Stopping Spam Patented (Again)

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Stopping SPAM

Stopping SPAM 03/28/2005 03:27 AM
In the April 2005 issue of Scientific American, read an in-depth feature on what can be done to staunch the flood of SPAM email messages and the future of anti-spam technology. [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]

Stopping spam at the source

Stopping spam at the source 08/23/2004 06:22 AM
New technology will attack spam at the source to try make it more expensive for spammers to do their dirty work.

Where's The Money In Spam? In Stopping
It

Where's The Money In Spam? In Stopping
It 12/02/2003 12:12 AM
I doubt this is all that surprising, but a new report suggests that anti-spam companies will bring in noticeably more revenue than the spammers themselves. Of course, creating anti-spam products actually takes some work, whereas spam is the job of lazy people who have no longterm vision, but just want money as quickly and as easily as possible. Still, when you look at the amount of money spent on both sides, it's fairly stunning just how much money moves due to spam.

Stopping Overseas Fax Spam?

Stopping Overseas Fax Spam? 05/10/2004 05:50 PM

Report: Stopping Spam

Report: Stopping Spam 09/13/2004 10:32 AM
SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is definitely worth a look for mail administrators.

Where's The Backup Plan For Stopping
Spam?

Where's The Backup Plan For Stopping
Spam? 01/17/2004 10:47 PM
Normally, if you're trying to solve a difficult problem, you have a few different plans. If something doesn't work, you need to be ready to move onto plan B. I've been asking since the CAN SPAM bill was passed, how is the government planning to measure how successful (or not) it's been - and what's plan B? Now that it's becoming increasingly clear that CAN SPAM hasn't been even remotely successful - and has basically done nothing to slow down the rise of spam, I want to know again, what is the government's plan B? They were so proud of themselves for passing CAN SPAM, yet they included no money for enforcement, no way to measure how successful it was, and no plan B. In other words, yet another law that makes for a good press release, and a good sound bite at election time, but does nothing to solve a problem.

Microsoft Researchers on Stopping Spam

Microsoft Researchers on Stopping Spam 04/11/2005 11:55 PM

Panda Chooses Mailshell for Stopping
Spam

Panda Chooses Mailshell for Stopping
Spam 09/23/2004 07:47 PM
Panda Software says it's dropping its own anti-spam technology and "going with a leader" by integrating Mailshell into the full range of its products, from enterprise security appliances to desktop consumer anti-virus products.

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

There's No Stopping eBay

There's No Stopping eBay 05/19/2004 05:43 PM
Fortune May 19 2004 9:31PM GMT

Stopping the Internet tax

Stopping the Internet tax 11/13/2003 01:46 AM
Washington Times Nov 13 2003 0:51AM ET

Stopping short

Stopping short 02/01/2005 10:02 PM
A U.N. report says that the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, constitutes "crimes against humanity," but not genocide.

No Stopping Starbucks

No Stopping Starbucks 07/22/2004 11:10 AM
The appetite for Starbucks shows no sign of abating.

Stopping Hillary before she starts

Stopping Hillary before she starts 04/12/2005 10:56 AM
Although the senator denies any interest in the presidency, she's becoming the No. 1 target of the right's attack machine.

I'm stopping the bl0gging thing for a
while

I'm stopping the bl0gging thing for a
while 10/30/2003 08:17 PM
And I'll miss it. I am moving poorbuthappy.com to a new server. I have managed to make the colombia section work, with all its functionality and mod_rewrite crazyness. I haven't been able to install MT. I also haven't been able...

Stopping Malware Before It Hits

Stopping Malware Before It Hits 11/16/2003 06:14 PM
SpudGunMan writes "John Lockwood, Ph.D, an assistant professor of computer science at Washington University, and the graduate students that work in his ...

New IT Strategy: Stopping Viruses at the
Gate

New IT Strategy: Stopping Viruses at the
Gate 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In the past, many companies relied on desktop antivirus software to protect against malicious code. Antivirus firm Trend Micro champions a different strategy: The company aims to filter out viruses at the corporate gateway, before they ever reach the desktop. How does this approach fit into the overall enterprise security picture?

Mozilla still champ when it comes to
stopping popups

Mozilla still champ when it comes to
stopping popups 02/11/2003 08:33 AM
Well, that's easy to correct: go to toolbar.google.com, and download Google Toolbar, which brings all of the most useful features of Google--plus a couple of ...

Maddux Wins No. 299 by Stopping Brewers
(AP)

Maddux Wins No. 299 by Stopping Brewers
(AP) 07/27/2004 11:07 PM
AP - Greg Maddux moved within one win of No. 300, and Sammy Sosa homered and doubled in a run in the Chicago Cubs' 7-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.

Comcast Thinks About Stopping Zombies

Comcast Thinks About Stopping Zombies 05/24/2004 08:21 PM

Heart-stopping sandwich of the year

Heart-stopping sandwich of the year 08/23/2004 06:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: Maxim Magazine has selected its sandwich of the year: the Fat Darrell (invented by Darrell Butler during his sophomore year at Rutgers University) contains chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks and french fries. Maxim lauds it for its "drunken ingenuity."

