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Microsoft and the SPAM Game
The Seattle Times reported a while ago that Microsoft is pushing for Washington State Senate Bill 5734 which will overturn most of Washington State's laws that specify monetary penalties for companies who send out spam. This will completely exempt ISPs from current Washington spam laws, which Microsoft just happens to be. It seems that they are jumping the gun a bit. They are having a company named Digital Impact (save that address for you spam filters) send the email for them. Thankfully I live in Seattle so maybe I can collect an easy $500 before Microsoft guts the current law.
I'm not saying that Slashdot ignores other tech companies' monopolies... my point was, any time there IS an article regarding those other companies, the ratio of intelligent-to-asinine posts (e.g. "Oh, it figures that ::insert company name:: would do that, they'd kill my firstborn if it meant a profit.") is much, much lower.
evil adrian
Mod this fucking moron without a clue down!
Hey all, I'm new to Slashdot and I know arguing with your guys' values is not the way to get off to a good start in this kind of community. However, I wonder - is it really nessecary to have a modified picture of Bill Gates based on an obscure Star Trek reference as a 'figurehead' for news items in the Microsoft category? I know you guys hate Microsoft. I don't nessecarily agree with that, though I'm not a n00b and I know there's a lot of evidence against them, but I do accept it. However, personal attacks towards Bill Gates - even humorous ones - seem a little childish to me. How many of you know the man personally? The fact is that as of now, he doesn't actually have a great deal to do with what his company does. It's been a good time since he was actually the CEO. That's not to say that he never has been, I would be idiotic to make such a claim - but until somebody can provide believable evidence that they've met Bill Gates personally and he was as bad as he's said to be, I don't think these kind of things are nessecary. That's just my two cents, though - by all means, keep doing what you're doing ;)