The whole thing started with an injection of microsoft money, and alarm bells started ringing for me, I've just been waiting for everyone else to catch up.
If microsoft had found themselves needing code which belonged to sco, they would've done what they've done many times before and borg'd sco or brought their own patent portfolio into play, no money would've changed hands.
Darl McBride is Bill Gates' glove puppet, the mental image is quite stomach-churning.
Hmm, so if it is a commodity you provide, with a measurable value, set a price for it. sure i'll wear your tag, $500 a day
Information about anything we do is a commodity these days. Made by us, and bought and sold by others, and quite unique in that we make it but dont get paid for making it.
I don't see any reason why we can't just send these people an invoice when we wear their tags
Didn't I hear something mentioned once about a bulk mail transfer protocol? I have no specifics, nor a link to any further info. Anyone else have anything?
No, that would be locking up the creators of the language that the spamware was programmed in, or maybe the ppl who wrote the operating system that the spamware runs under.
This is more like locking up the lookout that the kiddy pornographer has on his house door, an accomplice to the actual act not just someone who made a product.
Personally I rage against it because it takes me a lot longer than 1 or 2 seconds to download up to 50 items of junk mail often with pictures attached, and to separate those items from the approximately equivalent number of legitimate items of mail (especially when they tend to have misleading subject lines).
A more realistic estimate of how long it would take me to just download and delete them would be 15-20 minutes a day. That's 2-3 man-weeks a year stolen from me, nothing to do with desecrating my monitor. Multiply me by a few million others and maybe, just maybe, spammers are costing the world more than the y2k fiasco did.
Hmm I thought I'd heard the last of them, they havent hit me since last summer when they were using a really nasty obfuscated domain that trimmed back down to something like 11111111111111111111111111.com, along with various bits of javascript to switch off browser menus, disable right click, and just about every trick in the book.
I've a pretty big file on these guys, but they suddenly fell off the face of the map for me
I guess I'm just lucky, but I do hope they're the next ones in court, if anyone ever deserved a jail sentence for spamming, it's them.
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The whole thing started with an injection of microsoft money, and alarm bells started ringing for me, I've just been waiting for everyone else to catch up.
If microsoft had found themselves needing code which belonged to sco, they would've done what they've done many times before and borg'd sco or brought their own patent portfolio into play, no money would've changed hands.
Darl McBride is Bill Gates' glove puppet, the mental image is quite stomach-churning.
SMP working just fine here in 2 and 4 cpu boxes, gentoo and redhat respectively. What's the problem? just use the smp kernel with redhat
They do remove ppl from their lists, and then sell the addresses to other spammers.
Hmm, so if it is a commodity you provide, with a measurable value, set a price for it. sure i'll wear your tag, $500 a day
Information about anything we do is a commodity these days. Made by us, and bought and sold by others, and quite unique in that we make it but dont get paid for making it.
I don't see any reason why we can't just send these people an invoice when we wear their tags
Didn't I hear something mentioned once about a bulk mail transfer protocol? I have no specifics, nor a link to any further info. Anyone else have anything?
No, that would be locking up the creators of the language that the spamware was programmed in, or maybe the ppl who wrote the operating system that the spamware runs under.
This is more like locking up the lookout that the kiddy pornographer has on his house door, an accomplice to the actual act not just someone who made a product.
Personally I rage against it because it takes me a lot longer than 1 or 2 seconds to download up to 50 items of junk mail often with pictures attached, and to separate those items from the approximately equivalent number of legitimate items of mail (especially when they tend to have misleading subject lines).
A more realistic estimate of how long it would take me to just download and delete them would be 15-20 minutes a day. That's 2-3 man-weeks a year stolen from me, nothing to do with desecrating my monitor. Multiply me by a few million others and maybe, just maybe, spammers are costing the world more than the y2k fiasco did.
Hmm I thought I'd heard the last of them, they havent hit me since last summer when they were using a really nasty obfuscated domain that trimmed back down to something like 11111111111111111111111111.com, along with various bits of javascript to switch off browser menus, disable right click, and just about every trick in the book.
I've a pretty big file on these guys, but they suddenly fell off the face of the map for me
I guess I'm just lucky, but I do hope they're the next ones in court, if anyone ever deserved a jail sentence for spamming, it's them.