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Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconsitutional

Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconsitutionalBad, bad decisionThat court is flat-out wrong. Spam has nothing to do with the First Amendment. No one has any "right" to put their email on any server, period. It has ZERO to do with content.Spammers should pay.Perhaps...

Tags: Spam, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Publius, spammer, antispam law, anti-spam

Discussion threads 2008-09-13

Advice for high-tech hacks

In this week's Voices from the Trenches series, one of the tech industry's leading public relations execs has some well-chosen advice for technology journalists: Stop being jerks. Editor's note: "Publius" is the pen name of a well-known public-relations executive in the high-tech business, who requested not to be identified...

Tags: Journalist, Skepticism, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Publius, Technology News

News items 2001-02-05

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Works of Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any chapter from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference, Love

Software downloads 2009-09-15

Fuming S. Korea looking for way to punish Google

Fuming S. Korea looking for way to punish GoogleDid anyone understand this story?Maybe the editor cut out some words but it seems like 2 or 3 sentences are missing explaining the problem.Why don't they just block google then?It's as easy as telling the IT department to block it. Just block...

Tags: INTERNET, Google Inc., govt, Korean Government

Discussion threads 2009-04-18

Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional

The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my apologies.) The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional PDF, The Washington Post reports....

Tags: Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-13

Fear and loathing in the Internet echo chamber

Ever since Leon Festinger first formulated his theory of cognitive dissonance people have, usually reluctantly, accepted the reality that we seek out information confirming our beliefs while actively avoiding contrary information. The obvious lesson for people who are aware of this is...

Tags: Unanswered questions, General

Blog posts 2007-05-07

The next SCO suit

The next SCO suitTechnology getting ahead of law?I don't think so in this case.Clearly someone has to take responsibility for what is posted online, whether it's a Wiki, bulleting board, RSS feed, whatever. The poster is primarily responsible, but the owner and host of the site also bear a...

Tags: Wiki, site owner, SCO Group Inc., Free Speech, Transparency, Wikipedia, SCO Suit

Discussion threads 2005-12-12

TalkBack Central: The P2P identity crisis

The P2P evangelists are at crossroads. They must decide if they are technologists or activists. COMMENTARY--Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a set of technologies, but it is slowly becoming a social and political movement. The movement emphasizes decentralization, user empowerment, and freedom of information. It places special emphasis on avoiding censorship....

Tags: Censorship, P2P, Napster Inc., P2P Evangelist, Sam Nelson, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Technology News

News items 2001-04-30