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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 As Tomlinson told Gizmodo in one of the stories Ayyadurai succeeded in getting unpublished, the email formats that are so familiar today -- to:, from:, etc.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."
the site bullied people beyond what could be considered reasonable.
Because everyone knows we only want reasonable bullying.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I didn't invent email either.
I don't get it. Who wants to see a sex tape of the guy who didn't invent email?
No wonder they went bankrupt.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The case is pretty simple. The RFCs that created the Arpanet email infrastructure that modern Internet email is built in were developed years before this fraud.
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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!
Except bat boy has no tort, .
Hey, we don't need that sort of language here. Kids could be reading this page. At least use the medical term for batboy's body parts.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
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If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
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.
He'll be able to get enough done that it'll cause problems. You really think even the establishment Republicans would turn down a chance to flood the Supreme Court with authoritarian crazies if they're anti-abortion, for example? That's the same supreme court that would supposedly reject restrictions on the media.
I'd also like to remind you that history has a habit of populaces underestimating the ability of a demagogue to inflict massive damage on a country when they gain power, by writing them off as "just a clown" or believing "He doesn't really mean that, he's just saying it to get support."
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Because they don't have money to deal with huge numbers of frivilous lawsuits.
Essentially Peter Thiel found a way to do an end-run around the barratry laws: instead of flooding a target with frivilous lawsuits where you're the plaintiff, find as many other potential plaintiffs instead and fund their lawsuits. You can even look the hero by pretending you're just trying to get justice for people who can't afford it, even when that's not even remotely true.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
They harassed him and tried to ruin his life. Hence why there is no more Gawker, the site bullied people...
Oh so it's bullying when its the truth that he doesn't want anyone to hear... but when it's a falsehood that he wants to spread, it's 'news'. Is that how it works??? This is Donald Trump isn't it? Come on... admit it. ;)
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