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Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison
Bobfrankly1 writes "The FBI, IRS, and the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are helping the US Marshals search for escaped 'Spam King' Edward 'Eddie' Davidson. He apparently jumped in a car with his wife, changed clothes at home, and hasn't been seen since." Update: 07/24 22:20 GMT by T : It seems that Davidson has been found, victim of a murder-suicide which also left two others dead.
If only there was some way to send an email to everybody in the world with this information.
;-)
The one-armed man did it!
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Quick! Lets send this article as an email to a Billion people!
The Long Now Foundation
Here's the FBI press release.
Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.
I knew they were hurting for ideas but this is rediculous!
He's probably headed for the nearest datacenter to unleash an apocalyptic deluge of spam. Head for the hills! It's the end I tell you!
I thought that changing clothes only worked if your wanted level was 2 stars.
Really, really bad move. Now, instead of two years at summer camp, he will go to many more years of Federal Pound-me-in-the-a$$ Prison. It is really, really hard in today's day and age to avoid being captured, even with a lot of money if you want to live at some decent level. His best bet I think is to go to a foreign country where he could blend in, and live inconspicuously.
Even in some place like Mexico he would be quite a stand out if he flashed cash, and in the US you'd ultimately fall temptation to going to the local drugstore and risk being nabbed on camera. Any lawyers know if there are any countries which would absolutely refuse extradition? If so, he would still need to 1) get there and 2) transfer enough money to survive, and much more if he couldn't work.
Interestingly enough, I think the next play depends on how many resources the US government will put into capturing him and raising awareness among people. A stint on "Dateline" or widely watched / read program would help any possible acquaintances turn him in.
Slashdotter, ID #101. UIDs are in binary, right?
So he really regrets for the mess he's done? There are better ways to apologize than to escape prison!
Why not actually have criminals go to prison?
On the upside, I'm pretty sure it's legal to shoot escaped convicts.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Who the hell runs from a 2 year bid at a club fed?
He got tired of Bart Simpson making him write "I will not send out spam email again." on the chalkboard again and again.
Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.
Looks like the police spam blocker wasn't configured properly :(
He's going to totally ruin the honor system for everyone else.
Run Eddie run!
Now he's going to go looking for the one-armed man.
WTF?
I wonder if they will start taking this more seriously and treating these people like criminals. I mean really...guy steals some property and can get years in a place a little more harsh than this dorm style prison. This guy stole bandwidth, and while it is an intangible thing, ultimately the total cost of his crap cost people FAR more than the value of the crap you could carry out of a pawn shop. I vote send his ass to a real prison.
From the comments from the article (because I know most of you won't read it, and I'm not going to take credit for it). "One can only hope his punishment will be unsolicited male."
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
...that they will never find him at 192.168.2.1 for sure.
"This is America... where the will of the few outweigh the outrage of the many..." - Unknown
he had 21 months for "spam". when they catch him, he'll face new charges for breaking out of prison. in addition, "When they were leaving, he forced her in the car" is that kidnapping? from minimum security "dormitories" to something a little rougher i imagine. bad move
I for one welcome our new king of penis enlargement overlord.
In real jail, your inbox is crammed full of unsolicited male.
Oh, the danger! Criminals at large! I'd better call my wife to warn her of the spam that will soon be in her inbox!
He had a 21 month sentence in a minimum security work camp a.k.a "Club Fed". Now he gets an automatic 10 years added on for escaping and he'll be doing it in maximum security "Pound me in the ass" prison with the real bad dudes. This guy really isn't very bright.
He'll go from being in a federal prison camp to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
And he thought the FPC was uncomfortable.
Sig? SIG? We don't need no stinkin' sig!!!
I mean with all that money the Nigerian Prince has, I'm sure he can spare a room for Spam King.
Why would you want to break out of prison during a 21 month sentence? At minimum security? What an idiot.
Maybe it's not a good idea killing your wife before going to prison ...
3 months into a 21 month sentence in minimum security and he does a runner???
So either rest of his life on the run, or he gets caught and probably gets a longer sentence than his total existing one for escaping and doesn't serve it in minimum security anymore...
Unless he stashed a fortune away offshore and has cancer or something that makes waiting 18 months to enjoy it unacceptable that's truly insane.
Also, from the article:
"21 months (just under 2 years)"
thanks for pointing out that 21 months is just under 2 years... Though I'm pretty sure anyone who can't work that out for themselves doesn't read to the last paragraph.
Subject: Has anybody seen this guy?
www.weberseite.at
But they will be hearing from him soon !
Obviously, an invisibility cloak. Why else would the Feds be looking for him?
Every news story about every spammer refers to the guy as the "Spam King". It doesn't seem like this guy was a particularly notable offender.
Escaping was a bizarrely stupid move, though. Being a fugitive seems like a lower quality of life than what he had in prison, and it's not like he was facing a huge term.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I find it hard to believe that the "spam king" didn't amass a small fortune through all of his illicit dealings, I mean with the sheer amount of spam he created, how can they know how much money he's really made?
What's more, as far as "criminals" go, he's pretty low on the register of importance. Really, all he did was annoy the fuck out of everyone, not like he killed anyone or anything like that.
Hell, identity thieves have done more damage than he has - and for less money.
