It's a little irritating to read all the comments about how this is really easy, standard industry practice, etc. Please give me a fucking break.

Suppose you're running a church newsletter. You're not computer-literate. You want to send a newsletter. You write out the names of church members and their mailing addresses on a sheet of paper, and accidentally leave it at the copy shop. This is legal.

Now, you do the same thing on a computer that you keep locked in your church. You use it to print out labels, you put the labels on envelopes, and you put the envelopes in the mail. Is it really reasonable that you've broken the law here? Most of this information is available in public databases anyway. You don't know "encryption" from your asshole. Your computer runs Windows 98, and there's no network.

To my mind, if "creating a list on paper" is legal, "creating a list in a computer" should be too. If you want to hit %%loss or misuse%% of personal information, write a law that does that. Penalize a lack of security, don't legislate what security is, because every situation is not the same.

Finally we a place where you can find rootkits and backdoor installers for your iPhone.

Every time I read "Cal Tech", I cringe. "Caltech", please.

It's on the check-out page.

$19 extra for a remote, which seems reasonable enough.

I'm a former "Yahoo", and I've got to say that I spent much of my time hoping someone would buy the company, if only to mindwipe the boneheaded middle and upper management.

They could've been the AOL in an AOL/Time Warner sandwich — that "gem" that someone else paid too much for.

Now? Forget it. I did.

Yahoo search surrendered the search biz when they agreed to send search marketing results through google. Even with the Department of Justice shooting that down, well, it's a hell of a statement when even your competitor chooses The Other Guy.