The FTC will focus on the "deception" involved (innocent and misleading subject lines, bogus (but real) from/reply to addresses, etc)."
Have you ever gotten spam from the email account you were using? Now that's scary. For example say my email address is Joe123@hotmail.com and I get an spam from Joe123@hotmail.com. That's happened to me. Does anyone have similar experiences? Anyone understand how it happens?
I still think the best way to deal with Spammer is with a flame thrower. Err... Lawsuits, which (we all know) AOL is doing. If they illegalized spam in a bunch of places, spammers could just move shop to africa or some other place like that. A big bunch of ISPs with a bunch of lawyers, now that's a real threat to spam.
Is this just a bad week for spammers? What happened to hating the spyware?
of the town, causing the big LAN to suddenly be... minimized, if you will, due to a large influx of fanatical college students claiming this to be the holy place of P2P or something crazy like that and going on a pilgrimage...
Russian isolation experiment where 6 people will spend 500 days in a simulated spacecraft environment.
Two guys spent a long time in an isolated spaceship with a sentient computer. The humans got along just fine. The computer became disgruntled and tried to kill them all.
The moral of this story? Uhh.... Don't use XP? Down with the RIAA? Yay for open source? Oh never mind...
The original DOOM was generally played with the arrow keys... or at least where I come from it was. Still, having a console controller... just ew. Not doom.
I hope they have nostalgic references to the original Doom... "You got the chainsaw! Find some meat!"
The line from the Matrix "I know kung fu" is a message to the weak everywhere: Learn martial arts so you can beat the crap out of bullies!
Hehe... Problem with all of it is that authority likes to pick on the weak. A nerd brings a screwdriver to school or talks about star trek weapons too much gets suspended, whereas a gangsta brings weed and smokes it in class, threatens to kill other students, etc, and the administration does nothing because they are afraid of the gangster but they know they can pick on the nerd.
Of course the nerd retaliates by writing nasty letters, threatening lawsuits, and destroying the school's reputation by spreading a bad hype about them on major sites like slashdot.
(If you live in Tacoma, WA, don't go to Foss. Hell, don't go to any high school. Homeschool yourself, or go to community college. If you're a parent, get your kid homeschooled. High school was hell. So glad I went to community college as an alternitive.) p>
While we're on this rant, (I know I'm gonna get modded down for offtopic.:-/) does anyone know any schools where kids don't get screwed over my the administration for being computer game freaks/geeks? Any system that realizes that they are harmless and that bullies are where the problem lies, not computer games? Anyone?*/rant*
and when I was in high school it was gangsta rap music.
It's only dangerous if 'weird' kids listen to it. Same deal with Dungeons and Dragons, and Ozzy Osbourne. Weird stuff generates paranoia, when there are kids out there who draw pictures of Iraqi's/Saddam getting slaughtered in detail, and their teachers and friends commend them for it, calling them patriots. Kids go around beating the shit out of weaker kids, and the weaker kids go into stuff like D&D, or violent videogames, and suddenly the parents think they're gonna shoot up the school. Perhaps they should try solving the problem at the root. If anything, violent videogames are good, because they help kids vent. I had times in high school where I was pissed off and instead of trying to go and beat the crap out of someone, I would sit down and play Doom or Half life, and bam, all my problems would die down. But does the older generation understand? No... they love demonizing the children's generation so they can take away from their own faults. */rant*
The enterprise would probably start trying to open diplomatic relations with the Death star, and make a new ally, the Babylon 5 alien cruisers would go off against the cylon forces, And the robotechs would get accidently blown up by Stanley Tweedle.
Another secret of [indie band's] success is that the labels target consumers - namely, adults - who are still willing to pay for their music, rather than download it for free.
You'd think the RIAA would try to do things like that, or at least try to appeal to the older generation of music listeners, maybe even try to get them to stop their kids from using P2P networks before they get into college, etc. But no... The RIAA probably eliminated their HR and Marketing board a while ago to pay for their Anti P2P hackers...
*/conspiracy rant*
What I don't get is why they are still doing the same old thing (poisoning P2P networks instead of enhancing their own.) They have a bad reputation as it is. I would try to see if Hilary Rosen or some RIAA/ex-RIAA could do an Ask/. article, but... no. That could be bad, although it would be interesting to see how they answered the questions... Would they lie or just squirm?
down, all over the place, from small individual sites to big mega sites (especially hotmail and things like that), and even medium sized gaming sites. Does this have something to do with Iraq, or at least a hacker attack against the US from some peeved hackers? Does anyone else have this problem?