I guess what I'm trying to say is he's probably got the means to safely disappear under the RADAR and live in a hot country with a big house for the rest of his life.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
...would have been a much better title. :D
BlackNova Traders
Dear Batman,
You protected Gotham from the personification of fear, the Scarecrow.
You protected Gotham from the personification of chaos, the Joker.
Now a new threat has arisen.
Your people need you now, more than ever for the personification of annoyance, irritation and aggravation has escaped his just imprisonment, the Spam King!
While I know how adverse you are to taking a life even in the most dire circumstances, in this instance I believe I speak for everyone and say that this man is a threat to sanity itself. So, should he threaten innocents with p3n1s en1argm3n7 or heirs to Zimbabwean fortunes, we'll understand if you have no choice but to drop him off of a building or something. Pummeling him to death would be acceptable too.
He's obviously heading to Nigeria. There are plenty of like-minded businessmen there who, I am sure, would be willing to shelter him in exchange for a small fee...all he has to do is send them his bank account information and they will be right over to pick him up. No doubt he has already received several of these offers in his email.
Errrr.... that is, Reading about that escape was interesting and Rio is a beautiful place to live for some people.
Since when did we actually start prosecuting and jailing people for spam? Was he actually caught under the (you)-CAN-SPAM act? Or did he go down like Al Capone, caught for income tax evasion instead?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Spam and King escapes from Guantanamo
full of porn, fake pills, and penny stocks to fool investigators.
BREAKING NEWS: In the backseat of the escape vehicle was Abe Froman, The Sausage King of Chicago.
Thanks internet tough guy!
Or do you talk to people like that in real life too?
Be on the lookout for a man with a large penis and breasts, lots of mortgages, sexy naked teens, and a bottle of v1@grA. He was last seen with the ex-Minister of Finance for Nigeria, Dr Mugotumbe.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
The spam is out of the can?
I am a believer of momentum and curves.
1) Arrest them.
2) Give them bail.
3) They jump bail.
4) Turn case over to bounty hunter, with orders to bring in dead or alive.
It's not like this guy got together with his fellow inmates and dug three tunnels named "Tom", "Dick" and "Harry", or sewed civilian clothes from blankets dyed in pen ink. This guy didn't even have a stealth chopper land in the prison courtyard to whisk him to freedom, or have a small mercenary force sieze the prison and take him out by force. No - this guy gets in a car with his wife, drives off and changes into a fresh set of civvies. I wonder if the prison officials gave him $20.00 as he left the prison, or considered giving him a suit of clothes themselves?
Why? Because now, when he gets caught, he will NOT go back to 'club fed', but will go back to at least medium, and probably maxamum security prison, where the really bad boys are held.
And I'm sure when he's there, locked up late at night with 'tiny', that he's going to regret sending those herbal Viagra and penis enlargement emails.
the guy is the real world equivalent of spam
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Apparently it's just Women & people who appreciate them he doesn't like.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Soon to be crammed full of unsolicited MALE. Once they catch him and send him off to REAL prison!
What a maroon! He get's sent to the country club you aren't allowed to leave for a less than 2 year vacation and he ESCAPES? He's gonna get EXACTLY what he deserves now.
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
Dear Spam Recipient, I am the Spam King, and I have hidden 200 million dollars ($200,000,000) in a secret location in the USA. Since I have escaped from the prison and left the country to work for the Russian Mafia , I am not in a position to recover the money from that location. If you will help me recover my money, I will give you 25% of it. Please contact me at ivan@the_terrible.mafia.ru
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
1. Have Wife (sic) drive up to your cell
2. Jump in wife's car
3. ????
4. Get Away! (Profit?)
maybe outbox...
If he's smart, he's saved some real money in some hidden bank accounts and will exit the country through Mexico's revolving door in Tijuana.
A few million bucks, converted to euros, will buy a pretty good "rest of your life" in central and south america.
Also, did anyone notice a spike in spam this morning?
Just put on a Whitey Bulger disguise. They'll never catch him.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
We all know that the search for him isn't serious until they put Tommy Lee Jones in charge.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
I heard that he is about to recieve eleventy jillion dollars from a Nigerian prince.
It's only a matter of time before he resurfaces, clad in his Spam King Armor, ready to wreak havoc on Metropolis.
30 get out of jail cards buy now
http://bar.foo.livefilee.spam/y1p4zQ53Nfn33QUX6mqWfr2Nz37cTFw/index.html
Nothing quite as funny as gay prison rape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Camp
This describes the one in Nevada. (I couldn't find the one in CO)
Inmates, who dress in tan shirts and pants, may participate in a work program on Nellis AFB. The inmates typically perform janitorial services, cleaning floors, restrooms, and emptying trash from office buildings around the base. They also perform groundskeeping, and clean the base bowling alley. Each workcenter that uses inmate labor must assign an NCO or officer to monitor and direct the work throughout the day. These monitors receive a card after training (a video and lecture given by the correctional officers). The card authorizes monitors to transport the prisoners with them each morning (most weekdays) to their workcenters. Inmates are not allowed to leave the base to perform work. Inmates often say the work relieves the boredom they would otherwise face at the prison camp. The program saves taxpayers money that would otherwise be spent on contracted services or longer/less productive work hours by military personnel.
