> Hell, my dog Nying still gets spam, and she had to be put to sleep earlier this year at the age of 13.
Wow. That's really odd. The spammers are sending advertisements to your dog, but, ha-ha, the funny thing is, hee-hee, they don't realize she is no longer alive, joke is on them!
> Why? Why is it bad? Why is it criminal? > In my state sexual education, and thus pictures of naked people is required for minors via public education.
What state is that, the state of pedophilic arousal? In case you haven't figured this out by yourself, pictures of "teen sluts impaled by a horse" are bad. Bad for children, pretty much bad in general.
> Unless there is some way to tell how old the person who checks the mailbox is, there is no way to hold people responsible for sending emails inappropriate for children to that mailbox
So you are claiming that it would be alright to put a box of triple-X and beastiality in the middle of a mall with a sign 'take one' and claim there was no way to know that a child might take one?
> trying to prosecute them because they are sending mail to an emailbox where a child has access is very slippery, because there is no way to know who the box belongs to
Gee, then maybe they SHOULDNT BE SENDING THIS CRAP TO PEOPLE WHO DIDNT ASK FOR IT?
> I don't see the problem in them [kids] seeing these materials
Maybe you don't have a problem with it, but I sure don't want MY kids thinking teenage girls F*ing a horse is OK. That is the picture that arrived in a spam this week.
Right now I am mentally picturing someone playing virtual snake in an open field. He is running back and forth, dodging imaginary obstacles and following invisible paths. I think a lot of GPS game players are going to end up in a psych ward!
> move to a new location and leave a note specifying the new location > a geocacher has to traverse all the nodes > park rangers love it... environmentally sensitive area that is sensitive to foot traffic
Hello? Your plan just insured that all the foot traffic will visit the first cache AND all subsequent caches.
Let me guess, you have lots of problems with linked lists?
> How about this: if I create, with my own hands, a piece of furniture
The very next day I could legally create, with my own hands, a nearly identical replica of that piece of furniture. Thank you for the excellent example.
In an earlier story Microsoft researches recommended a Linux cluster. That story has been corrected. The Microsoft researchers recommend a hundreds of un-clustered Windows-XP servers. They claim they were eating Lea-Nuts brand PEANUT clusters at the time of the interview and were misquoted.
> Ha! Ive had a copy on vhs for weeks now! > that's what i'd be saying if i had bought that copy from that guy on the subway.
Damn! I paid that subway scam artist for a tape of Barney with a Matrix Reloaded label on it! That's what you'd be saying.
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> Just out of curiosity, do you feel the same way about eradicating the drug problem?> The really hard thing about getting to the source, too, is what if the source is overseas, and they're not breaking any laws by sending you spam? And even if they are breaking laws, how much is the Korean law enforcement apparatus going to care about shutting down someone who's only crime is to send spam to America?
Who said anything about law enforcement shutting anyone down? Who cares if they are breaking any laws or not? That has nothing to do with my post. Boycott the products of any company that uses SPAM for marketing. Hurt them financially. Make their executives and stockholders understand that using SPAM causes a backlash that costs more than it gains. A great deal of spam will stop.
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As long as people can make money sending spam it will continue. The financial incentive will make spammers overcome ANY technological or legal blocks we put up.
The only real solution is to follow the money to the source. Every spam is advertising something. Financially hurt the advertiser. Boycott the business. Start a boycott list of companies that use spam as a marketing method. Even if this is only mildly successful it will reduce the spam. I'm sure all the great minds on slashdot can think of good ways to hurt these advertisers financially (hopefully in a legal manner).
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HAHAHAHA If I had mod points you'd get 'em all!
> I'm not even a fanboy. No really, I'm not. I mean, I've never even read the Simarillion
Methinks thou doth protest too much...
> even in communist countries, where there is an incentive to not create, people still manage to make new products
Oh, that must explain why the Soviet Union was so far ahead of us in technology, medicine, etc.
Now imagine a world where everyone had all the 2003 model cars, planes, computers, vaccines, drugs, cures that they wanted for practically free.
But noone has any incentive to ever invest in inventing anything new.
I am a reasonably well adjusted ADULT and I haven't been the same since I saw goatce.cx ... still cant rid of those twitches...
> When I was a kid I wanted porn spam...
When *I* was a kid I did pornographic things to a spam...
> Hell, my dog Nying still gets spam, and she had to be put to sleep earlier this year at the age of 13.
Wow. That's really odd. The spammers are sending advertisements to your dog, but, ha-ha, the funny thing is, hee-hee, they don't realize she is no longer alive, joke is on them!
> Why? Why is it bad? Why is it criminal?
> In my state sexual education, and thus pictures of naked people is required for minors via public education.
What state is that, the state of pedophilic arousal?
In case you haven't figured this out by yourself, pictures of "teen sluts impaled by a horse" are bad. Bad for children, pretty much bad in general.
