I don't believe so. Because Spamhaus did not appear (which they shouldn't have), the judge settled by default. If the company was based in the US, they would have appeared as they have to follow US laws. Then they would have won and probally brought a known spammer to his knees.
I used to work for a hosting company (a shitty one). Spam was indeed against the AUP. But as long as the spammer was not over using his resources or clog up the network, nothing was said. Really the only time something was said was when they sent so much spam out that the processes brought down the machine and they called for support. Then the answer was "your sending too much email". After about 4-5 calls, the AUP manager would get the issue and let the customer know that sending spam was against the AUP. And what was the price for breaking the AUP? Upgrade.
I just tried it out. It's really not that bad. Actually, really not bad at all. I, for one, actually like it. I'll probally never use most of the extra stuff but I do like the new layout. It helps me view the emails quickly to skim of them. When people say its slow, they are just stupid. It does take a second to load but after its loaded there's no need to open multiple links to view the messages and keep pressing the back button to read the rest. As for the ads, yeah they're there. Thats cause you didn't pay for it. If you notice, the other version had adds two. This just has the ads down the side instead of accross the top.
I can't wait to get that over here. Then when I get caught killing that family of 5 that cut me off on the drive home, I can just get some hacker friends to modify the code and make my sentence a fine of $50.
Hey. Your living in a police state. You have no rights. If I even suspect you did something wrong, your ass is mine. Oh, you know your rights and you got a lawyer. Ha ha ha. I laugh at your pitiful attempt at freedom.
Itll give you alot of stuff. NSLOOKUP on the A record will give you the IP. It's also got a ping and tracert so if you cant ping it from your location, you can ping it by proxy (effectivaly pinging from another location - very helpful if you run a server and theres a network issue down the line).
Few of us can remember any incidences in recent time when, say google.com or amazon.com or live.com was offline but we still do not trust them to be always there and available.
Whenever I setup a new workstation or do 'maintenence' on the network, I always go view and ping google.com and cnn.com to verify connectivity. This is cause I trust they will always be there.
Wasn't part of the reason we took Saddam Hussein out of power because he was using weapons on his citizens? I know this is different as these are 'non-lethal' but with out proper testing there's no way to tell if they are truely 'non-lethal' so who knows? They may turn out to me worse than the biological ones Hussein was using.
Voting doesn't work anyway. The Illuminati makes all the decisions about who's in charge. And if they votes are different than what they want, they create "voting errors".
As a result of everything I did, Web surfing got a lot more difficult. It took a few seconds longer for pages to load, and I received error messages from certain sites, which apparently balked at my not having cookies.
The reason you recieve error messages is cause the sites were built to track you. If more people became anonymous then, the sites would be built to not track you. If a new version of IE (i hate it but all the "i bought a computer, can i have a fork?" retarded people use it so more people use it than most others) came out that by default had you surf anonymous then the sites that track you would grow less and less popular as the people get errors and go to other sites where they dont get errors. This would cause the designers to change the site and make the error vanish. This is like anything that you change, its going to be a little annoying at first but youll kiss yourself after a while at how much better it is.
I wonder if they make pretty little charts to see which part of the country is 'stealing' what kind of music and selling that to the recording companies so they will know what part of the country to push thier new 'i wish i could sing' artist?
The main reason they are trying to do this with a computer is because the majority of the public has been brainwashed into thinking "computer...that means better". I'm a computer geek and spend approx. 90% of my day infront of one. But I know somethings are better without a computer. I know never to trust a computer because I understand how easy it is to corrupt the computer's 'intelligence'.
How do we know this isn't the start of an evolutionary change in man in which we start to use our minds more than our body and our body simply fades out so were left as floating heads? I agree that its good for kids to get outside (I personally only go out cause I'm forced to go back and forth to work) but, if you really think about it, the more a kid stays inside, the more he plays his/her game (increasing hand-eye coordination and troubleshooting skills among other skills) or sits at his/her computer looking up interesting topics (teaching research skills and also learning more and more) the smarter the kid will be. I think all the 'anti-technology' opinions you read are people scared of being left behind.
Also, I believe this whole article is just a marketing ploy by authors. Like the comment to the post states "A child who spent all day reading violent books would not be well adjusted, but there is nothing to stop a child walking into Waterstones and buying a Bret Easton Ellis or Irvin Welsh book..." I think the authors are trying to discourage technology among kids to get them to buy thier books. And I've never personally read Philip Pullman but a quick wikipedia shows some similaritys between his books and most video games out there they both "[...]feature children facing adult moral choices, talking animals, religious allegories, parallel worlds, and the fate of those worlds hanging in the balance."