And this is about the Women's one in WV:
The camp comprises 105 acres (425,000 mÂ) of rolling hills. While there are no metal fences surrounding the camp, prisoners have schedules and must work. Free time is spent playing volleyball, softball or tennis.
Most of the inmates at FPC Alderson have been convicted of non-violent or white-collar crime. They sleep in bunk beds in dormitories or in cottages.
Expect him to talk tough to you too since Internet should be capitalized. (douchebag)
Support a few technologists in Washington.
Here on Slashdot, a Wife is at the very least a mythical creature like a Gorgon or a Chimera, if not an actual Deity. Capitalization is required.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
You're allowed to shoot escaped convicts on sight, right?
So that explains the increase in spam I've been getting the past few days...
Maybe the stuff worked and one of his customers will get a cell with him. That would be ironic justice.
Click here to win a car, a wife, and a get out of jail free card that will enlarge your penis!
You can't make this shit up.
A *SPAMMER* escapes from a Club Fed. Sheesh, he learns quick in lockup, huh?
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
So is this guy (Eddie Davidson) the Spam King, or is this guy?
'Spam King' gets nearly 4 years in prison
Maybe (when Davidson gets caught), they should duel to the death to determine who the real king is?
I think you're thinking of Digg ...
His wife was probably a more than willing accomplice for all of his scams anyway so when they do catch them she'll do a few years too for aiding and abetting a fugitive. And if she claims that she didn't go willingly then he's up for a count of kidnapping besides. Either way it's a win win as long as they catch him!
If only there was some way to Digg your comment, this wonderful circle of justice would be complete.
--- He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. ---
I thought a Prison Camp was a place with guard towers and surrounded by barbed wire.
And tunnels of course.
For some reason, your post made me think of Hans Reiser.
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
not if he's leaving the country, but what country would be willing to harbor him? I hear nigeria is nice this time of year.
I live with my dad, fag. He's been known to masquerade as a women though.
In REAL federal prison your outbox is shoved full with unsolicited male.
This is more sad than funny, I know many Asperger/grammar Nazi's who have no qualms about being this rude in real life.
I suggest giving them pity rather than ridicule. They aren't even bright enough to figure out that grammar really doesn't matter in the big picture, at least vs. communicating with some manners.
As long as you are willing to foot the entire bill for increasing the level of security, I'm all for it.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Bulger
"On April 28, 2008, Davidson was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 21 months (just under 2 years) in federal prison."
I just read
Digg readers aren't old enough to get married in most states and countries.
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A few days after the e-gold indictments, Ed spam-daddy makes a run for it?
Maybe there's a lot more money there than folks
think.
Maybe he can move to Serbia and work in alternative medicine.
A plane lands in Ethiopia where a limo with darken windows is waiting. After a breakneck trip through the veldt to a craggy mountain, surrounded by creatures both great and small, a thin stick of a man is held aloft into the morning sun by a baboon while strains of Elton John singing, "The Circle of Life" is being played from a 80's boom box. "The Spam King", Disney's answer to the reality show genre.
And you all laughed at me when I suggested the death penalty for this guy.
well unless you kill them and hide them in the woods. you know... FYI.
How much is that in fortnights?
Cue the 400 posts arguing whether or not "Internet" should be capitalized.
Trust me, you do not want to be someone's "wife" in FPMITA Prison.
Nonaggression works!
Here on Slashdot, a Wife is at the very least a mythical creature like a Gorgon or a Chimera, if not an actual Deity. Capitalization is required.
I love my wife dearly. I really do.
But if you're equating wives to deities in the sense that they're mystical infallible ideal beings, it's very clear that you're either unmarried or a newlywed. If you're comparing them to immensely powerful beings whose will dictates all that happens around them with no regard to the consequences and around whom all within their realm must quiver before and do their bidding or fear their wrath, I suspect you've been over to my place to visit.
[I'm kidding - she's really sweet. If you're reading this, Hon, it was a joke. Really. OK... I'll pull out the couch...]
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
This post amounts to a summary of the comments at the bottom of TFA, including the wholly lifted joke about unsolicited male. Perhaps +5 WittyAsHell is a bit generous.
...and issue a "Spamber Alert"!
Also plaster his face on the sides of milk cartons and Viagra packaging.
"People" using "unnecessary" quotes should be "shot".
Hans Reiser escapes from prison and hops in a coffin with his dead Wife. Wait, that doesn't work.
It's funny how sending out spam can get you put in prison, yet my physical mailbox is routinely filled with unaddressed crap that I do not want.
And it's impact on the environment is probably much more significant than spam.
Cue the 400 posts arguing whether or not "Internet" should be capitalized.
Nope.
Also, I'm more interested in there being a Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and why they think a geek like Edward Davidson is really a danger to the public.
Your ad here.
Where else would a 'spam king' find asylum?
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I live with my dad, fag. He's been known to masquerade as a women though.
Here we go again.
Your ad here.
On the Denver FBI's page for the escape, the picture of Davidson is a dead link. (There are press photos, but a Government picture can be put into Wikipedia.) It's embarrassing for the FBI to issue a wanted notice for a prison break with no picture.
The Denver FBI office doesn't seem to have a contact e-mail address.
