I've had my same email address for decades. It's on many many lists I never signed up for.
My google account is a paid for (nonfree) one. All filters are on.

The #1 spam ofeender is Google. Google allows its users to spam everyone.

Google will block emalls from others regardless of anti-spam features like SPF, DKIM, DMARC, but they allow other gmail users to spam everyone continously and with immnunity.

Fuck google.

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This guys did it so well -- just watch. Bottled water is a SCAM.

I get calls and emails from salesforce. They all fail the Turing test and get terminated.

Their CEO can fire the remaining 5,000 people and declare bankruptcy. It's no longer 2001 and people don't want to talk to "an agent" or get spam from a supposed list they never signed up for.

Salesforce.com is a disease.

Yeah because it takes them away from grifting, stealing, and diverting taxpayer funds.

If they're "frustrated" doing their fucking jobs they are welcome to resign and stop being little whiny bitches.

SO you're a self-hating homosexual.

South Park did it.
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Bye Felicia

Court? What court? When you pay nothing and get nothing that's not "damages". It's life. There's no court here and never will be.
To make the plaintiff "whole" FB could just write a check for $0.00 ("Refund in full").

Stupid people do stupid things, like use free social media accounts for business, and then complain when they get their money's worth.
Sucks to upload all that stuff (or personal pictures) to a big sinkhole in the sky. Real websites are single-digit dollars per month. That
includes Google, GoDaddy, and others.

If you trust your data to a wheel-less bicycle (because it's free) don't complain when it goes exactly nowhere.

If your business has no website and you rely on a FaceBook page you should remember that every day it actually works you're getting MORE than your money's worth. One day when it's OFFLINE you're getting exactly your money's worth -zero-.

If you need the web in order to interact with clients, vendors, and potential ones, GET A REAL WEBSITE. Only then would you have reason to pitch a fit when your "5,000" clients can't reach you.

Seriously, FB and IG are great for keeping up with grandma's knitting or junior's skateboarding or whatever stupid meaningless crap you like, but it's NOT a BUSINESS gateway.

Fusion exists in the sun. Fusion reactors on Earth are so far before-experimental that it indicates we need a breakthrough before we can get there.

There will be no fusion reactors in 2027. This is nothing more than a money pitch to get capital. Sure, it's no longer fashionable to say "quantum", "blockchain", "metaverse", or "any other buzzwords to make people invest to pay off C-suite employees and first-round investors."

If you're looking to the panacea of free power, those machines have been touted for centuries. So has snake-oil. Robert F Kennedy Jr takes it daily.
Don't fall for the hype.

Quantum blockchain fusion. Send money now.

The NAB and CTIA and other associations spending millions of dollars buying congressmen on behalf of "Big" media and "Big cable" and "Big AT&T" are the real pirates. They provide lobbying to ensure more of OUR money goes into THEIR member pockets.

It's not Johnny downloading GoT that's the pirate. It's these fat white republican a-hole lobbyists and their "associations" that rip off the rest of us. Meanwhile they gut programs that help people who have no access to broadband, dumb down what broadband is in 2025, and use obsolete compliance/recording standards to claim where they COULD provide service is where they DO provide service, to hide underserved communities.

Time to keelhaul the pirates.

Yes, based on nothing.

You're confusing criminal actions with civil liability. Back to law school you go.

Stil making up stuff? You have no idea what any of it was worth, what Anthropic was on the hook for, or what "tiny fraction" ALL PARTIES AGREED ON.

But hey, it's your ass, let it keep talking.

Yean Slashdot Wekend is when lazy "Editor David" can't be bothered to read, spellcheck, verify, or do anything other than punch the "approve submission" button. I'm pretty sure he then lights up with glee when it posts and claps its hands together to let the cymbals gnash into each other. Then he takes his little hat off and eats leftover popcorn from it.

NVIDA lots it way years ago. This doesn't change anything.

May their business go down the tubes just like their GPUs on FOSS.

In the DOGEhouse. I saw on the TV last night they sit around snorting ketamine. The news channel was... mmm... South Park S27E03.
h/t Trey and Matt. It's hard to be funny most of 26.5 years!!!!!!! Kudos to you!

So you and five friends all write papers about how peer reviewers tend to approve papers that cite the reviewer...
and each of you cites the others' papers....
and each of you approves the others' papers for publication...
and you submit them (all) to five publications staggered over five months...
and within half a year you are now a PUBLISHED AUTHOR, a noted PEER REVIEWER, and your WORK HAS BEEN CITED FAVORABLY.

Solution: international database linking authors, publications, reviewers, and disallowing Alice to approve Bob if Bob has approved the set of people who approved Alice.

Obviously "five" is a number I pulled out of thin air, because as N grows the ability for a single publication to realize what's going on becoes factorially more difficult. 3! is 6, 4! is 24, 5! is 120, and so on. And these don't need to be real friends. They could be part of a social media "group".

Back when certs were difficult for individuals to get, those of us who wanted S/MIME certs used a free service out of South Africa. The problem is you could get a free cert (from Thawte, later bought by Verisign for $3/4B) but to have it authenticated you needed "notaries" of that registrar to verify your real ID. There were not enough of us in town, so the next time we hit some convention we got small-notaries (2 points our of the 6 needed) to all notarize each other... and thus we all became big-notaries (5 points) and then ANY two of us could independently verify anyone. It was a clever system but the paperkeeping multi-year requirement was a bit onerous. We were grad-age and didn't have lawyer-sized filing cabinets.

Self-promotion, self-review, article acceptance, self-attestation... these do have a place, but to do the AAA thing properly there needs to be a mechanism. I hate to say "tracking" but paper-publishing IS public, and reviews ARE public, and anonymizing-IDs are supposed to be anonymous, so I'm not sure that's much of a problem.

Maybe they should come up with a handheld device to play music. After all, Microsoft is well known for innovation. Look for instance at that um er ...