Perhaps the definition of "fix" that is being applied here is "To spay or castrate (an animal)."
Sadly, this bill doesn't recognize spam being so much being "theft of service and harassment" as it recognizes it being "legitimate business opportunity that people are being fradulent about"
Section 107 limits the ability to sue to States and ISP's.
Under section 104, It's punishable by fine or no more than 1 year in jail for first offense, a fine or up to 3 years in jail if it's large, is a conspiracy of 4 or more people, or is done through hacking, and it is a fine or up to 5 years jail time if it's a repeat offender or has been convicted of a similar crime, or it is done to further the commitance of another felony (like a Nigerian 419 scam or pyramid scheme or somthing else.)
The bill isn't "Can Spam" in terms of canning spam. It's "Can Spam" in terms of "You Can Spam. Sure. Go ahead." It's opt-out, not opt-in. Prepare to have your mailbox flooded. Legally.
Sec. 105 (a):
(4) PROHIBITION OF TRANSMISSION OF UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MAIL AFTER OBJECTION- If a recipient makes a request using a mechanism provided pursuant to paragraph (3) not to receive some or any unsolicited commercial electronic mail messages from such sender, then it is unlawful
(5) INCLUSION OF IDENTIFIER, OPT-OUT, AND PHYSICAL ADDRESS IN UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MAIL- It is unlawful for any person to initiate the transmission of any unsolicited commercial electronic mail message to a protected computer unless the message provides--
On the other hand, Sec. 105 (b) (1) (A) (i) and (ii) make it illegal to use address harvesters or dictionary attacks to send spam.
I'm also worried that Sec. 105 (e)'s restrictions on sexually explicit advertising will be struck down as unconstitutional, and may have adverse effects on the rest of the law.
While short on specifics in the link, the system works with the ballot behind locked glass. The voter can verify that their ballot is printed correctly, then they can see it go into the bag. After this happens, the votes are sealed, and manual recounts are done in 3% of all the precints, randomly selected after the election.
I agree with you that people shouldn't be given receipts for their vote, but there needs to be a voter verified paper trail.
Dill said, however, that the design of a voter-verified paper system is not a trivial undertaking and that the usability and security aspects of such a feature need to be thought through carefully so companies design systems under standards that meet both these criteria.
Watch too much HBO and you see Midnight Madness, a movie themed on a similar challenge. Showing here. Starred Michael J. Fox in his silver screen debut, and was the first Disney movie to ever earn the PG-13 rating.
What about the case where the spammer puts a uniquely identifier into the URL. Sure, he may not get a sale from the clickthrough, but he gets verification that your e-mail address is good.
Where I live, I don't even have to bring anything with me at all. I just walk into the polling place, and there are people (usually older people) sitting behind tables with big printed lists of names. I tell them my name, and they find me on their list. They ask me what my address is, and it's supposed to match the one printed on their list. (Usually I can even see the printed version of it while they're asking me, so I wouldn't classify their security procedures as airtight.) Then I have to sign my name, next to a photocopy of my signature from back when I registered. (My signature has changed a lot over the years, and now it looks only a tiny bit like the original. But even that isn't enough to prevent me from voting.)
It sounds like you live in New York. At least, that's how the procedures are supposed to work in NY. The poll workers are supposed to cover the signature in the books while you sign the book. Then a comparison is done by the poll workers. If the signatures sufficiently match, ou vote. If they don't, you vote on a provisional paper ballo and then they muck out your eligibility later.
Sadly, thanks to the "Help America [Not] Vote Act", you're going to need state-issued ID and proof of residency when you go vote. Which, thanks to budget cuts and closing of some DMV locations, makes getting said ID difficult for many people.
We could really stand having instant-runoff style voting.
You're right, we don't know what the net effect is, but I'll note you get a double boost in the summer. When you capture photons at the window and generate electricity from them, not only do you get the power, you're also reducing the heat entering the building.
Hmm... considering that windows with greater surface area exposed to the sun would be better for generating more electricity, I wonder if we'll see more buildings like this one.
Sometimes people look beyond ROI when making decisions. There is an intangiable price that some people will put on "being green" or "being green friendly." Of course, this price tag may vary for different companies, but often times it can be chalked up to "public goodwill".
Well, I'm one of Honda's "Early Adopters". I picked up a new 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid. Isn't it pretty?
I had been contemplating a new car for some time, and was trying to decide whether I wanted to get a VW Jetta or not. Then I started thinking about fuel economy and all that. The VW TDI was pretty good for fuel efficiency, but I needed a car that said "geek". Then I heard about the hybrids.