But if you're equating wives to deities in the sense that they're mystical infallible ideal beings
Is it odd that I read "inflatable" rather than infallible?
4chan still being DDoSed?
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Hanging out in club Fed for a couple years for sending spam is easy. Being an escaped fugitive isn't, and if they catch him again, he'll probably get a larger sentence for escaping than for spamming, and be sent to a medium or high security prison.
Anyone who loves or hates any language, platform, or manufacturer, doesn't know what they're talking about.
Don't let him be safe. None of us were from his spam.
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=624513&cid=24318927
Go nuts.
If he's a spammer and a geek, I'd suggest the public would be a danger to him if they get to him first, the baseball bat with nails in approach to the problem of spam.
it's = it is
its = belonging to it
...the SpamAssassin when you need one?
You haven't seen my wife....she is a Gorgon!
badah, bab, bah....
Thank you, thank you very much. I'll be playing here all week.......
Badges!?! We don't need no stinking badges!
No - this guy gets in a car with his wife, drives off and changes into a fresh set of civvies.
In the security guards' defense, he did say he was just going to grab some smokes and would be right back.
The enemies of Democracy are
He said he'd seen his servers being fooled with
By another man
Sendmail was down and Sendmail was up
He had a mouse in his hand
Spam started flying everywhere
And inboxes started to scream
Mail server lying on the ground
With a hole in the case
Where the motherboard had been
But it was all in the name of liberty. . .
Really, how often do you look at a man's shoes?
To quote George Carlin:
Basically, lighten up. It may be tasteful or insensitive, but it's still a joke.
And if you're going to go into "OMG someone might be offended" mode at everything that might offend someone, hey, you're not going to have much laughter in your life.
- Out go all ethnic jokes for a start, and some might even say good riddance.
- Men/women stereotypes should go too, because, hey, that't 50% of the globe's population you're insulting with that joke.
- Religious jokes will just have to go too. There's still a commandment against taking the Lord's name in vain, and some people down south take that kind of things very seriously. They might be offended by your silly jokes about Jesus playing golf with Moses and God, ok?
- To be safe, let's cut it out with the jokes about priests of various religions, some communities take them very seriously.
- In fact, let's drop all professions, from hookers to lawyers to doctors. Out they go too. I mean, someone of that profession might be offended.
- Jokes about schoolkids ranging from outright retarded to just maladjusted? Nah, that's mightily insensitive and elitist of you to laugh at someone just because he's stupid and lazy and mis-behaved. Society should support and encourage him, not laugh at him. Plus, don't you think his parents are unhappy already? Why torment them more with jokes about a kid just like theirs?
- Jokes about spouse problems, from alcohol to infidelity (of both genders) should probably go too. There are some unhappy people out there putting up with a drunk abusive husband (or sometimes wife too), or a nymphomaniac wife, or just their own obsessive suspicions on the topic. It's _mean_ to make fun of their daily ordeal. Broken families and/or domestic abuse are a more widespread problem than rape of all kinds combined. Show some sensitivity, will ya?
Etc, etc, etc.
Or you could just lighten up and go with what George Carlin said. It can be funny. Even if it's about rape.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
This is the greatest post EVER! My god (little g on purpose) that is fantastic...
It's a program to combat drug and gang related violence, specifically around Denver. Since the FBI (it is a federal prison camp, after all) would probably need local assistance to find him, the task force probably was the easiest way of organizing that assistance. But I'm just guessing. Maybe the Spam King joined a gang in prison, and his "brothers on the outside" are helping him.
Yes.. lets look for some tool that SpamAssassin takes care of.. because this guys is a top priority over Osama Bin Laden (who we never really looked for in the first place..) or find this guy before rapists and murderers..
This country.. I tell ya.. we need to start over. I will request a re-roll and start the campaign over. Didja hear that DM?
"It's not like your minds are as open as the source you love..." - Me to the majority of Slashdot.
Yeap. Been like 3 days now. Surprised THAT news hasn't made slashdot headlines: "Asshole of the internet torn asunder by huge, throbbing DDOS attack!"
I'd quibble with your diagnoses and/or invocation of Godwin.
Frankly, I have a hard time understanding why computer programmers disparage the grammars of natural languages.
Now, instead of two years at summer camp, he will go to many more years of Federal Pound-me-in-the-a$$ Prison.
Contrary to popular Internet Wisdom(R), you are much more likely to get raped in a state prison than a federal one. Most sex-related crimes (rape, sexual assault, molestation, indecent exposure) are state crimes, not federal ones and so the vast majority of these wonderful people go to state prison. Similarly, most violent offenses are state, not federal.
To make it concrete, >50% of the population of state prisons were in for a violent offense versus 12% in the federal population. Roughly 12% of state prisoners are in for rape or other violent sexual assault, compared to basically 0% in the federal system. Statistics on rapes in the various system likewise bolsters the conclusion: don't get sent to state-pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
References:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p05.pdf (!PDF!)
In Soviet Russia prison, male spams you!
oO0Oo
"In real jail, your inbox is crammed with unsolicited male".
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=50057&messageID=938515&start=0
I bet Hitler would capitalize internet. You "Internet"er's disgust me.
These aren't state-sanctioned. At all. The ass-holes (pun intended), who "sanction" it are the prison guards — represented and defended by very powerful trade-union, whom even the toughest politicians are wary of.
