AG Reilly's settlement also prohibits DC Enterprises, Carson, and anyone acting on their behalf from violating the federal CAN-SPAM Act, the Massachusetts Mortgage Broker Statute or the Massachusetts Advertising Regulations.
So let me see if I understand this... the court settlement prohibits the spammer from doing stuff that he's prohibited from doing anyway. How useful.
basically ticking off the entire rest of the world aside from England
Nah, pretty much everyone here apart from the loonie right-wing fringe thinks that the US's government and military leaders are beneath contempt. Of course, what such irrelevant people as the citizens think is of little consequence, especially when there is no effective political opposition to the Blair Junta.
OFCOM are concerned with how POTS phone users can call VoIP users and vice versa. How VoIP users contact VoIP users is not particularly relevant.
When someone calls you from POTS-land, the 561234xxxx will route the call to your VoIP provider, who will then route it to you based on the remainder of the number.
Going the other way, when your call goes through your chosen provider's VoIP-to-POTS gateway in the UK, it will have an appropriate 056 number inserted in the SS7 data. This is essential for inter-telco billing purposes if the call has to transit another telco's network (which it usually does when calls are between people who don't use BT) to get to the intended destination.
And it's possible to get a London number outside London without using VoIP, through any of - ooh, about a zillion companies. People from most such companies hang around in uk.telecom.
As for you thinking that having a new prefix is a bad idea - perhaps you should have raised that concern in the first consultation. The current consultation is just intended to clear up any loose ends.
... they have changed the terms and conditions of your contract. I trust you are also making sure they change your salary. You might like to involve your union at this point.
DOS is very useful for bootstrapping a more modern OS. For instance, I used it to get Linux onto my Toshiba Libretto. I had to go through those contortions because the Libretto only has one PCMCIA slot (and PCMCIA network cards can't netboot) and uses a bizarre PCMCIA floppy which isn't recognised by anything other than the Libretto's BIOS (and so isn't available in Linux).
Also, if you rememberthe good old days of Netware 3 and 4, you'll know that they used DOS (in their case DR-DOS) as a boot loader.
The World Service is *not* independent. It depends entirely on the Foreign Office for its funding. What sets it apart from VoA is not how independent it is, but that the WS mostly tells the truth. Of course, mostly (and only mostly) telling the truth is the best form of lieing^Wpropaganda.
IMO, if they're on a computer which is under his control (ie he owns it, or he administers it) then he deliberately put them there. He may have deliberately put them there by allowing his machine to become infected with some winfestation, but allow them he did.
I take the same attitude to spam. If your computer sends spam, regardless of whether you wanted it to or not, then you are a spammer and should do jail time for it.
So I'm meant to subsidise your business startup costs with my fax paper, my toner, and my time? Fuck you! If you want to make me aware of your business and your fine products, then do what reputable businesses do, and pay for an advert in the newspapers.
VoA really is a government agency, and is the yankee equivalent of the BBC World Service. The World Service is funded by the Foreign Office (*not* by the licence fee) and can be reasonably considered to be a government agency.
Not to mention that politicians can pass laws sending spammers to prison. I can just see it now, J. Random Spammer, in a cell with Samson The Serial Sodomist, who wants to have words about that "herbal viagra" that didn't work so well.
Surely if you are implementing an aggressive anti-spam policy, you would whitelist those who you definitely want to hear from, be they friends, business partners, or mailing lists.
I "deny a chihauhau a place among dogs" not because they are too small, but because they're really fucking annoying, something that True Dogs never are.
Why? I use it on the train on the way to and from work. Likewise my laptop and my PDA and my ipod. When I go out in the evening without going home first, I want to carry my phone with me.
Porn was the technology testbed for innovative content delivery nearly a decade ago. At the time I was working for a major UK magazine publisher, launching and then running what were at the time some of the busiest web sites in Europe. We regularly looked at porn sites so we could steal the best new ideas.
This idea that a corporation should have rights - such as free speech - as if it were a person strikes me as being quite spectacularly daft. A corporation is *not* a person, but an artificial construct the existence of which is merely permitted by laws. Also it is incapable of assuming the responsibilities of a person, is not subject to the same penalties when it misbehaves as a person, and therefore should not enjoy the same rights as a person.
Regulating what a company can say is just fine. If the shareholders don't like it, they are still perfectly capable of speaking in their capacity as individual citizens.
Slashdot Mirror
So let me see if I understand this ... the court settlement prohibits the spammer from doing stuff that he's prohibited from doing anyway. How useful.
