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...technological avenues for spamming, the best solution might be a legal one. In 2003, the U.S. passed the CAN-SPAM Act, which gives the Federal Trade Commission some regulatory power to curb spammers. CAN-SPAM regulations require that any commercial messages provide a means for recipients to opt out, prevent the modification of e-mail headers to hide the identity of a sender and stop the use of e-mail addresses harvested from the Internet without permission. Still, there's a very clear loophole: nowhere in the CAN-SPAM regulations does it say that spammers need your permission to send...
...ecosystem that had already been severely overfished. In a healthy ecosystem, small fish keep the jellyfish population in check by eating their young. But when the fish population plummets, the tables are turned. By preying on the eggs and larvae of the few surviving fish, the jellyfish prevent them from replenishing their numbers and quickly take their place. "We're shifting from a fish to a jellyfish ocean," says Boero. "We're removing most of the fish, and nature doesn't like a vacuum...
Colgate senior Evan Minnick was first on the board, scoring at 5:32 in the second period, but Kessler made 29 saves to prevent any further scoring from the Raiders...
...foundation has tackled these difficult questions by trying to stop those who would exploit Mandela's name for commercial or political gain either in ways they don't like or in ways they are able to prevent. In August, the foundation agreed on a code of conduct banning the commercialization of Mandela's name or image by his four official charities - the Mandela Foundation, the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, the Mandela Rhodes Foundation and the Nelson Mandela Institute for Education - and asked the other 44 charities of which Mandela is a patron to sign on as well. Other charitable...
...selling around 100 lithographs of Robben Island - the prison off Cape Town where Mandela was held - which the gallery said had been made and signed by Mandela. The foundation maintains that the works are unauthorized reproductions and that Mandela's signatures are fakes. But Mandela's team failed to prevent the gallery from selling limited editions of several sketches and two handprints for prices starting at more than $10,600 apiece...