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On The Privacy Subtleties Of GMail, Other Webmail
Brad Templeton writes "After talking with Google folks and learning about E-mail privacy law from EFF (join!) lawyers, I have written a new essay on the privacy subtleties of GMail and other advanced webmail applications. Some of the fear has been overdone, but there are surprising issues due to the fact that the ECPA, written almost 20 years ago, wasn't prepared for fancy e-mail offerings like GMail. I issue a call for Google to encrypt your mail to avoid these issues."
OS X is closed source. This means that it is the work of the devil - its purpose is to make the end users eat babies.
Linux is the only free OS. Yes the BSD lincenses may appear more free, but as they have no restrictions, they are actually less free than the GPL. You see, restricting the end user more actually makes them more free than not putting restrictions on them. You must be a dumb luser for not understanding this.
And you obviously dont have a real job. A real job involves being a student or professional academic. You see, academics are the ones who know all about productivity - if you work for a commercial organisation you obviously do not know anything about computers. Usability is stupid. Whats wrong with the command line? If you cant use the command line then you shouldnt be using a computer. vi should be the standard word processor - you are such a luser if you want to use Word. Installing software should have to involve recompiling the kernel of the OS. If you dont know how to do this, you are a stupid luser who should RTFM. Or go to a Linux irc channel or newsgroup. After all, they are soooo friendly. If you dont know how the latest 2.6 kernel scheduling algorithm works then they will tell you to stop wasting their time, but they really are quite supportive.
Oh, and M$ is just as evil as Apple. Take LookOUT for instance. You could just as easily use Eudora. Who needs groupware anyway, a simple email client should be all we use (thats all we use as academics, why cant businesses be any different).
And trend setters - Linux is the trend setter. It may appear KDE is a ripoff from XP, but thats because M$ stole the KDE code. We all know they have GPL'ed code hidden in there somewhere (but not the things that dont work, only the things that work could possibly have GPL'ed code in it).
And Apple is the suxor because they charge people for their product. We all know that its a much better business model to give all your products away for free. If you charge for anything, then you are allied with M$ and will burn in hell.
A few years ago, a young woman cut off a man's penis and took it for a drive. At one point, she rolled down her window and threw it out. What isn't widely known is that it impacted the windshield of the car behind her, and there was a man driving with his ten-year-old daughter in the car.
The man was horrified. His little daughter looked up and said, "Gee, daddy, what was that?" Thinking to shield her from the horror, he said, "Oh, um, that was just a bug, dear."
The little girl looked up, her innocent eyes wide, and said, slowly, "Jesus Christ, it sure had a big fucking dick!"
I for one, welcome our new EFF overlords!
Deja vu.
Seems cryptography is the new buzz word these days so I thought it might apply here.
...because I am Stupid American
Hmm I don't think we need more laws, what we need is less laws, yet better defined...
of cock....all of you !!!!!!!!
This is starting to sound not very original to me.
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Why not google setup an anti spam system we can all join in that is simply learning from the opted-in's input on what spam is?
[this is spam] button pressed more than 20% may trigger the deleting of all related spam comming into all of googles accounts