Does anyone know if this bill permits the right of individuals to seek private action against spammers? At the very least our state laws can be even more restrictive. That's a good thing I suppose.
All bank transactions are conducted over telecom lines of some sort, not to the Internet mind you be directly to their parent branch or HQ. They still are making a financial transaction via telephone communications.
a 419 Scam, Nigerian Money Scam, or an Advance Fee Fraud Scam. This US Secret Service page spells it out nicely.
911 only came into the picture after 9/11/01 when the scam morphed to use US soldiers in a foreign land in a post-911 conflict instead of a Nigerian Doctor or governmental official.
Ironport makes a living selling hardware that is used for spamming. What other reason is there for a piece of hardware that can send a half a million pieces of mail per hour? Take a look at their products for yourself. Bye bye SpamCop. You've just been bought by the enemy.
...that Redmond isn't behind all of this? The only company that this benefits is Microsoft. It doesn't do SCO a bit of good to ruin their own business. If they successfully attack open-source (or at least create doubt about open-source) then Microsoft wins. It's as simple as that. You can't get any more anti-competitive than this. Even my mother can see through the spin. The only possible winner here is M$.
My folks just built a log home
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Well, they didn't actually build it. It was put up by Satterwhite Log Homes out of Loongview, TX. The crew was awesome. The house went up in 7.5 days, literally. All the log walls were the first day. Then we had 3 days of downtime whilst we received 7.5 inches of water (the first rain in nearly two months at that time). After that the remaining 6.5 days went fast as hell. Prior to the construction we dug out the basement and had the footing, stem walls, and 1/2 basement poured. Sidenote: get a decent cement contractor. Our's seriously screwed the pooch and his shoody work is *still* causing us grief. We then added the sill plate, floor trusses, mud plate, and sub-floor. We also built 200' of 8'-deep pressure treated porch (don't attempt to install this when it's 100+ outside and DON'T FORGET to leave absolutely NO gap between the boards or you'll regret it). Of course I'm leaving out digging the well, lagoon and sewer line, electric conduits, clearing the electrical easement, building the road, building and installing a bridge (wasn't built onsite), etc... But those are side points. The crew dried in the house. We're are adding the garage as we speak. We'll then wire and plumb the place. We hang the sheetrock but we'll hire out the mudding. All the rest of the finish work will be done by us. It's not a ready to live in place but it will be within a year. Satterwhite would build a turnkey house if we lived within a certain distance of their HQ. My folks didn't though. Log homes are extremely easy to heat and cool. The logs are apparently unbelievable temperature barriers. The logs are dead-standing spruce so there are no shrinkage or moisture problems that cause people to have to relevel their older log homes. It really is slick.
Yes. Become a training person in IT. I got a couple certs a few years back. One was a class in Chicago. The other was in Dallas. One instructor was in his early 30s and had done computer networking in the Navy. The other had been networking for decades. I never asked the first guy what he made but the second guy readily divulged all the juicy details while drinking and eating steak at Bone Daddy's in Dallas (nice steak house if you're ever in Dallas BTW, hot waitresses too). He made $1100 a day plus expenses. Not too shabby if you ask me. I'd gladly spend my youth traveling the country doing training for that kind of green. Granted you are on a plane all the damned time. Still, the money is worth it I think. Both of these courses were from Global Knowledge and were pretty good I thought. My $.02. PS, you should really have some experience before you jump on the cert training bandwagon.
That's my biggest problem with suing spammers. My state has the law but I fear my courts are either a) so technoligically inept that they won't know what to do with the law, or b) they'll not want to deal with it and toss it out for no apparent reason just to be rid of it. Tracking down most spammers is a piece of cake for me cause I've been doing it so long. I just haven't taken the time to personally sue for myself. My state's law has been tested and upheld though, which is a plus.
