If The Hon. Mark Dayton, Senator from Minnesota, thinks it's even possible to tax the millions - yes, millions of privately owned mail servers out there, then The Hon. Mark Dayton, Senator from Minnesota is a retard.
Not to mention, most spam comes from outside the US. How is The Hon. Mark Dayton, Senator from Minnesota going to tax mail servers in China? Declare war?
That sort of thing is very easy to turn back on the lawyer. If they use two terms interchangeably when they're not, you simply ask - every single time - for them to precisely (in legal terms) define each term. If the judge doesn't like it, you just say, "Your honor, I can't answer that question without knowing exactly what he means, and more to the point, without the jury knowing exactly what he means. If I answer without those precise definitions, the jury might come to the wrong understanding of what I'm saying. Since I know that, that would be perjury, wouldn't it? Your honor isn't ordering me to commit felony perjury, are you?"
Wire transfers to banks in countries that do not have extradition treaties with the US (or where the officials who sign extradition orders are willing to take a cut).
Well, for the US to even recognize a UN ruling requires approval of the president and 2/3 of the House and Senate. Technically, UN rulings are considered treaties. Even when it's recognized, it still requires an act of Congress to enact some sort of legislation before anyone can be prosecuted.
And treaties cannot conflict with the Constitution. Such a treaty would fly in the face of the first amendment, and wouldn't stand a chance in hell.
A) Such a treaty would never be approved by the US Senate.
B) If it were, it would never pass a constitutional challenge.
C) If it did, the UN doesn't have enough of an understanding of what the internet is, much less how it works.
D) If they can figure it out, their entire annual budget couldn't possibly pay for the bandwidth, hardware, software (almost certainly Microsoft, after all) and technical expertise to even monitor, much less control the internet.
That's easy to deal with. You seed the list with spamtrap addresses. When (not if) a spamtrap address gets spammed, the FTC tracks down the ethikul bidnez it is advertising and tells them "Either you roll over on the spammer, or you take the fall." And when the spammer says "We bought the list from someone else," you tell them, "You're still in violation for not checking these addresses, but we'll refrain from criminal charges if you roll over on who you bought it from."
Still doesn't deal with off-shore spammers, though.
Spam blacklists are unsustainable in a world where most net connections come across DHCP, and most spam is/will be sent from owned home computers.
That was a problem solved several years ago. Many ISPs simply block any and all DCHP addresses that they can identify, and many specifically list their DHCP addresses with some of the block lists to make it easier.
This is because nearly all email from DCHP addresses is, in fact, spam, and most of the rest is from someone violating their AUP in the first place, running a server on a consumer account.
There are only a couple of possibilities here. One, you are running your own server on a consumer account with a dynamic IP address, in which case you are likely in violation of your AUP, or two, your ISP is utterly clueless and has put their static IPs in the middle of their dymanic range.
Either way, get a real provider, and your problems will disappear.
An abundace of traffic is an scarcity of roads. And abundance of fat is an scarcity of self control. And abudance of spam is a scarcity of cattle prods.
7th Affirmative Defense - The GPL is selectively enforced by the Free Software Foundation such that enforcement of the GPL by IBM or others is waived, estopped or otherwise barred as a matter of equity
I guess they don't know the difference between copyright and trademark. Selective enforcement has zero effect on enforcebility of copyright. Black letter law.
8th Affirmative Defense - The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust and export control laws, and IBM's claims based theron, or related thereto, are barred.'
Export control laws? I see, now. Their defense is "We're to fucking retarded that we need a keeper. Please give us money."
Senator John McCain sums it up: 'The odds of defeating spam by legislation alone is extremely low, but that does not mean we should stand idly by and do nothing about it.'
The odds of legislation doing anything to decrease spam are just about zero. The odds of legislation increasing spam approach unity. This bill certainly would, since it destroys existing state law prohibiting real spam (which this one doesn't), including California's law that makes spamming a criminal offense.
I think Mr. McCain spent a little too much time in his bamboo cage anyway.
You're not familiar with the "Al Capone's Vault" incident, are you? I suspect his greatest regret is that the whiskey bottle was empty, because he sure looked like he needed a drink at that moment.
You forgot to metnion the t-shirt stands that will line Main Street, once the tourists show up.
This happened, when I was in high school in Lincoln County, Missouri. The next town up highway 79 was Ellsberry, and it had quite a little sensation with "UFOs" spotted out to the east. Lasted several months, with newsies from St. Louis showing up, and lots and lots of tourists, who spend a lot of money on t-shirts, coffee mugs and beer.
