I just rent a couple of systems in some foreign country where its not illegal that doesn't bother with a lot of American laws?
I'm far more convinced that if you put the effort into enforcing the current anti-fraud laws *now* on the books it would decimate the business that spammers need to stay spamming. The problem isn't UCE, the problem is fraud is going on unchecked on a massive scale and no one seems interested in stopping it.
... I'm not sure if it will even make a dent in my daily dose of > 150 spams.
... he has a potential ass buddy right here.
when do you think the last time RMS got laid? shotgun barrels excluded.
But it really was from Jones campaign, and the campaign website, advertised by the spam, got cut off by the hosting company in the last days of the campaign.
A write-up of the incident is on wired.
Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky
I just grabbed 700+ snail mail and email addresses from my local Chamber of Commerce web page. I was thinking about a snail mail marketing spree about once every 3 months to let other businesses in my town know that "I'M HERE IF YOU NEED HELP"! From what I see here (yes I'm in California), it may be illegal to send out unsolicited e-mail on a one-shot basis? Please correct me if I'm mistaken. Can I even say hello to my neighbors and not get sued? How about snail-mail? What's up wit dat?
I may be bad with names, but I'll never forget your IP address
They waste time to download and thus eat up our ISP time and therefore money.
Maybe we should make them illegal?
Have you ever thought about all the things that cost us money?
The junk postal mail receive takes us time to throw away -- and time is money. If we recycle it, it costs our local recycling center money to transport it. We pay taxes for that. That is money.
Heck, pretty much anything that anybody does that we aren't *in favor* of will somehow inconvenience us and cost us money. The kid next door downloaded pr0n slows down my cable modem -- is he *stealing* from me?
Get real people. It doesn't cost you much money to download less that 1k messages. Especially if you have a *free* email account like yahoo, excite or hotmail. If you are careful about who you distribute your email too you can reduce a lot of your spam.
Spam is just another annoyance of civilization. Sure most of us hate it, but it is really worth the almost certainly futile effort to find it with ineffective laws -- especially when much spam comes from other countries.
A final note - the one that will probably make this post be labelled as "flamebait" - how can we advocate stealing from the RIAA in the form of trading copyrighted music but have *zero* tolerance of spammers who are little more than a tiny annoyance in our lives?
The only guy remaining with an IT job in California, and they sue the poor bastard.
Table-ized A.I.
Here.
The problem with California going after spammers in Sydney is the reverse of the problem with, say, France or China going after US companies that are violating their laws against say Nazi related items or free-speech related pages in China. The extra-territorial nature of this is
0 20 3&mode=thread&tid=153 (italian police censor blasphemous websites)= 02/07/15/18 37255&mode=thread&tid=153 (Yahoo censoring portal)2 /07/17/16 17225&mode=thread&tid=158 (Crypto restrictions - well it is illegal in Iraq, Britain, so you must block it in the US).
0 2/09/02/02 46224&mode=thread&tid=153g /article.pl?sid=02/09/12/13 27238&mode=thread&tid=153
Now, don't get me wrong, I don't like spam either, but what is sauce for the goose (California going after companies in Australia) WILL BE sauce for the gander (France going after Google, Chine going after others etc).
This brings up other questions too:
1. If online gambling is illegal in your jurisdiction, can you stop it where it is based?
2. Suppose you have a data haven off the coast of Britain...
What California, China, France and Italy (among many others) are trying to do is to export their laws by extending their jurisdiction extra-territorially. Instead of a free Internet, you have an Internet governed by the most restrictive laws instead of the least. This is a bad thing for freedom on the net.
For example see:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/10/045
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0
Etc...
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=
http://yro.slashdot.or
If you just type in "France censor" you can find a ton on here.
We have a vigiliante group in my town that is running a "Shame the John's" campaign. The target is the John's who get caught with their pants down literally.
