Congress Revisiting Spam Plans
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Congress Loves Spam -- If It's From
Congress
Congress Loves Spam -- If It's From
Congress
12/28/2003 06:31 AMWE HATE SPAM, CONGRESS SAYS. EXCEPT SPAM
FROM US
WE HATE SPAM, CONGRESS SAYS. EXCEPT SPAM
FROM US
12/28/2003 06:33 AMexcept when it serves my
purposes
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Congress OKs anti-spam bil
Congress OKs anti-spam bil
12/09/2003 03:47 PMCongress Votes to Can Spam
Congress Votes to Can Spam
12/09/2003 06:13 AMThe House approves the first national anti-spam measure. The
legislation encourages the Federal Trade Commission to create a
do-not-spam list of e-mail addresses and includes penalties for
spammers of up to five years in prison.
Congress says it hates spam (except its
own)
Congress says it hates spam (except its
own)
12/28/2003 03:09 PMCNET Dec 28 2003 1:46PM ET
Congress Looking To Enable More Fax Spam
Congress Looking To Enable More Fax Spam
06/16/2004 01:21 PMJust as Congress is congratulating themselves on stopping spam,
they're now trying to
make it
easier to send spam faxes as well. The FCC has a new rule that
will require written permission to receive a fax. Admittedly, there
are problems with this rule, such as the inability to give verbal
permission to receive a fax. If someone calls up over the phone and
wants information faxed to them, that should be legal. However, the
bill in Congress goes completely in the other direction and gives no
time limit on how long a company has the right to fax someone. A
perfectly reasonable compromise (suggested by opponents of the new
bill) is to allow faxes for 48 hours after a verbal request, but not
any longer. As it stands now, any company that believes you've given
them verbal permission to fax them, can send you faxes forever. This
can be a big problem especially when some
less
than honest fax marketing companies have been known to fake phone
logs to pretend they had permission to fax people.
Congress Plans Special Hearings on Sept.
11 Panel
Congress Plans Special Hearings on Sept.
11 Panel
07/23/2004 11:18 PMMoving swiftly on the recommendations of the panel, Congressional
leaders announced rare August hearings for legislative changes.
Congress, Yahoo! Slam Spam
Congress, Yahoo! Slam Spam
12/12/2003 04:16 PMPC Magazine Dec 12 2003 4:03PM ET
Congress OKs anti-spam bill
Congress OKs anti-spam bill
12/09/2003 12:23 AMCNN Dec 8 2003 11:22PM ET
Congress Pretends To Ban Spam, While
Spamming Itself
Congress Pretends To Ban Spam, While
Spamming Itself
12/29/2003 04:52 AMIt's no secret that Congress has a nasty habit of passing laws that
include an exemption for themselves (which really should make you
wonder). It's no surprise, of course, that the
recentl
y passed "CAN SPAM" law includes so many loopholes that many
people (including us) think it's more a blueprint on how to spam,
rather than a law forbidding spam. Among the loopholes is one that
makes it perfectly legal for Congressional representatives to send
spam,
and,
man, are they taking advantage of that. Apparently, many members
of Congress are buying up email lists to spam possible constituents to
get them to "sign up" for special email lists. While those email
lists are opt-in, the fact that they're getting the word out via spam
seems particularly bad. They claim that since they get more people
opting-in than opting-out that people don't mind. That ignores the
fact that most people won't opt-out, but will simply trash the email.
This just adds more evidence to show how little many of our
Congressional representatives actually understands what they're
talking about when it comes to technology issues.
Congress Wants Answers on Bush's Plans
for Iraq (Los Angeles Times)
Congress Wants Answers on Bush's Plans
for Iraq (Los Angeles Times)
04/19/2004 05:52 AMLos Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — An increasingly anxious
Congress has summoned Bush administration officials to testify this
week on their plans for quelling violence in Iraq and for handing
power over to Iraqis by June 30.