It was, of course, barge lights, on the Mississippi River, shining on the underside of low lying clouds.
There were a number of people in Ellsberry who made a killing on the tourist trade, and all the locals had a hell of a laugh.
Well, how much would it be worth to you to be able to call your friends and family for free by using the Internet?
Let's see. To connect to the internet, you must be have a phone line, DSL (which also requires a phone line), cable (which cost more than a phone line), or something even more expensive like T-1.
This may just be a pet peeve of mine, but why is it that so many educated people use the word "literally" when they mean precisely the opposite?
The sentence conjures up images of screaming shysters fleeing desperately from the good guy's lawyer, who in a frenzy of righteous anger is attempting to chase them down and cut their throats. That may be how the judicial system works in Afghanistan, but not in America, the land of the Free and Non-Literal.
You've obviously never seen a picture of Pete "Heads On Pikes" Wellborn.
I know... I know... not a lot of sympathy, but still, I work for a business who would like to do nothing more than play by the rules, but all kinds of barriers have been put up in our way.
I don't believe you. I don't think anyone in the telemarketing industry wants to follow any rules but the rule of the jungle. I think you, personally, should either kill yourself now, or take up a more respectable profession, like prostitution, or child pornography, or maybe masturbating zoo animals for breeding purposes. Then, when you've regained your self respect, kill yourself in shame.
One upside is I am glad its now enforceable since if it wasnt, that list could have just become a big telemarketers dream turning from a donotcall list to a here is a free list 50 million potential calls courtesy of the govt.
No, actually, that has been a federal crime all along, far more serious than a mere fine.
Initially payments would be by credit card, but in the future downloads would be automatically detected and a charge added to the monthly internet service provider bill.
Yeah, that's gonna happen. Dipshits have been trying that with email, to stop spam, for years, and spam is a real problem.
Instead of just reading an email (... just reading an email?!?), a Linux user would have to read the email, save the attachment, give the attachment executable permissions, and then run the executable. Even as less sophisticated users begin to migrate to Linux, they may not understand exactly why they can't just execute attachments, but they will still have to go through the steps.
Until, due to popular demand, Microsoft ports OE to Linux, and it does all that for the average user, who really has demanded it so they can view the wicked screensaver - that really was just a wicked screensaver - that their pervert friend sent them.
Further, due to the strong community around Linux, new users will receive education and encouragement in areas such as email security that are currently lacking in the Windows world, which should help to alleviate any concerns on the part of newbies.
Based on my personal experience, asking the "strong community around Linux" a question like "How do I run this wicked screensaver my pervert friend sent me" is far more likely to get you killed and eaten by cannibals.
Further, due to the strong separation between normal users and the privileged root user
Unless the averate user just logs in as root all the time, because it's the easiest way to run that wicked screensaver their pervert friend sent them. There's already distros that will automatically log in a user. I suspect they won't, for the most part, auto-log you in as root. Yet. But the Microsoft distro will, of course, because the users wante to be able to run that wicked screen saver their pervert friend sent them, and that's the easiest way. In fact, the author even talks about Lindows doing just that.
The more steps, the less likely a virus infection becomes, and certainly the less likely a catastrophically spreading virus becomes.
No, the more steps, the more likely someone will do an "easy to use" distro that simply automates those steps. That's how Windows get where it is: user demand.
Microsoft continually links together its software, often not for technical reasons, but instead for marketing or business development reasons (see the previous link for corroboration). For instance, Outlook Express and Outlook both use the consistently-buggy Internet Explorer to view HTML-based emails. As a result, a hole in IE affects OE. Linux email readers don't indulge in such behavior . . .
If Linux becomes a major part of the desktop world, the most popular email readers will do such things, for the same reason that Microsoft's do: users want stuff integrated.
I doubt Linux will ever be as prone to viruses and worms as Windows is, except a Microsoft distro maybe. But the arrogance, and absolute cluelessness of the fact that social engineering works both ways - user demand socially engineers programmers in to doing stupid things every bit as much as virus writers do to users - that arrogance and cluelessness are the reason why viruses will continue to plague the world regardless of what operating system we use.
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I'm sure Chinanet will cooperate with that. Yeah, right.
If The Hon. Mark Dayton, Senator from Minnesota, thinks it's even possible to tax the millions - yes, millions of privately owned mail servers out there, then The Hon. Mark Dayton, Senator from Minnesota is a retard.