In all, I like the car. I used to drive a 1990 Chevy Cavalier 2 door coupe. It's not like I went from a BMW to a Civic Hybrid. I'm not missing out on any power. The gas engine gives 80 hp, the electric IMA (Integrated Motor Assist) adds on another 13. The only place I've noticed a major change is getting on the interstate, my car is a little slower in coming up to highway speeds (mainly because NY forgot that "on-ramps" are for getting up to speed, not for driving around in tight circles.)
It's been real fun learning how to drive the car. True, mine is a 5 speed manual, and drives like any other 5 speed manual out there, but it takes a little getting used to. Not only are you trying to get from Point A to Point B, you're trying to get there in as good gas mileage as you possibly can.
Yes, the auto-stop feature can be a little weird feeling at first. Especially if you don't have the stereo on when you come to a stop. The car is dead quiet when the auto-stop engages. But, simply put the car back in gear and *vroom*, the car is running again. It also starts with a simple twist of the key, not the big long turn-chugga-chugga-chugga-turn over that my previous car had.
It's a pleasure for me to drive. It's also a pleasure to get into the car and see the MPG readout saying 51... or more (Mine says 56.3 at the moment. Err... it will, once I leave work and hop in the car.) Speaking of which, the road is calling me. Time to drive!
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Perhaps the definition of "fix" that is being applied here is "To spay or castrate (an animal)."
Sadly, this bill doesn't recognize spam being so much being "theft of service and harassment" as it recognizes it being "legitimate business opportunity that people are being fradulent about"
Forget my last concern. The senate included a separability clause in Section 112.
Literally, it prevents mobs from doing that.
Section 107 limits the ability to sue to States and ISP's.
Under section 104, It's punishable by fine or no more than 1 year in jail for first offense, a fine or up to 3 years in jail if it's large, is a conspiracy of 4 or more people, or is done through hacking, and it is a fine or up to 5 years jail time if it's a repeat offender or has been convicted of a similar crime, or it is done to further the commitance of another felony (like a Nigerian 419 scam or pyramid scheme or somthing else.)
For those of you interested, the bill is S.877
CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Email) opposes this bill.
The bill isn't "Can Spam" in terms of canning spam. It's "Can Spam" in terms of "You Can Spam. Sure. Go ahead." It's opt-out, not opt-in. Prepare to have your mailbox flooded. Legally.
Sec. 105 (a):
(4) PROHIBITION OF TRANSMISSION OF UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MAIL AFTER OBJECTION- If a recipient makes a request using a mechanism provided pursuant to paragraph (3) not to receive some or any unsolicited commercial electronic mail messages from such sender, then it is unlawful
(5) INCLUSION OF IDENTIFIER, OPT-OUT, AND PHYSICAL ADDRESS IN UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MAIL- It is unlawful for any person to initiate the transmission of any unsolicited commercial electronic mail message to a protected computer unless the message provides--
On the other hand, Sec. 105 (b) (1) (A) (i) and (ii) make it illegal to use address harvesters or dictionary attacks to send spam.
I'm also worried that Sec. 105 (e)'s restrictions on sexually explicit advertising will be struck down as unconstitutional, and may have adverse effects on the rest of the law.
ANd then leave some Santorum behind?
While short on specifics in the link, the system works with the ballot behind locked glass. The voter can verify that their ballot is printed correctly, then they can see it go into the bag. After this happens, the votes are sealed, and manual recounts are done in 3% of all the precints, randomly selected after the election.
I agree with you that people shouldn't be given receipts for their vote, but there needs to be a voter verified paper trail.
Dill said, however, that the design of a voter-verified paper system is not a trivial undertaking and that the usability and security aspects of such a feature need to be thought through carefully so companies design systems under standards that meet both these criteria.
Yes, trivial. Done. Completed. In use nationwide in Brazil.
There was a change to one of the preference panels. You can find a to the bug here.
Hopefully they'll release a version that is more compatiable with 0.7 soon.
Get Ron Popeil! For just 210 million easy payments of $19.95...
Watch too much HBO and you see Midnight Madness, a movie themed on a similar challenge. Showing here. Starred Michael J. Fox in his silver screen debut, and was the first Disney movie to ever earn the PG-13 rating.
What about the case where the spammer puts a uniquely identifier into the URL. Sure, he may not get a sale from the clickthrough, but he gets verification that your e-mail address is good.
Then, you get more spam.
Check it out if you want a good summary of all the DMCA cases over the past five years.
/. cases, Scientology v. Internet Wayback machine, Scientology v. Google, Scientology v. /., Scientolog v. Ebay, and so many more...
