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  1. A good bill! on Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users · · Score: 1
    Lets hope that they pass a good bill. Most of the bills so far have been crap. A good bill must have:
    • A requirement that people opt-in for the spam, or pre-existing relationship or explicit request.
    • A private right of action for individuals.
    • Statutory damages of at least $500 each, or $100 each if it was accidental, and attorney fees and costs.
    • Liability for the people who hire the spammer to advertise their products.

    People claimed that the courts would collapse from all the TCPA cases for junk faxes, but it have not. But, junk faxes have gone down quite a bit.
  2. Free pills? on Where's Sanford Wallace Now? · · Score: 1

    Do the women there get free breast enlargment pills? Do they get free penis enlargment pills?

  3. Remember? on Panasonic Toughbook W2 Review · · Score: 1
    Back in 1984, it took me 30 to 45 minutes to compile and link changes on a IBM PC/XT with 512k of ram.


    That type of cycle time forced me to patch the code in-line to test and be sure that the changes I made would be changes that worked. When you have a quick change/build/test cycle you tend to get sloppy, if you are not careful.

  4. commercial is different on Verisign Gets Out of the Registrar Biz, Keeps .com Registry · · Score: 1
    Stores are required to have their permits/licenses visible. Telephone solicitors are required to identify themselfs.

    Why should you be any different when doing business on the web?

  5. It does on Verisign Gets Out of the Registrar Biz, Keeps .com Registry · · Score: 1

    Your contract with your registrar entitles me to that information. The purpose for having this public is so that one can know who they are dealing with, for service of process, for contact in the case of domain disputes, etc. This is somewhat different from a non-commercial site

  6. Does this mean that information will be correct? on Verisign Gets Out of the Registrar Biz, Keeps .com Registry · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Does this change means that Network solutions will actually enforce 3.7.7.2 of the ICANN rules that states that the domain must be cancelled if the information is intentionally false? Or will we still have to explain that a phone number of 1111111111 is not a valid telephone number or that 123 Fake street is not a real address?

    Will Icann actually get off their ass and sanction Network solutions for allowing this type of registration?

  7. 1992! on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    No, I said 64mb of ram in 1992. In 1982 I built an Apple ][+ clone system with a Z80B add on card with a total of 256k along with dual 143k floppies and an Amalyn 6mb disk pack which contained 5 1.2mb 192TPI single sided floppy diskettes with optical reference tracks and each one was pulled in like a record in a juke box.

  8. I run some old stuff on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I still use:
    • Quicken version 7.
    • A northgate keyboard
    • A Maynstream 5000 tape drive from 1993.

    I recently retired my 486DX2 (later OV83) system with 64MB of ram, that I built in 1992.
  9. Yes you can. on Spam Slows Australian Net Traffic · · Score: 1
    There are ways to track some of the spammers. Even without loads of money. There is one person who received a $250,000 judgment against a spammer.


    If you track a spammer, and take them to small claims and receive a $500 or $1000 judgment, that will help against spam -- when many people do the same thing.

  10. it takes time and cooperation on Spam Slows Australian Net Traffic · · Score: 1
    If each country outlaws spam, there is no place that they can hide. The new California law will take effect next year, and it will reduce spam by allowing people to take spammers to court and take away all their computers away. This law will also allow people to go after the spam advertised products, thus making dangerous for the company that hires the spammer.

  11. A jury on Successful Do-Not-Call Complaints? · · Score: 2, Informative
    A jury would not be terribly sympathic to a telemarketer's time being wasted when they illegally called a person.


    They are supposed to fully identify themselfs at the begininng of the call.

  12. Consider this. on U.S. Lists Web Sites as Terrorist Organizations · · Score: 1
    Let say that a site is run by terrorists, does money that goes towards running the site that puts forth the ideas of the group, considered supporting terrorism?

    If you consider this about an anti-abortion group, would a site containing anti-abortion retoric by the same group who bombed an abortion clinic. Would that make any donation to their website or materials used in a picket would be considered supporting their terrorist activities?

  13. reliability, reliability, reliability. on Plug-and-Play for Automobile Embedded Systems · · Score: 1
    That is a question that must be answered. How reliable would the new standard enforce. Issues regarding noise on the bus, or component failure causing the ECU to go nuts, etc.


    It is a nice idea to have plug and play components and are able to access the control system for tweeking, diagnostics, etc. But, you also have to consider how much control should a car owner/user be permitted to do.

  14. But!!! on Suing Your Customers: Winning Business Strategy? · · Score: 1

    But it took 8 years! In this industry, 8 years is a lifetime.

  15. obvious improvement? on Microsoft Patents 'Phone-Home' Failure Reporting · · Score: 1
    Maybe because microsoft is used to having lots of bugs.

    Actually, there are a few reasons. I think the first maybe privacy concerns. Two, being freeware, the attitude is that they can dump the debug file into an e-mail. And maybe the third, I don't have a need for it because my code doesn't have bugs.

  16. Re:I worked on this one in 1982. on Microsoft Patents 'Phone-Home' Failure Reporting · · Score: 1

    No, it claims a superset of what I described. The first three paragraphs match.

    The other steps are obvious to anyone in the field.

  17. I worked on this one in 1982. on Microsoft Patents 'Phone-Home' Failure Reporting · · Score: 1

    In 1982 I worked on a project called ARVIS, which stood for Adams Russell Video Information System. This was a automoted remote cable TV commercial insertion system which had two parts, the remote and the base station. The remote sat at the cable headend and inserted the commercials into the cable tv streams, and if there was a failure, it would automatically call the base station and send the failure information. When I say call, I really do mean call using a Hayes Micromodem II.

  18. Remember the MPAA not only hurts on MPAA Calls for Ban on Screeners · · Score: 1

    Remember the MPAA not only hurts the constitution, but also common sense, research, education, the courts, and millions of trees.

  19. pay attention. on RIAA Sues the Wrong Person · · Score: 1

    Did you see the tag line? Or is it that you love spammers and you are a spammer yourself?

  20. Dealt with Foley Hoag on RIAA Sues the Wrong Person · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Mattel/MSI was using Foley Hoag to go after me. I didn't deal with Zick, but with Rosen. Rosen was not too bad of a scumbag, only a small amount of a slime-bag. It is not as bag as the pure scum at Schwartz-Nystrom.

  21. This is not new. on RIAA Sues the Wrong Person · · Score: 1

    This has happened before, not with a lawsuit though. There was an article over a year about the boyfriend of a reporter having his cable modem connection shut down because the MPAA reported to the cable provider that it was his IP that was sharing files. It was not.

  22. forget the remote. on Smart Sofa Recognizes Occupants by Weight · · Score: 1

    If you are as fat as you say and are sitting on the remote, forget it -- it be broke.

  23. Re:spam is ramping up on California Tries Spam Ban · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Did you ask him to send you an email? Nope? Then its unsolicited.

    The law is against unsolicited commercial email. Specifically e-mail that is offering a service, product, etc.


    The problem with spam, is that a technical solution can be bypassed. The only way to eliminate spam is to bankrupt all the spammers so they cannot afford a 80286 to send spam from.

  24. They don't communicate on Plasma Comes Alive · · Score: 1

    They neither initiate the transmissions or understand the transmissions sent. This is saying a wire communicates because it carries the phone signal across it.

  25. Makes no sense on Plasma Comes Alive · · Score: 1

    This sounds not much more than soap bubbles. This sounds like someone creating a simulation, nothing more. This is not where these cells are creating cells that are self sufficient, but just creating a similation. And saying that they communicate is like saying the two tin cans on a string communicate.