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Your added statement to Ken Nitz' item about illegal Internet gambling
parlours ignores the simple fact that they are NOT illegal in many
jurisdictions outside the US, and that US law does not apply outside the
US. [Also, it was two of their sites that had been hacked, not one...]
An example of the latter statement is:
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010919/20/australia-internet-defamation
which is an interesting risk of publishing on the Internet where US law is
NOT accepted as primary.
R.S. (Bob) Heuman, Toronto, ON, Canada [rsh@idirect.com via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 69]
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"... The American investigation service FBI reported an amount of $166.827
in damages." [Translation from Dutch]
Needless to say, I don't think the FBI calculated the damages to the nearest
tenth of a cent. As is European custom, the period (.) is used as a thousands
separator, while the comma (,) is used as the decimal point.
So, is one hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars ($166,827) limited damage?
If so, Mr. De W.'s time is apparently worth over one thousand dollars per
hour...
--Gene Berkowitz ["Gene Berkowitz" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 68]
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Respected news outlets? Respected by whom? And since when does Yahoo! rate?
RISK: Assuming that there is such a thing as a "respected news outlet" and
that the "news" presented has some resemblance to news (i.e., unbiased
information) instead of the usual propaganda.
P.S.: Remember, the "liberal press" myth is dead and buried.
Mark Hull-Richter, Senior Programmer, Quest Software [Mark Hull-Richter via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 68]
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Maximillian Dornseif, 2002.
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