Although it might be good for certain screen grabs when your computer isn't doing so well... Proof that it wasn't your fault the system crashed, hehe..
Well, at least they're trying to be legal... Sadly, we know what happens when the RIAA has exhausted all their legal options, they go into illegal ops.
But all in all, every move they make against these types gives them a bad name. Sure dirty P2P networks could be illegal, but they are competition. You don't go suing competition, do you?
I'd file a countersuit if I were them, but then again, they don't have much legitimacy either... Either side has faults, why can't they just live and let live.
What I love is that the RIAA complains about their sales falling and their money situations being bad, and yet they waste all this money trying to shut down college students that wouldn't buy music anyways instead of creating and upgrading their own P2P service...
Sherman said that the RIAA will continue to investigate these types of services on college networks and that anyone with knowledge of such systems should report them to RIAA's music piracy hotline, 1-800-BAD-BEAT. "We hope that these suits serve as a stiff deterrent to anyone who is operating or considering setting up a similar system."
Two hours later, the RIAA came out with a list of search warrents for more LANN admins. The list of names included:
Phuck Yu, Chris Mayazz, and Dick Hedd. The RIAA asked if you have any information about those students please inform them immediately.
If they win it'll be a slippery slope till corporations control students and colleges everywhere...
But they won't win, will they? If you kill one P2P network, the rest will only grow stronger. And people might just boycott the RIAA more. One thing is for sure, I will never buy a CD again, unless it is from an underground band. This is a just a step too far.
What will all the rebellious teenager computer junkies do now to feel... rebellious? If they give it to them, it takes all the fun out of... stealing it from the RIAA/sharing with their friends...
If they started doing that, that actually might increase CD sales, as people would see that the RIAA isn't so bad... Plus, it would introduce more people to music, and the RIAA (or whatever recording industry) could easily place a button that allows you to 'add song/cd to cart.'
I hope they come out with the white plastisteel armor soon...
And how's that sattelite missile defense laser system going? Have they found a way to overpower that to destroy small nations?
The other day I read an article talking about how the star wars empire wasn't all that bad, they just wanted peace... at any price. Kinda reminds me of the current administration.
I still think Donald Rumsfield kinda looks like Grand Moff Tarkin.
Slashdot Mirror
Have you ever gotten spam from the email account you were using? Now that's scary. For example say my email address is Joe123@hotmail.com and I get an spam from Joe123@hotmail.com. That's happened to me. Does anyone have similar experiences? Anyone understand how it happens?
Is this just a bad week for spammers? What happened to hating the spyware?
And they deserve to be sued by a megacorp as well... Simply because they've ruined so many people's computers...
But then again, if AOL does it, it could open a pandora's box of anti spam lawsuits... Yummy.
I wonder if they'll start doing this against adware companies. That shit is friggin dangerous, and causes a lot more damage than an overflowing inbox.
of the town, causing the big LAN to suddenly be... minimized, if you will, due to a large influx of fanatical college students claiming this to be the holy place of P2P or something crazy like that and going on a pilgrimage...
Two guys spent a long time in an isolated spaceship with a sentient computer. The humans got along just fine. The computer became disgruntled and tried to kill them all.
The moral of this story? Uhh.... Don't use XP? Down with the RIAA? Yay for open source? Oh never mind...
The original DOOM was generally played with the arrow keys... or at least where I come from it was. Still, having a console controller... just ew. Not doom.
I hope they have nostalgic references to the original Doom... "You got the chainsaw! Find some meat!"
Hehe... Problem with all of it is that authority likes to pick on the weak. A nerd brings a screwdriver to school or talks about star trek weapons too much gets suspended, whereas a gangsta brings weed and smokes it in class, threatens to kill other students, etc, and the administration does nothing because they are afraid of the gangster but they know they can pick on the nerd.
Of course the nerd retaliates by writing nasty letters, threatening lawsuits, and destroying the school's reputation by spreading a bad hype about them on major sites like slashdot.
