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  1. Re:Now, what we need is some legal consolidation on California Anti-Spam Law Approved · · Score: 1

    That, sir, is what small claims court is for. You are required to not have a lawyer to haul your butt into SCC.

  2. Yes, but which one? on California Anti-Spam Law Approved · · Score: 4, Informative
    There are currently four - count 'em, four - bills in the California state government system. Based on going to the California Senate page, hitting legislation and plugging in "Unsolicited" as a search term, I came up with twelve results, and the following were related to email:

    SB 342, "Unsolicited email advertisements" (Florez)

    SB 186, "Privacy: unsolicited e-mail advertising" (Murray)

    SB 12, "Electronic Mail Advertising" (Bowen)

    AB 567, "Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements" (Simitian)

    For those about to rejoice, remember this is simply the first step. It still has to finish going through the state assembly, and then get signed by Governor Davis. Let's get some of this stuff pushed through for the better of the anti-spam community, shall we?

  3. I say it again... on Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit · · Score: 1

    If Bill of Borg would only release the source to his stuff, these bugs would be fixed real quick like.

  4. Re:city on First U.S. Desalination Plant Goes Online · · Score: 1

    No, they just need to keep it clear. After all, we know that it's easy to confuse Tampa Bay, Florida with the other (albeit fictional) Tampa Bays that are located in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada (No, really! Off of Lake Mead!), Kansas (for those who need their floating seat cushions when crashing over the midwest), Texas, Georgia, Maine, and Massachusetts.

  5. Re:This is not the first operational US desal plan on First U.S. Desalination Plant Goes Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Guess I should explain, an "RO" plant is a Reverse Osmosis facility. A little less expensive on various angles than a still plant (where they distill water rather than filter it), but I wonder if you could run still off of the heat generated at a power plant. San Onofre comes to mind there.

  6. Don't ask, don't tell on Legalities of a Company Sponsored MP3 Repository? · · Score: 1
    It's a safe bet that if you do this, you don't tell anybody outside.

    It's even safer, as other people have mentioned, to not do this period.

    Speaking as somebody who kept his own private library of MP3's at a previous employer, it's safe enough to keep it on your own machine unless somebody goes probing around or you share your machine or start talking....

  7. This is not the first operational US desal plant on First U.S. Desalination Plant Goes Online · · Score: 2, Informative
    There is a small desalination plant on Santa Catalina Island, which provides a significant amount of the island's water requirements without having to have it tanked in from Long Beach. (More of it is from inland reservoirs scattered about the island.) Granted it's an RO plant, but let's get the facts right, shall we?

    Read here for details provided by the California coastal commission. You'll have to page down a bit.

  8. Cluster? on Extreme Multithreading on a Chip · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!

  9. Let us not forget... on Microsoft: We Make Hackers Obsolete · · Score: 1

    Let's remember here that this is yet another company who happily ignores security holes until its too late, and only after somebody high profile (or just a lot of people) gets cracked, they release the fix. We make hackers obsolete... indeed.

  10. bash on Which Shell Do You Prefer? · · Score: 1
    I like bash, but I'm biased. I've always been partial to bash and emacs.

    My wife thinks I'm insane, but I'll show her! I'll show them all!

  11. Once again... on Texas Rep Wants To Jail File Traders · · Score: 1

    OK, you kids, who's not gonna get re-elected next term?

  12. Re:Think different on Apple Releases Cluster Node Xserve · · Score: 1
    Think pinkly?

    *ponderponder* Nah-uh.

  13. Re:DMCA? on Al Gore Joins Apple's Board Of Directors · · Score: 1

    OK, I'm not a big fan of him either, but this just isn't fair.

  14. Another harvesting idea? on CDT Releases New Report on Origins of Spam · · Score: 1

    PGP keyservers. Those who use PGP or GPG will understand.

  15. Another idea on CDT Releases New Report on Origins of Spam · · Score: 1

    What surprises me is that they didn't test any fandom newsgroups - you know, rec.arts.anime.* or anything with "furry" in the name. I'm curious as to how much spam that would have generated.

  16. Re:Think different on Apple Releases Cluster Node Xserve · · Score: 1

    Oh, don't confuse me with the facts!

  17. Re:my thoughts on Revised W3C Patent Policy Out, Comments Invited · · Score: 1

    ICANN, anybody?

  18. Wow, this wasn't expected on Users Conned by Cable Con · · Score: 1

    I never expected spam victims to get bit in the ass by spam. (remember, some of these were sold via UCE.) Yes, the spammer should die, but I forsee this being an EXCELLENT case against spam.

  19. Think different on Apple Releases Cluster Node Xserve · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine a single one of these, removed from the cluster.

  20. Question for those who may know... on Local Root Hole in Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    Will Ximian's red-carpet patch this?

  21. Re:There is software for windows to do up to 5 on Multiple Users and Multiple Inputs on One Machine? · · Score: 1

    I think the point is that X can do this mroe or less out of the box, barring some configuration.

  22. Evil! on Selling your Inbox Instead of Chocolates? · · Score: 1
    Kid, trust me. When people ask you to feed them email addresses other than your own, don't. I for one don't like spam, and you're probably reading identical sentiments from other posters.

    Regardless of the intention they have, what they are doing is not a good thing.

  23. This is easy on Teach A Robot To Drive, Win A Million Bucks · · Score: 1
    Code the distances required. The bot runs LA to Lost Wages, right? It runs east on I-10 to northbound I-15. Program requisite distances, location of interchanges, when to prepare to make the transition, and throw in fuzzy logic and sonar for external tracking, guidance, and artificial intelligence.

    Alternatively, I-5 to CA-14 to CA-58 to I-15. Same protocol.

    Now just how you do this is left as an exercise to the reader. Good luck.

  24. Re:solving antibiotic resistance is pretty simple on "Killer Flu" Emerging On Both Sides of the Pacific · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is, there are people who insist on amoxycillin to treat their strain of the common cold. I don't know why doctors don't just kick them out of their offices....

  25. Re:Audiogalaxy/Sprint Relationship on First Test of Utah Anti-Spam Law Dismissed · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the document was stored in a file cabinet inside of a bathroom in the basement with a sign on the door that said "Beware of the leopard".