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Microsoft Fights to Weaken Washington Anti-Spam Law
An anonymous reader writes "According to the Seattle Times, Microsoft (probably their MSN arm) is pushing for a change in at least Washington's anti-spam law. Some analysts claim that the changes contain holes that will allow Microsoft to be exempt from the law." Odd that Microsoft is simultaneously trying to stop spam sent to Hotmail users, and to make sure that it can send unsolicited commercial email without penalties.
I don't think it's odd that microsoft is fighting spam, and at the same time sending it... come on... think about it...
:P
1. We advertise MSN/Hotmail as anti-spam...
2. We spam the living snot out of every other ISP on the planet
3. We put neat little check boxes on our web based email pages that say "ULTIMATE ANTI_SPAM FILTER" and the like
4. Everyone switches to MSN/Hotmail
5. Profit.
So you see Microsoft has it all planned out...
QED...
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
Who do they think they are? Congressmen?! No loophole for you!
laws that just apply to me. Such as the proposed Travis-Goodspeed-is-excempt-from-the-DMCA-and-EULA s Act of 2003.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
"Microsoft Brand Penis enlargers anyone?"
Ah, this time the bloat would be a good thing.
Microsoft Brand Penis enlargers
Perhaps not the best brand name for that type of product.
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Anyone ever noticed that Microsoft is the exact opposite of big and hard?
There's spam on MSN/Hotmail ? Just what are you talking about? I'll show you, just lemme open my old account... ...omg
Is your Penis MicroSoft?
Love Music? Got a Band? Are you a Label? http://garageradio.com
that's the sound of the other shoe dropping.
microsoft wanted to stop *illegal* spam, because it interfered with their *legal* spam.
Microsoft applies for spam patent.
Love Music? Got a Band? Are you a Label? http://garageradio.com
1) Establish business relationship with all customers.
2) Spam all customers.
3) ???
4) Profit!
paintball
Time to change the icon from Bill Gates as the Borg, to Bill Gates as Judge Dredd...
:P
I'm curious.. has a lawyer from microsoft, or a lawyer for Bill, ever complained about that icon mis-representing his client as a ruthless, un-caring, threat to humanity?
Ya, I thought not... no evidence to back up the claim he's not any of the above...
Bad humor on a Tuesday... what can I say?
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
"Microsoft Brand Penis enlargers anyone?"
:)
Why do I have that sadistic image of the device crashing and little Johnny turning blue?
Anyways, Microsoft doesn't need to sell any penis enlargers; they've got everyone by the balls already...
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Can you say "erectile disfunction"?
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
1. Point out limitations of government
2. ???
3. Prophet!
Point out any government limitations and you are bound to be proven right.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
No, it's not a mouseclick away, because you didn't do the HTML right. Now I have to highlight and copy the URL into a browser window. I don't have time for such things. You have lost my business.
You forgot the most important step in any high-tech venture:
5. ??????
6. Profit!
Engineering and the Ultimate
I believe that is "profit!" not Prophet, unless you plan on becoming the mouthpiece of God in step 2 :-)
I'm surprised a lawyer representing the Borg hasn't complained about that icon misrepresenting the Borg as being as evil as Bill.
Honestly, if the Borg ships ran on Windows, they wouldn't have stood a chance in battle, much less get out of their own solar system without breaking down.
The needs of the Microsoft outweigh the needs of the many.
Sigs are bad for your health.
Of course not. It would be stupid for a penis enlarger to have a blue screen error. It would have a blue balls error.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
I just can't help pointing out that in a discussion a couple weeks back, the absolutists among us felt that the whole spam problem could be solved by simply shoving a bill through Congress.
it could probably be solved by shoving a bill through the gates of hell.
He saw some dirty arabs and fired. Too bad it was just some friendly kurds, BBC reporters and his fellow cowboys.
Yea, i heard many claims like that. They say: "I have a great, stable Windows server. Its uptime is over a year. I just reboot every week and is solid as a rock."
Term 'uptime' has a different meaning in *NIX and in Windows world. In *NIX world it means the time since the last reboot while in Windows world it obviously means the time since the last drive format.
Fuck the US indeed, but I think you will find they are no a soverign state and are incapable of claiming sovereignity over anything.