What is free speech? I live in a democracy that allows me, should I so wish, to *campaign* for the legalisation for necrophilia. I can talk to anyone and everyone about it.
As long as spammers can take in more money than it costs them, they will continue to spam. This is "rational" behavior in the economic sense.'"
The problem is, the only way spammers can make money is to break the law. Honest spammers are bankrupt spammers. All spammers who make money do so by committing fraud, or helping others commit fraud.
Web complaint forms are bit buckets. No human being will ever read it. At best, all that will ever be done with those complaints is that they will be data mined for statistical trends when Congress is reviewing the FBI's budget.
Selling child pornography on the internet (or off it) is a federal crime, but the FBI won't even take a report on ads for it.
Selling prescription drugs with verifying a valid presecription on the internet (or off it) is a federal crime, but the FBI won't even take a report.
Using a stolen credit card number on the internet (or off it) is a federal crime, but the FBI won't even take a report, even if you have a name and address for the perp.
Who cares if Congress enacts more federal laws that the FBI won't even take a report on?
This would effectively kill spam without creating much of an inconvenience to legitimate email.
Until spammers start signing up for mailing lists, and not putting the sending addresses on their whitelists.
There's only two possiblities: Either the spammers have some way to force you to pay, in which case, there will be massive lawsuits, or not, in which case, the entire idea is pointless and silly.
Blaming the AV companies for the failure of the IT personnel of other organizations to evaluate and properly configure their mail gateway AV software seems like a load of crap to me.
That's beacuse you're an idiot.
Besides, sending these e-mails arguably provides a positive service, because self-propagating e-mail viruses are everyone's problem, and a bit of vigilance on each person's part is required to prevent one of these viruses from becoming a worldwide problem.
Then you'll have no objections if I send you a reminder for each virus I receive? That'd be about 2000 per day, at the moment (more tomorrow, however, and more yet the next day).
Seriously, email me the address you want the notices sent to.
Using a shotgun approach to tell people that a virus is going around helps to inform everyone.
Sending more than one copy to a given address is abuse, and spam.
Everyone needs to educate him- or herself about virus protection and prevention, so that they can personally know whether their machine could be infected or not.
You need to educate yourself about what's going on. I suggest electro-shock therapy.
Also, telling those people to contact their local IT staff just gets the IT staff in gear to help stave off something they should have already been on the ball about.
Lying to them, and telling them to tell their IT staff something that you know is untrue is abuse.
If the IT staff were prepared, then their company's employees would already be in-the-know, and would not harass IT with needless panicky e-mails.
I am the IT staff where I work. My users are in the know, and don't bother me. I still get a couple thousand fucking bogus "you sent us a virus" spams a day.
If, on the other hand, the software package sending the spam warnings provides links to their web page, then I'd lean toward considering it to be spam rather than information
Bounces sent by the server will do that. I've seen bounces sent by the AV software itself, and I've seen some that bounce back a live copy of the virus.
The ones that piss me off the most, however, are the ones from Road Runner that say "One of our uses send you a virus. We detected it, we know what virus is it, and we're sending you a message to tell you about it. But we're too goddamn fucking retarded to tell our own user so he can clean up his machine and stop sending them."
The auto-response from AV software isn't spam, its the server trying to warn you that an attachment you might have cared about didn't make it to the destination.
No, retard, it's not. If you actually read the article, you'd know that. The AV software knows which viruses attach themselves to other files and which don't.
This isn't rocket science. It's spam, pure and simple.
Such things will be available in a consumer model, under $100, about a month after a company as big as Walmart starts selling stuff with active RFID tags still on it.
Most likely, however, all RFID tags will be deactivated at the cash register, when you buy something.
The company selling this is V Entertainment. And entertainment company, right? Just like the Psychic Friends Network is for entertainment purposes only, but have your credit card ready.
"Our products were originally for law enforcement use . ..but we need more development time [for that application]" Translation: They didn't buy the marketing bullshit, and it doesn't work.
You really are full of shit, you know. BN didn't require testing for all employees. It was only for employees who filed certain types of workers' comp claims (and only about 1/6 of those). And they were sued - by the federal government - for that, and stopped rather than face an obviously losing court battle.
And if the FBI bothered at all, they now have DNA tests of about 20 people, out of 40,000 BN employees.
The sky is not falling, though your IQ may well be.
It's called a "timeclock," and they've been around for a century or so. Palm scanning is new, but employee timecard fraud ("Hey, man, I'm gonna be late for work. Can you punch me in so I don't get my lazy ass fired?") isn't.
The reason those "underpaid and undervalued workers" are underpaid and undervalued workers is because most of them can't can't hold down a better job.
On the other hand, you don't know the difference between "a lot" and allot, nor do you know how to spell allot, so 'splain to me again why anyone should care what you "think"
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What is free speech? I live in a democracy that allows me, should I so wish, to *campaign* for the legalisation for necrophilia. I can talk to anyone and everyone about it.
Can you put up a web site about it?
How much are you willing to pay to be on every mailing list you subscribe to?
As long as spammers can take in more money than it costs them, they will continue to spam. This is "rational" behavior in the economic sense.'"
The problem is, the only way spammers can make money is to break the law. Honest spammers are bankrupt spammers. All spammers who make money do so by committing fraud, or helping others commit fraud.
The FCC has received very few complaints about jammed cell phones and has never taken action against anyone for that violation."
And they won't, until someone misses an emergency call, like a doctor, and somebody dies as a result.
We want Linux and OpenOffice on every desktop.
Then you don't want to run a business, you want to preach a crusade. And the two are mutually exclusive.