I'd seek the (hopefully free) advice of actual counsel because people have been doing it for years. I can't remember what the website was but I remember from previous/. discussions something about a legal website where you can buy pre-paid services from lawyers. You might look into that as a cheap way to get an answer. I know for one thing that we anti-spammers use this tactic to sue spammers in our local jurisdictions for the simple fact that they are doing business in that local jurisdiction and subject to its laws. You might to look into the SpamCon Foundation Law Center (formerly SueSpammers Project) or SpamLaws for past cases to prove that you can sue in your local district. BTW, the site you linked to actually covers your problem.
With proof in hand that the court does have jurisdiction you shouldn't have much trouble getting it pushed through. Anyhow IANAL but I drool over the ADA's assistants on TV.:-) Best of luck.
I thought I'd point out that you can still file in your local small claims court against them. They fall under your jurisdiction because they chose to do business in that jurisdiction and are therefore subject to the laws of that jurisdiction. This is the same arguement we use to sue spammers. They sent me a piece of spam and are therefore choosing to do business in my local jurisdiction. You can ge a default judgement against them which will be a piece of cake since it's doubtful they'll appear in your local US small claims court. After you get the default judgement you need to do some more research on the company and find any assets they might have in the US. For example did they buy stock in a US company? Do they happen to have a local US office for customer service or tech support? Is their domain registered with a US registrar? That last one is fun. You could have the domain seized and sold to repay the debt they owe you. That'd get their attention in a heartbeat.:-) Best of luck.
Anti-gun zealots have been trying to use that argument for years. They want gun manufacturers to be liable because some homicidal nutjob used a gun to shoot someone. A variation on their arguement involves the gun manufacturers not making a gun that was child-proof. Next we'll be suing a steel manufacturer for not molding a pipe that is swing-proof. Bunch of damned retards trying to get on TV.
Does anyone have any good RCS/CVS HOWTOs, guides, cookbooks, etc? I've used RCS a tiny amount. I would love to learn how to use them more. This has always been on my to do list. Doing what this guy did would be quite interesting. Suggestions? Tips? Thoughts?
I last used it on my Linux Distro mirror server about 5 years ago (don't have the server any more) and it worked flawlessly. Of coure I didn't waste my time with IDE at that time. I only used SCSI back then. That might have made a difference. Oh, and this on was a PPC Linux box as well. My $.02
Your comments are completely off point. Lets take you arguement and parallel it with something else, say for example cars. Would a commercial from Dodge be pulled because it claims to have built the fastest factory street-legal cars? By your standards it would simply because it doesn't have the same engine as the Honda or Mitsubishi. Would an ad from Chevrolet be banned by stating their Silverado has the most torgue of any other factory half-ton pickup? By your standards it would because they don't use the same hitch as Ford or Toyota. Your arguement is mute.
BUT don't forget about what the contract says about a sell whilst they are in the middle of litigation. They get something like 20% if memory serves me correctly. It's a win-win situation for the lawyers no matter what they do. Sue and win and they make green. Sue and get bought out and they make green. Win-win situation for the lawyers, unless the SEC brings them down for pumping and dumping SCOX stock.
Perhaps this is what they (their handler) wants?
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It just occurred to me that this might be want SCO's handler, Microsoft, wants. Bear with me for a second.
Perhaps they (MS) know that the GPL would be held up in court.
Perhaps they know Linux would always best their products on the technical front.
Perhaps they're planning on SCO pissing off enough companies, Linux developers, and Linux users to force to sue SCO. Perhaps they are planning on using this litigation in a anti-Linux / anti-GPL / anti-open source marketing campaign.
See how litigous the Linux developers are? Do something with Linux that they don't like and they'll sue you!
It's possible. It's entirely possible. Perhaps we (the Linux community) isn't looking far enough ahead. We're playing a game of chess here and our opponent is distracting us with stupid moves of his pawns while the queen gets in position for the kill. It's possible that we just aren't looking at this from the right angle. We need to be predicting their moves further in advance. Thoughts?
IANALE but I think the AC that responded to you is right. I also think that another difference is that they aren't actually offering you money to not use another competitor's product but instead offering a discount on their own product. I think that part of the distinction. Of course IANALE.