E-Bay really did that to themselfs by allowing outside code on the auctions. I guess a prettier auction is more important than security for the millions of e-bay users.
I agree. Spam sucks. But there is really no way to stop spam. Spam is a good way of advertising. There are so many people out there that dont think and simply click because they truely believe they can get a bigger penis by eating horny goat weed pills. The only way to stop spam without completely removing email is to educate the poor smucks and cause spam to not make money. Spam is a part of the internet, like commercials are a part of TV, junkmail is part of snailmail, telemarketers are part of phone service, and sales people are part of shopping. Spam will always exist just like stupid chainletters from stupid coworkers will always exist.
Ok. You are correct with that. I retract that statement. Spam is different then junk mail it that aspect. However, the real issue isnt that spam is different than junk mail. The issue is that this is completely wrong as no one has the right to say "you can't do that" on the internet.
It doesn't matter what he did. He could have sent satanic porn to the pope. It's the internet. The internet is freedom. There is no jurisdiction over the internet.
Actually, you do pay for to recieve your mail. You either pay for the P.O box or you pay for taxes to have the mail delivered to your address. Either way you are paying for it which makes it the same thing. Just one is physical and has been around for longer so people have learned to deal with it. Email on the other hand hasnt been out to the illiterate masses for as long so they assume spam is a new concept that should be destroyed.
How can you sue someone or imprison them for sending spam? For one, thats the exact same (as many people have already said) as sending a lot of pizza coupons in the snail mail. If thats legal, then spam is legal. Also, the internet is an isn't owned by anyone, any country, maybe even not this world. The internet belongs to everyone. With this, you can not censor anything on the internet including spam. This is worse than the stupid christians trying to move all internet porn to.xxx domains. This is just stupid.
Oh yeah...I hate spam to but I accept it like everyone else should.
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I don't believe so. Because Spamhaus did not appear (which they shouldn't have), the judge settled by default. If the company was based in the US, they would have appeared as they have to follow US laws. Then they would have won and probally brought a known spammer to his knees.
Didn't you know? We're all living in America.
I used to work for a hosting company (a shitty one). Spam was indeed against the AUP. But as long as the spammer was not over using his resources or clog up the network, nothing was said. Really the only time something was said was when they sent so much spam out that the processes brought down the machine and they called for support. Then the answer was "your sending too much email". After about 4-5 calls, the AUP manager would get the issue and let the customer know that sending spam was against the AUP. And what was the price for breaking the AUP? Upgrade.
I just tried it out. It's really not that bad. Actually, really not bad at all. I, for one, actually like it. I'll probally never use most of the extra stuff but I do like the new layout. It helps me view the emails quickly to skim of them. When people say its slow, they are just stupid. It does take a second to load but after its loaded there's no need to open multiple links to view the messages and keep pressing the back button to read the rest. As for the ads, yeah they're there. Thats cause you didn't pay for it. If you notice, the other version had adds two. This just has the ads down the side instead of accross the top.
I can't wait to get that over here. Then when I get caught killing that family of 5 that cut me off on the drive home, I can just get some hacker friends to modify the code and make my sentence a fine of $50.
Hey. Your living in a police state. You have no rights. If I even suspect you did something wrong, your ass is mine. Oh, you know your rights and you got a lawyer. Ha ha ha. I laugh at your pitiful attempt at freedom.
yeah...another good one is dnsstuff.com
Itll give you alot of stuff. NSLOOKUP on the A record will give you the IP. It's also got a ping and tracert so if you cant ping it from your location, you can ping it by proxy (effectivaly pinging from another location - very helpful if you run a server and theres a network issue down the line).
Few of us can remember any incidences in recent time when, say google.com or amazon.com or live.com was offline but we still do not trust them to be always there and available.
Whenever I setup a new workstation or do 'maintenence' on the network, I always go view and ping google.com and cnn.com to verify connectivity. This is cause I trust they will always be there.
Wasn't part of the reason we took Saddam Hussein out of power because he was using weapons on his citizens? I know this is different as these are 'non-lethal' but with out proper testing there's no way to tell if they are truely 'non-lethal' so who knows? They may turn out to me worse than the biological ones Hussein was using.
