ID theft and spam limit e-shopping appeal

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Appeal denial could limit Microsoft's
ability to defend the Windows trademark

Appeal denial could limit Microsoft's
ability to defend the Windows trademark 05/25/2004 05:58 PM
Microsoft appeal of the Lindows trademark dispute was turned down. This could ultimately lead to the invalidation of the Windows trademark

Crown appeal dismissed in computer data
theft case

Crown appeal dismissed in computer data
theft case 01/01/2004 11:04 AM
Royal Gazette Jan 1 2004 10:19AM ET

Spam Lowers Its Appeal
(washingtonpost.com)

Spam Lowers Its Appeal
(washingtonpost.com) 12/30/2004 02:17 AM
washingtonpost.com - If Internet spammers are right about who we are and what we want to buy, then we must be a cable-stealing, day-trading, bargain-hunting, stiff-jointed, drug-popping people. Who like to watch women having sex.

Yahoo's No-Limit Query Limit As Opposed
to Google's -- So What?

Yahoo's No-Limit Query Limit As Opposed
to Google's -- So What? 08/19/2004 10:41 PM
I've gotten several mails about Four Things Yahoo Can Do That Google Can't. Many people asked about the query limit, mostly two things: 1) Is there any query limit? 2)...

Shopping.com highlights lowest price in
comparison shopping list

Shopping.com highlights lowest price in
comparison shopping list 06/02/2004 08:14 PM
InternetRetailer.com Jun 3 2004 0:56AM GMT

Halo appeal Why do some video games have
such a long-lasting appeal?

Halo appeal Why do some video games have
such a long-lasting appeal? 02/16/2004 05:26 AM
BBC Feb 16 2004 9:48AM GMT

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.

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.

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream 06/05/2004 07:31 PM
I am now getting 2,000+ spams a day. There are 1,440 minutes in a day The rate of incoming spams is therefore getting close to the interval it takes me to check my email and dispose of a single spam: By the time I'm done checking, more spam has arrived. That is the point at which the spam droplets form a continuous stream. And that is the point at which no interval of my life will ever be spam-free again....

Tomorrow's Menu: Spam, Spam, Spam

Tomorrow's Menu: Spam, Spam, Spam 12/11/2003 06:15 AM
Congress overwhelmingly passes a bill to fight the online scourge, but critics say the unwanted e-mail will increase because the law will actually legitimize spam. By Amit Asaravala.

The sky wasn't the limit

The sky wasn't the limit 12/28/2004 02:58 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 7:25AM GMT

When the Sky Really Is the Limit

When the Sky Really Is the Limit 04/18/2005 08:28 AM
A little-known Brazilian jet maker has a lot of orders to fill in the finicky airline sector.

FC Now: Taking It to the Limit

FC Now: Taking It to the Limit 03/22/2005 05:12 PM
How far would you go to express your passion for a particular brand? I'm talking above and beyond wearing or using it. Think about it. Would you put its sticker on your bumper? Perhaps you may even have its logo...

EU: A limit recognized?

EU: A limit recognized? 07/27/2004 09:36 AM
Stefan Bechtold writes that the EU Commission (ok, a staff report) has decided that copyright terms for recordings in Europe should not be increased beyond the current term (50 years after publication), despite the growing pressure of recording labels to increase the term to "save" (as they put it) some of the most important Rock from entering the public domain. The story is getting press in Europe. (Independent, BBC< /a>). This is an extremely important development in this battle. For once, a government-related entity has recognized the truth (or at least, not had its recognition crushed). I've already been talking to archives that are working on the idea of releasing all the recordings they can when they pass into the public domain on January 1, as a way of demonstrating the value of a wide range of work becoming available, unencumbered, for widespread use. Here in the U.S., we'll be able to celebrate the same in, um, 2019. Till then, for your listening pleasure, an oldie (first posted here last July): a 1937 radio program from the Columbia Workshop about creative works passing from the "copyright lane" into the "public domain".

Loving the Limit

Loving the Limit 07/07/2004 04:38 PM
Limit orders can silence the siren call of the market. Here's how to use them.

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the scourge of spam.

Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes

Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:25PM GMT

Breaking the speed limit

Breaking the speed limit 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
This year's Indianapolis 500 race has something other than the cars going fast - think wireless.

