mortal - Slashdot User

Comment I get these a lot (Score 1) 257

by mortal on Saturday September 15, 2018 @06:50PM (#57320896) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email?

There are a couple of people sharing my name that just cannot remember their own email when booking hotels etc. Once I got an introductory email to the new job of these guys got. Took quite a bit of back and forth of "Oh, but of course you need this information" - "No, I am not the person that you hired" - "But it says so right here". Guess in the end they deserved each other.

Comment Vague memories of trying the product (Score 1) 65

by mortal on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @04:54AM (#45592837) Attached to: Epson Tries to One-up Google Glass with Moverio-Goggles (Video)

I tried the product on the NAB show 2012. It felt rather gimicky at the time and gave the sensation of staring down a blurry corridor. Even without having moving imagery on the device, it was very much a distraction and something that should be used only in safe surroundings (don't walk in traffic with them). It is a very different beast from Google Glass, but I can see some industrial applications where it would work and where Glass would not. It might also be good for watching movies while safely strapped into an airplane.

Copyfraud Is Stealing the Public Domain 263

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 26, 2009 @11:58AM from the uncivil-actions dept.

malkavian writes "This community has complained long and loudly about the very one-sided approach to copyright, and the not-so-slow erosion of the public domain. On top of the corporate lobbying to remove increasingly larger parts of the public domain, there is now an growing pattern whereby works are directly taken from the public domain and effectively stolen by a single company leveraging protections provided under copyright law. The Register's article is based on a paper by Jason Mazzone at the Brooklyn Law School, which starkly details the problems that are now becoming evident as entities grab control over public domain works. The paper proposes some possible solutions, such as amending the Copyright Act. From the abstract: 'Copyright law itself creates strong incentives for copyfraud. The Copyright Act provides for no civil penalty for falsely claiming ownership of public domain materials. There is also no remedy under the Act for individuals who wrongly refrain from legal copying or who make payment for permission to copy something they are in fact entitled to use for free. While falsely claiming copyright is technically a criminal offense under the Act, prosecutions are extremely rare. These circumstances have produced fraud on an untold scale, with millions of works in the public domain deemed copyrighted, and countless dollars paid out every year in licensing fees to make copies that could be made for free.'"

Spammer Alan Ralsky Pleads Guilty 144

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @08:06AM from the big-fish-landed-and-gaffed dept.

Czmyt sends the excellent news that one of the US's most notorious spammers has pleaded guilty and could serve 6 years in jail. "Five individuals pleaded guilty today in federal court in Detroit for their roles in a wide-ranging international stock fraud scheme involving the illegal use of bulk commercial e-mails, or 'spamming'... Alan M. Ralsky, 64, of West Bloomfield, Mich., and Scott K. Bradley, 38, also of West Bloomfield, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and to violate the CAN-SPAM Act. ... Ralsky and Bradley also pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering, and violating the CAN-SPAM Act. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Ralsky acknowledges he is facing up to 87 months in prison and a $1 million fine..."

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