Yeah they do. When I got a letter addressed to "White Products" (a made-up name), I forwarded it to PaperDirect (the people to which I'd supplied that name) and told them I would no longer do business with them, due to their illegal selling of my personal data.
Similarly, whenever I get an email to paypal.filtered@blibbleblobble.co.uk, can you spot how I figure out who to complain to?
Wait till you get a phone line with NTL (ntlworld.com)
"contract subject to change"
Turns out the "subject to change" means an 80% increase in phone charges over the year. "Oh sorry, we didn't mention, it's only subject to OUR change?"
That was one of the things I was considering (I write an email client) -- Is it worth deleting emails which claim to come from yahoo/hotmail, but don't contain yahoo/hotmail in the IP address of their last "received" header?
I wonder how much spam actually travels through their SMTP servers, and how much of it just lists hotmail as a "From" address?
It wouldn't surprise me if spammers actually opened yahpoo accounts just to send another bulkmail, but that would limit them to 3 per minute with yahoo advertising, so it would be easier for them to just send it via an open relay, and write "From bill.gates@msn.com" into the headers.
Oh well, back to keyword filtering. "US Code 601"? Delete!
A great victory for consumers. Congress held an inquiry, got swamped by all of our* emails opposing it, and figured that Mickey Mouse Hollings was nuts.
Fair enough, we could have told them that for free. Oh wait, we did! Well done.
Best part, Hollings can't understand why the tecchie companies won't cooperate with him. "please write me a DRM system for free" he asks, and all he gets back in return are attempted beatings with a clue-stick.
*Your emails, not mine. Pity non-americans can't bug congressmen for this stuff that'll be applied worldwide, but we can go through the EFF.
Course it's not illegal. Why do you think your bank, ISP, etc. write "all calls may be recorded for training and quality assurance purposes" on their literature.
As the guy says, it's your conversation, you can record it. You don't even need to tell the person you're recording the call.
Of course, it doesn't really affect me much what's illegal in America, but here in the UK it seems that BT have backed down (or been legislated down) against their "thou shalt not connect unapproved equipment to our phone lines" stance, and there's been a flurry of new recording kit for phones on the market.
In my standard electronics catalog, there's everything from simple phone-jack-to-3.5mm adapters to recording kits, inductive couplers, digital voice recorders, and even sticky microphones to record mobile phone conversations.
Personally, I just use an old tape recorder, and find it a great help when my landlord claims not to have agreed something.
More importantly, it'll make people mistrustful of legitimate downloads such as flash, MathML, or SVG. Once people have had to reinstall windows for clicking OK once, they're not going to click OK a second time
The guy who built my PC fixed a problem over the phone (picked up on 3rd ring) without even asking who I was. There are many advantages to a one-man shop;-)
Isn't DOC the binary version of RTF anyway? They support all the same features, and it's the only filetype on which word doesn't bug you "some features may not be compatible"
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Yeah they do. When I got a letter addressed to "White Products" (a made-up name), I forwarded it to PaperDirect (the people to which I'd supplied that name) and told them I would no longer do business with them, due to their illegal selling of my personal data.
Similarly, whenever I get an email to paypal.filtered@blibbleblobble.co.uk, can you spot how I figure out who to complain to?
Wait till you get a phone line with NTL (ntlworld.com)
"contract subject to change"
Turns out the "subject to change" means an 80% increase in phone charges over the year. "Oh sorry, we didn't mention, it's only subject to OUR change?"
has cockeyed.com gone cock-eyed?
"Damn annoyance, these school-mom drivers. If you all stopped driving, the road would be clear for me to drive."
That was one of the things I was considering (I write an email client) -- Is it worth deleting emails which claim to come from yahoo/hotmail, but don't contain yahoo/hotmail in the IP address of their last "received" header?
I wonder how much spam actually travels through their SMTP servers, and how much of it just lists hotmail as a "From" address?
