Let's see...could it be that they stole bandwidth? That's right...they stole something. As much as the FBI really shouldn't be involved with this, stealing is stealing, and those who steal should face the consequences.
And dont tell me i can block them at the client level, it doesnt address the bandwidth waste to my house
Sure it does. Nearly all of the adkillers out there work by intercepting the ad requests from your browser and blocking them. The request for the banner ad image never leaves your system, so not a single byte of bandwidth is "wasted" on retrieving the banner ad.
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There's an even easier way to do this. If you have a domain, set up the email on it so that mail sent to undefined aliases forwards to your main account (which you do *not* give out). Then, when someone wants your email address and you suspect any chance of them using it for spam, give them theirname@yourdomain.com. For example, if you sign up for Kazaa, give them kazaa@yourdomain.com.
With this method:
* Any legitimate business will be able to easily contact you
* No extra effort at all is required for each new address needed
* If you start receiving spam at an address, you can shut it down
You will also, in most cases, be able to determine who sold your email address to what spammers. I have caught quite a few places selling email addresses this way, including Kazaa (obvious), Morpheus (obvious), and Dialpad to name a few. Makes for easy justification when you tell them you're cancelling your account because they sold your email address to spammers.
Chairman Michael Powell stated, "The benefits of this transaction are considerable, the potential harms negligible
Allow me to provide a translation:
The benefits of this transaction are considerable: I'm receiving plenty of "benefits" (read: bribes) from the companies involved. All I have to do in return is not throw antitrust laws at them.
the potential harms negligible: Who cares about the consumer? As long as I'm not harmed, all is good.
You mean you have to download a program just to view the EULA? That's kind of scary if you ask me. You'd have to have one big ass EULA to justify something like that.
I will never buy another hard drive from that company ever again.
Neither will I. A few years ago, an IBM hard drive I bought turned out not to work, so I of course RMAd it to IBM. The replacement drive they sent me didn't work. The drive they sent me to replace that one didn't work. It almost took a trip to small claims court to get this settled. Their customer service is, to put it nicely, nonexistent.
Given the much harsher penalties (breakup, etc) that many people were calling for, and given Microsoft's record for behavior, do you think that Microsoft will indeed cease their monopolistic behavior, or do you think that they will take it as yet another slap on the wrist and continue to use their position to leverage an unfair advantage in the industry?
From the terms of service:
The Subscriber must not attach any device that permits access to services in violation of the Subscription Agreement. In addition, federal and state laws prohibit the possession, use, or attempted use of any equipment to receive any Buckeye services except as expressly provided by the Subscription Agreement.
And neither this, nor the Acceptible Use Policy [buckeyecablesystem.com] state anything about what download speeds you're allowed.
So the big question is, what is the real difference between a game that encourages you to kill "spics" and a game that encourages you to kill other people? Is it really that much worse to be a racist than to beat up a prostitute and blow up a police car?
Not a bad question, but I think that it would lie more in the obvious fact that the "kill spics" game not only openly promotes racism, but violent racism. With this game, you're imitating an Aryan extremist, whereas with the "beat up a ho" game, you're imitating a common street thug.
In a free market, quality always rises to the surface
You mean the "quality" stuff that has been coming out lately like Britney Spears and N*Shit? Yeah. Uh-huh. Sure. That's high quality stuff right there.
His attorneys will not comment on whether he can pay the court judgment. But the Washington Attorney General's Office maintained in its lawsuit that Heckel sold an average of 30 to 50 pamphlets a month at $39.95. State lawyers say Heckel sent 100,000 to 1 million e-mails a week for about a year.
100,000 to 1 million emails a week...let's say 500k. 500k emails a week is 2 million a month, for fifty responses? That's one response per 40000 emails..0025%. I know I'm just stating the obvious, but why bother? Especially when, as in this case, you only make $2000 a month. Come on, get a real job. It's like telemarketing -- you'd make just as much money, if not more, and you wouldn't be pissing 99% of the world off if you'd just find a better job.
Seems strange that they want to prevent the people who know how to stop snipers from helping. As long as the assistance is purely technical, I have no problem with it. Now if the military was setting up roadblocks and detaining citizenz, it'd be another matter.
There's a reason why they are preventing these military personnel from helping, and a good one too: the Posse Comitatus act. Basically, it prevents military personnel from doing most civilian law enforcement tasks except when authorized by Congress. Congress would essentially have to declare martial law in order for these people to be able to help out, and as scary as it may be, the current situation there does not warrant martial law.
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but it's getting to be repetitive to the point of comedy
You mean the BS patents that the U.S. government has been issuing lately?
What did they do that was so dead wrong?
Let's see...could it be that they stole bandwidth? That's right...they stole something. As much as the FBI really shouldn't be involved with this, stealing is stealing, and those who steal should face the consequences.
And dont tell me i can block them at the client level, it doesnt address the bandwidth waste to my house
Sure it does. Nearly all of the adkillers out there work by intercepting the ad requests from your browser and blocking them. The request for the banner ad image never leaves your system, so not a single byte of bandwidth is "wasted" on retrieving the banner ad.