"So, I'm standing there eating it, and all of a sudden the guy standing behind me says, 'That thing that guy's eating looks pretty good, can you make me one of those?' And, it was like a movie scene, the next 10 people order the same thing. So, I'm like, 'Whoa!' like I think I might be onto something. And the guy is like, 'Hey, man, this is cool.'"

That guy who assembled the sandwich was Abdul Eid, working in an R.U. Hungry food truck, parked in a campus lot in New Brunswick, catering to beer-soaked undergraduates with the late-night munchies.

Eid now runs R.U. Hungry Grill & Pizza, a store he was able to open in part due to the success of the $4.75 Fat Darrell, the flagship of R.U.'s "Fat" line.

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Stopping Computer Viruses Before They
Reach You

Stopping Computer Viruses Before They
Reach You 11/12/2003 01:33 PM
Roland Piquepaille writes "The Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) announced that one of its computer science teams has developed a new technology to stop computer viruses and worms before they reach your system. John Lockwood and his team didn't use software. Instead, they created an open platform that augments a network with reprogrammable hardware, called the Field-programmable Port Extender (FPX). "The FPX can scan each and every byte of every data packet transmitted through a network at a rate of 2.4 billion bits per second. In other words, the FPX could scan every word in the entire works of Shakespeare in about 1/60th of a second," said Lockwood. Real products based on the technology should appear soon. More excerpts and references are contained in my blog which also includes a photograph of an FPX module." I'm a little confused as to what the big deal is about this. It's basically doing two things: put antivirus protection at the network level instead of the end client, which isn't a new idea at all and using an FPGA hardware solution instead of software (which they seem to be saying is faster). Am I missing something, or is this not that big of a deal?

A Benefit To Driving While Yakking:
Bullet Stopping

A Benefit To Driving While Yakking:
Bullet Stopping 06/07/2004 01:56 PM
Joe Schmoe writes in with a link to a story that shows that there may be some additional benefits to driving while yakking (though, in fairly unique circumstances). In South Africa, a man talking on his mobile phone while driving a truck was attacked by gunmen who shot at him. The bullet ripped through his hand, but was stopped from entering his head by the mobile phone. Next thing you know they'll need to start offering Kevlar-based phones.

stopping discrimination, part
5,394--Money Talks

stopping discrimination, part
5,394--Money Talks 12/24/2003 04:53 PM
"It's good policy and good business." NYC's Employees Retirement System (5 funds managing $78.6 billion in holdings) is targeting Fortune 500 companies to adopt policies that specifically bar discrimination based on sexual orientation. One of them, CSX Corp., didn't even wait for their shareholder meeting, but immediately amended their policy in response. These funds recently had great success after a decade-long battle with Cracker Barrel Restaurants--infamous for firing gay and lesbian employees because they don't “demonstrate normal heterosexual values." Here's wishing an especially happy holiday to employees of those companies that have stopped discriminating and hopes for many more to join in. More info on this "shareholder activism" at The Equality Project.

BT Child Porn Filter Stopping 23,000
Attempts a Day (Reuters)

BT Child Porn Filter Stopping 23,000
Attempts a Day (Reuters) 07/20/2004 06:30 AM
Reuters - BT Group is blocking over 23,000 attempts each day to access child pornography Web sites, the company said on Tuesday, offering a rare glimpse of the extent of demand for such sites.

What if the alphabet was patented?

What if the alphabet was patented? 04/01/2005 10:39 PM
CNET Asia Apr 2 2005 2:13AM GMT

Has HP Patented Refilling Ink?

Has HP Patented Refilling Ink? 03/28/2005 06:33 PM
In a case that sounds somewhat reminiscent of Lexma rk's (failed) attempts to use intellectual property law to block the competition, HP has decided to sue two companies that offer refilled ink cartridges for their printers. The ink business, of course, is big business -- with ink costing more than vintage champagne or high end perfume (depending on whose study you want to read). HP claims that they have nothing against customers choosing to buy refilled cartridges, but they have problems with these two refilling companies. The first one is accused of patent violations, which seems like an odd issue. The details (buried all the way at the end of the article) say the patents are about the type of ink -- which seems bizarre. Even more bizarre is that HP seems to make it very clear in the filing that if the three patents they've picked out don't stick, they have another 9,000 to choose from (which sounds eerily like IBM's patent attack on Sun years ago: "OK, maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"). The other claim makes a bit more sense, as HP says the second firm is packaging the refilled cartridges as if they were new -- which could lead to consumer confusion. Still, these lawsuits do seem like a simple attempt to scare off certain ink refillers.

Patents are obviously patented

Patents are obviously patented 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
In a surprise move, the US Patent Office has granted a patent which patents the patent office itself!

Hehe. Actually, the patent is meant to patent the concept of "digital ownership", i.e. the idea that you can "own" things in online multiplayer games. The patent is just so broad that it covers pretty much any database, including the patent database.

