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Gawker Pays $750,000 To That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email (gizmodo.com)
Shiva Ayyadurai still claims he invented email -- rather than the late ARPANET pioneer Ray Tomlinson. Now Gizmodo reports that Ayyadurai "will receive a $750,000 settlement from Gawker Media, the bankrupt publisher that he sued for defamation earlier this year."
As part of the settlement, Gawker Media has agreed to delete three stories from the archive of Gawker.com, including one about Ayyadurai. Univision, which purchased most of Gawker Media's assets [including Gizmodo] out of bankruptcy in September, deleted two Gizmodo posts concerning Ayyadurai -- over the objections of the editorial staff -- immediately after closing the transaction... The offending Gizmodo articles made the case that "a lot of people don't believe that Ayyadurai invented email," and that "networked communication actually predates [his] computer program by a few years." As Tomlinson told Gizmodo in one of the stories Ayyadurai succeeded in getting unpublished, the email formats that are so familiar today -- to:, from:, etc. -- were in use years before Ayyadurai "invented" them.
The third post was titled, "If Fran Drescher Read Gizmodo She Would Not Have Married This Fraud."
The third post was titled, "If Fran Drescher Read Gizmodo She Would Not Have Married This Fraud."
They harassed him and tried to ruin his life. Hence why there is no more Gawker, the site bullied people beyond what could be considered reasonable.
I didn't invent email either.
i supose he will have to sue wikipedia now or the writer. to be honest i do not know the evidence in this case except the wiki which states a constatment and makes a good argument for both but i would argue a evolution and his contestment a non contestment to ownership.
They posted sex tapes and called out people's sexuality just for clicks. Good riddance.
I will be presenting evidence that Jews working for Mossad carried out the 9/11 attacks. Although some will say that the attacks occurred over 15 years ago, they continue to greatly influence foreign policy to this day. Therefore, it is important that the truth come out, so foreign policy isn't defined by lies. Stay tuned for posts in later stories, which will present evidence documenting the role of Jews in the 9/11 attacks.
At least it paid of for him. Not saying it's right though.
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I say it's a YUGELY sad story because freedom of speech is a good thing. Yes, Gawker pushed the line, but we if we are going to make errors about the lines around freedom of speech, we ABSOLUTELY should err on the side of MORE speech. We absolutely should NOT allow rich bastards to abuse the system because they can afford to hire lots of lawyers and support lots of lawsuits. Now to the predictions...
I predict you think the notion of blind justice has become a sick joke. Regardless of where you are on the ideological spectra, I predict we would agree the American judicial system is badly broken, though we would probably point at different examples of the brokenness. I would be hard pressed to decide between Citizens United or Bush v Gore as the worst Supreme Court decision of my lifetime, while you might point at Roe v Wade or various other candidates. Maybe the long-term perspective will put the "legal" crushing of Gawker above all of them.
I am not going to predict the outcome of the election, but if Trump wins, I predict that his promise to strength libel law and thereby attack free speech is a sincere one. Unlike most of his other promises, this is one he can really deliver on, and I predict the Senate Democrats lack the intestinal fortitude to stop him.
Still related to the First Amendment, but mostly in other parts of the Bill of Rights, I also predict that Trump should feel HIGHLY indebted to the FBI. In his gratitude, he may give them more access to YOUR email. Email privacy is like a contagious disease. If you and I are going to have email privacy, then we need to protect the privacy of Kevin Bacon, too, and all the people in between. At least in theory, right now the FBI has to go through all the bother and nuisance of showing probable cause and getting a warrant to look at any person's email. Now imagine the convenience of starting with any known criminal and thereby having permission to look at all of the email of his possible accomplices. Oh wait, now you have to get the email of the 2nd degree people, and in six degrees you have EVERYONE's email. So convenient.
Nobody expect the Email Inquisition.
(P.S. I'm paranoid. I think the NSA already has copies of all of my email, even including the spam in case it has secret messages to be discovered later. I still don't want the FBI to have parity.)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...
These pretty much cover this...
Read his claims carefully. If you consider use of a database critical to email then he did invent email.
Before anyone criticizes me, the above is humour. Yes, everyone outside of Microsoft realizes that use of a database is not necessary for email.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Just give me a few minutes to redefine the meaning of the word "invent".
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Very progressive and modern name there.
I didn't invent a lot of things. Where's my $750,000?
Actually, as I noted in the "EMail Architecture" chapter of the "Handbook of Information Security", to To/From/Subject(Re) structured headers are far older than Internet email, or for that matter, computer-based electronic messaging. The structure of these headers can be found at least as far back as the inter-war period in military telegraphy and so-called tear-tape messaging. Those familiar with telegraphy-based messaging, civilian, military, or HAM-radio would recognize the elements of the messaging formats and protocol issues in the original RFCs.
I mean ManBearPig DID invent the internet, didn't he?
(Grow a brain, and don't bother quoting Snope's biased whitewash of Gore's claim - he was rather ineptly trying to claim credit for creating the internet, making "I'm Al Gore and I invented the internet!" a succinct parody)
Fuck Gawker
Why did they settle?
In 2012, an enterprising young Gizmodo blogger published the story of Shiva Ayyadurai, an MIT lecturer and renowned liar who pretends he invented email. Today, he adds another achievement to the resume, marrying Fran Drescher. Fran, you fucked up
What is falsifiable here exactly? Let's go through it :
The enterprising-ness is just a matter of opinion. It's true that they published something about Ayyadurai, perhaps not the whole of his story (I guess it didn't describe his birth for example, or how he sits on the shitter) but an interesting part of it; this is a reasonable use of the term "story".
True
True. He certainly is a liar to make that claim, and he is renowned in that many people have heard that claim and know it as a lie. I already had heard of him as a liar and I am no-where close to the story. Lets have a hand count on it.
Is Ayyadurai claiming it is not an achievement?
If untrue, this would be a defamation of Drescher, not Ayyadurai.
All sounds like normal stuff for a tabloid coverage of a celebrity. Ayyadurai wanted fame - this sort of stuff is what comes with it. Ayyadurai lied - this is the kind of flak to expect.
I read the article via the link posted on /. I had never heard of the guy, not giving a fuck as I don't about Fran D.R. Esher. But now I think the guy is a turd, a lying douchebag who only pretends he invented email, even though obviously it predates his "inventions" by several years.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the Streisand Effect, dumbass. Your attempts to suppress the truth have caused it to be spread even wider, moron.
Good job, you jackass.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000754/http://gizmodo.com/5888702/corruption-lies-and-death-threats-the-crazy-story-of-the-man-who-pretended-to-invent-email
i wonder if he will sue them too
Was it a case of Gawker believing their own premise (and that of many other people in the media) that revisionist history is always right and reparations must be made?
Here's a business plan you could use to keep your bank account full: have it translated into Arabic, Farsi, Turkish and Urdu, and have it distributed all over the Middle East. There is no shortage of Jew-hating fanatics who'll gladly lap it all up, hook, line & sinker. In fact, you would do even better to make it a newsletter and add to the number of things they did in 9/11 w/ each succeeding edition
In action. Iron, feels so satisfying.
Married Fran Drescher.
When did Slashdot start using madlibs for headlines?
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Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
To be expected
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Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
I guess this is what trolls do
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
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I feel so helpless...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
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Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
People, take note of this...
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Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Somebody take his gun away
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Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
He's an 'expat' for a reason. Who's he running from?
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Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Good to see you finally hit the wall in the other thread...
I don't mind being your soft target. I want them to see the real you
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Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.