(If you live in Tacoma, WA, don't go to Foss. Hell, don't go to any high school. Homeschool yourself, or go to community college. If you're a parent, get your kid homeschooled. High school was hell. So glad I went to community college as an alternitive.) p> While we're on this rant, (I know I'm gonna get modded down for offtopic. :-/) does anyone know any schools where kids don't get screwed over my the administration for being computer game freaks/geeks? Any system that realizes that they are harmless and that bullies are where the problem lies, not computer games? Anyone?*/rant*
It's only dangerous if 'weird' kids listen to it. Same deal with Dungeons and Dragons, and Ozzy Osbourne. Weird stuff generates paranoia, when there are kids out there who draw pictures of Iraqi's/Saddam getting slaughtered in detail, and their teachers and friends commend them for it, calling them patriots. Kids go around beating the shit out of weaker kids, and the weaker kids go into stuff like D&D, or violent videogames, and suddenly the parents think they're gonna shoot up the school. Perhaps they should try solving the problem at the root. If anything, violent videogames are good, because they help kids vent. I had times in high school where I was pissed off and instead of trying to go and beat the crap out of someone, I would sit down and play Doom or Half life, and bam, all my problems would die down. But does the older generation understand? No... they love demonizing the children's generation so they can take away from their own faults. */rant*
The enterprise would probably start trying to open diplomatic relations with the Death star, and make a new ally, the Babylon 5 alien cruisers would go off against the cylon forces, And the robotechs would get accidently blown up by Stanley Tweedle.
No, your music just sucks as of late. Indie bands are so much better.
You'd think the RIAA would try to do things like that, or at least try to appeal to the older generation of music listeners, maybe even try to get them to stop their kids from using P2P networks before they get into college, etc. But no... The RIAA probably eliminated their HR and Marketing board a while ago to pay for their Anti P2P hackers...
*/conspiracy rant*
What I don't get is why they are still doing the same old thing (poisoning P2P networks instead of enhancing their own.) They have a bad reputation as it is. I would try to see if Hilary Rosen or some RIAA/ex-RIAA could do an Ask /. article, but... no. That could be bad, although it would be interesting to see how they answered the questions... Would they lie or just squirm?
I really wish I could've beta tested some of my girlfriends...
What next, the RIAA allowing people to beta test cds?
down, all over the place, from small individual sites to big mega sites (especially hotmail and things like that), and even medium sized gaming sites. Does this have something to do with Iraq, or at least a hacker attack against the US from some peeved hackers? Does anyone else have this problem?
Although it might be good for certain screen grabs when your computer isn't doing so well... Proof that it wasn't your fault the system crashed, hehe..
Well, at least they're trying to be legal... Sadly, we know what happens when the RIAA has exhausted all their legal options, they go into illegal ops.
But all in all, every move they make against these types gives them a bad name. Sure dirty P2P networks could be illegal, but they are competition. You don't go suing competition, do you?
I'd file a countersuit if I were them, but then again, they don't have much legitimacy either... Either side has faults, why can't they just live and let live.
What I love is that the RIAA complains about their sales falling and their money situations being bad, and yet they waste all this money trying to shut down college students that wouldn't buy music anyways instead of creating and upgrading their own P2P service...
No.
Ein barks. It comes out a synthisized (tron) "Yes."
Hmm... Then it would be PERFECT for them. Knock out the fat alright...
Two hours later, the RIAA came out with a list of search warrents for more LANN admins. The list of names included:
Phuck Yu, Chris Mayazz, and Dick Hedd. The RIAA asked if you have any information about those students please inform them immediately.
But they won't win, will they? If you kill one P2P network, the rest will only grow stronger. And people might just boycott the RIAA more. One thing is for sure, I will never buy a CD again, unless it is from an underground band. This is a just a step too far.
If they started doing that, that actually might increase CD sales, as people would see that the RIAA isn't so bad... Plus, it would introduce more people to music, and the RIAA (or whatever recording industry) could easily place a button that allows you to 'add song/cd to cart.'
If the computer is running Windows, then yes. Hal's neurosis was his equivalent to a strange sort of blue screen of death.
Of course, if they had just started from the ground up using linux...
And how's that sattelite missile defense laser system going? Have they found a way to overpower that to destroy small nations?
The other day I read an article talking about how the star wars empire wasn't all that bad, they just wanted peace... at any price. Kinda reminds me of the current administration.
I still think Donald Rumsfield kinda looks like Grand Moff Tarkin.