Congress OKs National Anti-Spam Bill
Congress OKs National Anti-Spam Bill
12/08/2003 09:29 PMAP via Daily Press Dec 8 2003 8:36PM ET
Congress approves anti-spam bill
Congress approves anti-spam bill
12/08/2003 09:29 PMCNN Dec 8 2003 8:35PM ET
Congress approves anti-spam legislation
Congress approves anti-spam legislation
12/09/2003 02:44 AMUSA Today Dec 9 2003 2:03AM ET
Congress passes anti-spam bill
Congress passes anti-spam bill
12/09/2003 09:45 AM'Ham fisted' CAN-SPAM Act
Congress Approves Anti-Spam Legislation
Congress Approves Anti-Spam Legislation
12/09/2003 01:26 PMSan Jose Mercury News Dec 9 2003 1:04PM ET
Congress sends Can Spam bill to Bush
Congress sends Can Spam bill to Bush
12/09/2003 08:41 PMInternetRetailer.com Dec 9 2003 7:02PM ET
Congress approves first national
anti-spam legislation
Congress approves first national
anti-spam legislation
12/08/2003 08:27 PMSiliconValley.com Dec 8 2003 6:48PM ET
Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White
House
Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White
House
12/08/2003 08:19 PMMicrosoft plans further legal action on
spam
Microsoft plans further legal action on
spam
12/18/2003 01:02 AMCNET Dec 17 2003 11:34PM ET
Microsoft Details Spam Fighting Plans
Microsoft Details Spam Fighting Plans
05/05/2004 03:35 PMU.N. plans worldwide fight against
Internet spam
U.N. plans worldwide fight against
Internet spam
07/07/2004 06:29 AMArticle.wn.com - Wed Jul 7, 03:23 am GMT
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL push anti-spam
plans
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL push anti-spam
plans
06/23/2004 11:01 AMInfomatics Jun 23 2004 3:49PM GMT
Why Open-Source Community Objects to MS
Spam Plans
Why Open-Source Community Objects to MS
Spam Plans
09/17/2004 07:45 PMThe broadness of Microsoft's recently revealed e-mail authenication
patent confirms open-source concerns with the company's anti-spam
efforts using Sender ID.
Open internet Why plans to control spam
could be bad news for the net
Open internet Why plans to control spam
could be bad news for the net
09/03/2004 08:25 AMBBC Sep 3 2004 12:59PM GMT
Microsoft Plans Stronger Legal Spam Slam
Microsoft Plans Stronger Legal Spam Slam
12/18/2003 04:54 PMAVN Online Dec 18 2003 4:01PM ET
Yahoo! plans to fight spam with 'domain
keys'
Yahoo! plans to fight spam with 'domain
keys'
12/08/2003 02:22 PMNew Scientist Dec 8 2003 1:54PM ET
Microsoft Plans New E-Mail Filter To
Screen Spam
Microsoft Plans New E-Mail Filter To
Screen Spam
11/18/2003 07:03 AMMedia Post Nov 18 2003 6:10AM ET
Revisiting SGML on the web
Revisiting SGML on the web
05/23/2002 10:39 PMOECD task force on spam plans meeting,
strategy
OECD task force on spam plans meeting,
strategy
08/12/2004 11:34 AMThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is
taking the fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail to Asia next
month, where it will hold a meeting to discuss the priorities for its
newly created task force on spam, it announced Thursday.
Revisiting SGML on the Web (xmlhack)
Revisiting SGML on the Web (xmlhack)
05/30/2002 02:41 PMrevisiting dunbar's number
revisiting dunbar's number
06/26/2004 08:42 PMalways good to see a site where the ideas are as pretty as the
presentation
Revisiting The Unsubscribe Link
Revisiting The Unsubscribe Link
06/01/2004 02:03 PMIn just about every silly "profile of a spammer," you tend to hear
them say two things: (1) they don't send out porn spam and (2) they
really do remove those who unsubscribe from their spam. Of course,
most people are unlikely to believe either of those claims (for good
reason), but with the passage of CAN-SPAM (which requires a "working"
opt-out link) the debate keeps returning to whether or not you
actually should "opt-out" of spam - since it's well known that many
spammers only use that information to confirm that you're a "live
one," and make sure you get plenty more spam. Sooner or later,
someone had to test it out, and now an anti-spam company is
claiming
that only 10 to 15% of opt-out spam links are invalid - which
sounds impossibly low. Of course, they don't break out just how much
additional spam you will get for the few untrustworthy opt-out links.