Not to mention, most spam comes from outside the US. How is The Hon. Mark Dayton, Senator from Minnesota going to tax mail servers in China? Declare war?
There are literally thousands of banks that offer merchant services in the US alone.
Six people would triple the number of people assigned to the problem, and make no difference whatsoever.
(Plus, what you describe would be entrapment.)
That sort of thing is very easy to turn back on the lawyer. If they use two terms interchangeably when they're not, you simply ask - every single time - for them to precisely (in legal terms) define each term. If the judge doesn't like it, you just say, "Your honor, I can't answer that question without knowing exactly what he means, and more to the point, without the jury knowing exactly what he means. If I answer without those precise definitions, the jury might come to the wrong understanding of what I'm saying. Since I know that, that would be perjury, wouldn't it? Your honor isn't ordering me to commit felony perjury, are you?"
I don't know of Stallman is that smart.
Given the countries these kinds of attacks come from, it's likely they are the local police.
Wire transfers to banks in countries that do not have extradition treaties with the US (or where the officials who sign extradition orders are willing to take a cut).
Well, for the US to even recognize a UN ruling requires approval of the president and 2/3 of the House and Senate. Technically, UN rulings are considered treaties. Even when it's recognized, it still requires an act of Congress to enact some sort of legislation before anyone can be prosecuted.
And treaties cannot conflict with the Constitution. Such a treaty would fly in the face of the first amendment, and wouldn't stand a chance in hell.
A) Such a treaty would never be approved by the US Senate.
B) If it were, it would never pass a constitutional challenge.
C) If it did, the UN doesn't have enough of an understanding of what the internet is, much less how it works.
D) If they can figure it out, their entire annual budget couldn't possibly pay for the bandwidth, hardware, software (almost certainly Microsoft, after all) and technical expertise to even monitor, much less control the internet.
E) Whoever thought this up is a drooling moron.
That's easy to deal with. You seed the list with spamtrap addresses. When (not if) a spamtrap address gets spammed, the FTC tracks down the ethikul bidnez it is advertising and tells them "Either you roll over on the spammer, or you take the fall." And when the spammer says "We bought the list from someone else," you tell them, "You're still in violation for not checking these addresses, but we'll refrain from criminal charges if you roll over on who you bought it from."
Still doesn't deal with off-shore spammers, though.
Spam blacklists are unsustainable in a world where most net connections come across DHCP, and most spam is/will be sent from owned home computers.
That was a problem solved several years ago. Many ISPs simply block any and all DCHP addresses that they can identify, and many specifically list their DHCP addresses with some of the block lists to make it easier.
This is because nearly all email from DCHP addresses is, in fact, spam, and most of the rest is from someone violating their AUP in the first place, running a server on a consumer account.
Don't give up your day job.
There are only a couple of possibilities here. One, you are running your own server on a consumer account with a dynamic IP address, in which case you are likely in violation of your AUP, or two, your ISP is utterly clueless and has put their static IPs in the middle of their dymanic range.
Either way, get a real provider, and your problems will disappear.
Tomorrow is November 1, not April 1.
An abundace of traffic is an scarcity of roads. And abundance of fat is an scarcity of self control. And abudance of spam is a scarcity of cattle prods.
It's all a matter of perspective.
7th Affirmative Defense - The GPL is selectively enforced by the Free Software Foundation such that enforcement of the GPL by IBM or others is waived, estopped or otherwise barred as a matter of equity
I guess they don't know the difference between copyright and trademark. Selective enforcement has zero effect on enforcebility of copyright. Black letter law.
8th Affirmative Defense - The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust and export control laws, and IBM's claims based theron, or related thereto, are barred.'
Export control laws? I see, now. Their defense is "We're to fucking retarded that we need a keeper. Please give us money."
This is the same author's guild that was whining about people buying books second hand a couple of years ago.
Yes, they're idiots.
Senator John McCain sums it up: 'The odds of defeating spam by legislation alone is extremely low, but that does not mean we should stand idly by and do nothing about it.'
The odds of legislation doing anything to decrease spam are just about zero. The odds of legislation increasing spam approach unity. This bill certainly would, since it destroys existing state law prohibiting real spam (which this one doesn't), including California's law that makes spamming a criminal offense.
I think Mr. McCain spent a little too much time in his bamboo cage anyway.
You're not familiar with the "Al Capone's Vault" incident, are you? I suspect his greatest regret is that the whiskey bottle was empty, because he sure looked like he needed a drink at that moment.
You forgot to metnion the t-shirt stands that will line Main Street, once the tourists show up.
