And as much as we wish to make anything we find uncomfortable illigal, that is not the purpose of the government, or laws in general.
No, it is to keep sick and amoral creeps at bay, just like spammers are.
The biggest problem with spam is the deception and confusion.
No, the biggest problem is that these sick perves are harassing people. How funny is it when your 10 year old daughter keeps getting close ups of cocks in her email and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, becuase this morons are trying to hide their identity! A friend was setting up a mailserver, suddenly he noticed someone had cued tens of thousands of emails for some spam, he quickly blocked that when he realised there are amoral theives outthere who abuse other people systems (because the idiot politicans don't seem to have much in the way of morals either).
It is unrealistic to assume that the Congress will ban commercial email.
Of course it is, because the US is the Ferengi greed bastard capital of the universe - money before everything everytime! In most of the rest of the world, the first time some idiot called you and tried to sell you something, people thought "That's annoying - lets ban that" and so it was. This kind of stuff has always been illegal here, how long did it take you over there? 60 years or something? (Of course someone of us are amazed it didn't take 600 years!)
This was the right and proper sequence of events.
Hell no it wasn't.
As far as the non-US mailer problems, that will can not really be solved by the congress.
"So now they will send spam to you with a subject line of "Hi" about Mini RC Cars and Viagra and you can't do a thing about it under Federal or WA law. "
Why not? Washington law specifically forbids "false or misleading information in the subject line."
Why is "hi" misleading?
Friend, if you think the spammers are going to start putting their real IP addresses in the headers, you're smoking weed.
Personally, I'd rather warn everyone else who might pay for a shit movie that it was shit than whine over my $8 (around here it is $8-10, and that's Canadian $$$ even)
Holy shit! Canadian dollars! That's even worse - then its 21$
I you go to the movie, honestly enjoy it, and walk out having benefitted from the experience, I think that New Line (or any movie company) deserves your $8.
More like $14 - and deserve is a different ballgame.
However, if the average person/fan went to the movie after it was hyped up, found it sucked, and wanted not only his money but the 3 hours back... I'd support him.
Not even a gross profit
Evidently we are do not agree.
Ah, but of course it doesn't work that way. ROTK should live up to the hype
Undoubtedly, which is likely to make people forget the basic problem with the underlying system. Don't beat the slaves oneday and they think its christmas. If you made a piece of software that 90-95% of users found excellent and found the cost/value ratio just fine, would you like me to call you sick and amoral if you profited hugely from the success of the product? No? Didn't think so.
Nobody likes to hear nasty things. I probably wouldn't like to hear it - even when it was true.
Personally, I believe 'that some people were flawed during manufacturing and should be recalled.'
If you study psychology, you learn that all people, without exception are flawed - they just manifest it in different ways. Ideally we should all be helped, but money doesn't care.
A child was kidnapped off of the streets of Toronto in broad daylight, and reappeared in pieces in several suitcases the next morning.
Not good.
But the most shocking news was that within a 10 block radius of her house there were 200 sexual offenders that the police were aware of. Within the entire city there are thousands.
That would seem irrelevant, unless you posit that he was killed by thousands of people.
A sexual offender list is not a list of folks that parents can hunt down and kill. It's a 'heads-up' list. It's a 'yo! Don't let Suzie and little Billy anywhere near the freak two doors down.'
Yet its so handy for that. Its so handy for people who wish to hate forever and forgive fornever.
IMHO, freak forfeits his right to privacy the instant freak commits a criminal offense. And privacy is the least thing freak should be asked to give up as part of atoning for freak's crime.
Sure lets kill them. Lets murder all dissenders, lets bomb our way to a better world.
Taking a big risk is admirable when they are trying to save someones life. But when its just tryign to make odles of money on a basically corrupt system, its not so admirable.
And the more profit you make, the more "sick" and "amoral" you are.
That on the other hand is true, glad you see it. It is the ultimate abuse of other people.
I'll be sure to make sure my operating expenses are large enough to drown out the amorality of my income to appease the amateur economist Slashdotter who told me so.
A "professional" economist is simply someone who has devoted their life to rationalize their inhumanity. Their creed is constant growth - you know what the doctors call it when it happens in the body, don't you? It's called cancer. Its the same thing in society.
When you start making lists, why stop? They'll probably do something bad really soon (and beliving in supernatural beings, really, you must have a screw loose if you do that)
The sex offenders, however,
Have been punished. Case over.
Unfortunately, I think our judicial system does nothing to rehabilitate them. Locking them away for x number of years isn't going to change them. They need some kind of treatment.
This on the other hand is unfortunately probably true. At least if potential victims and their families know who they are, they may be able to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Unlikely, its far more likely they will comit new crimes against them.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's be clear -- Spammers are already talking about this open license on their bulletin boards and mailing lists.
And exactly are the addresses of those?
And as much as we wish to make anything we find uncomfortable illigal, that is not the purpose of the government, or laws in general.
No, it is to keep sick and amoral creeps at bay, just like spammers are.
The biggest problem with spam is the deception and confusion.
No, the biggest problem is that these sick perves are harassing people. How funny is it when your 10 year old daughter keeps getting close ups of cocks in her email and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, becuase this morons are trying to hide their identity! A friend was setting up a mailserver, suddenly he noticed someone had cued tens of thousands of emails for some spam, he quickly blocked that when he realised there are amoral theives outthere who abuse other people systems (because the idiot politicans don't seem to have much in the way of morals either).
It is unrealistic to assume that the Congress will ban commercial email.
