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Aussie Spammer Faces Millions in Fines
An anonymous reader writes "An alleged Australian spammer could face millions in fines if he's found guilty of breaking the country's anti-spam laws, reports ZDNet. The Australian Communications Authority alleges that Wayne Mansfield and his company, Clarity 1, sent at least 56 million commercial e-mails in the 12 months after the Spam Act was enacted in April 2004."
Right up there with the war on drugs and the war on terrorism right?
If you want to stop a fire take away the fuel source.
What drives people to spam?
1. Greed
2. Zero talent or drive to do real work
3. It's easy [which reinforces #1].
Make spamming hard [e.g. hash-cash or something similar] and you essentially remove any financial backing to spam.
Let's keep in mind that not all the spam you get is from one source. There are many smaller time spammers out that by using their fourth grade math knowledge think they'll get rich overnight by sending out a billion "genu1n3 r0lll3x" ads.
As for drugs I have a simple solution to that problem. Expulsion. I don't see how a university can legitimately claim they have a serious admitance program [e.g. you need the high marks, pass an essay or oral exam, etc, etc, etc] when they let students drink and do drugs all the time.
If kids honestly feared ending their academic careers the serious ones would avoid drugs and the less serious [e.g. bench warmers] would fall out.
But no... we must forgive all the shit they cause... all I know is I was a teenager once, I went to college once and never did I do drugs.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
As for drugs I have a simple solution to that problem. Expulsion. I don't see how a university can legitimately claim they have a serious admitance program [e.g. you need the high marks, pass an essay or oral exam, etc, etc, etc] when they let students drink and do drugs all the time.
... "Hrm...I better not drink this beer because my academic career is in jeopardy."
If kids honestly feared ending their academic careers the serious ones would avoid drugs and the less serious [e.g. bench warmers] would fall out.
Are you serious??? I mean really? I tried really hard to find sarcasm in your post but couldn't. You must really think that KIDS will CARE about their academic careers. Lock a kid out away from the real world for 18 years then throw that same kid into situations where he/she can do whatever they want and expect them to say
I am not advocating drugs and drinking but seriously...Expulsion??? Lots of kids these days don't care about ANYTHING much less their academic careers.
You'll have that sometimes...
This sounds like an urban myth to me. They sold 1000 pounds of 'frog legs' *every week*? What is that, like 10,000 orders of frog legs? So, that's about 2,500 rats that they have to process to meet the frog leg demand? Where was this slaughtering facility that processed 2,500 rats every week? Surely it wasn't going through the restaurant's kitchen. How could they get that many rats in the place? Was the pied piper working for them?
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