Why won't this work for the advertisers who advertise by spam. It is really easy to track them down as they can't hide because no one would be able to order their crap without a valid address and phone number!
My 2cents...
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I got spam today from panoramic.net saying it was for my own privacy (yeah, right) & they wanted to give me the opportunity to opt out before they send me any spam & oh, btw check out this great deal. At the bottom they even included a disclaimer saying that by continuing to receive spam from them I would be opting in to thier (non)privacy policy & they will collect & share my any personal info I'm stupid enough to give them.
Hmm, if they are going to try to hold me to thier disclaimer, maybe I should send them a message with a disclaimer saying that by continuing to send any email to my address they are agreeing to pay me $500 per message & $1000 for any bit of personal info they share with thier "marketing partners."
Hold the bus..... check it out.
If you really want to know the TRUTH about libertarians, you can go to http://www.lp.org which is the main entrance to the libertarian party website.
Being a libertarian myself, I can speak as to this spam issue, and also being someone who tracks down spammers quite often, I even give my own opinion on what should be done about the UCE problem.
UCE is theft, and spam is theft of my bandwidth, which costs money. It is theft of my time, which shortens my life, and that makes me totally livid, which is why I track spammers down, and do everything possible to get their accounts nuked, and all headers forwarded to the FTC (uce@ftc.gov) so that there is a record of it.
If a spammer gets busted, I believe they should be banned from using any computing device ever again. I think that would pretty much end all spam coming from the United States. I am going to ignore other countries, because there is not much you can do about that depending on which country.
Now this ORIGINAL discussion had nothing to do with Movies or MP3's and the association therewith libertarians, however I also have an opinion on that as well. It pisses me off when I see some lamer associate behavior and
So here divides "official libertarian party member opinion and my own personal opinion" I am sure there are a few spin-meister-social-engineering assholes who will attempt to change what I say into something it is not. To them, I say they better pray I never catch them. At least I am self thinking.
Being a linux user, I believe there should be a DVD player for Linux, and this has nothing to do with piracy. There are laws for piracy already, we don't need anymore laws for it.
Regarding MP3's I take an interesting approach, being also a musician, it is my belief that the quality of an mp3 makes it worth less than a cd. If you don't believe me then rent an 800watt amp and run an mp3 through it and listen to all the noise!
I buy tapes and cds and dvd's, I don't pirate anything. I have and do downloaded songs that I have bought which the original media was destroyed. I sleep perfectly at night knowing this. If you want to lable me a pirate for this then I say your wrong, you need to be looking somewhere else, if you want to associate libertarian with pirate your wrong again. If you want to crucify me for thinking for myself, and straying off the beaten mainstream path that's fine.
If you want to stray off the path, don't point fingers and say, "hey look at what the libertarians do. They do X, Y, and Z." Because in fact this is not true. I am a libertarian because I have a HELL of a lot more integrity than a lot of other people who are doing serious damage to our country as I speak this very moment.
Before I was a libertarian, I was a democrat, I used to smoke crank, weed, steal, lie, cheat, drink and drive, does that make all democrats bad? No, Before that I was a republican, I had my own business, but once in awhile I liked to do a couple lines of coke and keep a few extra dollars from the IRS, does that make all republicans bad? No.
So before you label people. Get the facts straight.
Well, that's not the only way, is it? Now that the names of the spammers are public, what if some physical harm were to come to them, or their property? That might make other/future spammers think twice.
while true; do wget http://www.overture.com/ -t inf -O /dev/null --proxy=off -r -l 100; done
For the last 75 years we've been spamming the universe in our area, up to 75 lightyear with all kinds of spam. Crappy radio and TV shows, daiper commercials, etc. If we continue at this rate, I'm sure we'll get either sued or attacked by some aliens who can't receive their local sports channel due to earth interference.
How can the first post be "redundant?" What is the sound of one hand clapping?
