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Trade in your Junk Mail for Spam

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lot-easier-to-filter-the-virtual-paper dept.

QueueEhGuy writes "CNN is reporting that the Swedish Postal Service, Posten, is now offering a service where customers can choose to receive spam via a free, government run, service. Business are given the option of using this at a 25% discount from carrier delivered mail. For those of us with physical addresses, it raises an interesting question as to which one is less annoying, environmental benefits aside." Interesting step towards charging postage for email.

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  1. toast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First toast.

    This FP is valid, and unclaimable. Eat it.

  2. a SLIGHT speed increase? by prisen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    from the serialata.org technical whitepaper, the protocol not only uses a serial method of data transmission (as opposed to the current parallel method), but the roadmap starts it at 150mb/s, then goes to 300mb/s and 600mb/s (!) as the technology advances. I'm running ATA133 drives right now, and they definitely don't even touch that.

    Looks like the benefits don't stop at smaller cables. (btw, rounded IDE cables are definitely available if you're concerned about that, and they work just beautifully)

    My question is: How similar is this technology to IEEE1394 (aka FireWire, i.Link, etc). Is it just an internal implementation? That's what I get from some of the tech briefs on the web.