Now cue-in the union-apologists, who go as far as claim credit for weekends for the unions (which existed, apparently, when Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays became holy days for different religions), and you have a complete picture.
Compared to what these pigs do to civilian fellow Americans, the much-derided Guantanamo, where Military is holding enemy combatants, is, indeed, more like a piece of Caribbean paradise...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
"Princeton?!" *grumble*
"We are Microsoft. You shall be assimilated. Competition is futile."
That would be a very serious crime, if it can be proven.
Gee golly, Wired decided not to capitalize it anymore! What an authority!
Why exactly does what Wired decides to do make it applicable to the rest of us?
Internet = the whole enchilada - the "cloud", if you will.
internet = any group of networks
"Little is much when little you need."
World wide spam...
World wide spam, buddy.
-Alex. http://bit.ly/1iVPtfA
Wired as a source. How far my beloved /. has fallen.
In the case of my ex-wife, a Gorgon is an excellent analogy.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92768042
Maybe he'll grow long white hair, don a robe, and sell new-age esscential scentual products (plus spam)? He won't be caught until Tommy Lee Jones and Wesley Snipes go after him....
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Here on Slashdot, a Wife is at the very least a mythical creature like a Gorgon or a Chimera
Hey, even mythical creatures can have problems relating to the fairer sex.
It feels like you're not telling the whole story -- what did she possesses and how much and in what circumstances?
In even the harshest states, simple possession of small use quantities of even felony-level drugs doesn't result in maximum security prison time simply because there are too many people being caught committing the crimes and even our idiotic justice system has recognized to some extent that addiction and dependency are real issues.
Only 3-strikes offenders, non-personal-use quantities or possession during the commission of a felony end up adding up to real prison time. The federal system is worse due to mandatory minimums (which, IIRC, they recently made harder to impose).
I have heard of (usually) women getting burned on conspiracy beefs due to boyfriends/husbands/fathers/brothers being involved and the women being passively complicit.
So what actually happened to her that Illinois wanted to spend $40k a year to house her?
Take a look at the FBI's top10 most wanted list. Other than Bin Laden, most of those guys have been on the run for 3+ years without any cash reserves. You can bet this guy has millions hidden and a boat somewhere. It's also not difficult to your change your appearance drastically at which point your only risk of being caught is usually fingerprints or an unrelated offense.
I'd be surprised if he was recaptured soon. Typically if you aren't recaptured within a week then it's usually years later. So I guess we'll see.
(Score: -26721 Diggs, Funny)
Your mind is clear / The things that you fear / Will fade with how much you / Believe what you hear
Slashdot has one editor on staff who actually pays some amount of attention to spelling, grammar, usage, punctuation, etc. However, he spends most of his time sleeping. There's a secret trick to wake him up.
Take a look below the article summary. See that little triangle at the beginning of the line with the tags on it? Click that triangle.
Then, in the line which drops down, enter the word typo. Click the Tag button to the right of that.
I did that an hour ago and now the spurious capitalization is gone from the summary.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
I was particularly astonished by the photo of this guy that they included in the story. Good heavens, he's guilty of sending out too many unwanted e-mails...yes, yes, I know, penny stock scams, yada-yada...
But based on that mug shot, I would think was guilty of making Spam (the meat) out of his victims.
Is this what I have to look forward to in my IT career? To end up looking like Jeffrey Dahmer?
Joe Dougherty, Florida, USA
The words I thought I brought, I left behind. So, never mind.
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by knowing that two plus two equals four, and sticking to our guns in the way
that is kind of nerdy and that maybe hurts people's feelings sometimes.
I'm sorry." -- Randy
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statement uttered in a conversation be literally true."--Randy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon
Most sex-related crimes (rape, sexual assault, molestation, indecent exposure) are state crimes, not federal ones and so the vast majority of these wonderful people go to state prison. Similarly, most violent offenses are state, not federal.
What does prison rape have to do with sex-related crimes? I've always been under the impression that prison rape is more of a power/ego type thing and has little to do with sex offenders..... In fact aren't sex offenders usually on the receiving end of prison rape and/or assaults? They aren't well regarded in prison from what I've been told, particularly ones who have assaulted a child in the past.
Hell other than perhaps being a cop or CO I'm hard pressed to think of anything worse then being a known rapist/child molester in general population....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Tags: spam, wanteddeadoralive, it, preferablydead (tagging beta)
I love Slashdot.
"white-collar resort-prison". If recaptured, he should be sent to a "pound me in the ass prison".
(obligatory Office Space reference).
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't
He's actually a "Spam Queen"!
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
This is true... unless its IP "theft" where nobody loses money at all... You can rob a bank, cap the security guard and get a far less sentence than someone who cams the latest superhero movie on the first day at a theater.
Prisoner: Hey Edward, you'll win 1 million dollars if you pick up the soap.
Edward: REALLY?! OK!
If you quote this signature there'll be 72 copies of Windows ME waiting for you in Heaven.
Getting HIV should drastically lower your sex-appeal.
If you quote this signature there'll be 72 copies of Windows ME waiting for you in Heaven.
I know! Let's stop imprisoning people for non-violent, victimless crimes and use all that extra money to improve security.