BT to stretch DSL to absolute limit

BT to stretch DSL to absolute limit 04/19/2004 08:29 AM
Milton Keynes targeted

Netflix Queue Limit

Netflix Queue Limit 01/03/2005 05:58 AM
Ah, joy. Netflix has queue size limit of 500 DVDs. We have 496 movies in queue to be watched now. We'll be through that in about 4 years at the current pace. That's of course if we stop adding new movies and we've been adding faster than we've been watching. At least they've mostly gotten back to their 1-2 day delivery time over the last month. p.s. happy new year everyone....

Next Windows to Limit USB Key, iPod Use

Next Windows to Limit USB Key, iPod Use 09/09/2004 09:00 AM

CNet is reporting that Microsoft's upcoming Longhorn version of Windows will have tools designed to help businesses prevent the use of USB keys, iPods, or any other mass storage device that can be connected to work computers, all in the interest of protecting company data. Sounds like a cluster to me, but if iron-fisted sysadmins really feel like they need to lock down USB ports, an operating system-level tool is probably better than nothing. That being said, this is, at best, just a small part of an overall security solution.

It still sounds like a case of "OMG FLOPPY DRIVES?!?!" The data still leaves the company inside the minds of the employees, too. What is Microsoft doing to prevent data loss via the brain, huh? Clearly, there is a serious security hole there. My advice is free booze after 3:30.

Read - Longhorn to put squeeze on gadgets [CNet]

F.D.A. to Limit Sperm Donors

F.D.A. to Limit Sperm Donors 05/20/2004 05:40 PM
Men who acknowledge having had homosexual sex within the previous 5 years will not be allowed to make anonymous sperm donations under the new rules.

XPSP2 will limit your max.
connections/sec

XPSP2 will limit your max.
connections/sec 07/20/2004 07:57 AM

Pushing computers to the limit

Pushing computers to the limit 07/25/2004 02:29 AM
Computing power has risen phenomenally in the past 40 years and new approaches could help to keep it growing.

Google to Limit Some Drug Ads

Google to Limit Some Drug Ads 12/02/2003 01:04 AM
Google, the popular search engine, will stop accepting advertising from unlicensed pharmacies that have used the Internet to sell millions of doses of ...

eMac upgraded to the limit

eMac upgraded to the limit 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
Humble 800MHz eMac has been upgraded to have 1GB RAM, 160GB hard drive, DVD±RW, dual displays and processor speed increased to 1.33GHz. Not a job for everyone, but proves that with some effort even entry-level hardware can be converted into solid workhorse.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

More on Google Size Limit

More on Google Size Limit 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Previously we reported on speculation that Google may be hitting a size limit: standard C coding uses 32-bits of storage for numbers, which means that Google might be running out of numbers to identify new documents with. Adding further credence to this theory is the fact that Google has finally added more pages to their results, but only by using a separate supplemental index. I can't think of any good reasons to do this except to get around the size restriction....

Even the sky wasn't the limit for
science in 2004

Even the sky wasn't the limit for
science in 2004 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 1:03PM GMT

New tech may limit CD burns

New tech may limit CD burns 06/02/2004 08:48 AM
ZDNet Jun 2 2004 1:40PM GMT

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises 07/01/2004 10:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 2 2004 2:42AM GMT

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus 12/06/2003 09:45 AM
Canadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET

New zombie spam technique may send spam
levels through the roof

New zombie spam technique may send spam
levels through the roof 02/05/2005 09:36 PM
Warnings abound about a change in tactics on the part of zombie PC network operators. As a result, spam levels could rise to nearly 95% of all e-mails sent.

