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It seems to me that the folks most motivated and most skilled at tracking down spammers are independent techies with no relationship to the service providers. These techs work untold hours tracking down spammers without any hope of monetary compensation or reward. It would be helpful if we could get legislation that allowed these spam gumshoes to share in a portion of assets seized from spammers convicted as a result of their detective work, as well as a share of any penalties levied against the spammer. Of course, one must still overcome difficulty of successfully prosecuting these cases, but without the background work there's no case at all...
The very lengthy article in Scientific American pointed out that the reason Bjorn Lomborg's book has been so strenuously criticized by environmental scientists is that the book goes to great lengths to misconstrue, misquote, and otherwise misuse the studies that he so liberally references in his text. The authors of the studies he (mis)references are some of his loudest critics. The SA article backs this criticism up with detailed critiques from several scientists from different fields of specialty. Each critique provides numerous specific examples of how wildly off the mark Lomborg's use of the source data is, and how it difficult to understand how he could arrive at some of his conclusions if he had in fact actually read and understood the source data that he quotes so liberally. This entire debate is regrettably yet another example of how most people will believe whatever is the most convenient regardless of what facts are staring them in the face.
Anyone care to guess how much of these settlement millions received by the music industry giants actually gets paid out to the artists they are purportedly protecting? Probably enough to buy a bagel with cheese...and not even very good cheese, at that.
Hopefully some enterprising free speech advocates will be wandering these cafes dropping cards with IP addresses for safeweb.com's Triangle Boy anonymous encrypted access servers.
I became thoroughly disenchanted with Netscape's direction several months ago and was facing the dismal prospect of making IE my primary browser because it had outstripped Netscape in so many categories. Fortunately, it was about this time that I downloaded Opera in the first time. It took a little getting used to, but I'll never go back. Opera is incredibly lean and fast, and has more tools for tweaking and customizing than even a control freak like myself knows what to do with. I still keep Netscape and IE on my hard drive for the occasional WebSite that will only speak to one kind of browser or another, but for 99% of the sites I visit I never touch the old guard programs at all.
Try it, you might like it: www.operasoftware.com. (No, I am not affiliated with the Opera team in any way).
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It seems to me that the folks most motivated and most skilled at tracking down spammers are independent techies with no relationship to the service providers. These techs work untold hours tracking down spammers without any hope of monetary compensation or reward. It would be helpful if we could get legislation that allowed these spam gumshoes to share in a portion of assets seized from spammers convicted as a result of their detective work, as well as a share of any penalties levied against the spammer. Of course, one must still overcome difficulty of successfully prosecuting these cases, but without the background work there's no case at all...
The very lengthy article in Scientific American pointed out that the reason Bjorn Lomborg's book has been so strenuously criticized by environmental scientists is that the book goes to great lengths to misconstrue, misquote, and otherwise misuse the studies that he so liberally references in his text. The authors of the studies he (mis)references are some of his loudest critics. The SA article backs this criticism up with detailed critiques from several scientists from different fields of specialty. Each critique provides numerous specific examples of how wildly off the mark Lomborg's use of the source data is, and how it difficult to understand how he could arrive at some of his conclusions if he had in fact actually read and understood the source data that he quotes so liberally. This entire debate is regrettably yet another example of how most people will believe whatever is the most convenient regardless of what facts are staring them in the face.
Anyone care to guess how much of these settlement millions received by the music industry giants actually gets paid out to the artists they are purportedly protecting? Probably enough to buy a bagel with cheese...and not even very good cheese, at that.
Chaucer Wells
http://www.justonevoice.net
I became thoroughly disenchanted with Netscape's direction several months ago and was facing the dismal prospect of making IE my primary browser because it had outstripped Netscape in so many categories. Fortunately, it was about this time that I downloaded Opera in the first time. It took a little getting used to, but I'll never go back. Opera is incredibly lean and fast, and has more tools for tweaking and customizing than even a control freak like myself knows what to do with. I still keep Netscape and IE on my hard drive for the occasional WebSite that will only speak to one kind of browser or another, but for 99% of the sites I visit I never touch the old guard programs at all.
Try it, you might like it: www.operasoftware.com. (No, I am not affiliated with the Opera team in any way).
Chaucer Wells