Maybe we should ask whether this is a case of life imitating art or art imitating life, ie: perhaps the computing industry just happens to magnify the changes going on in the rest of the world. eg: RMS keeps worrying about things like the SDMI for books. For that matter, as computers become a part of more and more things in the world, more and more things are going to be subject to the properties of computers.
It's also interesting that the first few posters interpret some of these things as being bad. They certainly could be, but they don't have to be. Renting everything will keep people from being locked into lifestyles. If geeks are leading this trend then, as a culture or cohort, we're becoming more flexible. Just as massive, old companies can't change, people who have paid off their mortage are unlikely to move.
You know, I agree with you. Society is moving somewhere fast, but I'm not quite sure where.
Things have changed so much in the past 10 years! I think we need some kind of movement (obviously its going to start on/.) to fight back against bullying corporations. Those with money who abuse it should not have the right to control our lives.
What ever happened to good intent in business? They're probably loosing money and/or out of business, since the immoral bastards at rich coroporations bought them out or created an unfair competitive environment.
The dorks at Market Visions should have had their mail server properly configured so that it would not forward messages. I don't think they deserve any compensation for the $18,000 they allegedly suffered in damages. It's there own fault that they were abused in this way.
I disagree. Everyone should be able to leave their mail server open to this. Sometime someone will need something to relay thourgh, and it costs nothing to relay 1 message. It is only several million that was the problem.
I also belive you should be able to leave your door unlocked. People should be honest enough that they only enter your house (without your permission/knowlege) when they are passing through town and need a bathroom, or need a cup of flour. (The latter is typically a neighbor, and you would be paid back when you needed a teaspoon of Oragino)
Of course like everyone else I lock my doors because there are dishonest people, but in a perfect world things would be different.
the general idea is that the license forces spammer's to identify themselves. And the services that have to bear this traffic may charge a reasonable amount for the hassle of dealing with it.
and people who try to avoid this can go to jail.
Of course, governments can get income from this as well.
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Maybe we should ask whether this is a case of life imitating art or art imitating life, ie: perhaps the computing industry just happens to magnify the changes going on in the rest of the world. eg: RMS keeps worrying about things like the SDMI for books. For that matter, as computers become a part of more and more things in the world, more and more things are going to be subject to the properties of computers.
It's also interesting that the first few posters interpret some of these things as being bad. They certainly could be, but they don't have to be. Renting everything will keep people from being locked into lifestyles. If geeks are leading this trend then, as a culture or cohort, we're becoming more flexible. Just as massive, old companies can't change, people who have paid off their mortage are unlikely to move.
You know, I agree with you. Society is moving somewhere fast, but I'm not quite sure where.
/.) to fight back against bullying corporations. Those with money who abuse it should not have the right to control our lives.
Things have changed so much in the past 10 years! I think we need some kind of movement (obviously its going to start on
What ever happened to good intent in business?
They're probably loosing money and/or out of business, since the immoral bastards at rich coroporations bought them out or created an unfair competitive environment.
The dorks at Market Visions should have had their mail server properly configured so that it would not forward messages. I don't think they deserve any compensation for the $18,000 they allegedly suffered in damages. It's there own fault that they were abused in this way.
I disagree. Everyone should be able to leave their mail server open to this. Sometime someone will need something to relay thourgh, and it costs nothing to relay 1 message. It is only several million that was the problem.
I also belive you should be able to leave your door unlocked. People should be honest enough that they only enter your house (without your permission/knowlege) when they are passing through town and need a bathroom, or need a cup of flour. (The latter is typically a neighbor, and you would be paid back when you needed a teaspoon of Oragino)
Of course like everyone else I lock my doors because there are dishonest people, but in a perfect world things would be different.
the general idea is that the license forces spammer's to identify themselves.
And the services that have to bear this traffic may charge a reasonable amount for the hassle of dealing with it.
and people who try to avoid this can go to jail.
Of course, governments can get income from this as well.
FORGING is a crime. Falsely representing yourself as someone else, its a crime. As in illegal.
Spam is also wrong and evil, so this seems more of a case of two wrongs making him well... more wrong.
What amazes me is that he actually considered this to be a defensible argument. The depths of human stupidity never cease to amaze me.