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...High-profile judgments like the one against Wallace are the exception to the rule; the majority of spammers go undiscovered and unpunished. Wallace, who already had a $230 million judgment levied against him in a case brought by MySpace last year, has already filed for bankruptcy; the judge in the Facebook case referred the Spam King to federal court to face additional charges, which could carry a prison sentence. The penalties combined are by far the largest ever for spamming - Facebook won an $873 million judgment against a spammer in 2008 that is the largest single penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spam | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...high school dropout, has built a franchise by tweaking his elders, once stating, "No matter how rude and immature they are, how unskillfully they write, the future literary world belongs to the post-'80s generation. They must be more arrogant. A writer must be arrogant." Yet despite his youthful bravado, Han, who has published 14 books and anthologies, generally stays away from sensitive issues such as democracy and human rights. His calculated rebelliousness, says Lydia Liu, a professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, exemplifies the unspoken compact his generation has forged with the ruling Communist Party: Leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Han Han: China's Literary Bad Boy | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...human-trafficking in Japan - he comes to lose all sense of where his life ends and the 8th Circle of Hell strip club begins. As a mobster's mistress (she is one of 15) notes, Adelstein is almost a twin to her criminal lover: "You're both workaholics, with high libidos, adrenaline junkies and shameless womanizers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Vice Guy | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...degree in French or political science--those are my degrees so I can say that safely--but we will pay for you to get a degree in something that is of need, like nursing. We have 80,000 vacancies even though we have high unemployment. There is a skills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jennifer Granholm | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...What They're Guaranteeing in Finland: Forget life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How about the right to high-speed Internet? On Oct. 14, Finland announced plans to ensure that its 5.3 million citizens have access to a 1-megabit-per-second broadband connection by July 2010 and a 100-megabit-per-second connection by 2015. Government officials say Finland is the first nation to make broadband access a legal right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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