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Make It Harder To Do Business

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Make It Harder To Do Business 11/03/2003 11:40 PM
I get inundated with more and more spam every day, and it's frustrating as anything. I want it to stop. However, if politicians insist on passing bad legislation in their attempts to stop spam, that's not going to do any good. I've already complained about the new California legislation and it looks like I'm not alone. A guy who runs a consulting firm and writes for Business Week points out why California's anti-spam law won't do a thing about spam, but will make life more difficult for legitimate small businesses. He describes a situation where he did a very targeted mailing for a company. It's probably up to your definition of spam as to whether or not you consider his mailing spam. I tend to draw the line on whether or not the mailing was "bulk" - which it sounds like his was. I believe that if the email is truly targeted and personalized about a potential business relationship, then it's hard to call it spam. The California law disagrees. In fact, the sponsor of the bill claims that any email contact between two companies is not legitimate if it hasn't been initiated under some other form. That's simply ridiculous. As I've said before, plenty of "commercial" websites contact Techdirt every day about the possibility of partnerships or links. Under California's anti-spam law, I could charge them with spam. I recently heard from a major technology magazine, asking if I would add them to my Quicklinks box. Should I sue them for spam? According to the law, I could.

Spam king Secure your home PC or you
could be helping send spam

Spam king Secure your home PC or you
could be helping send spam 08/03/2004 07:21 AM
BBC Aug 3 2004 11:45AM GMT

Spammer Complies With CAN-SPAM, Claims
ISPs Should Not Filter His Spam

Spammer Complies With CAN-SPAM, Claims
ISPs Should Not Filter His Spam 05/20/2004 07:05 PM
Ronnie Scelson is one of the shortlist of spammers who just seems to love publicity. While many spammers like to hide away, Scelson's always willing to talk. He testified before the Senate Commerce Committee today, claiming that he is now compl ying with CAN-SPAM, but threatened to ignore the law if not enough of his spam messages were getting through filters. He actually has the audacity to complain that now that CAN-SPAM is in effect, ISPs should be required to let his mail through. Maybe the filters are a little to thick around his head and the message isn't getting through to him: the reason his spam is filtered is because people don't want it.

CAN SPAM Designed To Make Congressmen
Look Good - Not Stop Spam

CAN SPAM Designed To Make Congressmen
Look Good - Not Stop Spam 01/07/2004 06:36 PM
We all know now that the CAN SPAM law is a disaster and is unlikely to do anything useful in the battle against spam. It's also becoming clear that the entire point of the bill was never to stop spam, but to make a few folks in Congress look good (which seems to be the entire point of most politics these days). First, Business Week spends some time comparing the mostly effective federal "Do Not Call" list with CAN SPAM. The DNC list was planned out carefully by the FTC and the FCC, and, while it upset many telemarketers, it was designed in a way to be effective. There was also enough time, and enough publicity given to the list that people knew about it and had the opportunity to sign up for it - while marketers had the ability to prepare on their end as well. With CAN SPAM, however, it was rushed through Congress with little thought towards whether or not it would actually do anything and without any money to actually deal with any of these cases. Meanwhile, the NY Times reports that the sponsors of the bill asked the FTC to sue a spammer the very first week the bill was in effect in order to make a big "splash" so they could pat themselves on the back - even as the spam levels continued to increase. FTC Chair Timothy Muris (who has spoken out against this spam law) apparently laughed them off and pointed out it was impossible to do such a thing. First of all, in order to violate the law, the spammers have to ignore an opt-out request. Then, the FTC would have to track down who the actual spammer was - with no additional funds, because the law didn't provide for them.

AOL Falls In Love With The Wrong Spam
Stats -- Says Spam Decreased

AOL Falls In Love With The Wrong Spam
Stats -- Says Spam Decreased 12/27/2004 01:32 PM
AOL is claiming that their new spam filter has greatly reduced spam, creating nice looking headlines about less spam. Of course, you could question their findings. The details show that what was reduced was spam complaints. This might be a proxy for the amount of spam that got through to inboxes, or it might just show that AOL subscribers have wised up and realized that reporting spam to AOL doesn't seem to do a bit of good -- and they've just given up on it.

Libya 'to limit trade in weapons'

Libya 'to limit trade in weapons' 05/14/2004 04:48 PM
Libya will not trade arms with countries suspected of backing the spread of WMD, the US says.

U.S. Moves to Limit Interrogation
Tactics (AP)

U.S. Moves to Limit Interrogation
Tactics (AP) 05/15/2004 12:01 AM
AP - The senior U.S. commander in Iraq has moved to limit the military's allowable interrogation tactics, the Pentagon revealed Friday, eliminating most coercive techniques from even being considered.
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