Nah, pretty much everyone here apart from the loonie right-wing fringe thinks that the US's government and military leaders are beneath contempt. Of course, what such irrelevant people as the citizens think is of little consequence, especially when there is no effective political opposition to the Blair Junta.
Oh good, this means that I can go away on holiday to remote places and be confident that I won't be surrounded by anti-social nerds.
When someone calls you from POTS-land, the 561234xxxx will route the call to your VoIP provider, who will then route it to you based on the remainder of the number.
Going the other way, when your call goes through your chosen provider's VoIP-to-POTS gateway in the UK, it will have an appropriate 056 number inserted in the SS7 data. This is essential for inter-telco billing purposes if the call has to transit another telco's network (which it usually does when calls are between people who don't use BT) to get to the intended destination.
As for you thinking that having a new prefix is a bad idea - perhaps you should have raised that concern in the first consultation. The current consultation is just intended to clear up any loose ends.
The one-time pad *is* a key, and the encryption algorithm usually used is XOR or a caesar-style rotate.
"Ulysses is unreadable, illiterate crap".
There, what more need one say about that awful book?
... they have changed the terms and conditions of your contract. I trust you are also making sure they change your salary. You might like to involve your union at this point.
DDJ (which these days only has about one worthwhile article a month) and Sysadmin for work.
At home, I subscribe to Annals of Improbable Research, Modern Drunkard, and The Chap. All three make great bathroom reading.
DOS is very useful for bootstrapping a more modern OS. For instance, I used it to get Linux onto my Toshiba Libretto. I had to go through those contortions because the Libretto only has one PCMCIA slot (and PCMCIA network cards can't netboot) and uses a bizarre PCMCIA floppy which isn't recognised by anything other than the Libretto's BIOS (and so isn't available in Linux).
Also, if you rememberthe good old days of Netware 3 and 4, you'll know that they used DOS (in their case DR-DOS) as a boot loader.
Better to avoid loud phone calls surely!
By what twisted, fucked up standards is Starbucks "gourmet" coffee?
The World Service is *not* independent. It depends entirely on the Foreign Office for its funding. What sets it apart from VoA is not how independent it is, but that the WS mostly tells the truth. Of course, mostly (and only mostly) telling the truth is the best form of lieing^Wpropaganda.
which is why the practice of electing prosecutors and police, as practiced in some jurisdictions, is really fucking stupid.
IMO, if they're on a computer which is under his control (ie he owns it, or he administers it) then he deliberately put them there. He may have deliberately put them there by allowing his machine to become infected with some winfestation, but allow them he did.
I take the same attitude to spam. If your computer sends spam, regardless of whether you wanted it to or not, then you are a spammer and should do jail time for it.
So I'm meant to subsidise your business startup costs with my fax paper, my toner, and my time? Fuck you! If you want to make me aware of your business and your fine products, then do what reputable businesses do, and pay for an advert in the newspapers.
VoA really is a government agency, and is the yankee equivalent of the BBC World Service. The World Service is funded by the Foreign Office (*not* by the licence fee) and can be reasonably considered to be a government agency.
Not to mention that politicians can pass laws sending spammers to prison. I can just see it now, J. Random Spammer, in a cell with Samson The Serial Sodomist, who wants to have words about that "herbal viagra" that didn't work so well.
Surely if you are implementing an aggressive anti-spam policy, you would whitelist those who you definitely want to hear from, be they friends, business partners, or mailing lists.
Not to mention the Evil Cisco Monopoly.
Amtrak doesn't run trains anywhere near as often either.
I "deny a chihauhau a place among dogs" not because they are too small, but because they're really fucking annoying, something that True Dogs never are.
Why? I use it on the train on the way to and from work. Likewise my laptop and my PDA and my ipod. When I go out in the evening without going home first, I want to carry my phone with me.
Porn was the technology testbed for innovative content delivery nearly a decade ago. At the time I was working for a major UK magazine publisher, launching and then running what were at the time some of the busiest web sites in Europe. We regularly looked at porn sites so we could steal the best new ideas.
This idea that a corporation should have rights - such as free speech - as if it were a person strikes me as being quite spectacularly daft. A corporation is *not* a person, but an artificial construct the existence of which is merely permitted by laws. Also it is incapable of assuming the responsibilities of a person, is not subject to the same penalties when it misbehaves as a person, and therefore should not enjoy the same rights as a person.
Regulating what a company can say is just fine. If the shareholders don't like it, they are still perfectly capable of speaking in their capacity as individual citizens.