His wife has $427 million dollars in a Nigerian bank account and wants to transfer it to me. I get a cut of $42 million plus a lifetime supply of penis pills!
Exactly.
The capitalization serves to make clear which meaning of the word you are using. The Internet (capitalized) is the worldwide network that most people think about when they hear the word. However, I also have an internet (lower case) in my basement at home.
Killing this "female donkey orifice" will waste a perfectly good and expensive bullet. A 30-06 round cost about 5 dollars and I rather use it on a Happy Meal then wasting this guy with it.
Sending him to the same place where we send other terrorist {ie Gitmo) would be good start. Torture him by slowly taking money out of his accounts and selling all of his assets (they have starting to do that today which is interesting) and place him in front of a read only screen where other people can spam him and see all of worth go to zero or negative slowly.
Physical torture by using clamps, high voltage and other implements can be used as long it doesn't kill him. I want this to last a lo-ong time for this bastard!
Again killing him is too good for him.
When he orders "spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans and spam".
There is some justice in the 'mystical' bit: but perhaps more like "unknowable", "Women move in mysterious and often meaningless ways", etc.
He's probably in Mexico by now.
What's the CIDR for Mexico then?
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. -- A man, woman and toddler were shot to death and a teenage girl was wounded outside a home near Bennett Thursday in what an investigator called a "horrific" scene. Neighbors told The Denver Post that the man was 'Spam King' Edward "Eddie" Davidson and his family. The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said another infant appeared to be unharmed in the shooting.
-- the opinions stated above aren't those of my employer. in fact, they're probably not even my own. you know what, ju
Great..Now I am going to have to deal with killer ghost spam.
It was Hans Reiser's fault.
Three Step Plan:
1. Take over the world.
2. Get a lot of cookies.
3. Eat the cookies.
That's IT? What a fucking loser. He should have done world a favor and killed himself in jail. Saved taxpayers money on a manhunt and left his family alone.
Not sure where you buy your bullets, but they cost about a buck a piece...
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Missing 'spam king' kills self, family
By Kieran Nicholson, Howard Pankratz and Carlos Illescas
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 07/24/2008 04:52:57 PM MDT
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9985333
BENNETT -- Neighbors say the dead man, woman and toddler found near Bennett are the missing "spam king" and his family.
The shootings took place in the 42000 block of East Arkansas Place about 11:15 a.m. today, and the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said a man, woman and 3-year-old girl were dead.
A neighbor who did not want to be named said the man who was suspected of killing himself and the others was Eddie Davidson, who walked away from a minium-security prison camp in Florence earlier this week. He said Davidson and his family used to live in the house where they died.
The neighbor said the Davidson family -- known in Bennett as the Hills -- "pretty much stayed to themselves."
The neighbor knew
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Davidson worked in computers but not exactly what he did until he was sent to prison in April for 21 months after he pleaded guilty to tax evasion and falsifying information in e-mail pitches for low-cost, high risk penny stocks.
Davidson's Bennett-based business, Power Promoters, sent hundreds of thousands of unsolicited sales pitches to e-mail addresses around the world, selling a variety of products.
Court filings showed that Davidson's spam operation grossed about $3.5 million between 2003 and 2006.
The Sheriff's Office would not confirm the identities of the victims, saying the coroner had not yet notified family members.
Arapahoe County Undersheriff Mark Campbell said this afternoon that the bodies of a man and a woman were found in a driveway at the home outside a silver SUV. The man's body was beside the driver's door, and the woman's near the passenger side.
A boy, about 7 months old, was found unharmed in a car seat in the SUV, Campbell said.
The 3-year-old girl was found dead in the vehicle.
Federal officials confirmed that FBI agents and U.S. Marshals are assisting Arapahoe County officials on the scene.
A teenage girl, who was shot in the neck, fled to a neighbor's home, the Sheriff's Office said.
A handgun was found at the scene, Campbell said.
The teenager was taken to University Hospital for treatment, and the infant to Children's Hospital, according to the Bennett Fire Protection District.
Bob Cambron lives about a half-mile away.
He said he was working in the yard when he heard gunshots, carried on the wind.
"Immediately after the shots, there was intense screaming," Cambron said.
He drove to the house right away.
"I didn't have any idea what I was driving into," he said. "I just saw the vehicle in the driveway with bodies."
He said he was reluctant to get close "because I didn't want to be the next victim."
He said a neighbor who called 911 also helped the teenage gunshot victim.
According to neighbors, the home where the shooting occurred is about 8 years old and sits on a 35-acre parcel.
"It is a very nice home, two-story yellow, about 4,000 square feet," said neighbor Deborah Haines. The owners had horses and a barn.
Both Haines and another neighbor, Ted Schwarz, said that the current residents were new to the area, having moved in about six to 10 months ago.
Both said their new neighbor was congenial.
"He was a really nice fellow," said Schwarz. "He was out there helping dig out during the snows. The wind blows out here, and we get out the tractors to clear the roads of snow. He also helped mow the ditches."
Schwarz, who is retired, said that the area is normally very quiet.
The worst thing to happen out there, he said, was when somebody -- probably kids -- knocked down every one of the 53 mailboxes of the 53 homeowners living in the area.
"This is something really shocking," said Schwarz.
