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  1. Re:How does this work in other states? on California Anti-Spam Law Approved · · Score: 1

    You don't ask them to show how much they earned in the state! You demand their bank records, customer records, credit card merchant records, and their UPS, Fedex, USPS.

    You are not required to take the word of an opposing party without proof.

    Of course getting a judgment here and not getting it paid is a pyric victory.

  2. Re:How does this work in other states? on California Anti-Spam Law Approved · · Score: 1

    The claim of not having jurisdiction is bull. Juridiction exists where the defendant aimed the harm. The defendant availed themselves in the forum state and has done business in Virginia.

  3. Re:Sort of. lol! on Opt-In Junk Fax Law Survives Court Challenge · · Score: 1

    The funny thing in Ferguson, is that they are both in California. The case is applicable as any case in any state appeals would be. But, when there are no (or few) rulings on a specific law or issue the courts will look at other states, circuit courts for guidance.

  4. Sort of. on Opt-In Junk Fax Law Survives Court Challenge · · Score: 4, Informative
    In Ferguson v. Friendfinders the issue was not free speech, but the application dormant interstate commerce clause of the constitution. This is the prohibition of the state putting a heavier duty on an out of state reisdent to do business than in an state resident. In the Washington laws' cases, the court's decision was that the state was permitted the labeling of SPAM. That it was labeling and identification, not stopping and to stop on a request.

    This is different from saying, you can't send SPAM prior to permission being given.

  5. Which hacker? on Microsoft: We Make Hackers Obsolete · · Score: 1
    Which definition of hacker do they mean?


    Is that the definition of hacker which is the guy who works miracles and is a real programmer?


    Or, does Microsoft mean the type of hacker that can bypass Microsoft security in 30 seconds without breaking a sweat. As opposed to a script-kiddy taking an hour?

  6. Re:For us non-US'ians what is H1-B? on Sun Sued Over H1-B Workers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes.

    It was originally intended to allow employers to fill jobs when they cannot find legal residents to fill them.

    To be able to use this, the employer must certify that they not only are unable to find an employee who is a legal resident. They are also supposed to certify that no terminations would happen to the non-H1b employees because of this hire (ie. termination/layoffs shortly after).

  7. Interesting on A Slightly-Softer Microsoft Shared Source License · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Take a look at8. That if you sue anyone over patents that you think may apply to the Software for a person's use of the Software, your license to the Software ends automatically.

    This is interesting, could this be an statement on software patents? Or do they want to know if the software is patentable, then they want to be able to take patent action?

  8. Re:Per the article on Making Encryption A Special Circumstance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The government has been pushing through all these laws to strip us of our rights under the guise of "national security."

    You must be a criminal if you don't like having your phone tapped, being stripped search when entering buildings, having the police pull you over and search your car. What do you have to hide?

  9. a price list? on Texas Court Blocks Screen-Scraper · · Score: 1

    You are correct. But, you can't use a bot to copy a price list. A bot copies the entire page, then searches that page for the prices.

    There is a standard, robots.txt, that any robot write should follow to see where they can go on a website.

  10. Re:EFF on Texas Court Blocks Screen-Scraper · · Score: 1
    I would hope they would be supporting our right to copy information that is made public.

    They should not be any information made publicto be freely copied. Are you saying because a book that has been made public, one you can copy the book and then sell the copies.


    This is not the first case of its kind, the first circuit court of appeals have upheld similar on another case EF CULTURAL TRAVEL v. EXPLORICA, INC

  11. Only for AOL? on Forty Percent of All Email is Spam · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article stated the figure came from Brightmail not AOL.

    If it was AOL or Verizon, then I would think that the numbers would be skewed as they have sued spammers and those spammers have agreed not to send spam on those networks.

    Grasshopper, remember the two rules of spammers.

    1. Spammers lie.

    2. If a spammer says anything, see rule 1.

  12. First amendment. on AOL Cans 1 billion Spams In One Day · · Score: 1
    There is no first ammendment right to sell my 5 year niece penis enlargment pills.


    There is less first amendment protection for commercial speech.

    Even if it protected, you have no right to use my bandwidth, my disk space, my processing power, and to tresspass on my machines to advertise to me.

  13. Most have some sort on Do You Write Backdoors? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most applications have some sort of back door.

    There are different extents to back doors. For example, in some filtering programs, you get admin access. In other programs, you have the ability to log in as a remote user. In another, you can bypass the encrytion passcodes.