Umm... EFF has skipped over all the $cientology cases,
I can't imagine any other way to do it effectively.
I would imagine it would involve shotguns and hand grenades, and an armed standoff at the Telemarketer's heavily fortified compound in Waco, Texas.
You're right.
Should have been This. The bill text PDF's were correct though.
Sorry, try again.
thomas.loc.gov searches are time based. Results expire quickly. You need to find a more permanent link (house)
The text of the bill can be found here (House, PDF). Or here (Senate, PDF)
Hell, 25 million Americans still probably believe in Santa Claus. Sure, they're children, but that's really no excuse. ;)
Yeah, it is. They can't vote.
Otherwise, we would have "Congress shall make no law abridging the adoption of Santa Claus as a real person" as the 28th amendment.
So, companies will spend billions of dollars paying people to call people who have stated they have no intention of ever buying anything from them?
I say we just forced the telemarketing companies to save billions of dollars.
Could this be the start of a "my company is failing . . . I need to find someone to sue FAST!" campaign?
We've already got a "religion" for that.
I think you can request some demo CD's here
If they got a DMCA take-down notice or another C&D letter, they should submit it to Chilling Effects.
Well, states have non-drivers license ID's. More often than not, they are issued by DMV's, because they already ahve all the infrastructure.
Where I live, I don't even have to bring anything with me at all. I just walk into the polling place, and there are people (usually older people) sitting behind tables with big printed lists of names. I tell them my name, and they find me on their list. They ask me what my address is, and it's supposed to match the one printed on their list. (Usually I can even see the printed version of it while they're asking me, so I wouldn't classify their security procedures as airtight.) Then I have to sign my name, next to a photocopy of my signature from back when I registered. (My signature has changed a lot over the years, and now it looks only a tiny bit like the original. But even that isn't enough to prevent me from voting.)
It sounds like you live in New York. At least, that's how the procedures are supposed to work in NY. The poll workers are supposed to cover the signature in the books while you sign the book. Then a comparison is done by the poll workers. If the signatures sufficiently match, ou vote. If they don't, you vote on a provisional paper ballo and then they muck out your eligibility later.
Sadly, thanks to the "Help America [Not] Vote Act", you're going to need state-issued ID and proof of residency when you go vote. Which, thanks to budget cuts and closing of some DMV locations, makes getting said ID difficult for many people.
We could really stand having instant-runoff style voting.
You're right, we don't know what the net effect is, but I'll note you get a double boost in the summer. When you capture photons at the window and generate electricity from them, not only do you get the power, you're also reducing the heat entering the building.
Same idea as a green rooftop.
Hmm... considering that windows with greater surface area exposed to the sun would be better for generating more electricity, I wonder if we'll see more buildings like this one.
Sometimes people look beyond ROI when making decisions. There is an intangiable price that some people will put on "being green" or "being green friendly." Of course, this price tag may vary for different companies, but often times it can be chalked up to "public goodwill".
Well, I'm one of Honda's "Early Adopters". I picked up a new 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid. Isn't it pretty?
I had been contemplating a new car for some time, and was trying to decide whether I wanted to get a VW Jetta or not. Then I started thinking about fuel economy and all that. The VW TDI was pretty good for fuel efficiency, but I needed a car that said "geek". Then I heard about the hybrids.
In all, I like the car. I used to drive a 1990 Chevy Cavalier 2 door coupe. It's not like I went from a BMW to a Civic Hybrid. I'm not missing out on any power. The gas engine gives 80 hp, the electric IMA (Integrated Motor Assist) adds on another 13. The only place I've noticed a major change is getting on the interstate, my car is a little slower in coming up to highway speeds (mainly because NY forgot that "on-ramps" are for getting up to speed, not for driving around in tight circles.)
It's been real fun learning how to drive the car. True, mine is a 5 speed manual, and drives like any other 5 speed manual out there, but it takes a little getting used to. Not only are you trying to get from Point A to Point B, you're trying to get there in as good gas mileage as you possibly can.
Yes, the auto-stop feature can be a little weird feeling at first. Especially if you don't have the stereo on when you come to a stop. The car is dead quiet when the auto-stop engages. But, simply put the car back in gear and *vroom*, the car is running again. It also starts with a simple twist of the key, not the big long turn-chugga-chugga-chugga-turn over that my previous car had.
It's a pleasure for me to drive. It's also a pleasure to get into the car and see the MPG readout saying 51... or more (Mine says 56.3 at the moment. Err... it will, once I leave work and hop in the car.) Speaking of which, the road is calling me. Time to drive!