On the face of it. But one suspects (well, I do) that MS may have briefed them beforehand, taken them out to dinner, maybe even left some cash on the sidetable.
this has just been an easy way for the European governments to try and get a shitload of money out of Microsoft
If governements want to extort money, they just tax you. Even if they have to write a special law, it's a lot simpler and less hassle than what they have gone through.
Because they'll get sued by Adobe for using their Office "monopoly" to destory the market for Adobe's PDF generator.
Bollocks. There are already a dozen at least PDF generators, including several free ones. Adobe made the PDF format open long ago, unlike anyone competing with MS Office who have to reverse-engineeer the formats.
Microsoft themselves say that Office documents are not appropriate for sharing. Office documents are for printing or saving to PDF
MS says this??? Why do they have collaboration features then? Why does Word have email features?And PDF was only built in due to unrelenting demand from customers, not because MS likes it.
Now he's gotta either appeal again, if he can, or end up in the shitcan.P?
Right, and he is appealing. (He earned millions from spamming, he can afford to.) So no jail until thst's resolved.
How can you sue someone or imprison them for sending spam? For one, thats the exact same (as many people have already said) as sending a lot of pizza coupons in the snail mail.
RTFA. He forged his address. He didn't give away pizza, he defrauded tens of thousands of people.
He's still on bail. I'll be surprised if he ever sees the inside of a cell. And if he does, he'll probably be out in a year or two, rested and fit and start all over again.
This guy made MILLIONS. If he'd been prosecuted for each act of fraud he committed he'd be in jail till the sun went cold.
Prosecutors said Jaynes, whose Internet name was Gaven Stubberfield, was grossing about $750,000 a month by selling through spam items such as penny-stock pickers, an Internet History Eraser program and a work-from-home Fed Ex Refund Processor that claimed people could make $75 an hour by processing Fed Ex refunds....Virginia outlawed spamdefined under the law as sending at least 10,000 forged, unsolicited e-mails in a 24-hour periodin July 2003, making it a felony. The person sending the spam must hide their Internet identity, known as an IP address, to be charged.
Jaynes was sentenced last year to nine years in prison on three counts of violating the state's anti-spam law and was allowed to remain free on $1 million bond while his case was appealed.
He's still on bail. Let me know if this fucker ever does go to jail. And even if he gets a judgment against him, you know he'll never pay a cent, like OJ.
But don't let me stop anyone making "pound him in the ass federal prison" jokes.
Great. So the barriers for participation in a nefarious identity-mining site are higher than for Wikipedia...
Even if someone could insert names in this site, the "identity theft" hysterically hyped in the summary is unlikely, perhaps a few more marketing calls than usual. Your "punks" would have more fun signing their teacher up for a gay dating service.
Governments and companies that don't take care of people aren't being "ruthlessly capitalistic", they're just being shortsighted and ineffectual (read: dumb).
If a company can use up its workers and abandon them when they get sick or old or injured, most will. They did in 19th C America, they do in 21st C China. If the workers make trouble, they get beaten up or killed. That's the ultimate world unbridled capitalism leads to. Consider how shortsighted businesses are now, with eyes only on the next quarter earnings. I read plenty of comments here that companies are "obliged" to be inhumanly cruel in order to "maximise investor returns". Would Nike give a shit about their factory workers in Indonesia if they hadn't got bad publicity?
Yes, in the long run you destroy society. In the short term, the owners frantically pile up wealth to cash out before it all falls down. Tragedy of the Commons writ large.
I imagine that Jigsaw will be hounded by vandals and the like, dumping loads and loads of false information into Jigsaw's database.
Unlike Wikipedia, you have to pay $25/month to use this. Also, you're not anonymous, so if you are identified as a vandal, your entered data can be removed. They also limit input to 25/entreis month.
Moreover, since Jigsaw is going against basic principles of privacy
There are lots of business directories like this, starting with the Yellow Pages. The main difference is that instead of employing staff to type it in, his customers do it for him. The only people who are damaged are his competitors who charge more.
And I';ve got some typos too. As an indication of my thick-fingeredness, htis post an uncorrected first pass. I went to school in htepre-PC era, I never make spelling m,istakes in handwriting, but typing, especailly in this crappy Salshdot text entry box, is terrible.
Interesting, if perhaps unintentional usage of the incorrect "it's" instead of the correct "its", we also may get the feeling doubly reinforced again with the uncontracted "it is amazing".
I was thinking the wrong "it's" was an indication that it really was just a fanboy and not a shill (I expect a PR spiel from a big company to be at least grammatical). Though of course that could be what thay want us to think....
Sadly many submitters seem to rush to regurgitate press releases, only adding their own spelling mistakes, so Amazon and such don't need to conspire to get their Slashvertisements.
A competitive market's benifits overcome it's limitations by several orders of a magnitude.
Except for things like health care, education, police, fire protection, transport infrastructure. Leave them up to a "competitive market" and you get a healthy, educated aristocracy living in fear of a mass of peons. Uncontrolled capitalism is worse than inefficient socialism.