Voting doesn't work anyway. The Illuminati makes all the decisions about who's in charge. And if they votes are different than what they want, they create "voting errors".
As a result of everything I did, Web surfing got a lot more difficult. It took a few seconds longer for pages to load, and I received error messages from certain sites, which apparently balked at my not having cookies.
The reason you recieve error messages is cause the sites were built to track you. If more people became anonymous then, the sites would be built to not track you. If a new version of IE (i hate it but all the "i bought a computer, can i have a fork?" retarded people use it so more people use it than most others) came out that by default had you surf anonymous then the sites that track you would grow less and less popular as the people get errors and go to other sites where they dont get errors. This would cause the designers to change the site and make the error vanish. This is like anything that you change, its going to be a little annoying at first but youll kiss yourself after a while at how much better it is.
I wonder if they make pretty little charts to see which part of the country is 'stealing' what kind of music and selling that to the recording companies so they will know what part of the country to push thier new 'i wish i could sing' artist?
The main reason they are trying to do this with a computer is because the majority of the public has been brainwashed into thinking "computer...that means better". I'm a computer geek and spend approx. 90% of my day infront of one. But I know somethings are better without a computer. I know never to trust a computer because I understand how easy it is to corrupt the computer's 'intelligence'.
Conspiracy theory?
Neverending Story III...how could you not know about this? It has the best performance by Jack Black ever.
How do we know this isn't the start of an evolutionary change in man in which we start to use our minds more than our body and our body simply fades out so were left as floating heads? I agree that its good for kids to get outside (I personally only go out cause I'm forced to go back and forth to work) but, if you really think about it, the more a kid stays inside, the more he plays his/her game (increasing hand-eye coordination and troubleshooting skills among other skills) or sits at his/her computer looking up interesting topics (teaching research skills and also learning more and more) the smarter the kid will be. I think all the 'anti-technology' opinions you read are people scared of being left behind.
Also, I believe this whole article is just a marketing ploy by authors. Like the comment to the post states "A child who spent all day reading violent books would not be well adjusted, but there is nothing to stop a child walking into Waterstones and buying a Bret Easton Ellis or Irvin Welsh book..." I think the authors are trying to discourage technology among kids to get them to buy thier books. And I've never personally read Philip Pullman but a quick wikipedia shows some similaritys between his books and most video games out there they both "[...]feature children facing adult moral choices, talking animals, religious allegories, parallel worlds, and the fate of those worlds hanging in the balance."
Blame it all on Microsoft for making it too easy. Simple solution, require Linux. If you can't use Linux, you best learn.
E-Bay really did that to themselfs by allowing outside code on the auctions. I guess a prettier auction is more important than security for the millions of e-bay users.
I agree. Spam sucks. But there is really no way to stop spam. Spam is a good way of advertising. There are so many people out there that dont think and simply click because they truely believe they can get a bigger penis by eating horny goat weed pills. The only way to stop spam without completely removing email is to educate the poor smucks and cause spam to not make money. Spam is a part of the internet, like commercials are a part of TV, junkmail is part of snailmail, telemarketers are part of phone service, and sales people are part of shopping. Spam will always exist just like stupid chainletters from stupid coworkers will always exist.
Ok. You are correct with that. I retract that statement. Spam is different then junk mail it that aspect. However, the real issue isnt that spam is different than junk mail. The issue is that this is completely wrong as no one has the right to say "you can't do that" on the internet.
It doesn't matter what he did. He could have sent satanic porn to the pope. It's the internet. The internet is freedom. There is no jurisdiction over the internet.
Actually, you do pay for to recieve your mail. You either pay for the P.O box or you pay for taxes to have the mail delivered to your address. Either way you are paying for it which makes it the same thing. Just one is physical and has been around for longer so people have learned to deal with it. Email on the other hand hasnt been out to the illiterate masses for as long so they assume spam is a new concept that should be destroyed.
How can you sue someone or imprison them for sending spam? For one, thats the exact same (as many people have already said) as sending a lot of pizza coupons in the snail mail. If thats legal, then spam is legal. Also, the internet is an isn't owned by anyone, any country, maybe even not this world. The internet belongs to everyone. With this, you can not censor anything on the internet including spam. This is worse than the stupid christians trying to move all internet porn to .xxx domains. This is just stupid.
Oh yeah...I hate spam to but I accept it like everyone else should.