> Unless there is some way to tell how old the person who checks the mailbox is, there is no way to hold people responsible for sending emails inappropriate for children to that mailbox
So you are claiming that it would be alright to put a box of triple-X and beastiality in the middle of a mall with a sign 'take one' and claim there was no way to know that a child might take one?
> trying to prosecute them because they are sending mail to an emailbox where a child has access is very slippery, because there is no way to know who the box belongs to
Gee, then maybe they SHOULDNT BE SENDING THIS CRAP TO PEOPLE WHO DIDNT ASK FOR IT?
Duh?
> I don't see the problem in them [kids] seeing these materials
Maybe you don't have a problem with it, but I sure don't want MY kids thinking teenage girls F*ing a horse is OK. That is the picture that arrived in a spam this week.
> most of my dates I meet online ... proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar
> I'm looking for
So if she was offering phalisheeo you would turn her down?
And if she can't spell konilengus she don't get none?
> A small black monolith has been spotted in the vicinity of the Jupiter model.
Oh man! Somebody in Maine PLEASE you must put a monolith near the Jupiter model.
> I thought those numbers just went to elevator Muzak services, intersperced with the occasional "We care about your call" spoken sentence
Don't forget the standard "we are experiencing unusual levels of calls today". How can they call it 'unusual' if it's part of their standard message?!
> but virtual 'Snake' seems kinda cool
Right now I am mentally picturing someone playing virtual snake in an open field. He is running back and forth, dodging imaginary obstacles and following invisible paths.
I think a lot of GPS game players are going to end up in a psych ward!
> move to a new location and leave a note specifying the new location ... environmentally sensitive area that is sensitive to foot traffic
> a geocacher has to traverse all the nodes
> park rangers love it
Hello? Your plan just insured that all the foot traffic will visit the first cache AND all subsequent caches.
Let me guess, you have lots of problems with linked lists?
> How about this: if I create, with my own hands, a piece of furniture
The very next day I could legally create, with my own hands, a nearly identical replica of that piece of furniture. Thank you for the excellent example.
In an earlier story Microsoft researches recommended a Linux cluster. That story has been corrected. The Microsoft researchers recommend a hundreds of un-clustered Windows-XP servers. They claim they were eating Lea-Nuts brand PEANUT clusters at the time of the interview and were misquoted.
> What? He's not chinese. Or a farmer.
Sometimes non-sequitor juxtaposition requires a certain suspension of disbelief.
It's called a sense of humor.
(And yes, he's not a Chinese farmer. He's an Italian mount biker and scuba diver. Moron.)
In a related story,
life goes on as usual for Chinese peasants in the villages behind the dam.
> ...[various actual greps for code in the Linux source code]...
I see you conveniently left out:
return;
int i;
{
}
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
COWARD! WHO DO YOU WORK FOR?! LINUS? I BET YOU WORK FOR LINUS! SCO will get you!
Sources at SCO have revealed some of the offending 10 or 15 lines of code, in no particular order:
main( int argc, char **argv)
return;
int i;
{
}
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
char buffer[MAXBUF];
#define true 1
#define false 0
> I've been a mass debater for years now.
Hey mister "mass-debater", you really should get a girlfriend and give that hand a rest.
> The secret to my speed is that I practice typing with one hand
Yeah, well, we could figure that from your nickname "mass-debater".
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,
> mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,
> and
> oooooooooooooooooo
> are a great way to get the ball rolling
Oh damn, I don't need to hear this!
> Ha! Ive had a copy on vhs for weeks now!
> that's what i'd be saying if i had bought that copy from that guy on the subway.
Damn! I paid that subway scam artist for a tape of Barney with a Matrix Reloaded label on it! That's what you'd be saying.
> Just out of curiosity, do you feel the same way about eradicating the drug problem?> The really hard thing about getting to the source, too, is what if the source is overseas, and they're not breaking any laws by sending you spam? And even if they are breaking laws, how much is the Korean law enforcement apparatus going to care about shutting down someone who's only crime is to send spam to America?
Who said anything about law enforcement shutting anyone down? Who cares if they are breaking any laws or not? That has nothing to do with my post. Boycott the products of any company that uses SPAM for marketing. Hurt them financially. Make their executives and stockholders understand that using SPAM causes a backlash that costs more than it gains. A great deal of spam will stop.
As long as people can make money sending spam it will continue. The financial incentive will make spammers overcome ANY technological or legal blocks we put up.
The only real solution is to follow the money to the source. Every spam is advertising something. Financially hurt the advertiser. Boycott the business. Start a boycott list of companies that use spam as a marketing method. Even if this is only mildly successful it will reduce the spam.
I'm sure all the great minds on slashdot can think of good ways to hurt these advertisers financially (hopefully in a legal manner).