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Does anyone know if this bill permits the right of individuals to seek private action against spammers? At the very least our state laws can be even more restrictive. That's a good thing I suppose.
All bank transactions are conducted over telecom lines of some sort, not to the Internet mind you be directly to their parent branch or HQ. They still are making a financial transaction via telephone communications.
911 only came into the picture after 9/11/01 when the scam morphed to use US soldiers in a foreign land in a post-911 conflict instead of a Nigerian Doctor or governmental official.
Beats me. IANAL but I drool over the hot ADA's on Law and Order. ;-)
That's probably why Cornell's Fedora Project uses a hat as a logo and why Redhat chose Fedora as a project name.
Ironport makes a living selling hardware that is used for spamming. What other reason is there for a piece of hardware that can send a half a million pieces of mail per hour? Take a look at their products for yourself. Bye bye SpamCop. You've just been bought by the enemy.
...that Redmond isn't behind all of this? The only company that this benefits is Microsoft. It doesn't do SCO a bit of good to ruin their own business. If they successfully attack open-source (or at least create doubt about open-source) then Microsoft wins. It's as simple as that. You can't get any more anti-competitive than this. Even my mother can see through the spin. The only possible winner here is M$.
Well, they didn't actually build it. It was put up by Satterwhite Log Homes out of Loongview, TX. The crew was awesome. The house went up in 7.5 days, literally. All the log walls were the first day. Then we had 3 days of downtime whilst we received 7.5 inches of water (the first rain in nearly two months at that time). After that the remaining 6.5 days went fast as hell. Prior to the construction we dug out the basement and had the footing, stem walls, and 1/2 basement poured. Sidenote: get a decent cement contractor. Our's seriously screwed the pooch and his shoody work is *still* causing us grief. We then added the sill plate, floor trusses, mud plate, and sub-floor. We also built 200' of 8'-deep pressure treated porch (don't attempt to install this when it's 100+ outside and DON'T FORGET to leave absolutely NO gap between the boards or you'll regret it). Of course I'm leaving out digging the well, lagoon and sewer line, electric conduits, clearing the electrical easement, building the road, building and installing a bridge (wasn't built onsite), etc... But those are side points. The crew dried in the house. We're are adding the garage as we speak. We'll then wire and plumb the place. We hang the sheetrock but we'll hire out the mudding. All the rest of the finish work will be done by us. It's not a ready to live in place but it will be within a year. Satterwhite would build a turnkey house if we lived within a certain distance of their HQ. My folks didn't though. Log homes are extremely easy to heat and cool. The logs are apparently unbelievable temperature barriers. The logs are dead-standing spruce so there are no shrinkage or moisture problems that cause people to have to relevel their older log homes. It really is slick.
Yes. Become a training person in IT. I got a couple certs a few years back. One was a class in Chicago. The other was in Dallas. One instructor was in his early 30s and had done computer networking in the Navy. The other had been networking for decades. I never asked the first guy what he made but the second guy readily divulged all the juicy details while drinking and eating steak at Bone Daddy's in Dallas (nice steak house if you're ever in Dallas BTW, hot waitresses too). He made $1100 a day plus expenses. Not too shabby if you ask me. I'd gladly spend my youth traveling the country doing training for that kind of green. Granted you are on a plane all the damned time. Still, the money is worth it I think. Both of these courses were from Global Knowledge and were pretty good I thought. My $.02. PS, you should really have some experience before you jump on the cert training bandwagon.
Exchange has been an open relay since day 1. This really isn't anything new here.
That's my biggest problem with suing spammers. My state has the law but I fear my courts are either a) so technoligically inept that they won't know what to do with the law, or b) they'll not want to deal with it and toss it out for no apparent reason just to be rid of it. Tracking down most spammers is a piece of cake for me cause I've been doing it so long. I just haven't taken the time to personally sue for myself. My state's law has been tested and upheld though, which is a plus.