And Roland links to a press release, instead of the source,, perhaps because if you click on his own link, you find he's cribbed most of that, including images, on his own blog.
So requiring people who wanted to know everything about you to actually continuously loop through your profile, your albums, your friends walls, etc. was a good deterrent.
1. First of all, not "anyone". Facebook is NOT public. Get that in your head.
It's open to anyone with an edu email, isn't it?
just your (real) friends would be up-to-the-minute on your status, now everybody is up-to-date on your status.
Your (real) enemies could just as well. It's certainly easier now though. Making it easier to stalk isn't a great feature, I never said it was; but your privacy was compromised before, you just weren't aware of it.
Slashdot Mirror
Give a tax lawyer 10 minutes.
On the face of it. But one suspects (well, I do) that MS may have briefed them beforehand, taken them out to dinner, maybe even left some cash on the sidetable.
If governements want to extort money, they just tax you. Even if they have to write a special law, it's a lot simpler and less hassle than what they have gone through.
Bollocks. There are already a dozen at least PDF generators, including several free ones. Adobe made the PDF format open long ago, unlike anyone competing with MS Office who have to reverse-engineeer the formats.
MS says this??? Why do they have collaboration features then? Why does Word have email features?And PDF was only built in due to unrelenting demand from customers, not because MS likes it.
Thay knew very clearly where the line was. They were told over and opver. They thought they could ignore it, as they did in the US.
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
Where have I heard that before?
Who said it was good?
Tell it to the judge.
Now he's gotta either appeal again, if he can, or end up in the shitcan.P? Right, and he is appealing. (He earned millions from spamming, he can afford to.) So no jail until thst's resolved.
RTFA. He forged his address. He didn't give away pizza, he defrauded tens of thousands of people.
He's still on bail. I'll be surprised if he ever sees the inside of a cell. And if he does, he'll probably be out in a year or two, rested and fit and start all over again.
This guy made MILLIONS. If he'd been prosecuted for each act of fraud he committed he'd be in jail till the sun went cold.
But don't let me stop anyone making "pound him in the ass federal prison" jokes.
Even if someone could insert names in this site, the "identity theft" hysterically hyped in the summary is unlikely, perhaps a few more marketing calls than usual. Your "punks" would have more fun signing their teacher up for a gay dating service.
If a company can use up its workers and abandon them when they get sick or old or injured, most will. They did in 19th C America, they do in 21st C China. If the workers make trouble, they get beaten up or killed. That's the ultimate world unbridled capitalism leads to. Consider how shortsighted businesses are now, with eyes only on the next quarter earnings. I read plenty of comments here that companies are "obliged" to be inhumanly cruel in order to "maximise investor returns". Would Nike give a shit about their factory workers in Indonesia if they hadn't got bad publicity?
Yes, in the long run you destroy society. In the short term, the owners frantically pile up wealth to cash out before it all falls down. Tragedy of the Commons writ large.
Unlike Wikipedia, you have to pay $25/month to use this. Also, you're not anonymous, so if you are identified as a vandal, your entered data can be removed. They also limit input to 25/entreis month.
Moreover, since Jigsaw is going against basic principles of privacy
There are lots of business directories like this, starting with the Yellow Pages. The main difference is that instead of employing staff to type it in, his customers do it for him. The only people who are damaged are his competitors who charge more.
And I';ve got some typos too. As an indication of my thick-fingeredness, htis post an uncorrected first pass. I went to school in htepre-PC era, I never make spelling m,istakes in handwriting, but typing, especailly in this crappy Salshdot text entry box, is terrible.
I was thinking the wrong "it's" was an indication that it really was just a fanboy and not a shill (I expect a PR spiel from a big company to be at least grammatical). Though of course that could be what thay want us to think....
Sadly many submitters seem to rush to regurgitate press releases, only adding their own spelling mistakes, so Amazon and such don't need to conspire to get their Slashvertisements.
Did I say we did? But some (as the post I was replying to) seem to advocate going that way.
Except for things like health care, education, police, fire protection, transport infrastructure. Leave them up to a "competitive market" and you get a healthy, educated aristocracy living in fear of a mass of peons. Uncontrolled capitalism is worse than inefficient socialism.
I was tagging them "fuckroland" for a while. But it seems Slashdot eds just cut and paste all of his submissions regardless.
And Roland links to a press release, instead of the source,, perhaps because if you click on his own link, you find he's cribbed most of that, including images, on his own blog.
Not your average Facebook user, just the obsessive stalkers with minimal computer skills. Or anyone they give their script to.
You're on crack.
Go fuck yourself.
Becasue no could ever automate that.
It's open to anyone with an edu email, isn't it?
just your (real) friends would be up-to-the-minute on your status, now everybody is up-to-date on your status.
Your (real) enemies could just as well. It's certainly easier now though. Making it easier to stalk isn't a great feature, I never said it was; but your privacy was compromised before, you just weren't aware of it.