In fact, it's unclear how they really know if the opt-out works. You
may not get spam from the identical spammer, but they could just as
easily resell your live info to other spammers, and you have no way of
knowing it was because you "opted-out." Or, more likely, they'll just
start spamming you from one of the hundred other identities they have,
so they can claim that the you're no longer receiving spam from that
one entity, but you never opted out of the other 99.
Revisiting C# and Java RegEx Benchmark
Revisiting C# and Java RegEx Benchmark
01/18/2004 03:45 AM
Last year, these benchmark
;results became
hot points of contention between Java and .NET developers.What the
results
suggested was that Java regular expression engines are
significantly faster than .NET's
Regex.
I thought it might be fun to port one of the fastest Java regular
expression engines
to J# and see how it performs compared to .NET's Regex. I
chose the dk.brics.automaton
engine
because it seemed easiest to port. It was. When I
ran a straight-forward
C# port of regtest.java on
the J# version of dk.brics.automaton and compiled singleline Regex,
I got these results:
|
dk.brics.automaton |
2303 milliseconds> |
|
Regex |
2894 milliseconds> |
I also ran regtest.java on the original dk.brics.automaton and
Java's built-in regular
expression engine. Results were:
|
dk.brics.automaton |
511 milliseconds> |
|
java.util.regex |
1061 milliseconds> |
Based on these admittedly informal results, Regex performance is
probaly not caused
by bad design or implementation of regular expression but by
performance issues that
may exist within CLR and core classes. Since I lack the
enthusiasm to dig into
the innards except in pursuit of a critical bug, I'll leave it up
to the CLR team
to chase further.
IMHO, .NET performance is 'good enough' for server-side use at this
time so please
don't misinterpret this post as an attempt to pull .NET down in
favor of Java.
BTW, I won't be using my port of dk.brics.automaton in production
because it's seems
to miss some patterns that it should have found.
Revisiting the Nasdaq's Past Pain
Revisiting the Nasdaq's Past Pain
11/13/2003 08:50 AMTheStreet.com Nov 13 2003 8:40AM ET
Revisiting Barcode Replacement Satire
Revisiting Barcode Replacement Satire
05/11/2004 03:16 PMA little over a year ago there was a huge media frenzy over a site
that
let
people view and print out barcodes. It was really just a database
of barcodes, but the site presented a satirical commercial showing how
you could use the site to "name your own price" and re-code any
product to a price you preferred. Of course, actually doing the
re-coding would be illegal. Running a database telling people how
seems perfectly legal... unless you're lawyers at a big company like
Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart and a number of other big companies
forced
the site to shut down, and the folks have now set up the site as a
Wal-Mart spoof.
John
submitted a story about
the
whole mess one year later. It sounds like those involved didn't
expect the level of backlash they got - especially from the press who
labeled them as the thieves. Still, they've now got other plans up
their sleeves for satirical projects.
Revisiting "Table Layouts, Revisited"
Revisiting "Table Layouts, Revisited"
09/06/2002 08:42 PMA response/reaction to Zeldman's recent reflections on the experience
of table versus CSS layout.
Revisiting the "hardware is free" vision
of the future
Revisiting the "hardware is free" vision
of the future
06/01/2004 11:21 PMYou may recall back at the end of March that we had a little diddy on
Bill Gates' proclamation that "hardware will be free" in the future.
Now Sun is saying that same thing, leaving us to wonder: what will we
ever do with all this free hardware?
U.S. Supreme Court Revisiting Intel, AMD
Spat
U.S. Supreme Court Revisiting Intel, AMD
Spat
11/11/2003 06:58 AMSiliconValley.Internet.com Nov 11 2003 6:29AM ET
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