This happened, when I was in high school in Lincoln County, Missouri. The next town up highway 79 was Ellsberry, and it had quite a little sensation with "UFOs" spotted out to the east. Lasted several months, with newsies from St. Louis showing up, and lots and lots of tourists, who spend a lot of money on t-shirts, coffee mugs and beer.
It was, of course, barge lights, on the Mississippi River, shining on the underside of low lying clouds.
There were a number of people in Ellsberry who made a killing on the tourist trade, and all the locals had a hell of a laugh.
Well, how much would it be worth to you to be able to call your friends and family for free by using the Internet?
Let's see. To connect to the internet, you must be have a phone line, DSL (which also requires a phone line), cable (which cost more than a phone line), or something even more expensive like T-1.
Yeah, that'll save me money.
Actually, the Sci Fi channel is attempting to fake being a Fox channel.
This may just be a pet peeve of mine, but why is it that so many educated people use the word "literally" when they mean precisely the opposite?
The sentence conjures up images of screaming shysters fleeing desperately from the good guy's lawyer, who in a frenzy of righteous anger is attempting to chase them down and cut their throats. That may be how the judicial system works in Afghanistan, but not in America, the land of the Free and Non-Literal.
You've obviously never seen a picture of Pete "Heads On Pikes" Wellborn.
I know... I know... not a lot of sympathy, but still, I work for a business who would like to do nothing more than play by the rules, but all kinds of barriers have been put up in our way.
I don't believe you. I don't think anyone in the telemarketing industry wants to follow any rules but the rule of the jungle. I think you, personally, should either kill yourself now, or take up a more respectable profession, like prostitution, or child pornography, or maybe masturbating zoo animals for breeding purposes. Then, when you've regained your self respect, kill yourself in shame.
One upside is I am glad its now enforceable since if it wasnt, that list could have just become a big telemarketers dream turning from a donotcall list to a here is a free list 50 million potential calls courtesy of the govt.
No, actually, that has been a federal crime all along, far more serious than a mere fine.
Initially payments would be by credit card, but in the future downloads would be automatically detected and a charge added to the monthly internet service provider bill.
Yeah, that's gonna happen. Dipshits have been trying that with email, to stop spam, for years, and spam is a real problem.
Instead of just reading an email (... just reading an email?!?), a Linux user would have to read the email, save the attachment, give the attachment executable permissions, and then run the executable. Even as less sophisticated users begin to migrate to Linux, they may not understand exactly why they can't just execute attachments, but they will still have to go through the steps.
Until, due to popular demand, Microsoft ports OE to Linux, and it does all that for the average user, who really has demanded it so they can view the wicked screensaver - that really was just a wicked screensaver - that their pervert friend sent them.
Further, due to the strong community around Linux, new users will receive education and encouragement in areas such as email security that are currently lacking in the Windows world, which should help to alleviate any concerns on the part of newbies.
Based on my personal experience, asking the "strong community around Linux" a question like "How do I run this wicked screensaver my pervert friend sent me" is far more likely to get you killed and eaten by cannibals.
Further, due to the strong separation between normal users and the privileged root user
Unless the averate user just logs in as root all the time, because it's the easiest way to run that wicked screensaver their pervert friend sent them. There's already distros that will automatically log in a user. I suspect they won't, for the most part, auto-log you in as root. Yet. But the Microsoft distro will, of course, because the users wante to be able to run that wicked screen saver their pervert friend sent them, and that's the easiest way. In fact, the author even talks about Lindows doing just that.
The more steps, the less likely a virus infection becomes, and certainly the less likely a catastrophically spreading virus becomes.
No, the more steps, the more likely someone will do an "easy to use" distro that simply automates those steps. That's how Windows get where it is: user demand.
Microsoft continually links together its software, often not for technical reasons, but instead for marketing or business development reasons (see the previous link for corroboration). For instance, Outlook Express and Outlook both use the consistently-buggy Internet Explorer to view HTML-based emails. As a result, a hole in IE affects OE. Linux email readers don't indulge in such behavior . . .
If Linux becomes a major part of the desktop world, the most popular email readers will do such things, for the same reason that Microsoft's do: users want stuff integrated.
I doubt Linux will ever be as prone to viruses and worms as Windows is, except a Microsoft distro maybe. But the arrogance, and absolute cluelessness of the fact that social engineering works both ways - user demand socially engineers programmers in to doing stupid things every bit as much as virus writers do to users - that arrogance and cluelessness are the reason why viruses will continue to plague the world regardless of what operating system we use.