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The Spyware Inferno
An anonymous reader writes "Ever thought there should be a scale for quantifying the evil Spyware does? In an editorial article at news.com.com, a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist uses the levels of hell in Dante's Inferno to do just that. The article also goes into depth on how vendors, and Claria in particular, make money - of particular interest, 31% of Claria's revenue came through Overture. This may explain why Yahoo took so long to list Claria as Adware in its anti-spyware toolbar."
Which circle do Cilicon Valley venture capitalists go to?
she called us "the slashdot crowd."
but...down to business
All right...who told her we would actually get off our asses and burn someone at the stake?
I hope you dont belive in karma.
is it Spyware or spyware?
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
What is the program you sell? Link? I always like to help small developers if they make a useful product.
Thanks to spyware, I am still make a living.
Well, at least I can see why you didn't become a writer.
We all know spyware is a fucking waste of both resources and internet bandwidth
You just made my Bonzibuddy all cross now, you horrible thing...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
For God's sake, man, don't answer! Can you imagine the wrath of /. once they find you?
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." -Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
Dangerous practice, one would think... turning the whole Slashdot community on her own editorial.
:P
But wait -- if she mentioned the Slashdot crowd, she must know who we are. Heck, she may even be one of us. In which case, she knows we never read the RTFA.
Hmmm, smart lady -- must be one of us. Or wait. Maybe not...
And thanks to you, I'm making pretty good cash cleaning up these systems that you infect ^H^H^H^H install.
The contents of this message have been doubly encrypted by ROT13
Quoth the site:
http://www.claria.com/companyinfo/careers/
"Associate General Counsel - Litigation
Redwood City, CA
The successful candidate must have the skills and experience necessary to assist the General Counsel in managing complex litigation involving IP law, advertising, technology, and the Internet. You will execute an agreed-upon strategy by, for example, independently managing discovery efforts, directing depositions, outlining and reviewing briefs and oral arguments, assist in preparing for trials, and generally providing overall guidance to, and closely working with, outside counsel.
Requirements include: Leading law school, member of the California State Bar, and at least 6 years of relevant litigation experience in a nationally recognized law firm and/or an in-house legal department; Demonstrated ability and successful history of managing large scale litigation including large discovery efforts; Demonstrated familiarity working with technology and/or Internet companies and with IP law; Ability to formulate successful, complex pre-litigation and litigation strategy; Ability to operate independently, effectively and in a professional manner in various project and cross-functional team settings, and with various external contacts; Excellent organizational, project management, communication and interpersonal skills."
-- "I'm not a religious man, but if you're up there, save me Superman..."
I think every time Claria is mentioned, it should be mentioned on the same page - hell, in the same sentence that Claria IS Gator, and their company name, names of everyone connected to the company, their significant others, and descendants down to the fifth generation, should be recorded in human history as worthless scum and vilified forever.
From everything2.com:
So TSRs are sterilized vermin with teeth but no balls. Sounds about right.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I don't mind Bonzibuddy so much, but we keep getting these funky storage cabinets from someplace called www.martianbuddy.com.
And what's worse is all the SPAM we keep getting from them too...
How on Mars are we supposed to finish our teleporation chambers if all our email is filled with SPAM from those guys?
LongTail SSH Brute Force analysis tool is here!
and people don't seem to care...
:)
I propose we have an OSS implementation (well, likely we'd end up with a dozen, but stay with me), and make absolutely sure that people wanting to get paid for bundling it WARN people. We also give people an easy way to uninstall the software, and design it so that we're not invading people's privacy.
Monies raised could be used to fund OSS projects, marketing, design, usability, librairies, whatever we decide is useful. (Oh, yeah, I can see that forking into a thousand camps!).
Any takers?
Information: "I want to be anthropomorphized"
Never
What about your grandma?
No, I haven't read her in full either.
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
I went down, down, down, and the spam rose higher,
And it burns, burns, burns...
The ring of spyware
The ring of spyware
The ring of spyware...
He makes a small product called Claria
"I'm not a spy, I'm simply observing the behavior of your military movements..."
- Code Dark
And all this time I thought it stood for Terminate & Suckup Resources.
Caveat Emptor is not a business model.
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