It wouldn't surprise me if spammers actually opened yahpoo accounts just to send another bulkmail, but that would limit them to 3 per minute with yahoo advertising, so it would be easier for them to just send it via an open relay, and write "From bill.gates@msn.com" into the headers.
Oh well, back to keyword filtering. "US Code 601"? Delete!
When I was looking for a computer, Gateway refused to sell me anything other than a complete system.
"But I already have a monitor... and pentablet, and keyboard, and printer, and software"
"But you must buy the system. It is your destiny"
Fetchez la vache!
Ask GRC, he write an IRC-bot to do investigations, so maybe echelon is using a version of that.
Someone needs to organize a "Geek Lobby"
I think some guys just set one up (as an offshoot of EFF at CodeCon or something, the bookmark is on my linux partition)
We're all waiting to see how serious they turn out to be, then we'll put some financial weight behind them.
A great victory for consumers. Congress held an inquiry, got swamped by all of our* emails opposing it, and figured that Mickey Mouse Hollings was nuts.
Fair enough, we could have told them that for free. Oh wait, we did! Well done.
Best part, Hollings can't understand why the tecchie companies won't cooperate with him. "please write me a DRM system for free" he asks, and all he gets back in return are attempted beatings with a clue-stick.
*Your emails, not mine. Pity non-americans can't bug congressmen for this stuff that'll be applied worldwide, but we can go through the EFF.
Course it's not illegal. Why do you think your bank, ISP, etc. write "all calls may be recorded for training and quality assurance purposes" on their literature.
As the guy says, it's your conversation, you can record it. You don't even need to tell the person you're recording the call.
Of course, it doesn't really affect me much what's illegal in America, but here in the UK it seems that BT have backed down (or been legislated down) against their "thou shalt not connect unapproved equipment to our phone lines" stance, and there's been a flurry of new recording kit for phones on the market.
In my standard electronics catalog, there's everything from simple phone-jack-to-3.5mm adapters to recording kits, inductive couplers, digital voice recorders, and even sticky microphones to record mobile phone conversations.
Personally, I just use an old tape recorder, and find it a great help when my landlord claims not to have agreed something.
Who cares about a Windows without IE6? Let's start with a Windows that it's not illegal to sell as dual-boot Windows/Linux from computer shops.
Telephone-jack to 3.5mm plug adapters: £10 at maplin. Connect to a spare tape-recorder, or be fancy and use your MP3 player/PC audio.
There's not much excuse for not being able to record phone calls as evidence.
Then search commercial software adverts for versions 99, 1999, and 2000...
http://humorix.org/articles/mar02/sssca-two.shtml
That's a -result- of peoples' immunity to advertising, and bears out the original poster's theory.
ISPs there, and any customers who use them.
Internet juristiction isn't really -that- complicated
When did you get all that interesting spam? I just get illegal pyramid-marketing and get-rich-quick schemes.
Are these the default settings if you don't opt-in to anything, or are the opt-in emails in -addition- to "Nicaraguan money transfer" scams?
So you'd be allowed to put your name on one central list which says "disclosing internet activities of these people is punishable under law"?
Sounds like a good idea, especially if you only have one list to add a name to (as opposed to company-by-company schemes)
~ est introuvable. Verifiez le nom et recommencez.
"Open source development"?
"The linux community"?
They're not counting on Richard Stallman's support, I hope.
Presumably with DSL access, you can also sublet the bandwidth to your neighbours to recoup some of the cost?
More importantly, it'll make people mistrustful of legitimate downloads such as flash, MathML, or SVG. Once people have had to reinstall windows for clicking OK once, they're not going to click OK a second time
Wallmart sells computers without an operating system, but with a winmodem?
Hmmm. No wonder microsoft has antitrust problems
The guy who built my PC fixed a problem over the phone (picked up on 3rd ring) without even asking who I was. There are many advantages to a one-man shop ;-)
Isn't DOC the binary version of RTF anyway? They support all the same features, and it's the only filetype on which word doesn't bug you "some features may not be compatible"