Of course it is, because the US is the Ferengi greed bastard capital of the universe - money before everything everytime! In most of the rest of the world, the first time some idiot called you and tried to sell you something, people thought "That's annoying - lets ban that" and so it was. This kind of stuff has always been illegal here, how long did it take you over there? 60 years or something? (Of course someone of us are amazed it didn't take 600 years!)
This was the right and proper sequence of events.
Hell no it wasn't.
As far as the non-US mailer problems, that will can not really be solved by the congress.
One country at a time.
Oh and mod down parent, its fra from insigthfull.
"So now they will send spam to you with a subject line of "Hi" about Mini RC Cars and Viagra and you can't do a thing about it under Federal or WA law. "
Why not? Washington law specifically forbids "false or misleading information in the subject line."
Why is "hi" misleading?
Friend, if you think the spammers are going to start putting their real IP addresses in the headers, you're smoking weed.
Won't they run the risk of getting fined then?
(PDF, HTML version via Google).
..., then we know that there is at least one thing Google can't do.
The interfaces could use some polishing (i like giFTcurs the best), but I think gift has a tremendous amount of potential.
The potential being a fine from the RIAA.
...you really need to get a life.
When I get a spam for enlargement I'm annoyed.
Funny you should say that, a lot of the spam i receive is just about that subject.
...you'll only be spammed by Yahoo??
Hear hear!
... they would say "Ooh, can you get [insertname]'s latest CD?"
Which is funny really, you'd hardly expect this exchange:
Guy1: "Excuse me sir but I just moved into town and I am required by law to let all my neighbors know that I am a convicted rapist"
Guy2: "Just a moment, I'll get the wife"
You print it out, put it in an envelope and deliver it in person (with an armed guard) - clever! Ping times are bad though.
Personally, I'd rather warn everyone else who might pay for a shit movie that it was shit than whine over my $8 (around here it is $8-10, and that's Canadian $$$ even)
Holy shit! Canadian dollars! That's even worse - then its 21$
Learn some manners.
I you go to the movie, honestly enjoy it, and walk out having benefitted from the experience, I think that New Line (or any movie company) deserves your $8.
More like $14 - and deserve is a different ballgame.
However, if the average person/fan went to the movie after it was hyped up, found it sucked, and wanted not only his money but the 3 hours back... I'd support him.
Not even a gross profit
Evidently we are do not agree.
Ah, but of course it doesn't work that way.
ROTK should live up to the hype
Undoubtedly, which is likely to make people forget the basic problem with the underlying system. Don't beat the slaves oneday and they think its christmas.
If you made a piece of software that 90-95% of users found excellent and found the cost/value ratio just fine, would you like me to call you sick and amoral if you profited hugely from the success of the product? No? Didn't think so.
Nobody likes to hear nasty things. I probably wouldn't like to hear it - even when it was true.
Except Buffy was anything but.
Yet another twit who thinks everybody who disagrees with him must be a child *rolls eyes*
Television people actually have to make do with a decent salery in the future? Fancy that, no more 100000$ for a couple of days work.
And if you believe that, you are no better than they.
Personally, I believe 'that some people were flawed during manufacturing and should be recalled.'
If you study psychology, you learn that all people, without exception are flawed - they just manifest it in different ways. Ideally we should all be helped, but money doesn't care.
A child was kidnapped off of the streets of Toronto in broad daylight, and reappeared in pieces in several suitcases the next morning.
Not good.
But the most shocking news was that within a 10 block radius of her house there were 200 sexual offenders that the police were aware of. Within the entire city there are thousands.
That would seem irrelevant, unless you posit that he was killed by thousands of people.
A sexual offender list is not a list of folks that parents can hunt down and kill.
It's a 'heads-up' list. It's a 'yo! Don't let Suzie and little Billy anywhere near the freak two doors down.'
Yet its so handy for that. Its so handy for people who wish to hate forever and forgive fornever.
IMHO, freak forfeits his right to privacy the instant freak commits a criminal offense. And privacy is the least thing freak should be asked to give up as part of atoning for freak's crime.
Sure lets kill them. Lets murder all dissenders, lets bomb our way to a better world.
No,
Yes. The companies are not obsolved of guilt even if a lot of people don't realise they are being swindled.
Hey, they took a BIG risk
Taking a big risk is admirable when they are trying to save someones life. But when its just tryign to make odles of money on a basically corrupt system, its not so admirable.
Yes, it's wrong to make a profit.
You are entitled to your opnion of course.
And the more profit you make, the more "sick" and "amoral" you are.
That on the other hand is true, glad you see it. It is the ultimate abuse of other people.
I'll be sure to make sure my operating expenses are large enough to drown out the amorality of my income to appease the amateur economist Slashdotter who told me so.
A "professional" economist is simply someone who has devoted their life to rationalize their inhumanity. Their creed is constant growth - you know what the doctors call it when it happens in the body, don't you? It's called cancer. Its the same thing in society.
Why? They didn't do anything wrong.
When you start making lists, why stop? They'll probably do something bad really soon (and beliving in supernatural beings, really, you must have a screw loose if you do that)
The sex offenders, however,
Have been punished. Case over.
Unfortunately, I think our judicial system does nothing to rehabilitate them. Locking them away for x number of years isn't going to change them. They need some kind of treatment.
This on the other hand is unfortunately probably true.
At least if potential victims and their families know who they are, they may be able to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Unlikely, its far more likely they will comit new crimes against them.
Sure, and lets keep a list of the jews as well, and the blacks, and the homos.
that Peter Jackson supposedly finished the last cuts, this wednesday - would be awfully fast to make a DVD screener.