Haines said she never heard any shots and that her first indication of something being wrong was when she heard a lot of traffic on the road outside her house.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
This is more sad than funny, I know many Asperger/grammar Nazi's who have no qualms about being this rude in real life.
I suggest giving them pity rather than ridicule. They aren't even bright enough to figure out that grammar really doesn't matter in the big picture, at least vs. communicating with some manners.
You them ridicule rathering pity suggest give? So why don't you log in? We need to know where to get this stuff.
Here's your sig.
This guy escapes and commits suicide?
Looks like even minimum security prison isn't easy ... he really didn't want to go back.
Why do cowards always have to kill their families too? I hope this gutless bastard roasts in hell!
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
wow, i'm disappointed in slashdot. 2 hours since the posting that this guy was a victim of a murder-suicide and not a single post acknowledging it.
i mean, i hate spam, but i'm not about to wish the do-er of the deed dead.
Spam king pulled a Chris Benoit.
A woman and a child also died as a result of what happened. That is very sad news.
He seems to have shot himself (a felon) and his wife (who, by helping a felon escape, would have been wanted on felony charges). The rewards must start to stack up, at that point. He shot two innocent people too, but since that's never stopped the US Army, I assume that'll be written off as him just being a bad apple in the barrel.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I'm guessing you posted before the murder suicide. Seems he probably was a danger to the public.
Actually, I don't think it's as simple as "male rape = teh funny, female rape = teh unfunny". I think it's more the prison part that makes the big difference.
Some people did evil things and hurt people and, well, some people want to see them hurt in return. Badly. Some 2000 years ago, we would have been shouting in the Forum (the physical Roman plazza kind, not the web kind) that he deserves to be scourged and nailed to a cross. Some 1000 years ago, well, maybe we'd be gathered with pitchforks and torches in front of the town watch, demanding that he swings from the gallows.
Well, nowadays we live in more civilized times (ok, not really;) so we shoot the wind about how funny it would be if he landed in a cell with two muscular guys called Bubba and Billy Joe Bob, who had their inbox full of "h3rb@l v1@gr@" and "enlarge your p3n1s!" spam. It's not a nice thing to wish upon someone, in fact I'll take your word that it's a _horrible_ thing to wish upon someone. But, you know, that's kind of the whole point.
Not because he's a man, but just because he's a scumbag.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
...I'd be arguing the case that the person was likely mentally ill and needed involuntary commitment for the two years, but anyone who escapes for the purpose of killing themselves...??? If someone is determined enough to self-harm, they will succeed, treatment or no. His wife - well, he probably wasn't issued the gun in prison. Was she expecting a shoot-out with the FBI? If so, she was equally determined to die, and again there is nothing anyone could really have done to change that.
The killed infant and the seriously injured girl (the update pointed to by the story says she has neck wounds) - well, yes, I do feel sorry for them. I hope, I really hope, the girl gets adequate treatment to recover fully. Health care isn't cheap and is way too mercenary. Worse, it is likely to only cover the physical issues, not the psychological ones likely to crop up when your head is nearly blown off your shoulders at close range.
Is society better off? Well, the sad reality is that there are probably far more people in all segments of society who are a detriment to life than an asset, so probably society is better off but, unless you're planning on identifying indisputably all of the others and doing something about them, not by any detectable degree or in any useful way.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Cue the 400 posts arguing whether or not "Internet" should be capitalized.
1 Internet = 8 internets
That sounds like superstitious nonsense. You can't summon a spell checker just like that! Not on Slashdot, anyway.
Mas spam his journeys as a fugitive? Or will he just play "Harrison Ford" and keep on running? Damn i did not know it was that easy to escape Club FED...
I can see 403 of them but after that it seems to stop.
Fugitive spammer dies in murder-suicide
I for one am very happy with the outcome, other than the wife & kid dying.
If only more spammers could die, in some way.
But isn't that an intranet you have in your basement?
He wasn't a loser, he was a psychopath. This is why spamming should be considered a serious crime. This person has just proved, by murdering his wife and child and leaving a baby to die of exposure, that he had absolutely no respect for other human beings. Humans are almost completely dependent on social interaction for survival. To undermine the trust and mutual respect that allows us all to live is the worst possible crime.
Think about the activities which have, for centuries, been considered unquestionably criminal: assault, murder, theft, fraud. All cases where the victim's rights over their own person or property has been violated. Spamming is another case where the perpetrator is pursuing their own interests without any regard for others.
I'm in no way trying to equate the magnitude of rape or murder with sending spam, but in my mind they are certainly the same class of crime. When we are shown that a convicted practitioner of the lesser is also capable of the greater, it should not come as a great surprise.
Be careful. People in masks cannot be trusted.
Looks like it works as advertised, after all
Which a bastard for killing a child. If he want to die, then he should have killed himself not not an innocent child also.
No shit... many times I've dreamed of spammers like him suffering a slow, excruciating death. Even a quick, self-inflicted one would be fine. But taking out his family is just senseless.
OMG! Have a sence of hoomor!
This man has been raypin us fer yeers!
Why don't you relax (anally also) and swig a pint o' Pinoqachole?
We'll be around shortly- With pretty condoms. Con't worry- I'll bring the ribbed ones! (I know you love 'em!)