I did notice a few of the Usual Suspects still there - maybe not as many of the same services, though some names sounded familiar, but many of the same harvester products. I don't know if the lists of "300 million brand-new verified addresses" have changed since then :-)
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
If spam is profitable it will continue to be used.
So make it unprofitable. If you receive spam advertising a product, contact the company inform them that you would be happy to purchase thier product if only they didn't send spam to you. Check the companies affiliates page contact any companies you do buisness with, sever the buisness and inform them it's because of thier lack of ethical buisness practices.
If the advertising brings such ill will companies will stop using it. Especially if the core buisness deteriorates because of it. If a politician spams you, reply that you couldn't possibly vote for someone who spams to get thier message across. If you get spam for investing in companies, send the sales department an email, informing them that any products the sell you will advise your companie, family and friends not to use. Make it unprofitable, make the companies that use spam fold. One or two don't hurt anyone
but if a company sends 500,000 spams for 99$ if 1,000 people call to complain they just lost a days salary for a person. If their sales email is suddenly flooded with complaints they'll lose productivity, hence they can't sell thier product. If you don't get a response keep trying. Make it difficult, be persistent, keep trying. If sales doesn't work try thier tech support line. If that fails contact thier stockholders. if one percent of the spam is forwarded to the company being advertised. Someone will notice the guy in marketing that decides to use spam will be job hunting, when the boss realizes that spam is causing much ill will. If enough people reply the companies internet connection will get bogged down, and everyone will notice. eough ranting...
"Spammers have proven to be so stupid that only the most Flagrantly Over the Top Demonstration of Hatred will teach some of them a lesson."
Use of unnecessary force in apprehending the spammers has been approved.
In other words, they want to Make Moolah Fast by suing spammers....
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
It would be a shame if someone wrote a perl, python or bash script that would use a wget to "click on these pages."
All a linux user would have to do with python would be:
A) go to overture.com and look for a site that he wanted to hit. You can do this by copy shortcut.
B) copy and paste this python program:#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import time
for i in xrange(0, 3000):
os.system("wget PASTE THE SHORT CUT HERE")
time.sleep(30)
This shouldn't be to difficult to port.
Also, there are jurisdictional problems - the State asserts that the defendants are doing business in Santa Clara County (northern California) so they can be tried there instead of down in southern California where they live, based on the assertion that spam was sent to email addresses in Santa Clara County - even though the one spam they're quoting in the complaint clearly says that they do business in Canyon Country, CA, and they don't list any recipients who live in Santa Clara county. That's basically equivalent to busting a snail-mail-order business from a remote jurisdiction because they mailed advertising postcards there.
I haven't read all the business regulation laws referred to, so some of the sections are probably legally correct interpretations of some of California's really bad laws, but the processes still seem inappropriate. A couple of examples:
("Canyon Country" is a city in Southern California), and if it's not in the US, it's not California's jurisdiction and California business regulations shouldn't apply to them.
All told, it's a terrible case, and it ought to be possible to either find a much better set of sleazy spammers to make an example of, or do a competent and Constitutional job of prosecuting them properly
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Yea, go after spammers, stop staring at kiddie porns and be hypocrites.
When you get spam, look up the contact for whatever domain sent the spam in the "Whois" directory, and give them a call. I do it all the time. I did it today. Works like a charm because they want to talk to you less than you want to receive their spam.
Awesome.. now anyone (everyone) who has a Hotmail account is protected
Registrant:
Hotmail Corporation (HOTMAIL-DOM)
1065 La Avenida
Mtn. View
US
Domain Name: HOTMAIL.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Records, Custodian of (COR58) enforce_policy@HOTMAIL.COM
MSN Hotmail
1065 La Avendia
Mtn. View , CA 94043
(650) 693-7066 (FAX) (650) 693-7061
Suggested remeides:
For penis enlargement spamming:
Forced 5" lengthening by pulling HARD without anasthetic
For breast enlargement spam:
forced DD surgical implants for male spammers, (same for females, but the get them in the buttocks)
For MLM get rich quick spam:
Sending $1 to every name at the top of the list, $5 to every name on the next line, $25...etc
For hot naked chick webcam spam:
Locked naked in apartment full of chickens with central heating on full - streamed over web, ofc.
