We actually have a criminal charge for jokers like this in Canada. It's called mischief. The idea is that someone must be able to show that there is some merrit, and the law somehow applies to their case before they file suit. Usually this is accomplished by consulting a lawyer.
I beleive that contempt of court charges can also be applied in a case where someone brings a case before a judge and the judge is forced to publicly laugh at their stupidity.
actually this is the perfect solution for display to glasses/goggles. A transparent medium capable of displaying images and performing processing? You could have an entire computer built right on to a contact lens!
actually the dumb f**Ks that gave them m^Hbillions of dollars based on business plans like:
1. pay 11 year old nephew to make web page.
2. [???]
3. make millions of dollars.
should be the ones that take responsibility!
The pathetic slobs that invested their life savings into a company for $347.82 a share when the company has a market capitalization of $.000000000000002, should be the ones that take responsibilty. In fact they are probably the ones that are hurting the most, so I guess it really serves them right, doesn't it.
I work at a small ISP and our mail server REJECTS several hundred thousand emails a day just from open relays.
1) Lots of these emails make heavy use of graphics and formatted text/html. This can take a customer on dial-up 5-10 minutes to download a mailbox full of spam, even if it only takes a WHOLE 1 minute to delete. Never mind if that user has been on vacation for a week!
2) Being a sysadmin I am on many system aliases (webmaster, etc...) I typically end up with a hundred or more spams a day. If I am away for any length of time I write off a whole day just catching up on email, and half of that is filtering through the 1000+ spams to get to anything useful.
3) In this part of the world bandwidth and storage costs money. Although it is not a significant amount of data, spam certainly accumulates to a fairly insignificant amount of data. The transport and storage and backup (yes! we backup ALL of our customer's email EVERY night) costs US very real dollars!
Actually in Canada you can opt-out of spam quite simply. All you have to do is drop by your local post office. Tell them that you do not wish to receive bulk mail and give them your address.
It looks to me like AOL has really only made a good argument for the IT manager to include "will not use AIM" as a clause in the corporate acceptable use guidlines. Then anyone using AIM is instantly kicked out onto the streets where they probably belong anyway...
It looks like a pretty good case could be made for extortion under the Hobbes Act. More details are available here.
The gist of it is something like this:
Did the defendant induce or attempt to induce the victim to give up property or property rights?
Did the defendant use or attempt to use the victim's reasonable fear of physical injury or economic harm in order to induce the victim's consent to give up property?
Did the defendant's conduct actually or potentially obstruct, delay, or affect interstate or foreign commerce in any (realistic) way or degree?
Was the defendant's actual or threatened use of force, violence or fear wrongful?
Naturally item #4 is the tricky one, however: Generally, the extortionate obtaining of property by the wrongful use of actual or threatened force or violence in a commercial dispute requires proof of a defendant's intent to induce the victim to give up property. No additional proof is required that the defendant was not entitled to such property or that he knew he had no claim to the property which he sought to obtain. See United States v. Agnes, 581 F.Supp. 462 (E.D. Pa. 1984), aff'd, 753 F.2d 293, 297-300 (3d Cir. 1985) (rejecting claim of right defense to defendant's use of violence to withdraw property from a business partnership).
So it would seem that PanIP has already behaved criminally by collecting money from other businesses through through the treat of financial damage! Arrest the bastards and throw them all in jail!!!
...When C# does everything that Java does, and Java does everything that C++ does, and it all runs on any platform and is amazingly documented with code examples and Web-based forums for assistance with any questions that come up...
When that happens it will be just about time for the second coming!
THIS IS DONE by making the Media Center software cognizant of a television standard called Copy Generation Management System for Analog (CGMS-A). If a couple of bits in a program's CGMS-A settings are switched on, Media Center PCs will encrypt the program, making it unplayable on anything but the recording PC
How long before someone figures out how to "flip off" these couple of bits either by intercepting the data stream in software and stripping them out, or hacking the CPU. I can envision a whole lot of web-sites devoted to this, much like the little kits of conductive eopxy that you can use to overclock you AMD...
...start a distributed processing application to produce every possible combination of binary digits to infinite length (0,1,00,01,10,11,...) and release it all under the GPL. That would solve all copyright issues through to the end of time...
You don't seriously expect an _honest_ answer do you. Of course you are going to end up with some sugar-coated pablum that will make a great sound byte on the local radio station.
machines and programs can use a general purpose communication system like this, with no human middleman required.
...since this has been the general philosophy of Outlook for years now. This of course has also been the largest single security hole for years now too!
I think I still like being the human middleman, thank you very much!
Response time is how long it takes for a pixel in the LCD to physically react and complete a change of state. Refresh rate is how quickly the logic circuits will tell the pixels to change state, so it is possible to change the value of a pixel before it has completed it's last change in state, thus leading to the fuzzy washed out look and ghosting that tends to turn games off.
How long before car manufacturers start delivering the product in a shrink wrapping with an EULA in the glove box...small print at bottom: product provided on an "as is" basis, without warranty of any kind, including without limitation the warranties that it is free of defects, merchantable, fit for a particular purpose or non-infringing. the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the product is borne by licensee. should the product prove defective in any respect, licensee and not licensor or its suppliers or resellers assumes the entire cost of any service and repair.
That it would be a cool idea to remake some of the Sierra Classics using a FPS engine?
Take the same great old story and build it into the engine. You could end up with the best of both world. A really cool game and yummy, shiny eye candy!
