So, if they get emails at this honey pot email account, and they are able to make deductions and say that a certain outfit was responsible for mining that email address and giving it to spammers... does that hold any legal weight*?
I'm trying to figure out how they can do this AND have it be able to hold water in court. Theres a hundred ways an account can get an email (spam or not) without it being mined specifically by the future defendant. I don't think it will suffice as the plentiff's sole burden of proof. It probably wouldn't be "clear and convincing evidence" (civil) or "beyond a reasonable doubt" (criminal).
*I have zero training in anything remotely related to law.
First off... if you add up the series 25+24+23+...+3+2+1, its equal to 325. So theres 325 combinations of two letters, not 10000. But I'm not an expert on kerning.
I HAVE spent 2000+ hours using Adobe InDesign in the past year, and I do use optical kerning on almost every body of text I deal with. I'm guessing this is what they are talking about (although optical kerning would work much better with fonts with good kerning pairs).
Something else that improves visibility on justified text is optical margin alignment, where punctuation marks go outside of the margins so that the actual words can line up along the gutter.
As far as web fonts go... we have much bigger fish to fry before we start worrying about optical kerning. Such as character encoding, and non-compliant browsers.
The Chinese people that bought Vista are probably middle class software engineers, like many of the people that visit this site. They value the effort that went into building the product by the team at Microsoft, and want them to be compensated, just like they want to be compensated for THEIR software.
As a college student, in his third year, I've been getting at least one envelope from Capital One every week for the last 4 years (it started back in high school). Of course this is just capital one, I also get offers from nearly everyone else that offers cards, but not as often as the tards at Capital One.
Then again, can you blame them? All I have to do is finally see ONE envelope I like, and their plan will have worked. When there's money on the line, companies stop caring about all the paper they're wasting...
Speaking of databases being hacked, didn't something like 60M credit cards get hacked from TJ Maxx? Maybe single monolithic databases that hold so much private data shouldn't be allowed to exist, hymm?
I have one major issue with gmail: no IMAP support. I view my email using Outlook on a half-dozen different computers, and IMAP allows me to always have all of my emails at all of the computers. Its a nobrainer that gmail should offer IMAP, especially that yahoo is now starting to offer it. Until then, my gmail account will sit with the two welcome emails in the inbox!
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So, if they get emails at this honey pot email account, and they are able to make deductions and say that a certain outfit was responsible for mining that email address and giving it to spammers... does that hold any legal weight*?
I'm trying to figure out how they can do this AND have it be able to hold water in court. Theres a hundred ways an account can get an email (spam or not) without it being mined specifically by the future defendant. I don't think it will suffice as the plentiff's sole burden of proof. It probably wouldn't be "clear and convincing evidence" (civil) or "beyond a reasonable doubt" (criminal).
*I have zero training in anything remotely related to law.
First off... if you add up the series 25+24+23+...+3+2+1, its equal to 325. So theres 325 combinations of two letters, not 10000. But I'm not an expert on kerning.
I HAVE spent 2000+ hours using Adobe InDesign in the past year, and I do use optical kerning on almost every body of text I deal with. I'm guessing this is what they are talking about (although optical kerning would work much better with fonts with good kerning pairs).
Something else that improves visibility on justified text is optical margin alignment, where punctuation marks go outside of the margins so that the actual words can line up along the gutter.
As far as web fonts go... we have much bigger fish to fry before we start worrying about optical kerning. Such as character encoding, and non-compliant browsers.
The Chinese people that bought Vista are probably middle class software engineers, like many of the people that visit this site. They value the effort that went into building the product by the team at Microsoft, and want them to be compensated, just like they want to be compensated for THEIR software.
As a college student, in his third year, I've been getting at least one envelope from Capital One every week for the last 4 years (it started back in high school). Of course this is just capital one, I also get offers from nearly everyone else that offers cards, but not as often as the tards at Capital One. Then again, can you blame them? All I have to do is finally see ONE envelope I like, and their plan will have worked. When there's money on the line, companies stop caring about all the paper they're wasting... Speaking of databases being hacked, didn't something like 60M credit cards get hacked from TJ Maxx? Maybe single monolithic databases that hold so much private data shouldn't be allowed to exist, hymm?
I have one major issue with gmail: no IMAP support. I view my email using Outlook on a half-dozen different computers, and IMAP allows me to always have all of my emails at all of the computers. Its a nobrainer that gmail should offer IMAP, especially that yahoo is now starting to offer it. Until then, my gmail account will sit with the two welcome emails in the inbox!