Hmm... is there something here that you're not telling us? Maybe you should ask your mother....
With proof in hand that the court does have jurisdiction you shouldn't have much trouble getting it pushed through. Anyhow IANAL but I drool over the ADA's assistants on TV. :-) Best of luck.
I thought I'd point out that you can still file in your local small claims court against them. They fall under your jurisdiction because they chose to do business in that jurisdiction and are therefore subject to the laws of that jurisdiction. This is the same arguement we use to sue spammers. They sent me a piece of spam and are therefore choosing to do business in my local jurisdiction. You can ge a default judgement against them which will be a piece of cake since it's doubtful they'll appear in your local US small claims court. After you get the default judgement you need to do some more research on the company and find any assets they might have in the US. For example did they buy stock in a US company? Do they happen to have a local US office for customer service or tech support? Is their domain registered with a US registrar? That last one is fun. You could have the domain seized and sold to repay the debt they owe you. That'd get their attention in a heartbeat. :-) Best of luck.
Anti-gun zealots have been trying to use that argument for years. They want gun manufacturers to be liable because some homicidal nutjob used a gun to shoot someone. A variation on their arguement involves the gun manufacturers not making a gun that was child-proof. Next we'll be suing a steel manufacturer for not molding a pipe that is swing-proof. Bunch of damned retards trying to get on TV.
What I'd like to see if a sysadm's guide to using RCS/CVS in their daily administrative tasks. Make sense?
Does anyone have any good RCS/CVS HOWTOs, guides, cookbooks, etc? I've used RCS a tiny amount. I would love to learn how to use them more. This has always been on my to do list. Doing what this guy did would be quite interesting. Suggestions? Tips? Thoughts?
I last used it on my Linux Distro mirror server about 5 years ago (don't have the server any more) and it worked flawlessly. Of coure I didn't waste my time with IDE at that time. I only used SCSI back then. That might have made a difference. Oh, and this on was a PPC Linux box as well. My $.02
You're right on both point. I couldn't remember the proper spelling but I thought mute might actually be more pointed. Thanks
Your comments are completely off point. Lets take you arguement and parallel it with something else, say for example cars. Would a commercial from Dodge be pulled because it claims to have built the fastest factory street-legal cars? By your standards it would simply because it doesn't have the same engine as the Honda or Mitsubishi. Would an ad from Chevrolet be banned by stating their Silverado has the most torgue of any other factory half-ton pickup? By your standards it would because they don't use the same hitch as Ford or Toyota. Your arguement is mute.
...."Why Irresponsibly Blacklisting Spammers Is A Bad Idea...? To say that all blacklisting is bad is irresponsible in and of itself.
BUT don't forget about what the contract says about a sell whilst they are in the middle of litigation. They get something like 20% if memory serves me correctly. It's a win-win situation for the lawyers no matter what they do. Sue and win and they make green. Sue and get bought out and they make green. Win-win situation for the lawyers, unless the SEC brings them down for pumping and dumping SCOX stock.
Perhaps they (MS) know that the GPL would be held up in court.
Perhaps they know Linux would always best their products on the technical front.
Perhaps they're planning on SCO pissing off enough companies, Linux developers, and Linux users to force to sue SCO. Perhaps they are planning on using this litigation in a anti-Linux / anti-GPL / anti-open source marketing campaign.
See how litigous the Linux developers are? Do something with Linux that they don't like and they'll sue you!
It's possible. It's entirely possible. Perhaps we (the Linux community) isn't looking far enough ahead. We're playing a game of chess here and our opponent is distracting us with stupid moves of his pawns while the queen gets in position for the kill. It's possible that we just aren't looking at this from the right angle. We need to be predicting their moves further in advance. Thoughts?
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IANALE but I think the AC that responded to you is right. I also think that another difference is that they aren't actually offering you money to not use another competitor's product but instead offering a discount on their own product. I think that part of the distinction. Of course IANALE.