Web complaint forms are bit buckets. No human being will ever read it. At best, all that will ever be done with those complaints is that they will be data mined for statistical trends when Congress is reviewing the FBI's budget.
Selling child pornography on the internet (or off it) is a federal crime, but the FBI won't even take a report on ads for it.
Selling prescription drugs with verifying a valid presecription on the internet (or off it) is a federal crime, but the FBI won't even take a report.
Using a stolen credit card number on the internet (or off it) is a federal crime, but the FBI won't even take a report, even if you have a name and address for the perp.
Who cares if Congress enacts more federal laws that the FBI won't even take a report on?
How about blacklisting (and null routing) any ISP that thinks it can charge "postage" extortion for email?
Will Microsoft pay me for every email they send me that I consider spam?
This would effectively kill spam without creating much of an inconvenience to legitimate email.
Until spammers start signing up for mailing lists, and not putting the sending addresses on their whitelists.
There's only two possiblities: Either the spammers have some way to force you to pay, in which case, there will be massive lawsuits, or not, in which case, the entire idea is pointless and silly.
It's a stupid idea.
I'd love to see both Microsoft and Yahoo driven completely out of the email business entirely. That would reduce spam quite a bit.
So let's all write letters to both companies and encourage them to refuse to connect either way with anyone not buying in to their extortion scheme.
You obviously know absolutely nothing whatsoever about how SMTP servers work.
No, the providers does not necessarily know.
The problem, 'tard-boy, as has been explained, is that you DON'T KNOW who sent it. All sender information you have is forged, and known to be forged.
Read the damn article.
Blaming the AV companies for the failure of the IT personnel of other organizations to evaluate and properly configure their mail gateway AV software seems like a load of crap to me.
That's beacuse you're an idiot.
Besides, sending these e-mails arguably provides a positive service, because self-propagating e-mail viruses are everyone's problem, and a bit of vigilance on each person's part is required to prevent one of these viruses from becoming a worldwide problem.
Then you'll have no objections if I send you a reminder for each virus I receive? That'd be about 2000 per day, at the moment (more tomorrow, however, and more yet the next day).
Seriously, email me the address you want the notices sent to.
Using a shotgun approach to tell people that a virus is going around helps to inform everyone.
Sending more than one copy to a given address is abuse, and spam.
Everyone needs to educate him- or herself about virus protection and prevention, so that they can personally know whether their machine could be infected or not.
You need to educate yourself about what's going on. I suggest electro-shock therapy.
Also, telling those people to contact their local IT staff just gets the IT staff in gear to help stave off something they should have already been on the ball about.
Lying to them, and telling them to tell their IT staff something that you know is untrue is abuse.
If the IT staff were prepared, then their company's employees would already be in-the-know, and would not harass IT with needless panicky e-mails.
I am the IT staff where I work. My users are in the know, and don't bother me. I still get a couple thousand fucking bogus "you sent us a virus" spams a day.
If, on the other hand, the software package sending the spam warnings provides links to their web page, then I'd lean toward considering it to be spam rather than information
Nearly all of them do, dumbshit.
Plasma Rifle? No, son, when you're talking about spammers, you need a plasma enema.
Bounces sent by the server will do that. I've seen bounces sent by the AV software itself, and I've seen some that bounce back a live copy of the virus.
The ones that piss me off the most, however, are the ones from Road Runner that say "One of our uses send you a virus. We detected it, we know what virus is it, and we're sending you a message to tell you about it. But we're too goddamn fucking retarded to tell our own user so he can clean up his machine and stop sending them."
Assholes.
The auto-response from AV software isn't spam, its the server trying to warn you that an attachment you might have cared about didn't make it to the destination.
No, retard, it's not. If you actually read the article, you'd know that. The AV software knows which viruses attach themselves to other files and which don't.
This isn't rocket science. It's spam, pure and simple.
Thier general fear is that clothing and other things will have a EULA that prevents you from removing the tag,
Something that would clearly be unenforcable.
You wear that foil hat shiny side, in or out?
Such things will be available in a consumer model, under $100, about a month after a company as big as Walmart starts selling stuff with active RFID tags still on it.
Most likely, however, all RFID tags will be deactivated at the cash register, when you buy something.
Trade secrets do not enjoy copyright or patent protection.
I don't know what kind of dope you're smoking, but it must be good stuff. Copyright always applies, published or not.
'Tards like you are the reason that SPEWS is run anonymously.
Get over it.
The company selling this is V Entertainment. And entertainment company, right? Just like the Psychic Friends Network is for entertainment purposes only, but have your credit card ready.
.but we need more development time [for that application]" Translation: They didn't buy the marketing bullshit, and it doesn't work.
"Our products were originally for law enforcement use . .
Yeah, the war on terrorism is won already.
Never to return? Hell, I'll make a special entry to my hosts file to make certain my computer can't return, ever again.
You really are full of shit, you know. BN didn't require testing for all employees. It was only for employees who filed certain types of workers' comp claims (and only about 1/6 of those). And they were sued - by the federal government - for that, and stopped rather than face an obviously losing court battle.
And if the FBI bothered at all, they now have DNA tests of about 20 people, out of 40,000 BN employees.
The sky is not falling, though your IQ may well be.
It's called a "timeclock," and they've been around for a century or so. Palm scanning is new, but employee timecard fraud ("Hey, man, I'm gonna be late for work. Can you punch me in so I don't get my lazy ass fired?") isn't.
The reason those "underpaid and undervalued workers" are underpaid and undervalued workers is because most of them can't can't hold down a better job.
On the other hand, you don't know the difference between "a lot" and allot, nor do you know how to spell allot, so 'splain to me again why anyone should care what you "think"