For hentai spam:
Rubber tenticle orifice violation.
Copy any DVD or playstation game spam:
Copying full binary content of playstation game disk onto paper with a biro.
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
If people dont like spam they should no show there email adress in public in much the same way if you dont like phone sell's people you should not keep your phone number in the phone book.
The funny thing about the US is the people who is taking this to court do not give a damn about the spam issue only about the money they can gain from it so they are no better than the spammers we all know that taking money from this spammer will not stop spamming there must be other ways to solve this use. I for instance use black hole lists and all ISP's should provide the opotunity to not recive mails from receptions that are on a black hole list to get rid of the spam that are send to random generated receptors (very few uses this method compared to public mail adresses and member databases).
Why not tax e-mails? The reason there is so much spam is that is so cheap to send out. If spammers had to pay 1 cents per e-mail their costs would go up. Now they can send out 100,000 e-mails with little cost, just some cheap computer time. But what if it cost them $1000? It may also stop my sister in law from sending annoying jokes. Government and education could be exepmt from the tax and a few cents per month would not be to much for the average net user.
I would limit it to once/day. I don't know about Overture, but I know that some bidded search engines will only count the first click/day/url. Also, if they see 6 clicks/hour from the same ip address, they will surely recredit the advertiser, as that signals abuse.
I'd suggest running the script (or manually) once/day, and try to randomize the time a little. The trick is to get a LOT of people doing it.
Even if the original posting was rated as a troll, at least more and more people see it every time it's posted, and hopefully a few more people will do it on a regular basis. I doubt this will help too much, but every little bit counts.
I'd rather a search engine get the money than the spammers.
Ahhhhhh,
..... *goodbye*.
See, this is why I use PINE. Who needs all the bells and whistles of Outlook or Netscape anyway?? If I get an email, any email with an HTML header
Simple, plain, non-formatted ASCII text. That is what email is all about! Shell to my mail server, open a Pine session. Oh ... look at that 100 MB file stuck in my inbox. *D*elete! Muhahahahah!
sighs I miss the old days of the internet when we didn't need all this fancy flash driven commerce bull5h!7
"Genius may shine aloof and alone, like a star, but goodness is social, and it takes two men and God to make a Brother."
The LAST solution to any problem that anyone should ever propose is a tax, and then it should be rejected immediately. Never underestimate the insidious, spreading nature of a tax.
make em pay, don't make em pay, I don't care!
Just make the fuckers STOP!
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
SPAM is not a clearly definable quantity. I might be interested in knowing about specials on inkjet cartridges, while others would rightfully consider such an offer SPAM.
Thus it is a relation between the reader and the content that determines if something is SPAM. Consequently the determination and selection should be placed near to the reader and not in a law or a regulation.
While this may not be a popular point of view, it is all the more practical. You can run, but ou can't hide. Spammers will just move their operation outside your reach and in the end only the lawyers will directly benefit from all this bruhaha.
I receive approximally 120 emails a day of which a majority is SPAM. But I have content filtering on my email and so I catch 95%+. They can send it to me, but I choose to exercise my right to throw it away.
With all those wonderfull machines, technology and software which excludes fitness for any particular purpose, it leaves me wondering why I can filter emails so easily while the ISPs have no such personalized filtering generally available.
I can't do it through my corporate network
e .asp?eid= 9077&lid=13&email=******@*****
The IP is 216.34.211.29 and 216.34.211.89
The offender network is exodus.net.
They do not answer or act on my non-munged Spamcop reports (for weeks now)
Therefore, somebody please nuke them....
The link is as follows
http://clicks.sportadvisors.com/subscrib
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