Yes, the consumer is the customer. You, however, are not the consumer. It's intended for the 99% of users whose phone will never be rooted by anything other than malware.
They will not necessarily attempt to enforce it. It's been a widespread practice for many years to accumulate a portfolio of weak patents and hold them in reserve for defensive use.
Eventually the courts will just rule there's no hope of recovering any further value from him and write the fine off.
According to another poster upthread these sorts of awards cannot be "written off" under Quebec law. If that's true he will have his wages garnished for the rest of his life.
I've been saying for 15+ years that the way to stop spam is to make the fines if caught so high that no matter how much the spamming earns you, the fine will bancrupt you.
No. The way to stop spam (or most other crime) is to make the expected cost of being caught times the risk of being caught much higher than the value of the expected return. A billion dollar fine times one chance in 100 million of being caught doesn't do it.
So he gets to live in poverty for the rest of his life. Something he didn't want to do, else he would just done it rather than launching this get-rich-quick scheme.
But earning modest revenues that way is ok? Must be, or you would be calling for the elimination of a significant fraction (perhaps a majority in Europe) of the human race.
Bullshit. The intelligence agencies never do anything without implicit authorization from the White House. They just sometimes find plausible deniability convenient. Occasionally they find it necessary to drive out a scapegoat.
That's what it was about!
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The Earth was under attack by alien ships controlled by Siemens PLCs. Stuxnet was released to repel them and they all blew up and vanished into hyperspace. The whole thing was hushed up, of course, and what we are seeing is just the collateral damage.
No need for any warning. Just connect them to a closed network where everything they do lands them on a page which explains the situation and then allows them to access their email account through a heavily-filtered, rate-limited, text only Webmail interface or the Web through a very restrictive proxy. The page should also tell them how to communicate with support, of course, so that they can ask that a hole be opened for their VOIP, prove that they've cleaned up the infection, etc.
They should also be told that after the third offense their account will be terminated.
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Yes, the consumer is the customer. You, however, are not the consumer. It's intended for the 99% of users whose phone will never be rooted by anything other than malware.
No. It limits their ability. Not the same thing.
...a laser target designator.
> ...Microsoft will just run off and do its own thing...
With a market share below 50% and shrinking?
> Do these fit into the realm of "social networking services"?
The patent attorneys who drafted this certainly hope so.
> ...GREED rules this world now...
It always has, but it has to share with stupidity.
> You get what you pay for.
Excellent. I've got some real estate to sell you...
They will not necessarily attempt to enforce it. It's been a widespread practice for many years to accumulate a portfolio of weak patents and hold them in reserve for defensive use.
> It's still blatantly obvious to anyone with an IQ higher than a watermelon.
Which means that the C-level execs will think it very clever.
Especially the first few. Not much of a patent.
- Live in grass huts and eat windfalls.
In practice Facebook will be lucky to see $.01 per spam.
According to another poster upthread these sorts of awards cannot be "written off" under Quebec law. If that's true he will have his wages garnished for the rest of his life.
No. The way to stop spam (or most other crime) is to make the expected cost of being caught times the risk of being caught much higher than the value of the expected return. A billion dollar fine times one chance in 100 million of being caught doesn't do it.
They could each file suit (or organize a class-action). They didn't.
> welfare here I come!!
So he gets to live in poverty for the rest of his life. Something he didn't want to do, else he would just done it rather than launching this get-rich-quick scheme.
Actually, the convicts are paid (though not much).
But earning modest revenues that way is ok? Must be, or you would be calling for the elimination of a significant fraction (perhaps a majority in Europe) of the human race.
Jail remains a possibility. This was a civil case. Criminal charges could still be laid.
> I'm dazzled!
Try reading the article. He's doing no such thing.
Wasn't his password.
Bullshit. The intelligence agencies never do anything without implicit authorization from the White House. They just sometimes find plausible deniability convenient. Occasionally they find it necessary to drive out a scapegoat.
The Earth was under attack by alien ships controlled by Siemens PLCs. Stuxnet was released to repel them and they all blew up and vanished into hyperspace. The whole thing was hushed up, of course, and what we are seeing is just the collateral damage.
No need for any warning. Just connect them to a closed network where everything they do lands them on a page which explains the situation and then allows them to access their email account through a heavily-filtered, rate-limited, text only Webmail interface or the Web through a very restrictive proxy. The page should also tell them how to communicate with support, of course, so that they can ask that a hole be opened for their VOIP, prove that they've cleaned up the infection, etc.
They should also be told that after the third offense their account will be terminated.
And then they start secreting enzymes that dissolve living flesh...