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Microsoft Going After Hotmail Spammers
Mirkon writes "Quoth The Register: "Microsoft has targeted spammers with a lawsuit aimed at bulk mailers who harvest email addresses of Hotmail subscribers in order to bombard them with junk." Details are apparently sketchy at this point, but it's nice to see America's favorite monopoly putting its power to good use." The original news.com.com story is slightly more informative.
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Considering the marketing dollars spent on consoles (X Box, PS2 etc.), not to mention the rental availability of games for these (but not for PCs) it strikes me as odd that so much effort goes essentially to the PC Gaming field when there must be similarly valuable enhancements geared to home, business, digital video, mobile users etc. Myself, I toggle between an array of different video adapters via KVM switch, and in general use other than games, cannot visually tell the difference between a Radeon7000 and Radeon9700 (always 1280x1024x32). There is so much horsepower on these top cards we ought to see (visually observe without benchmark hair-splitting) the results in a wider range of everyday uses. What I would like to see the video card manufacturers deliver: 1. Easy driver upgrades (Hint ATI...you guys ever let Windows Update update your drivers??? ) 2. Wider range of screen sizing/positioning options in driver utility.(Big help for KVM users) 3. Better TV output adjustment options and ability to read the info in the broadcast overscan areas (even the ATI AIW8500DV delivers a poor screen geometry at the edges compared to other signal sources...tuner is great though) 4. Incorporate monitor .inf in driver utility in an editable format to allow closer match than with the typical "Default Monitor" Perhaps "User Settings? Let user set min/max refresh parameters from owners manual or even a series of tested configs such as GAME, PHOTO COLOR, TEXT, SPREADSHEET which can be toggled between. 5. Continuous micro-adjustable refresh rate slide bar to optimize flicker reduction (no Apply necessary until you hit the one you want to keep) 6. Landscape/Portrait/Invert/Rotate/Mirror settings 7. Color calibrator hardware option (Print out a test pic on your color printer, scan corresponding paper and screen areas and make screen reflect what your printer is going to generate) 8. DVD direct-connect mode...ought to be able to watch a skip-free DVD on a $300 card if you can on a $45 Apex DVD player..we already plug the optical drives to the sound cards) 9. A new connector that doesn't stick out so far (Gotta love the size of those DVI-Analog adapters) 10. Temperature monitoring output (either to a front panel display or to an unused chassis fan header on the mobo) 11. Despite all my wishes for more features, I'd love a huge crate of these cards to fall off a truck in front of my house!'
I was harrassed by this guy
daniel.depoli@voila.fr
so I take the occasion of this story to pulicize his e-mail so that he gets more spam than he can manage... He's french, if you have any resentment...
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I liked the MST3k Hercules movies better than the TV ones.
At one time, probably a couple of years ago now, Microsoft had a toll free number set up for general hotmail support. It wasn't live support, just a menu system for end user support. Back then there was no spam filter on hotmail. After my hotmail account became plagued with spam, I dialed the number, in a last ditched effort to understand this problem, and specifically what if anything Microsoft was going to to about it. To my suprise, "How to Deal with Unwanted Email" was one of the first-level menu choices. I selected this option, and was informed that I would be placed on hold. While I was holding, I was quite taken aback by their selection of easy listening hold music. It went something like this:
That's why I propose we bomb Iraq.