What this means is that the spammers are now crawling out from under their slime covered logs into the light of day.
I say now that they have identified themselves we launch a class action suit against the lot of them for every second of time wasted sifting through spam. For all the hours of time wasted because you accidentally deleted that important work email. For all the hours of wasted time compsing email to customers explaining what spam is, why they got it, and why they can do nothing about it...
It's a two tiered system. the first phase is this incredible invention called the V.C.R. the other one is known as a D.V.D. player. I insert a magical device into one of these contraptions and press a button known as "Play". In the even that I don't have the video of my choice, I visit a place called the "Video Rental Store" I can watch any movie I want any time I want to!
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We actually have a criminal charge for jokers like this in Canada. It's called mischief. The idea is that someone must be able to show that there is some merrit, and the law somehow applies to their case before they file suit. Usually this is accomplished by consulting a lawyer.
I beleive that contempt of court charges can also be applied in a case where someone brings a case before a judge and the judge is forced to publicly laugh at their stupidity.
actually this is the perfect solution for display to glasses/goggles. A transparent medium capable of displaying images and performing processing? You could have an entire computer built right on to a contact lens!
only as a beowulf cluster...
1. pay 11 year old nephew to make web page.
2. [???]
3. make millions of dollars.
should be the ones that take responsibility!
The pathetic slobs that invested their life savings into a company for $347.82 a share when the company has a market capitalization of $.000000000000002, should be the ones that take responsibilty. In fact they are probably the ones that are hurting the most, so I guess it really serves them right, doesn't it.
1. Play with fire.
2. [???]
3. Get burned.
1) Lots of these emails make heavy use of graphics and formatted text/html. This can take a customer on dial-up 5-10 minutes to download a mailbox full of spam, even if it only takes a WHOLE 1 minute to delete. Never mind if that user has been on vacation for a week!
2) Being a sysadmin I am on many system aliases (webmaster, etc...) I typically end up with a hundred or more spams a day. If I am away for any length of time I write off a whole day just catching up on email, and half of that is filtering through the 1000+ spams to get to anything useful.
3) In this part of the world bandwidth and storage costs money. Although it is not a significant amount of data, spam certainly accumulates to a fairly insignificant amount of data. The transport and storage and backup (yes! we backup ALL of our customer's email EVERY night) costs US very real dollars!
Actually in Canada you can opt-out of spam quite simply. All you have to do is drop by your local post office. Tell them that you do not wish to receive bulk mail and give them your address.
The gist of it is something like this:
Naturally item #4 is the tricky one, however: Generally, the extortionate obtaining of property by the wrongful use of actual or threatened force or violence in a commercial dispute requires proof of a defendant's intent to induce the victim to give up property. No additional proof is required that the defendant was not entitled to such property or that he knew he had no claim to the property which he sought to obtain. See United States v. Agnes, 581 F.Supp. 462 (E.D. Pa. 1984), aff'd, 753 F.2d 293, 297-300 (3d Cir. 1985) (rejecting claim of right defense to defendant's use of violence to withdraw property from a business partnership).
So it would seem that PanIP has already behaved criminally by collecting money from other businesses through through the treat of financial damage! Arrest the bastards and throw them all in jail!!!
I suspect a good source of brownian motion, like, say , a nice hot cup of tea might help...
When that happens it will be just about time for the second coming!
How long before someone figures out how to "flip off" these couple of bits either by intercepting the data stream in software and stripping them out, or hacking the CPU. I can envision a whole lot of web-sites devoted to this, much like the little kits of conductive eopxy that you can use to overclock you AMD...
Methanol is alcohol, like that found in your average houshold martini. Last time I checked smirnof wasn't a petrochemical byproduct.
This is exactly the opposite of what makes the oil-boys-club jizz in their jeans...
..to you're beowulf cluster of furbies...
You don't seriously expect an _honest_ answer do you. Of course you are going to end up with some sugar-coated pablum that will make a great sound byte on the local radio station.
...since this has been the general philosophy of Outlook for years now. This of course has also been the largest single security hole for years now too!
I think I still like being the human middleman, thank you very much!
Actually there are only FBI agents pretending to be hAx0rZ...
Response time is how long it takes for a pixel in the LCD to physically react and complete a change of state. Refresh rate is how quickly the logic circuits will tell the pixels to change state, so it is possible to change the value of a pixel before it has completed it's last change in state, thus leading to the fuzzy washed out look and ghosting that tends to turn games off.
How long before car manufacturers start delivering the product in a shrink wrapping with an EULA in the glove box...small print at bottom:
product provided on an "as is" basis, without warranty of any kind, including without limitation the warranties that it is free of defects, merchantable, fit for a particular purpose or non-infringing. the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the product is borne by licensee.
should the product prove defective in any respect, licensee and not licensor or its suppliers or resellers assumes the entire cost of any service and repair.
That it would be a cool idea to remake some of the Sierra Classics using a FPS engine?
Take the same great old story and build it into the engine. You could end up with the best of both world. A really cool game and yummy, shiny eye candy!
What this means is that the spammers are now crawling out from under their slime covered logs into the light of day.
I say now that they have identified themselves we launch a class action suit against the lot of them for every second of time wasted sifting through spam. For all the hours of time wasted because you accidentally deleted that important work email. For all the hours of wasted time compsing email to customers explaining what spam is, why they got it, and why they can do nothing about it...
Anyone know a good lawyer?