    Having a remote access backdoor saves lots of trips to a customer site. Having a backdoor for admin access is good when they lose their passwords. Or remotely shutting down the application is good when they don't pay.

    There is also the other site to consider, if there is a back door, the application is clearly less secure.

    You have to balance the lack of security caused by this by the need for the features the different back doors offer.

    You should tell the client about this, but then it is a problem. If you tell people about back doors, some people may try to hack it. Having the remote ability to shut down an application may defeat the purpose.

  14. Professionals? on Is Microsoft Hoisting Its Own Copyright Petard? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The Titanic was built by professionals. Noah was an amature when he built his ark.


    What about looking at the number of crashes in Linux v. Windows?

  15. Where will it start or end? on Battlestar Galactica to Return · · Score: 1

    They made a new BSG starting when they arrived at earth, it lasted only about 6 episodes before it died.

    Will this be a remake and start from the attack on the colonies, or start with the arrival at earth?

    Or will this start at the cylon attack on earth?

  16. What are you bitching about? on California Looking For Spam Samples · · Score: 1

    Whenever one complains to the police or file a complaint with the court, one identifies the who the criminal is, where they are, and details the elements of the crime that they committed.

    Isn't a little work with the pleasure of seeing the spammer hauled away in handcuffs?

  17. Re:lets be realistic on Spammers Using Students as Relays · · Score: 1
    spam is the equivalent of getting a pizza delivery advert on your doornob or on you car windshield.

    You are close.


    It is the equivelent of 200 people each day, walking across your flower garden and taping the each advertisements to the door. Or, those 200 people breaking your winshield wiper, while using your duct tape to take those advertisements to your car.

  18. Re:Can we say expulsion? on Spammers Using Students as Relays · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is stealing. In addition, in most schools, one is not supposed to use the school facilities for individual profit making.

    In addition, SPAM is a crime in California. The computer tresspass act makes this a federal crime. Don't you remember the case where a lab admin (or sys admin) was arrested for installing a distributed processing program on all the lab machines?

  19. Re:SPAM IS THEFT! on Spammers Using Students as Relays · · Score: 1
    When I get junk mail, they're using MY MAILBOX and TAXPAYER-PAID MAIL CARRIERS to force me to listen to their message.

    Mail carriers are not taxpayer paid. Postage is what pays the mail carriers. And, it is illegal to place any items in the mailbox unless postage has been paid.

  20. Let me have your address. on Spammers Using Students as Relays · · Score: 1
    Let me have your home address so that I can come by your house and use your TV, computer, phone, etc.

    It's ok, you could always put on more locks on your doors and bars on your windows.


    Spam detection programs always fail to some extent.

  21. SPAM IS THEFT! on Spammers Using Students as Relays · · Score: 1
    You are using other people's resources to force them to listen to your message without paying for those resources.


    This is the same as if I call you, say that I am your mother and that I have fallen and can't get up, but I really don't know you and that want to sell you my wireless service.


    What part of SPAMMING IS THEFT don't you understand?

  22. Can we say expulsion? on Spammers Using Students as Relays · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Let see, a kid sets up a computer to steal on the college network. If the student hacked in the the dean's computer to get porn, it would be all over the news, the kid would be arrested.


    The kid should be charged the same as the person who put the distributed decryption software, that was all over the news, and expelled.

  23. It is valid. on Michigander Beats Spammer With "Junk Fax" Law · · Score: 4, Informative

    The definition of a fax machine under the TCPA does cover a computer with faxmodem and printer. There are many lawyers who argue that it is not intended to be used that way and the courts will not support it. I have been unable to find any binding case (ruled on by an appeals court) in the country that has said a computer with faxmodem and printer does not qualify as a fax machine. The only case that comes close is one that argues over jurisdiction in state of federal court. The appeals court mentioned that it was spam in a footnote, but took no action. As this was an appeals of a summary judgment, the court had the ability to dismiss on the issue of spam TCPA not applying to spam, but did not do so.

    More information is at http://www.phillipsnizer.com/int-art111.htm

  24. Even closer on Berman Bill Dead in the Water? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The neighborhood watch kicking in the door that they might think might be a drug dealer and demand that they prove that they are not drug dealers by giving blood tests, urin tests, the bugging of telephones, and the installation of cameras in every room of the house.

  25. Re:Actually on Compiling Under Wine · · Score: 1
    It was not the repaint code. The repaint code was being called twice.


    I am not saying that profiling is bad. Profiling is only one method of many to use.


    The best way is to use the force.