No FreshMeat for him.
No mod points, no meta-moderating/Firehose/all the other free work Slashdot wants me to do.
Where are you from?
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Turkey? Iran? Pakistan?
You are very funny! Ho-Ho-ho, little fellow! Join us in prison here!
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I guess the fact that sociopaths do strange things, like .... oh, perhaps murder/suicide at his former residence that he no longer owns... might be a reason for concern when an escaped convict is running around.
If the people that owned the home or others had tried to stop him, how many others could he have EASILY hurt if he was already suicidal?
I guess your snarky little comment acting like a group named a "Safe Streets Task Force" was a bad idea, didn't stand up to the reality, eh?
+++OK ATH
It was ever high enough to fall? Right...
+++OK ATH
Awesome mods... "Insightful" on a command from a homophobe that lives with his transvestite dad. That's just perfect.
+++OK ATH
I never have gotten that "go sleep on the couch" thing.
On the one hand I paid for that bed, so I'm sleeping in it whenever I want.
On the other hand, I bought the couch too, and it's comfy for sleeping.
Who cares? I'll sleep anywhere...
+++OK ATH
not much funny in a murder suicide. A 3 year old child was murdered and her sibling has to try to make sense of this in years to come.
it makes me weep.
Being whistled at is not a 'micro-rape'.
Best rape joke I know:
I'm sorry that bill is counterfeit.
Oh my god, I've just been raped.
Props to Benny Hill.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I've always wondered what kind of tard sends these F&^%** spam messages out. Is it a brilliant, maligned person looking to make money and doesn't care about other people, or is it a technical retard that doesn't know much, so they resort to hacking shitty Windows servers to send spam.
Turns out I was wrong on both counts... they're honest to God criminals in every sense of the word.
I'd love to spit on his grave. What a piece of shit.
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boy were you wrong
Davidson wasn't the "victim" of a murder-suicide. He was the perpetrator of a murder-suicide. AKA, the murderer.
I was thinking this same exact thing, but forgot to mention it
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Works about 10% of the time, in my experience. Most of them don't give a shit. Taco has said many times he thinks it looks more friendly to make mistakes.
Anyway, look at http://slashdot.org/tags/typo . Lots of articles tagged "typo" still have obvious errors.
, is what I was going to say. I'd still say it if you just escaped and killed yourself in the ultimate anarchist revolution.
But, the wife who busted you out of jail?
There are no words to describe how low this is.
Maybe this sheds light on the mind of someone who would profit from the misery of others.
I knew a guy who made a tool to help spammers do their job. He used to talk about kidnapping women...basements and such.
Well, so far, that's 100% probability of fucketupness in my sample space.
Fuck you spammers. I'll see you in hell.
How many more years will slashdot have an off-by-one error on your Score in your profile?
If his career involved spamming for porno sites, would he consindered a King Pr0n? Can we grill him?
From the name of the Task Force, it's a safe bet that they think anyone who can walk and chew gum at the same time is a potential danger. While most people would deride the spam man's choice of ways of making a living, it's a fairly safe bet that he has got a reasonable amount of intelligence. That in itself is enough for him to be considered dangerous.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
I'm not sure if you've RTFA. TFA states "The man who escaped from a federal prison in Florence after being convicted for sending spam e-mail killed his wife and one of their children before killing himself in an apparent murder-suicide on Thursday."
There is a cure for this kind of occurrence. Spammers should get the death penalty, Texas style (no long wait, just hang um high). Or they at least need to put the assholes in real federal prison instead of the white collar condo kind.
I've had a 100% success rate so far. Maybe it just carries more weight when I do it.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
Wonder no more!
(I'm just reading this as background to todays news).
After reading some of this trash here, I can understand why the US is becoming the laughing stock of the world.
Some of you fools really need to eat some reality - maybe a few months serving in Iraq would be good.
This guy is a sick and stupid MF and should have been shot instead of arrested!
Anonymous Coward signing off - hehe
"Victim" of a murder-suicide??? How about PERPETRATOR. Slashdot editors, you live in a strange universe.
It took me a long day to figure it out, here it is: Compassion.
He ignored the meaning of the concept "What you do to your fellow man, you do to yourself".
He lived without compassion for anybody.
His wife acted with compassion, either blind or misguided, compassion nonetheless.
He returned the gesture with an ultimate lack of compassion.
He had no compassion for himself.
Compassion is essential for our hard-wired ideal of Civilization.
How did the term "compassion" suddenly bubble to the surface of my convoluted thoughts? After a rough and tense day (and night), I'm listening to 1930's harmonica blues, some of the most inspired, honest and straightforward music ever recorded. Balm for the psyche. But then again, so's Joy Division.
Hey, in some situations I'm a complete fucking bastard, in others I'm full of gratitude and compassion. When I figure out what makes me angry and why, I'll be a step closer to Henry Miller's ideal (and I paraphrase), which I've made my own: "The day I forgive my parents for bringing me into this fucking world, is the day I'll have it made for life".
Lil' Thindime, lilting a lacrimose lament, krashes the kwaint konfines of Kokonino Kounty
how comfortable was the couch? 3 a deity
Everyone realizes that he killed his wife, 4 year old, then shot at his 14 year old who got away - then offed himself.