There's an even easier way to do this. If you have a domain, set up the email on it so that mail sent to undefined aliases forwards to your main account (which you do *not* give out). Then, when someone wants your email address and you suspect any chance of them using it for spam, give them theirname@yourdomain.com. For example, if you sign up for Kazaa, give them kazaa@yourdomain.com.
With this method:
* Any legitimate business will be able to easily contact you
* No extra effort at all is required for each new address needed
* If you start receiving spam at an address, you can shut it down
You will also, in most cases, be able to determine who sold your email address to what spammers. I have caught quite a few places selling email addresses this way, including Kazaa (obvious), Morpheus (obvious), and Dialpad to name a few. Makes for easy justification when you tell them you're cancelling your account because they sold your email address to spammers.
Chairman Michael Powell stated, "The benefits of this transaction are considerable, the potential harms negligible
Allow me to provide a translation:
The benefits of this transaction are considerable: I'm receiving plenty of "benefits" (read: bribes) from the companies involved. All I have to do in return is not throw antitrust laws at them.
the potential harms negligible: Who cares about the consumer? As long as I'm not harmed, all is good.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads/ msdneula.exe
You mean you have to download a program just to view the EULA? That's kind of scary if you ask me. You'd have to have one big ass EULA to justify something like that.
I will never buy another hard drive from that company ever again.
Neither will I. A few years ago, an IBM hard drive I bought turned out not to work, so I of course RMAd it to IBM. The replacement drive they sent me didn't work. The drive they sent me to replace that one didn't work. It almost took a trip to small claims court to get this settled. Their customer service is, to put it nicely, nonexistent.
I care about my privacy though.
Given the much harsher penalties (breakup, etc) that many people were calling for, and given Microsoft's record for behavior, do you think that Microsoft will indeed cease their monopolistic behavior, or do you think that they will take it as yet another slap on the wrist and continue to use their position to leverage an unfair advantage in the industry?
From the terms of service: The Subscriber must not attach any device that permits access to services in violation of the Subscription Agreement. In addition, federal and state laws prohibit the possession, use, or attempted use of any equipment to receive any Buckeye services except as expressly provided by the Subscription Agreement.
And neither this, nor the Acceptible Use Policy [buckeyecablesystem.com] state anything about what download speeds you're allowed.
The bold part does.
The day we have all been waiting for is here. The judge has ordered an immediate breakup of Microsoft.
Someone care to tell me where the hell these people were when Cable companies took root in my town???
Three words: AOL Time Warner.
Two more words: Clear Channel.
A government decreed break up of a company worked for Standard Oil [us-highways.com].
Then why is the government letting S.O. re-form itself? Just look at all the huge oil companies that are merging.
What my roomate used to do is this: when they start talking, take the phone from your ear, put it to your mouth, and just SCREAM!!!!
Screaming won't be loud enough to induce the pain of which you speak. Smoke detectors, however, will. That's what I use.
If so, then go here to be placed on the state's new do-not-call list.
As far as I know, Microsoft sells you a license to use their software and not the software itself
So what happened to the doctrine of first sale? You buy a license to use the software, it's yours and you can transfer it if you want to.
The 'BJ' software
Does that work with Fufme units?
Could you provide us with a link?
Sure can.
I'm continually puzzled why Slashdot is a constant source of NYT readership.
Especially when the editors have stated that they have a policy of not linking to sites that require registration.
So the big question is, what is the real difference between a game that encourages you to kill "spics" and a game that encourages you to kill other people? Is it really that much worse to be a racist than to beat up a prostitute and blow up a police car?
Not a bad question, but I think that it would lie more in the obvious fact that the "kill spics" game not only openly promotes racism, but violent racism. With this game, you're imitating an Aryan extremist, whereas with the "beat up a ho" game, you're imitating a common street thug.
Most of the cable news networks and the three major broadcast stations here in the US get their stories from the New York Times
Do they have to log in first?
1. Jack
2. Shi...errr, squat
Seriously, though...do spammers really care about the law?
In a free market, quality always rises to the surface
You mean the "quality" stuff that has been coming out lately like Britney Spears and N*Shit? Yeah. Uh-huh. Sure. That's high quality stuff right there.
His attorneys will not comment on whether he can pay the court judgment. But the Washington Attorney General's Office maintained in its lawsuit that Heckel sold an average of 30 to 50 pamphlets a month at $39.95. State lawyers say Heckel sent 100,000 to 1 million e-mails a week for about a year.
.0025%. I know I'm just stating the obvious, but why bother? Especially when, as in this case, you only make $2000 a month. Come on, get a real job. It's like telemarketing -- you'd make just as much money, if not more, and you wouldn't be pissing 99% of the world off if you'd just find a better job.
100,000 to 1 million emails a week...let's say 500k. 500k emails a week is 2 million a month, for fifty responses? That's one response per 40000 emails.
Seems strange that they want to prevent the people who know how to stop snipers from helping. As long as the assistance is purely technical, I have no problem with it. Now if the military was setting up roadblocks and detaining citizenz, it'd be another matter.
There's a reason why they are preventing these military personnel from helping, and a good one too: the Posse Comitatus act. Basically, it prevents military personnel from doing most civilian law enforcement tasks except when authorized by Congress. Congress would essentially have to declare martial law in order for these people to be able to help out, and as scary as it may be, the current situation there does not warrant martial law.