For any purpose. Except, of course for the protected solicitaions; charities, non-profits, etc.
Why would we allow non-profits to sell their lists? Just picture your inbox:
Greetings, YOURNAMEHERE. As a supporter of the American Heart Association, you are helping us to find cures for heart disease, and they appreciate it. Healthy hearts mean healthy people, and healthy people can enjoy ACTION FROM HOT YOUNG TEENS (CLICK HERE)!!!
When I can convince my grandmother to establish a challenge-response system on her AOL account, I'll consider blaming stubborn end-users.
Fortunately, she hasn't purchased any penis pumps or Russian brides yet. It can't just be the consumer solving this problem any more than we can ask every human to go certify organic farms or kosher sausage factories. It's a question of time, a question of costs to benefits, and with verifiable signatures, a question of creating a binding international law that would have most/.ers foaming over privacy concerns.
Awareness, education, and group pressure are the tricks we need here. Just as Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" caused Teddy Roosevelt to investigate the sausage factories, saying that "radical action must be taken to do away with the efforts of arrogant and selfish greed," so we need powerful individuals and organizations to take committed stands on spam at the source. Otherwise our individual protection efforts will only divert the spam to the inbox of someone less savvy.
Well, first you have to know all the different species of spooks.
The red-breasted spook is known for its territorial displays. It is very protective of the land surrounding its home. Look for loud denouncements of spooks from neighbouring territories while it chews on your wallet.
The great blue spook is characterized by a tendency to hoard sticks and leaves, not for building its nest but for chasing away long-nose interrogators, who can smell rotten policy in spook nests. Great blue spooks communicate in coarse, barking noises before attacking but do not normally communicate with red-breasted spooks.
There are rumors of other spooks, such as the lesser term-limited spook which surrounds its nest with important papers as a hiding mechanism, but their existence has not been confirmed.
Looks like there are two ways to increase your anonymity by joining a crowded field. You could live in a place where everyone's your same sex or same DOB (which makes one heck of a birthday party). Or, you can live in a very crowded zip code. If 87% of the US population can be ID'd but only 69% in Cambridge, then you're an easy mark for living in a rural town.
And to think that folks used to move out to the mountains to drop off government radar.
Or how about a distributed computing solution to language translation. Instead of looking for communications from outer space your PC could crunch texts from Finland!
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Pony trekking or camping,
Or just watching TV.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
It's the country for me.
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
Remembering my student days, I'm glad I didn't have such a search function. A search function lets you bypass what you're not specifically looking for. In an academic quest for knowledge, sometimes you need all the paragraphs of disclaimers and limiters around the cute phrase you're looking for, or you'll radically misinterpret the phrase.
One example from current events:
Bush said in his State of the Union address, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa"
However, several news organizations excluded the first six words of that sentence, and then called the President a liar. The President's intelligence or honesty aside, intentionally excluding these words dramatically distorts the meaning of the phrase, to the detriment of those using the filter.
A binary coinage system would be "greedy-efficient" like the current system.
Unfortunately, it would wreak havoc on vending machines and cash registers. Plus the "greedy-efficient" nature would end if the transaction required more than $1 in change, say $1.28.
How about calculating the minimum number of coins for each transaction if both sides make change? Instead of getting 99c change in 9 coins, you'd give 1c and get $1.
I mean, how often does God get out-argued in the bible?
Well, in Exodus 33, God tells Moses
"Leave, get out of here... but I'm not going with you." Moses replies "You've got to come or else all the other nations will say that you, as our God, are a wimp!" God gives in.
Then when Moses has beaten God once, he says "Show me your face," and God says "Nobody can see me - you know it's against the rules." But then God relents and lets Moses see him.
The envelope method is still in use.
When I recently purchased a variety of Adobe software, each of the 5 (yes, five, I was feeling rich) different programs had a sealed 5x8 inch envelope with the basic use agreement on one side and the software inside.
Kevin Mitnick knows how Slashdot works. His response to Question 1 is largely a consolidation from the unpublished first chapter of his book:
Kevin Mitnick's 'lost' bio
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Why would we allow non-profits to sell their lists? Just picture your inbox:
Greetings, YOURNAMEHERE.
As a supporter of the American Heart Association, you are helping us to find cures for heart disease, and they appreciate it.
Healthy hearts mean healthy people, and healthy people can enjoy ACTION FROM HOT YOUNG TEENS (CLICK HERE)!!!
Fortunately, she hasn't purchased any penis pumps or Russian brides yet. It can't just be the consumer solving this problem any more than we can ask every human to go certify organic farms or kosher sausage factories. It's a question of time, a question of costs to benefits, and with verifiable signatures, a question of creating a binding international law that would have most /.ers foaming over privacy concerns.
Awareness, education, and group pressure are the tricks we need here. Just as Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" caused Teddy Roosevelt to investigate the sausage factories, saying that "radical action must be taken to do away with the efforts of arrogant and selfish greed," so we need powerful individuals and organizations to take committed stands on spam at the source. Otherwise our individual protection efforts will only divert the spam to the inbox of someone less savvy.
Spare us from all the lame jokes.
Worse than porcine snouts.
If you buy Hormel,
SCO and IBM
Won't sue your tail off.
Write your own and submit them to:
http://www.spamhaiku.com/spamhaiku/site/
In an era of ADSL, I have just one question about Morse on PCs:
.-- .... -.-- ..--..
The red-breasted spook is known for its territorial displays. It is very protective of the land surrounding its home. Look for loud denouncements of spooks from neighbouring territories while it chews on your wallet.
The great blue spook is characterized by a tendency to hoard sticks and leaves, not for building its nest but for chasing away long-nose interrogators, who can smell rotten policy in spook nests. Great blue spooks communicate in coarse, barking noises before attacking but do not normally communicate with red-breasted spooks.
There are rumors of other spooks, such as the lesser term-limited spook which surrounds its nest with important papers as a hiding mechanism, but their existence has not been confirmed.
And to think that folks used to move out to the mountains to drop off government radar.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Pony trekking or camping,
Or just watching TV.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
It's the country for me.
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
What if it were your Microsoft .NET Passport(TM)?
Don't worry about the government robbing you of your freedom; businesses will do it themselves and charge you for the service.
One example from current events: Bush said in his State of the Union address, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa"
However, several news organizations excluded the first six words of that sentence, and then called the President a liar. The President's intelligence or honesty aside, intentionally excluding these words dramatically distorts the meaning of the phrase, to the detriment of those using the filter.
Why yes, I do have a B.S. in Statistics!
5) Profit!!!
Unfortunately, it would wreak havoc on vending machines and cash registers. Plus the "greedy-efficient" nature would end if the transaction required more than $1 in change, say $1.28.
How about calculating the minimum number of coins for each transaction if both sides make change? Instead of getting 99c change in 9 coins, you'd give 1c and get $1.
Wouldn't those black markers violate the DMCA [Direct Mail Copyright Act]?
Well, in Exodus 33, God tells Moses "Leave, get out of here ... but I'm not going with you." Moses replies "You've got to come or else all the other nations will say that you, as our God, are a wimp!" God gives in.
Then when Moses has beaten God once, he says "Show me your face," and God says "Nobody can see me - you know it's against the rules." But then God relents and lets Moses see him.
Looks like twice in one day for that guy.
Now if only Adobe made an OS.
Kevin Mitnick knows how Slashdot works. His response to Question 1 is largely a consolidation from the unpublished first chapter of his book: Kevin Mitnick's 'lost' bio