Has anyone sued a manufacturer for false advertising and/or fraud, because they advertise that the computers come with Windows, when in fact they're hobbled by coming with (Windows + Crapware)?
No. Because that's about as absurd as suing McDonalds for not explicitly stating that their coffee is hot.
tl;dr: Obama did stuff. He spent our money and our children's money and our grandchildren's money lots of times. Also he stopped spending our money on things he didn't like.
*cough*bullcrap*cough* POTUS's power consists mostly of making people feel warm and fuzzy inside, and making the final (but not TOO final, don't want to upset the voters) decision on military matters. Also he can ask Congress to please do what he wants. Solutions to these problems still have to exist before the problems can be solved. I know it sounds elementary, but just because someone is in a pseudo-powerful position doesn't mean they can fix such large and complicated problems.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(*) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(*) Users of email will not put up with it
(*) Microsoft will not put up with it
(*) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(*) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(*) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(*) Asshats
(*) Jurisdictional problems
(*) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(*) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(*) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(***) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(*) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
As(I assume the misspelling was intentional)imov's writing is FAR above junior high level in today's schools. I finished a lit course two years ago (high school, senior year) in which few people could read the dust jacket of a Heinlein book. That said, Heinlein and some of Asimov's better stuff (he wrote 300+ stories, there should be SOMETHING) sound perfect.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, lord, THAT'S what that was? Summon Richard the Lich? *mindblown*
Turns out, it helps to RTFA. Hipcheck's identity remains secret to the public.
You make an extremely valid point though.
"Economic reality" is the key phrase in making this conclusion true. Might not be tasteful, but economically, yes, it makes sense.
I mod things as funny so others can yell "mods on crack".
My use of +1 Funny is clearly superior to your own.
You fell for a troll.
Wait... state the obvious club is room 206?
...
ST:VOY. A 7-year ping time sounds about right.
The point. You missed it.
Political parties? Or politics?
Has anyone sued a manufacturer for false advertising and/or fraud, because they advertise that the computers come with Windows, when in fact they're hobbled by coming with (Windows + Crapware)?
No. Because that's about as absurd as suing McDonalds for not explicitly stating that their coffee is hot.
/faithInHumanity
Oh, wait...
Absolutely. Half-elves, half-orcs, half-ogres... half-fiends... centaurs...
Not that any of us would notice a difference... The internet is full of one-dimensional idiots.
Somebody set up us the backup?
The irony of discussing Charlie Brooker when we're talking about bias...
tl;dr: Obama did stuff. He spent our money and our children's money and our grandchildren's money lots of times. Also he stopped spending our money on things he didn't like.
He was a community organizer in Chicago? Of COURSE that deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, what were we thinking?
*cough*bullcrap*cough*
POTUS's power consists mostly of making people feel warm and fuzzy inside, and making the final (but not TOO final, don't want to upset the voters) decision on military matters. Also he can ask Congress to please do what he wants.
Solutions to these problems still have to exist before the problems can be solved. I know it sounds elementary, but just because someone is in a pseudo-powerful position doesn't mean they can fix such large and complicated problems.
Actually, no one voted Bush out.
/pedant
Your post advocates a
( ) technical (*) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(*) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(*) Users of email will not put up with it
(*) Microsoft will not put up with it
(*) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(*) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(*) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(*) Asshats
(*) Jurisdictional problems
(*) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(*) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(*) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(***) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(*) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
You bet your +3 "Informative" we can!
.54 Mother Teresas of karma.
On a separate note, you owe us exactly
--The IRS
It's "Microsoft". Even "MS" if you must abbreviate. Typing "M$" makes you look like a fourteen year old boy.
RTFA?
RTFS?
RTF Title?
Please?
Seen too many fanboys. It took me half-way into the second paragraph to understand you were kidding.
As(I assume the misspelling was intentional)imov's writing is FAR above junior high level in today's schools. I finished a lit course two years ago (high school, senior year) in which few people could read the dust jacket of a Heinlein book.
That said, Heinlein and some of Asimov's better stuff (he wrote 300+ stories, there should be SOMETHING) sound perfect.
Also:
We nerds tend to root for the guy with the best flame-war grammar.
Just thought you should know. Red Flayer wins this one.
... They can't afford to get it wrong.
They can pre-install their office suite.
Trial version only, in the US. Antitrust laws.