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Gates' Resolve in Bringing Spammers to Justice

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-care-about-justice-just-a-clean-inbox dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It didn't seem to me like any single company had the stomach to keep after the scum that are ruining the Net for the rest of us. Unless that company is Microsoft. Since the beginning of 2003, Microsoft has filed 96 lawsuits against spammers, and 119 lawsuits against phishers. By any measure, 215 lawsuits constitutes a legal juggernaut. "

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  1. Re:Signs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    These are the end times.

    REPENT!

  2. Amusing names by kliment · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And the Korn wil blum in the face of those who lak pity...

  3. Can Microsoft sue CmdrTaco for dupes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Read your own site, you illiterate moron! You get PAID to run this site, run it with a modicum of professional pride of craft!

  4. Interesting link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I didn't know that the Pope had named a secret cardinal.

    My guess is the he is Chinese and, knowing the history of John Paul II, it would make a lot of sense to have a Chinese cardinal elected as the Pope.

    John Paul II brought down the Communism in Europe, this guy will bring down Communism in Asia.

    1. Re:Interesting link by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Troll? It might be off-topic but wtf were you thinking, mod? Did you even read the link? Try +1 Informative, you simpleton.

  5. Re:Referrer Log Spammers should be sued too by hacker · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    OT: I just wanted to mention that my wife is also a Celiac, and has been for ~20 years (we're both in our mid-30's). She's Type 2 diabetic as well, and a distance runner...

    If there's anything you want to know about Celiac Sprue, just ask. She's exceptionally knowledgable about it, and still continues to amaze people at the conferences we attend on the subject.

    For example, here's a minor tidbit... reading ingredients isn't enough to know if there's gluten in your food. You have to CALL the manufacturer. We had an issue with her getting a reaction to some energy bars that we found that claimed "gluten-free", and had no gluten in the ingredients, but when we called the company directly, they said they dust the conveyor with flour to prevent sticking... so it isn't in the ingredients, but it is definately in the formulation. You can never be too careful.

    The same goes with restaurants.. just because your meal has no gluten, doesn't mean that the fryer it was cooked in wasn't used to cook some breaded chicken right before your meal, etc.

    There's a lot of deception out there, but with awareness it is getting better.

    The good side of this, is that without gluten in your diet (or your son's diets), they will have better memory, recall, and retention, because the gluten peptide is a "fatty" peptide, and gets in the blood/brain barrier, and impedes neuron signalling (I should mention, my wife is also a Research Biologist at the largest pharma in the world). I'm not a celiac, but I do live a gluten "lite" diet, and I've noticed a significant difference in my memory and comprehension.

    The food is much vaster too, many more recipes, ingredients, and flavors to sample from. Instead of just "flour", you now have rice flour, tapioca flour, potato flour, and all kinds of other things to try your hand at cooking with.

    There are also lots of stores online that sell pre-prepared foods or mixed ingredients to cook with. The sheer number of choices in the gluten-free world far outweighs the gluten world, and the food tastes much, MUCH better.

    The only downside (right now) is the cost.

  6. In other news by moshe_be · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The music industry files another 1,000,000 lawsuits today to stay in competition with Microsoft on filling the most lawsuits.