Date: 11/25/2003 11:21 AM
From: Michael Pukish ([email protected])
Subject: Feel Free to Jack Into My Ipod
I wanted to hate this whole "jacked" thing when a friend told me about it. I was ready to, and then as I was reading about the custom it occurred to me, "what if there was a near-field wireless component to this ...?" Then there it was, at the end of the article ("Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod," Nov. 21, 2003).
I think this whole idea is great, absolutely great, especially as a musician frustrated with the greater music industry.... Anything technological that actually brings people closer sounds just like the thing I fall for these days.
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Date: 11/24/2003 09:07 AM
From: Keith Tacia ([email protected])
Subject: Feel Free to Jack Into My Ipod
Using the name of this article as a subject for Wired News e-mail bulletins was probably not a good idea ("Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod," Nov. 21, 2003).
I decided to look through my Yahoo bulk mail (for spam) and discovered that Yahoo flagged this as spam. I could see why, because at first glance the article looks like something Adult Web sites usually spam me with. My first thought was, "Well there's a twist I hadn't seen before." Then I realized it was my e-mail from Wired (News).
Looks like Yahoo spam filter works better than I thought. I felt bad telling the system that it was not spam.
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Date: 11/23/2003 05:19 AM
From: Mark A. Craig ([email protected])
Subject: Man Arrested Over 'Spam Rage'
I would have been more appreciative of this article had it omitted the fact that the man involved was a computer programmer or, at the least, stressed that such a title doesn't truly indicate a broad knowledge of computers, software or related privacy issues ("Man Arrested Over 'Spam Rage'," Nov. 21, 2003).
This particular computer programmer clearly knows nothing of the available software, tools and techniques for controlling the problem that seems to have made him psychotic with rage. What a waste of time and energy: Had he invested the same effort in educating himself, he might have learned about tools like personal firewalls, proxies, Proxomitron, PopFile, SpyChecker, Ad-Aware, DNSKong and Spam Slammer.
Having thus educated and equipped himself, his time and attention wouldn't have been squandered by spam, and the rage and its consequences would have been avoided!
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Date: 11/25/2003 06:49 AM
From: Doug Gerash ([email protected])
Subject: Man Arrested Over 'Spam Rage'
This is a terrific story ("Man Arrested Over 'Spam Rage'," Nov. 21, 2003).
The guy was clearly provoked and did what just about all of us would want to, especially if his computer was "rendered almost useless for two months." Are we supposed to wait for our "leaders" to solve the spam problem? The guy got the company's attention, so now the prosecutors are going after the victim?
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Date: 11/24/2003 03:39 PM
From: Bill ([email protected])
Subject: E-Votes Must Leave a Paper Trail
This is great ("E-Votes Must Leave a Paper Trail," Nov. 21, 2003), but:
a) What about 2004?
b) Under what circumstances is a paper trail going to make any difference?
What if a fraudulently declared landslide occurs? Would the paper ballots be counted? Shouldn't there be -- at a minimum -- independent, statistically valid exit polls conducted for all elections, as we had before 2001, when this practice was strangely abandoned.
Strange, because ... the practice was abandoned (because) the accurate exit polls disagreed with the fraudulently certified ballot polls.
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