Is to do what in fact this article says, make it illegal to send spam. Develop a government run system that requires online businesses to register with, and have that system send out the emails to the users registered on the companies lists. Some will say this will cost too much money? So what, make the businesses pay for it. They butchered the use of emails so badly by sending all their junk, they deserve it.
If someone fails to abide by this new law, then slam them with a badass penalty. No one will want to disobey it if it comes with a severe penalty. Unless of course they think they can get away with it.
If you actually read the article you'd know that there was nothing having to do with monetary value of the monitors, but simply the amount of specific monitor types being purchased by consumers is what they were counting. i.e. X sold 4 LCDs, Y sold 1 CRT.
I think it has really become a problem. Because for one, the victim didn't necessarily choose to be on Slashdot. Or for that matter even knows his server being ravaged by a million geeks.
Slashdot's server is capable of handling the load, so what's stopping them from hosting a mirror on their site? With the exception of copyrights and such, I'm sure the admin would gladly have a mirror setup on slashdot in substitution for getting a $5k b/w bill.
I can see this has been performed for entertainment purposes, but its been done so many times before, what's the point?
I hardly think your average Joe is going to have the fog of air flowing over his desk and the potential danger of sending his hand to a undesirably low temperature just so he can juice up his chips.
Scientist: "I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you!"
Hey, that's not such a bad idea. All the US needs to do now is drop millions of publications of a classified research papers from the sky over any country they want, and soon, WORLD DOMINATION WILL BE OURS!
Slashdot Mirror
What exactly does this ..*laugh* "water computer" compute?
Its too bad all those P2P kids don't have credit cards, otherwise this would be a good idea.
Is to do what in fact this article says, make it illegal to send spam. Develop a government run system that requires online businesses to register with, and have that system send out the emails to the users registered on the companies lists. Some will say this will cost too much money? So what, make the businesses pay for it. They butchered the use of emails so badly by sending all their junk, they deserve it.
If someone fails to abide by this new law, then slam them with a badass penalty. No one will want to disobey it if it comes with a severe penalty. Unless of course they think they can get away with it.
If you actually read the article you'd know that there was nothing having to do with monetary value of the monitors, but simply the amount of specific monitor types being purchased by consumers is what they were counting. i.e. X sold 4 LCDs, Y sold 1 CRT.
Website: "Ok sir your order for CowbowNeal: Space Explorer has come to a total of $39.99!"
Customer: "Wow, what a deal! Slashdot was selling for $1999.99!"
Website: "Oh, I'm sorry, we also require you pay $1960 in order for us to cover the processing patent just like Slashdot."
Customer: "Erm...what?"
I think it has really become a problem. Because for one, the victim didn't necessarily choose to be on Slashdot. Or for that matter even knows his server being ravaged by a million geeks. Slashdot's server is capable of handling the load, so what's stopping them from hosting a mirror on their site? With the exception of copyrights and such, I'm sure the admin would gladly have a mirror setup on slashdot in substitution for getting a $5k b/w bill.
I can see this has been performed for entertainment purposes, but its been done so many times before, what's the point? I hardly think your average Joe is going to have the fog of air flowing over his desk and the potential danger of sending his hand to a undesirably low temperature just so he can juice up his chips.
Reporter: "What has your research proven?"
Scientist: "I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you!"
Hey, that's not such a bad idea. All the US needs to do now is drop millions of publications of a classified research papers from the sky over any country they want, and soon, WORLD DOMINATION WILL BE OURS!
The actual line is.. "PC Load Letter?! What the fuck does that mean?"