This is another example on how the USPTO has just thrown its hands up in the air and basically says "accept them all and let courts sort them out." This is an example on so many countless things that have gone wrong with the system I can't even be bothered to enumerate them anymore... Let me just begin with the notion that the idea of ownership could be patented at all, and end up with how big companies can use this to trounce upon the smaller ones, and you can imagine the rant between those yourself.

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up 05/24/2004 05:37 PM
The latest study on spam trends appears to show that financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam - though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to slow down the amount of spam sent.

Slowing and Stopping E-Mail Viruses in
an Exchange 2003 Environment

Slowing and Stopping E-Mail Viruses in
an Exchange 2003 Environment 05/09/2004 10:39 PM
This document provides you with recommendations on how to fortify an Exchange environment against e-mail transmitted viruses and worms. Resources for the implementation details related to the recommendations are included. Suggestions are given on what to do when a virus attack occurs.

Now It Turns Out That Burning CDs Is
Patented As Well

Now It Turns Out That Burning CDs Is
Patented As Well 12/15/2003 09:21 PM
Because the day just isn't complete unless another silly patent lawsuit is filed, Optima Technology now believes that they own a patent on CD-burning and are suing Roxio for refusing to license their patent. This fits in with plenty of other patent lawsuits that have been showing up recently which clearly demonstrate just how off-course our patent system has become. The purpose of a patent is to protect and encourage innovation. The idea behind CD-burning is not innovative, and Roxio didn't come along and steal the idea from Optima. There are simply too many cases these days of some company sitting on a patent until someone else discovers the same thing and then suing them. How that "encourages" innovation is beyond me. Meanwhile, Optima says they basically plan to sue anyone who has anything to do with CD burning unless they all come running to license the patent.

Apple really patented by Microsoft?

Apple really patented by Microsoft? 05/04/2004 07:49 PM
globetechnology.com May 4 2004 10:50PM GMT

Apple patented by Microsoft

Apple patented by Microsoft 05/04/2004 02:03 PM
Calm down, it's not that Apple, it's an actual, edible apple. An entire tree, to be exact: the Burchinal Red Delicious. By Microsoft. At least that's what the patent says.

trademarked, patented shrubbery

trademarked, patented shrubbery 05/23/2004 12:19 PM

As I'm planting my front yard, I'm doing a lot of research on various plants and trees. One tree that caught my eye for one spot is this Ri ver Birch. But the wacky thing about it is that the name is a registered trademark and it also carries this warning "Propagation of this plant is prohibited due to patent protection."

Patented garden plants? I suddenly had visions of a sci-fi future where Johnny Appleseed works for Monsanto, and you're not allowed to eat the apples or graft new trees since it's all copyrighted, patented, and trademarked up the wazoo.

I think I'll get a different tree for that spot.

Samsung's 2 Technologies Patented

Samsung's 2 Technologies Patented 04/27/2004 06:10 AM
Hankooki Apr 27 2004 9:09AM GMT

Regifting Not Just A Seinfeld Gag --
It's Patented

Regifting Not Just A Seinfeld Gag --
It's Patented 12/08/2003 09:28 PM

Mobile Technology Key To Stopping U.S.
Slide From Tech Preeminence, Intel Chief
Says

Mobile Technology Key To Stopping U.S.
Slide From Tech Preeminence, Intel Chief
Says 04/09/2005 05:20 PM
Information Week Apr 9 2005 9:37PM GMT

Automatic Software Downloading Now
Patented

Automatic Software Downloading Now
Patented 06/15/2004 11:49 AM
The latest in a long line of patent hoarding companies to come out of nowhere with a patent for something obvious to threaten lots of companies is British Technology Group. They're now waving around a a patent for automatic software downloads for things like anti-virus updates and are threatening a number of companies, including Microsoft, if they don't pay up. First off, there must be some prior art on this. Automatic software downloads are hardly a "new" technology. It would also be interesting to hear how this is possibly "non-obvious" considering that tons of companies offer this feature on their software, and its unlikely that most of them did so because they dug up some obscure patent and "stole" the idea. Instead, they just implemented a perfectly obvious idea to improve their own software. Now, thanks to the patent hoarding process, just about any software product that needs regular automatic updates will be more expensive, or won't work properly. This is innovation?

Star Trek Communicator: Patented

Star Trek Communicator: Patented 07/07/2004 06:04 PM
Xybernaut, the grandfather of well-hyped "wearable computing" that perpetually seems to have problems actually selling products has now announced two wearable computing patents, both of which seem pretty questionable. The first is for an "ergonomic display," which apparently is a display unit that includes rubber handgrips with "tactile ridges." The second, though, is for a "personal communicator" system, that "combines the functionality of a cell phone (or mobile phone), a body supported computer and a pager." Star Trek may want to claim prior art, but Xybernaut claims this is a bit different from previous wearable patents in that this version includes "detachable" parts. Who knew that by making something detachable, it was suddenly patentable? Maybe King Missile should claim prior art...
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